VIP Class Notes (Nicholas)

Pronunciation

130,799,000 = one hundred and thirty million = one hundred thirty million, seven hundred and ninety-nine thousand = approximately 130 million

4,775,567 = four million, seven hundred seventy five thousand, five hundred sixty-seven = approximately 4.7 million

4,777,777,777 = approximately $4.7 billion (dollars)

Grammar

men can always let the history pass quickly / men seem to get over things quickly

the society thing and information thing / societal pressures 

you need to be get married / you need to get married

and if you not you will lose the opportunity / and if you’re not you will lose the opportunity / and if you don’t you will lose the opportunity 

this is the first reason I stay here /  this is the first reason I am staying here for now

I don’t have a research for that / I haven’t researched that yet

keep talking that / keep saying that

when you get fight / when you fight / when you have a fight

Vocabulary

swimming upstream / going against society’s normal behaviors (norms)

money-wise / “talking about money”

e.g. So money-wise, how are is your new job?

life experience vs. professional experience 

to empower / to give power to someone

e.g. Good managers and good bosses empower their team members, not micro manager them

“get over something…” / to move passed an issue

e.g. My wife was mad that I lied, I told her to get over it.

to be “grounded in reality” / you make your judgements, decisions, and opinions based on information you receive from the real world and real experience – not fantasy or opinions from a book.

toxic masculinity / toxic = poisonous / describes men who are overly aggressive, loud, arrogant, and violent

e.g. Nancy is toxic – this means you shouldn’t go around her because she will have a bad effect on you.

male / masculine /masculinity /to be masculine

e.g. We want to teach young boys to be strong and masculine.

woman / female /femininity (the description of a woman’s characteristics / feminine 

e.g. What are things we associate with femininity? Beauty, delicateness, understanding, emotional.

e.g. These are the traits of a woman. These are the traits of females.