Meaning → video example → shadowing

English word

basic

B1Frequent NGSL-1
UK /ˈbeɪsɪk/US /ˈbeɪsɪk/
adjective

forming the part of something that is most necessary and from which other things develop

Real video examples

See where your sentence appears

Sentence 50 · Pro
Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid | Yejin Choi | TED
This sentence is beyond the 30 free sentences

The free preview is not the sentence containing your word.

OK, so how would you feel about an AI lawyer that aced the bar exam yet randomly fails at such basic common sense?

Why AI Is Incredibly Smart and Shockingly Stupid

From one sentence to the full lesson

Bilingual subtitles · repeat a sentence · shadowing · word bank

Tap a word in the lesson, then save it to your word bank.

Open the lesson →

Print the lesson as a PDF

Preview and print the first 10 sentences free. The full handout requires Pro.

Preview printable lesson →

More real video examples

Poverty, ignorance, injustice, racism, and the deprivation of basic rights are the main problem faced by both men and women.

Malala Yousafzai's Speech at the United Nations Youth Assembly (2013)Sentence 84 · Pro

But the System/360 was incredibly important at its time, and in fact, the basic ideas of the System/360—the architecture of it,

Jensen Huang's Speech at CaltechSentence 71 · Pro

Remember basic through real videos

LingoTube turns TED / YouTube videos into sentence-by-sentence bilingual lessons: synced subtitles, tap any word for meaning and pronunciation, save to your word bank with spaced repetition.

Try the first 30 sentences of this lesson

The free preview is not the sentence containing your word.

Learn with famous talks