Meaning → video example → shadowing

English word

brilliant

A2Frequent NGSL-3
UK /ˈbrɪliənt/US /ˈbrɪliənt/
adjective

extremely clever or impressive

Real video examples

The exact sentence containing your word

Listen free · 25 / 30
Joe Tsai Co-founder & Chair of Alibaba | In Good Company | Norges Bank Investment Management video example

First 30 sentences free · no account or card required

My father—he is one of the most brilliant, one of the most sharp-minded people I know—but he's very tough.

Joe Tsai Co-founder & Chair of Alibaba

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

I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people and I had a brilliant boss I much admired.

Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivers graduation speech at Princeton UniversitySentence 106 · Pro

And the consequence is that many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not, because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.

Do schools kill creativity?Sentence 175 · Pro

Remember brilliant 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.

Learn "brilliant" in a video →

Learn with famous talks