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From the Ted Talk by Nimisha Jain: The joy of shopping -- and how to recapture it online

Unscramble the Blue Letters


My next example is LazLive. On livzlae in Thailand, you can watch real sellers describing products to you via a live video saertm. Now, I love handbags. And when I am in a store, I like to examine a hnbaadg from all angels before I buy it. I need to feel the teurxte on my skin, hang it on my shoulder and see how it looks, see how long the strap is, open it up and look at the pockets inside to make sure that there is enough space for all the millions of things I need to put into my handbag. But when I try and buy a handbag online, I just see a few pictures: the basic sahpe and color and size. But that's not enough, is it?

Open Cloze


My next example is LazLive. On _______ in Thailand, you can watch real sellers describing products to you via a live video ______. Now, I love handbags. And when I am in a store, I like to examine a _______ from all ______ before I buy it. I need to feel the _______ on my skin, hang it on my shoulder and see how it looks, see how long the strap is, open it up and look at the pockets inside to make sure that there is enough space for all the millions of things I need to put into my handbag. But when I try and buy a handbag online, I just see a few pictures: the basic _____ and color and size. But that's not enough, is it?

Solution


  1. stream
  2. handbag
  3. angles
  4. lazlive
  5. texture
  6. shape

Original Text


My next example is LazLive. On LazLive in Thailand, you can watch real sellers describing products to you via a live video stream. Now, I love handbags. And when I am in a store, I like to examine a handbag from all angles before I buy it. I need to feel the texture on my skin, hang it on my shoulder and see how it looks, see how long the strap is, open it up and look at the pockets inside to make sure that there is enough space for all the millions of things I need to put into my handbag. But when I try and buy a handbag online, I just see a few pictures: the basic shape and color and size. But that's not enough, is it?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
conversational commerce 5
emerging markets 3
small stores 2
spend hours 2
great prices 2
great deal 2
online shopping 2
shopping online 2


Important Words


  1. angles
  2. basic
  3. buy
  4. color
  5. describing
  6. examine
  7. feel
  8. handbag
  9. handbags
  10. hang
  11. lazlive
  12. live
  13. long
  14. love
  15. millions
  16. online
  17. open
  18. pockets
  19. products
  20. put
  21. real
  22. sellers
  23. shape
  24. shoulder
  25. size
  26. skin
  27. space
  28. store
  29. strap
  30. stream
  31. texture
  32. thailand
  33. video
  34. watch