{"id":4408,"date":"2026-05-25T23:07:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/stop-saying-good-native-english-vocabulary-upgrades\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T23:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:09:14","slug":"stop-saying-good-native-english-vocabulary-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/18kenglish.com\/ja\/stop-saying-good-native-english-vocabulary-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Saying ‘Good’: 40 Native English Upgrades for Taiwan Professionals | \u9053\u5730\u82f1\u6587\u55ae\u5b57\u5347\u7d1a\u6307\u5357"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’re a Taiwan professional who has reached intermediate English (B1\u2013B2) but still defaults to “good,” “nice,” “big,” and “very,” you’re not alone. These six or seven safety words form a verbal comfort zone \u2014 they get the meaning across, but they flatten your personality, weaken your business writing, and signal to native speakers that you are still translating in your head before you speak.<\/p>\n\n

This article gives you 40+ replacement words across four daily-life topics: travel, food, technology, and health. Instead of teaching abstract vocabulary lists, every upgrade comes with the exact situation where a native speaker would use it. By the end you will have a short, memorizable pattern: identify your overused word, swap in a precise alternative, and repeat the drill for thirty days until it becomes automatic.<\/p>\n\n

Why “Good” and “Nice” Hold You Back | \u70ba\u4ec0\u9ebc\u300cGood\u300d\u548c\u300cNice\u300d\u6703\u9650\u5236\u4f60\u7684\u82f1\u6587<\/h2>\n\n
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Linguists who study second-language acquisition call this the “lexical plateau” \u2014 the point where your grammar steadily improves but your active vocabulary range stops growing. Most Taiwanese learners hit it around TOEIC 700\u2013800 (\u591a\u76ca), and the reason is structural: school English (\u82f1\u6587\u5bb6\u6559 culture) rewards comprehension over precision. You can pass the test by understanding “good” in fifty different contexts; you never have to actually produce fifty different words yourself.<\/p>\n\n

The cost shows up in business English (\u5546\u696d\u82f1\u6587): emails read flat, presentations feel rehearsed, and small talk with international clients stalls after the first exchange. Native speakers will not correct you \u2014 that is considered rude \u2014 but they will subconsciously categorize you as a B2 speaker for as long as you keep reaching for the same eight words.<\/p>\n\n

The fix is not to memorize a thesaurus. It is to identify your top eight overused words and learn three to five specific replacements for each, tied to the situations you actually talk about most. For most Taiwan professionals, those situations cluster around travel, food, tech, and health.<\/p>\n\n

Travel Vocabulary Upgrades | \u65c5\u904a\u82f1\u6587\u55ae\u5b57\u5347\u7d1a<\/h2>\n\n
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Replace “Fun” and “Nice Place” | \u65c5\u904a\u5f62\u5bb9\u8a5e\u5347\u7d1a<\/h3>\n\n

“The trip was fun” tells the listener almost nothing. Try these instead \u2014 each one carries a different emotional shade:<\/p>\n\n