Fantastic

Thank you for your kind comments Antonio. It's been a brilliant experience for me too and I have very much enjoyed reading your lively, well written posts. Your excellent English has made my job difficult....but interesting!

You say, '‘Learning English’ is a fantastic site because it has such fantastic people on its staff.' I'd also like to thank the staff of 'Learning English' for the opportunity to be the BBC's first 'teacher blogger'.

My final suggestion for you, Antonio, (I will do a summary as usual tomorrow) is about your choice of 'fantastic' to mean 'extremely good'. I think your double use of 'fantastic', in the sentence above, helps to emphasise your positive feelings about the website and the staff who are responsible for the site. Repeating a word, as you do here with 'fantastic', is a good way of stressing its meaning.

Other words that could be used in your sentence to mean 'extremely good' include: splendid, superb, terrific, first-class, first-rate, excellent, fabulous, marvellous, wonderful, amazing, tremendous and sensational.

I'll see you tomorrow, for the last time, with my weekly summary. Bye for now!

Rachel