🇬🇧🇪🇸 slum - barrio bajo : English Lesson

Meaning of "slum" ("barrio bajo"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A slum is a part of a city where people live in very simple or broken-down homes. It is often crowded, with small houses, few resources, and not many good living conditions.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

After a sleepover with my friends, the living room looked like a slum full of snack wrappers and pillows.

I looked at my dad’s garage and whispered, “This slum used to be a place for cars.”

My fish tank was so dirty, my goldfish probably thought he was living in a slum.

I found an old cookie under my bed… proof that my room is slowly becoming a slum.

My bedroom was so messy, my mom said, “This isn’t a room, it’s a slum!”

A woman stepped into the slum and smelled smoke. The slum street held children washing clothes; slum roofs were patched with plastic. A tired man fixed a broken door while a dog slept on slum steps. She carried a bucket, mended a leaky roof, and the slum brightened; neighbors smiled and thanked her.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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