🌅 Monday Morning — Technical English for Developers

Good morning! It’s Monday — the perfect day to sharpen the technical English you use every single day at work. Today’s session focuses on real developer vocabulary: Git, APIs, terminals, and the phrases your teammates actually say in stand-ups and code reviews.

📖 Word of the Day: Deprecate

IPA/ˈdep.rɪ.keɪt/
Part of speechVerb
VietnameseĐánh dấu lỗi thời / Không còn được khuyến nghị sử dụng

How to say it

  • dep — sounds like “DEP” (rhymes with “step”)
  • ri — short, quick /rɪ/ (like “rick” without the “ck”)
  • kate — sounds like the name “Kate” /keɪt/
  • Full word: DEP-ri-kate ✅

Example Sentences

  1. “We need to deprecate the old /v1/users endpoint before the Q3 release — please update your integration.”
  2. “The console.log approach is still working, but it’s been deprecated in favour of the structured logger.”
  3. “Don’t panic when you see that warning — the function is just deprecated, not removed yet.”

🔗 Useful Links

📋 Vocabulary Table — Technical Phrases

PhraseVietnameseExample
merge conflictXung đột khi gộp nhánh”I’m getting a merge conflict on package-lock.json — can you rebase first?“
roll backKhôi phục phiên bản cũ”Production is throwing 500s — let’s roll back to the previous release immediately.”
stub outTạo phần giả lập (chưa có logic thật)“Just stub out the payment API for now so the UI team can keep building.”
hit an endpointGọi tới một endpoint”The mobile app hits this endpoint every 30 seconds to check for updates.”
pipe the outputChuyển kết quả lệnh sang lệnh khác”Pipe the output of grep into wc -l to count the matching lines.”

🎤 Pronunciation Guide

Deep Dive: “deprecate” — /ˈdep.rɪ.keɪt/

The tricky part is the stress: it falls on the first syllable — DEP — not on “kate”.

❌ dep-ri-KATE (wrong) ✅ DEP-ri-kate (correct)

Compare with the adjective form:

  • deprecated → /ˈdep.rɪ.keɪ.tɪd/ — DEP-ri-kay-tid
  • deprecation → /ˌdep.rɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ — dep-ri-KAY-shun ← stress SHIFTS here!

🗣️ Practice Sentence — Read Aloud 3 Times

“The deprecated endpoint will be rolled back and removed after all clients migrate to the new API version.”

Tips while reading:

  • Pause slightly after “endpoint” — it’s a natural breath point
  • Stress: DEP-re-cay-ted | ROLLED back | mi-GRATE | API VER-sion
  • Try to sound natural — imagine you’re explaining this to a junior developer

✏️ Exercises

Exercise 1 — Fill in the Blank

Choose the correct word from the box: deprecate · roll back · merge conflict · pipe · endpoint

  1. “We hit a __________ because both branches modified the same config file.”
  2. “If the deploy fails, we can __________ to the last stable version within 5 minutes.”
  3. “The /health __________ returns a 200 if the service is running normally.”
  4. “You can __________ the logs into grep to filter only error messages.”
  5. “The team decided to __________ the XML API — JSON only going forward.”
✅ Show Answers
  1. merge conflict
  2. roll back
  3. endpoint
  4. pipe
  5. deprecate

Exercise 2 — Translate into English

Translate these Vietnamese sentences into natural developer English.

  1. “Endpoint cũ đã bị đánh dấu lỗi thời, nhưng vẫn chưa bị xoá.”
  2. “Hãy lấy output của lệnh ls và lọc các file .log.”
  3. “Chúng ta cần khôi phục phiên bản cũ vì bản deploy mới gây ra lỗi.”
✅ Show Answers
  1. “The old endpoint has been deprecated, but it hasn’t been removed yet.”
  2. “Take the output of ls and pipe it to filter the .log files.” (e.g., ls | grep .log)
  3. “We need to roll back because the new deploy introduced a bug.”

💡 Idiom of the Day: “Don’t reinvent the wheel”

VietnameseĐừng làm lại từ đầu những gì đã có sẵn
Use it when…Telling someone to use an existing tool/library instead of building from scratch

Examples in Tech Context

  1. “There’s already a well-maintained npm package for this — don’t reinvent the wheel, just import it.”
  2. “I started writing my own date formatter, but the team told me not to reinvent the wheel and use date-fns instead.”

💬 Bonus: The opposite sentiment — when you DO want to build it yourself — might sound like: “I know it exists, but we need full control over the behaviour, so we’re building it in-house.”

📺 Recommended Watching

Channel / VideoWhy Watch
🎬 FireshipFast, dense technical explanations in real developer English. Great for vocabulary in context.
🎬 TechWorld with NanaDevOps and tooling tutorials — listen for how professionals explain CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes.
🎬 ByteByteGoSystem design and API concepts explained clearly — excellent for architecture vocabulary.

Today’s watching goal: Pick one Fireship video under 5 minutes. Watch it once normally, then watch again and write down every technical term you don’t know. Look up just two of them.

🎯 Today’s Daily Challenge

Mini Stand-up in English 🤝

Write 3 sentences — exactly like a real stand-up update — in English:

  1. What you worked on yesterday
  2. What you’re working on today
  3. Any blockers you have

Example: “Yesterday I fixed a merge conflict on the auth branch. Today I’m going to stub out the new payment endpoint and write unit tests. No blockers right now.”

Say it out loud. Then say it again faster. This is exactly what you’ll say in your next English stand-up. 🚀

🔁 Quick Recap

WhatDetail
Word of the Daydeprecate /ˈdep.rɪ.keɪt/ — đánh dấu lỗi thời
Key Phrasesmerge conflict, roll back, stub out, hit an endpoint, pipe the output
IdiomDon’t reinvent the wheel
Practice Sentence”The deprecated endpoint will be rolled back and removed after all clients migrate to the new API version.”
ChallengeWrite & say your stand-up update in English

See you this evening for the night session! 🌙 Keep building, keep learning.

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