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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia
the weekly series where you ask me
questions and i answer them maybe first
question comes from dewey sitagen hi
again dewey dewey says what's the
meaning of for good i've heard stay for
good here for good nothing for good but
i didn't clearly understand them yeah
great question for good means forever or
it means for a very long time so like
he's here for good or we're gonna stay
for good your last example nothing for
good i'm not sure i've never seen that
expression before so i'm not quite sure
about the meaning of that but for good
means forever so i hope that that helps
you thanks for the question okay let's
move on to your next question next
question comes from
byron hi byron byron says hi alicia my
question is do you recommend using apps
to practice speaking i was using this
method and i just found people from
another country whose accent is
different from the american accent
thanks um i think that this kind of
thing really depends a lot on the app
you're using there are many different
apps that you can use to study many
different things so i don't know that i
can suggest like apps are great or apps
are bad it really depends on the app
that you're using so if you're not happy
with the conversation partners that you
found on the app you're using now try a
different app if you're having trouble
finding a partner that you really
connect with or that works really well
with you another thing you can try doing
is just recording yourself speaking and
comparing that to a native speaker so
you could use just your phone to do this
like record yourself saying the same
thing as a native speaker said so if you
watch our videos for example you could
listen to something i said or something
like davey or michael said and then try
to say that again and record yourself
saying it and then compare it
just to kind of get an idea of where you
can improve this is actually a really
interesting exercise i think because
when you are speaking you think you
sound a certain way and then when you
hear yourself you sound really really
different so this can actually be a
really good way to practice
another thing i know that on our website
we have another voice recording function
where you can compare yourself to a
native speaker and that's specifically
on the english class 101 website so
that's another tool you can check out
but for apps yeah like i said i think it
really depends on your conversation
partner and what other services the app
might offer you so you could just try
out a few different things and see what
you like so i hope this answer helps you
and i hope maybe you found another
technique you can use to work on
improving your speaking skills thanks
very much for the question okay let's
move along to your next question next
question comes from henrique ferreira hi
henrique enrique says hey alicia i love
your videos
today my question is about chatbot in
the beginning i was very shy about
chatting with other people in english
i'm not anymore but i want to know if
chatting with chatbots is a good tool
for improving your speaking skills what
do you think um
i think something like this could be
good maybe for improving your basic
like sentence building skills i'm not
sure what kind of chat bot you're
talking about to my knowledge i've seen
chat bots
where you can type things to a chat bot
and the computer will return an answer
to you
maybe you're talking about a speaking
kind of chat bot so
that could be possible i don't know um
but i would say that these sorts of
things could perhaps be useful for like
making basic sentences or making very
simple conversations
so perhaps in the very beginning
something like that could be a nice
addition a nice supplement to whatever
you're doing um but i think you're going
to miss out on a lot of other really
important stuff if you only use a robot
to practice
a robot is not going to do the ums and
uh and use
interesting vocabulary words the robot
is just programmed to do one thing
so if you can remember that and maybe
use it as like a method of refreshing
yourself every once in a while perhaps
but i just think that you're missing out
on a lot of things if you're only using
a robot i think as soon as possible you
should be practicing speaking with other
real people so that you understand
really and truly how people use the
language
and then you can also be learning from
them so i would probably not recommend
relying too much on a chat bot for your
studies i think the purpose of learning
a language is to be able to communicate
with someone else in that language so if
you only use it to communicate with a
robot then it's kind of defeating the
purpose of your studies so i would say
use it with other people as much as
possible and try not to use a chat bot
that much so i hope that that helps you
thanks for an interesting question okay
let's move on to your next question next
question comes from olacia hi alecia
alesia says hi alicia what future form
should we use when arranging official
appointments or events in the future for
example which is correct the interview
will be held on august 9th at 10 a.m
moscow time right or the interview is on
august 9th at 10 am moscow time right
yeah this is a fantastic question so
actually both of the example sentences
you sent are polite and they are correct
however if you want to always be sure to
sound professional and polite use the
passive form so you use the interview
will be held that sounds a lot more
professional so the reason that a
passive form is preferred when making
arrangements in like formal events or
like in an interview situation is
because we don't always know exactly the
person who's going to be doing that
event so in the case of an interview for
example
you may not know exactly who is going to
be giving the interview who is going to
lead the interview
so instead saying the interview will be
held
is much better it's much softer remember
we use passive voice when we don't know
the person doing the action or when the
person doing the action is not important
so this is really useful in like
business situations and other formal
events when the activity is the thing
that needs the focus not necessarily the
person or the people doing the activity
so
it's better to use the passive form here
you can use the active form so like for
example um you're having the interview
at 9am right so there's nothing
incorrect about that but using you can
sound really direct there
and you might run into some problems
where maybe the person you're contacting
is not the person giving the interview
so using the passive voice avoids that
so in conclusion for this really if
you're ever kind of in a formal
situation or a business situation and
you have this kind of question try to
use the passive voice instead of the
active voice that's a pretty good rule
of thumb to follow i hope that this
helps you thanks very much for an
interesting question let's move along to
your next question next question comes
from carlos cordoba hi carlos carlos
says i always struggle with the use of
in and on for example when i'm referring
to a quote that i read in a book should
i say you can find it on page number or
in page number also how do i use it for
locations for example when should i use
in or on or at yeah prepositions are
always a tough point as a quick regular
reminder we do have a couple of
prepositions videos on the channel these
are good introductions to prepositions
of place and prepositions of time
regarding your question your specific
question though when you're talking
about books we'll say reddit in a book
in a book when you're talking about
something that's
on a page we use on on a page if you
want to get even more specific and talk
about a line of text we say in a line of
text so the reasons that we use these
prepositions
first the in preposition for a book when
you imagine a physical book like a cover
two covers and then the contents are
inside it the contents of the book are
enclosed by the covers so we imagine we
have to open a book and go inside the
book to find things so we use in for the
contents of books
we use on for pages so you can kind of
imagine a book as being like two layers
almost there's the paper
and then there are the words so the
words are on top of the paper kind of
like on the surface of the paper so we
use on to talk about things that are on
the page the things that are above the
paper
then we use in to talk about lines
because we're looking for something like
specific
inside one line or two lines of text so
it's within like line number three or
line number four so some examples in the
book harry potter and the sorcerer's
stone there's a mistake on page seven in
line five
that's not true so i hope that this
helps you understand when to use in and
on and again i would recommend starting
with the videos on the channel for
information some more information about
other prepositions thanks very much for
the question okay let's move on to your
next question next question comes from
nhi knee hello hi ni uh nee says do wild
animal and wildlife have the same
meaning no they have very similar
meanings though so first wildlife is one
word it's a noun it's an uncountable
noun wildlife means all the living
things that are not humans so that's
like animals and fish and lizards so
it's like all the creatures in an area
that are not human that's the wildlife
in an area examples let's go to the
wildlife park
we need to protect the wildlife in this
area
wild animal however is a phrase wild is
an adjective animal is a noun so a wild
animal is an animal that has not been
domesticated domesticated means trained
so for example a pet cat or a pet dog is
a domesticated animal that's an animal
that has been trained so a wild animal
is something that does not have training
some examples did you see any wild
animals on your camping trip
the news said a hiker was attacked by a
wild animal
so thanks very much for the question i
hope that that helps you all right
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wild animals bears wolves antelopes
lions tigers
cougars
jaguars
rats mice
a whale
a crab is a wild animal
deer
rabbits coyotes
squirrels
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