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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 this week comes from sergey hi
sergey sergey says what methods would
you recommend to remember english words
as fast as possible and for a long time
thanks aha common question uh i would
suggest that you begin using the words
right away so i imagine many learners
have a vocabulary list uh maybe it's a
digital list or a list you write by hand
whatever
when you learn a new word begin using
the word right away so i don't mean like
reading the word or learning the
spelling of the word that's great but
start making sentences with the words so
write a sentence and then say the
sentence out loud so use the word right
away and then maybe at the end of the
same day read the sentence again write
the sentence again say the sentence
again so use the word again the next day
do it again maybe make a new sentence
using the same word so try to say that
sentence again try to say the previous
day sentence again so use the word don't
just put the word into your head
actually create something with the word
this is huge very important it's
actually like to create something with
the new words that you're learning so
you do this you know every day and then
a few days later you refresh the word a
week later you refresh the word so in
the beginning it takes time you maybe
need to refresh your mind refresh your
memory a lot as you learn new vocabulary
words but then you also need to get used
to using those words in your everyday
life so try to maybe make a list or like
a group of words you want to focus on
for like one week or two weeks at a time
and so you practice that group of words
like every day or
you make a study plan to focus on this
group of words for this month or
something like that so do that with
those words that you really really want
to use maybe they're words that are
extremely important to your everyday
life like your studies or your work or
maybe a hobby for example so i would
suggest doing that
and spacing out your repetition to do
that so if you want a tool that can help
you to do this kind of thing uh there
are spaced repetition systems like
spaced repetition flash card tools a
very popular one is a tool called anki
so you can download like vocabulary word
decks groups of vocabulary words and
study those and the software or the
system will automatically tell you when
is the next time to study so you finish
your study session and then later a few
hours later or a day later or something
you can study the same words again and
it will remember how well you did the
previous time so it spaces out uh how
often you see your vocabulary words and
helps you
refresh things at a good pace for your
studies and for your like your memory
so that might be a good tool to use but
as i said don't just read don't just see
the words on a screen make sure you use
the words as well so i hope that this
helps you to understand new vocabulary
words and to be able to remember them
for a long time good luck with your
studies okay let's move on to your next
question next question this week comes
from
melee hello meli melis says you say and
i answer them maybe at the opening of
the video this maybe means if i can or
you ask plenty of questions and i pick
randomly so maybe i can or i can't pick
yours thanks yeah actually both both are
true the reason that i chose that
beginning the you ask questions and i
answer them maybe i chose that
introduction for both of those reasons
so one is actually i don't know for sure
if i answered your question so sometimes
viewers send a question
and maybe i don't completely understand
what they want to know or maybe my
answer doesn't give them 100 of the
information so i hope i try my best to
answer the questions completely but i
don't know for sure that i've answered
the viewer's question i don't know for
sure that i've answered your question so
that's one that's one reason why i say
maybe at the beginning of the video the
second reason as you said is because
there are lots of questions that get
sent to us for this series so sometimes
the questions are like very common
questions so we get for example lots of
questions about how to use present
perfect tense or we get lots of
questions about how to use have and had
or would could and should those words
so
because there are so many questions like
that i might not choose your question
about that topic i try to choose
questions that i hope can be like new
and interesting and helpful for lots of
people who are watching the channel not
just for that one person so that's one
reason also there are some questions
that are very very specific some people
send questions that are maybe about one
specific sentence
and so for other people maybe it's not
so helpful so i'm trying to choose
questions that
are good for everybody
so that's the second reason why i say
maybe i might not choose the question
that you send even if you do send it
thank you so much for sending um but yes
there are those two reasons why i say
maybe at the beginning to every video in
this series so i hope that that helps
you thanks for this question okay let's
move on to your next question this week
next question for this week comes from
comey hello komei kome says what is the
difference between ongoing and in
progress great question ongoing is an
adjective we can place ongoing before
the noun that it modifies we can also
place ongoing after the noun that it
modifies but we connect the two with is
some examples
this is an ongoing project
this project is ongoing
in progress on the other hand is not an
adjective it's in a preposition and
progress a noun so progress means like
movement forward or some kind of
improvement that's what progress means
so we can imagine in progress to mean
like in the condition of making progress
so that's kind of like a long way to say
this small phrase in progress in the
conditioner in the state of making
forward progress so we tend to use this
after the noun that it modifies so some
examples of this
construction is in progress on our
office building
this project is a work in progress
so i hope that helps you understand the
differences between ongoing and in
progress thanks very much for this
question okay let's move on to your next
question next question comes from
marcelo veloso hello marcelo marcelo
says hi alicia how's it going here in
brazil when actors and actresses play
roles in soap operas movies and tv shows
they don't talk like ordinary people
they talk a little formally i would like
to know if the same thing happens in the
usa
nice question
but generally no actors and actresses
don't speak more formally they do
however change their speaking for the
setting in which they are acting so for
example if you've seen a movie where the
story features royalty so like kings and
queens
you might hear the actors using very
formal language because that's the
language that's appropriate for a very
formal setting so they use that language
not because it's like a movie but
because it's like a king or a queen
they're speaking to so they should speak
formally on the other hand if you've
seen the movie like a cowboy movie like
an old western movie you'll hear the
characters speaking in a very rough
manner so they choose the way that they
speak or the way that they speak is kind
of determined by the setting of the
media so it's not that the media itself
causes actors and actresses to speak a
certain way it's like the story itself
they speak to match the story
um i will say that probably in most
cases actors and actresses tend to speak
a little bit more clearly yes they speak
very quickly but they tend to speak a
little more clearly in media because
it's important for the audience to be
able to catch all the words that are
being said so you might hear them
speaking a little bit more clearly but
no not necessarily more formally so
level of formality is determined by the
story the characters in the story and
the relationships in the story so i hope
that that helps you thanks very much for
the question okay let's move on to your
next question next question this week
comes from michael hello michael michael
says hi alicia the verbs would and had
have the same form of contraction
apostrophe d
how do i know what verb this form of the
contraction means great question okay to
know which form
look at the word that comes after the
apostrophe d
for example
i'd like a glass of water
i'd eaten by the time my roommate got
home
okay so in the first example sentence
i'd like a glass of water the word that
comes after i'd is like like is a simple
present tense verb in the second example
sentence i'd eaten by the time my
roommate got home we see eaten which is
the verb eat in the past participle form
so we break these down and we see i'd
like becomes i would like or i had like.
so we know i had like is incorrect
that's not proper grammar we know
therefore it should be i would like we
can do the same thing with the second
example sentence i'd eaten could be
either i would eaten or i had eaten
we know that i would eaten is
grammatically incorrect so
we can understand therefore that when we
see that apostrophe d
followed by a simple present tense verb
we can understand that that's actually
an i would construction apostrophe d
followed by a verb in the past
participle form however indicates the
past perfect tense i had eaten i'd eaten
so you don't actually need to focus on
that apostrophe d focus on the grammar
of the sentence as a whole so we're
looking at the verb that comes after
this not to the apostrophe d itself the
clue is actually in the next word so i
hope that this helps you identify the
differences in the future thanks very
much for this question great so that is
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