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them all number three speed up your
reading to speed up your speaking being
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a native and can respond quickly they'll
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welcome to our first ever evening
edition of this series because the sound
in the original video was destroyed
hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia
the weekly series where you ask me
questions and i answer them maybe first
question this week first question this
week comes from patrick hi patrick
patrick says i know the basic english
words and i understand if someone speaks
in english
for example i understand your videos
perfectly but i have problems building
correct english sentences like when i
speak with another person do you have
any tips for how to build correct
sentences um i think that this just
comes with practice honestly it's
difficult to do but i know that there's
not always a person that you can ask for
help i will tell you a secret when i
don't have confidence with something
when i don't know how to answer
something this is what i do
i google it seriously just google it i
put quotation marks around like the
phrase that i'm trying to make and then
i search google for it and if it's there
great then that means i can use it maybe
like thousands of people have used that
phrase i know it's probably a common
phrase if there are no results then that
probably means i've made a mistake
somehow so that's maybe one good way to
help you as you try to build phrases by
yourself so try that out next question
next question comes from huang se na
huang sena hi i love your name alicia is
alisha a common name in the u.s i happen
to have a friend named alyssa also
what's your personal favorite name um
a common name in the u.s alicia i don't
i don't think alicia is so common in the
u.s and when i was growing up i didn't
have any other friends named alicia
also the spelling of my name is a little
strange usually it's spelled a-l-i-c-i-a
maybe you know the artist alicia keys
that's how she spells her name so my
name was commonly confused as alicia a
lot so i've heard like alison and alyssa
and ally and so on those are fairly
common i think but alicia especially my
spelling is not so common actually so
uh what's my favorite name uh my
favorite name is obi-wan kenobi
next question uh next question comes
from long is the h sound not always
pronounced when followed by another
consonant for example wall hanger or
come back home yes the h sound is often
pronounced very
softly it's quite difficult to pronounce
all of these syllables clearly like in
the example come back home it's quite
difficult to say the h sound clearly so
in those cases it's quite common to make
the h sound quite soft like come back
home next question romeo from vietnam hi
again romeo romeo says hello alicia do
native speakers say you aren't gonna
blah blah blah or you're not gonna blah
blah blah which contracted form is used
more i think they're used equally like
you can choose which you prefer me
i think i usually say you're not gonna i
probably use you are i can track the you
are you're not gonna you're not gonna or
you're not gonna do something i probably
use you're not more often than you
aren't gonna next question is from
wagner wagner wagner wagner have you
written any operas why do american
people pronounce english class 101
instead of one zero one or hundred one
oh this relates to uh like university
and college level courses actually so um
there are four levels to uh universities
or to colleges in the us uh first year
second year third year and fourth year
so the classes for each of those are
numbered so first your classes begin
with one second year classes with two
third year classes with three fourth
year classes with four so first year
classes like
it tends to be like the basic classes uh
begin with a one and like the most basic
uh of those classes is usually 101 so
like english class 101 that's kind of
making like a friendly introduction to
english in other words so we say 101. we
always use that sort of um pattern when
speaking we don't say 101
we always use 101 or like one two four
or like three six seven i don't know
what those classes are but we always say
each individual number nice question
though interesting next question is from
danny would you tell us about here you
are here you go there you are there you
go and here there
we you if they go oh gosh okay i'll talk
about the the ones that you introduce
what do they mean and how do you use
them naturally so let's talk first about
here you are and here you go so we use
these when we present someone with
something so you give someone something
here you are here you go like you are at
a restaurant maybe your order arrives
here you are uh here you go something
like in a service situation you might
hear this kind of from like a friendly
staffish like staff related person i
suppose here you are here you go or
maybe from a teacher to a school child
maybe here you go we use it to like
present something to present an object
that maybe they're expecting to receive
let's talk then about there you go and
there you are so we use there you go
when someone is able to do a thing
they've been practicing for a while so
for example if a child is learning how
to ride a bicycle and they've been
struggling with it for some time but
then gradually they get better at it and
they can do it a parent might say oh
there you go you got it you got it it's
like a it's like a support word an
encouragement word there you go
um the last one on your list though uh
there you are
in american english we use there you are
in a situation where we're looking for
someone we've been looking for someone
we're expecting to meet and it's been
difficult to find them maybe you visit a
few different spots but then at last you
find this person maybe like in a break
room or someplace you might not expect
them but when you do find them and you
say oh there you are we say it with that
sort of intonation oh there you are it
sounds immediately to the listener like
oh this person has been looking for me
next question next question is from
l o j l o j
loj says my question is about phrasal
verbs what is the meaning of knocked out
like here example sentence one uh
knocked me out of my possession or two
knocked the wind out of me i had a
problem with the word possession knocked
me out of my possession i'm not quite
sure this could refer though to in a
very rare situation um we have this word
possession uh which refers to like this
thing called demonic possession where
there's this idea that a bad spirit gets
into the body and controls a person's
behavior we call that possession so we
could say like a priest knocked me out
of my possession to go back to your
original question though the word knock
out as a phrasal verb to knock out means
like it means forcefully or forcibly
remove something because of some impact
an object is removed from its original
location so for example a jogger could
be coming at me and they run into me and
they knock my phone out of my hands so
in that case my phone is being removed
because of the impact of the jogger so
to knock something out means like to
remove from its original location from
force
in your second example then uh knocked
the wind out of me this is an expression
we use which means like to lose our
breath because of an impact so
um if you get like punched or kicked
maybe in
maybe this area
uh you might feel the air in your lungs
come out of your body so we call that
the wind in this situation so um like he
knocked the wind out of me means he
caused me to lose the air in my lungs
the impact was so strong in my body that
the air came out of my out of my lungs
so i like he knocked the wind so the
wind in this case the air in my lungs in
its original location was removed from
me because of this impact you might also
hear this expression in boxing to knock
out uh or to um to ko someone means to
um
cause them to lose consciousness in this
case so consciousness is the thing
that's uh that's going away in this case
so to knock someone out in like a boxing
match
means they
they lose consciousness in other words a
ko we sometimes say the first example
sentence is not actually so clear to me
so it could it's also possible there's
an error in the original text i don't
know all right so those are all the
questions that i want to answer this
week thank you very much for sending
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for watching this episode of ask alicia
and i will see you again next week bye
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hi everybody my name is alicia welcome
back to ask alicia the weekly series on
our youtube channel where you ask me
questions and i answer them maybe so
please remember you can submit your
questions to me at
englishclass101.com
ask alicia first question a lot of you
have asked about what to do to get a
voice that sounds like mine when i'm
making these videos i'm specifically
trying to speak clearly so i'm clearly
separating my words the way that i talk
with my friends and the way that i talk
regularly is a bit different in the way
that i talk on this channel but if you
want to try to get this kind of
pronunciation the best advice i have is
just to repeat this kind of
pronunciation it depends on your goal if
you want to learn to speak like me or to
speak like somebody else that you really
admire you should try to mimic them
that's what i do and that's uh actually
a strategy that i use when i study other
languages as well so if i hear something
interesting that a a vocabulary word
that a friend has used like in japanese
for example or they have a really good
intonation or just the way they deliver
the way they say something is really uh
interesting to me or i want to i want to
be able to use that too i put that in my
head i think about that and then i try
to replicate that i try to copy that
essentially to make this explanation
shorter mimic mimic if you want to learn
to speak like me mimic me if you want to
learn to speak like somebody else try to
mimic someone else but just keep in mind
that the way that i talk in these videos
is different
from the way that i talk in real life
next question what does the word lit
mean what does the word lit mean lit is
actually a slang word it's common slang
among young people especially in the us
right now maybe many of you know that
the verb to light has the past tense uh
lit lit is used to talk about for
example a party or um some kind of
social gathering usually that's really
exciting or that's really really fun or
that's kind of crazy so lit using the
past tense there you can kind of imagine
that like a fire when you light a fire
it maybe it gets bigger and it gets kind
of wild a little bit crazy like there's
a spark and then it starts so if you see
the word lit like this party was lit it
means it was really crazy it was really
good it was really fun
you can use it if you want but just keep
in mind that really young people use
that word i don't use that word for
reference but again i'm not cool next
question what is correct i thought you
were gone or i thought you are gone i
thought you are gone we need to use i
thought you were gone here i thought you
were gone so i thought past tense and
you were is also past tense it's a past
tense thought past tense situation um so
please use past tense yeah ah next
question also maybe about were and was
why do we use if i were and not if i was
this is a great question and actually a
lot of native speakers make mistakes
with this it's a small point to be fair
but if you want to be correct you should
always use if i were
this is a grammar point it refers to the
subjunctive mood the subjunctive mood
an explanation of subjunctive is a bit
beyond the scope it's a bit much for
this video but we will always use if i
were when the subject there is i in the
conditional if i were we always use work
you will hear native speakers say if i
was if i was if you want to be extremely
strict and extremely nitpicky
were is actually the correct one but if
you use was if you make a mistake and
you use was you will still be understood
so um but yes this is related to the
subjunctive mood in english next
question okay next one isn't really a
question but something i have noticed
that many of you do you like to put the
article uh or an before your adjective
before an adjective but you forget to
use a noun do you know how like mario
introduces himself and he says it's a me
when you forget to use
some kind of noun after after your
adjective or whatever but you sound a
bit like mario's it's a nice it's a nice
it's a nice what it's funny to me like
it's an eye so it's a me
you need to include the noun that you're
referring to it's a nice video or it's a
nice explanation it's nice or it's bad
or it's good or this was a nice
explanation but don't forget to use your
noun after you use the adjective it's a
nice something it's a good something
it's a bad something so please uh no
article without a noun make sure to use
your noun and it should be in the
singular form if you're using a or an
you need to use the singular form of the
noun don't sound like mario next
question
what does it mean they can't take that
away from me who are they and what does
takeaway mean we use the word they to
mean generally just other people outside
of us this is used a lot to talk about
like news or to talk about general
opinions they say that this pizza is the
best pizza in the city right now they
say that your
english will only improve if you study
every day they say that the most
difficult thing you can do in your life
is move to another country they is just
anyone second point what does take away
mean take away means to
some object that belongs in one location
is removed from that location like take
away food in american english we use
takeout actually but takeaway food is a
similar idea especially like in british
english takeaway so you take away your
food from the restaurant so you're
taking something else you're removing
your food from the restaurant so in the
expression they can't take that away
from me they meaning other people
outside you can't take something away
from you next one what does the phrase
don't be a creep don't be a creep me i
think michael talked about this on an
old english topics video so i talked in
a live stream about the word creepy
adjective creepy so something that
causes like nervous suspense is
something that's creepy the word creep
is used as a noun don't be a creep a
person who is creepy a guy can be a
creep a girl can be a creep so a creep
is someone who causes creepy feelings
like uh something bad might happen i
feel nervous like that person's a little
strange a little weird that person is a
creep he's a creep she's a creep so
don't be a creep means you should not
behave like a creep don't create nervous
feelings in the other person don't be a
creepy person don't be a creep everybody
that's good advice don't be a creep
don't be afraid try to be a nice and
understanding um and respectful person
always next question oh that was my last
one for this week all right so those are
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what are the things i can do with my
microphone i wonder i feel like i had
some ideas for this when i was laying in
bed last night now i've forgotten them
all oh now i can take my videos on the
road making like a golf reporter uh yes
the ball the ball is rolling
why am i russian i'm a russian golf
reporter now oh maybe i'll be a
beatboxer how do you do that
hi everybody my name is alicia and today
we're going to be talking about 10 of
the hardest words to pronounce according
to you guys so we collected some
information from you on facebook thanks
very much for sending in your ideas and
these were the top 10
most difficult words for you to
pronounce so let's get started
absolutely
absolutely absolutely might be tough to
pronounce absolutely means 100
absolutely is an agreement phrase are
you going to that music event next week
absolutely yes 100 definitely absolutely
loot like a loot l-u-t-e
big rime
the grime apparently means dirty i've
never heard nor used this word before
but perhaps it's
difficult to pronounce the grime the
door to my apartment was begrimed in the
storm last week
breakfast the next word is breakfast
breakfast is hard to pronounce but that
is the meaning of breakfast you're
breaking the fast so a fast is a period
of time without eating and to break
means to just well in this case breaking
something it doesn't refer to like
crushing
a thing but um stopping something to
break the fast of
the night in other words so you're
fasting during the night you're not
eating so you wake up in the morning you
break the fast but we don't say
breakfast we say breakfast in a sentence
this morning for breakfast i ate a bowl
of cereal with grapes and i had a coffee
too
colleague
colleague yes colleague many of my
students struggle with this they say
colleague or they say caligu or
something because the spelling of this
word is really really strange there's
that g-u-e at the end or more commonly i
feel it's just co-worker colleague
sounds slightly more formal to me than
co-worker somebody who you work with or
somebody who you have a business
relationship with in some sense could be
a person from another company could be
somebody from your own company anyone
who you do business dealings with is
your colleague can be your colleague in
a sentence i'm going
to a networking event with my colleagues
next week
miscellaneous
that misc miscellaneous it's just the
spelling i think maybe is confusing for
this word miscellaneous miscellaneous
just means
other stuff or just other uncategorized
stuff i keep a lot of miscellaneous
items in a drawer in my house maybe they
don't they don't really fit into one
category like it's not kitchen things
it's not clothing it's just sort of a
mixture of of things miscellaneous
things
the next word is negotiation negotiation
yeah there are two t's in this but
neither t is a hard t they're both very
soft that sh sound because they're
followed by the i and another vowel that
she a
negotiation negotiation refers to a
compromise between two people you're
trying to make a decision and you
negotiate in this case it's a noun form
negotiation business negotiations
continued for more than a month with
this important deal
realm i see why this one's hard it's
that rome part little
realm it's a weird word isn't it it's
used to talk about just like the kind of
a fantasy world is sort of the nuance of
this phrase the realm uh in a sentence
let us go to the realm where the
elves live and eat their bread
unfortunately the next word is
unfortunately unfortunately
unfortunately it just means too bad you
can use this to to start bad news for
example like unfortunately i can't come
to work today because i'm sick or
unfortunately i broke my arm at the
basketball game last week or
unfortunately
my haircut is bad
vocabulary vocabulary vocabulary vocab
vocabulary vocabulary
vocabulary vocabulary just refers to the
uh words in a language my vocabulary in
my second language is really really low
i need a bigger vocabulary so that i can
express myself more clearly world
world ah i see why this one's hard world
world hard to pronounce that rld i think
together is tough plus that w at the
beginning as well it's such a short word
but you have to say so many weird things
at the same time world your tongue is
going
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like this in a sentence i have traveled
all over the world and the best food is
in
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my stomach that's the end so those were
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why is the jurassic park theater he's
coming out hi everybody my name is
alicia and today we're going to be
talking about 15 questions that you
should know so these are 15 questions
that not necessarily
you need to
know how to ask them perhaps you know
some of the questions already but you
will probably also hear these questions
as well so we'll practice a few
different answers for these questions
too
so let's get started
do you like american food the first
question is do you like american food
you will probably be asked this question
do you like american food you can either
say yes or no or you can give a specific
example someone says do you like
american food yes i love philly
cheesesteaks i would recommend saying
yes or a little
or
or or you can just say i don't know what
do you recommend
have you been to the united states the
next question is have you been to the
united states have you been to the
united states so someone asks you have
you been to the united states you should
reply with either yes i have or no i
haven't or maybe no i haven't yet but i
want to when you want to ask someone
this question you can say have you been
to japan have you been to egypt have you
been to china whatever you can use your
own country when you ask this question
how are you how are you when someone
asks how are you
don't say i'm fine thank you and you
please don't say that please say
something more natural like good
great i'm good how are you something
like that is much better than i'm going
thank you and you be a little more
genuine in your reply also when you ask
this question maybe one point to help
you sound a little more natural when you
ask someone else don't like try to say
how are you how are you instead of how
are you or
and make make sure your intonation is
correct i've had a few people ask me uh
how are you like a little too
yeah with this question or like how are
you but how are you should be the
intonation with this how are you how are
you is a little bit more natural how
long have you been studying english how
long have you been studying english
great question to know the answer to
your answer should be i have been
studying english for blah blah blah
years or blah blah months or above one
weeks but if that's too much for you you
can just use the time how long have you
been studying english six years how long
have you been studying english two
months so just pick the time if the
whole sentence is quite long for you
how old are you we don't really go
around asking people how old they are
like just the first time you meet them
necessarily especially if they're older
much older than you like in particular
it's sometimes considered rude to ask
especially women uh how old they are so
just be careful with this question but
if you're about the same age group you
know maybe you're at an event or a party
or something and you just want to check
how old the other person is you can use
this phrase when you reply to this just
say
uh i'm plus the number
to make a really simple response so how
old are you i'm 15. how old are you i'm
42 whatever the answer is just stick i'm
in front of it not i but i'm i am but
use the contracted form to sound more
natural i'm number if you want to make a
full sentence you can say i'm number
years old don't forget that s in years
i'm
a million years old
what did you say
what did you say if you couldn't quite
hear something that someone else said
you can use this question to confirm
sorry what did you say it's a little
nicer than just saying what
what did you say or what did you just
say sorry what did you say i couldn't
hear you what's this
what's this when you don't know what
something is what's this when you're out
for dinner you're out for lunch or
something and you find a new food or you
just you're curious just say what's this
to reply to this question just say it's
blah blah blah what's your name what's
your name of course you should know how
to ask this question and how to answer
this question what's your name is a
little more natural than what is your
name
again contracted form will help you
sound much more natural so what's your
name someone asks you you can just give
your name alicia that's fine you can say
alicia you can say i'm alicia that's
fine too you could say my name is or my
name's alicia
either any of those are fine in a more
formal situation a business situation i
would i would use my name is blah blah
blah while i shake hands or something
what's your phone number the next one is
what's your phone number i would not ask
this question right away like maybe
you've met the person a few times but
you would like to contact them whether
it's because you're romantically
interested in them or because you want
to be better friends with them but just
if you meet someone for the first time
and you're like what's your phone number
it's like a little
it's a little too much so use this
question after you've met the person a
few times and you know you want to
become better friends when you want to
give your phone number just say it's and
the number that's fine just it's blah
blah blah or my phone number is blah
blah blah with the number 555-100526
when is your birthday
so maybe you want to plan a birthday
party for example or it's just another
fun question the first time you meet
someone when is your birthday so when
you want to tell someone your birthday
just give the month and the date um
january 15th august 42nd
that's a real day if you want to make a
full sentence you can say my birthday is
month date
where are you from the next word the
next question is where are you from this
can refer to your country or your city
but i feel like probably more stuff and
it refers to your country so where are
you from your answer should be i'm from
place i'm from china i'm from japan i'm
from vietnam i'm from america whatever
i'm from where did you learn english the
next question is where did you learn
english where did you learn english if
you're speaking great english you can
say i learned english at
englishclass101.com
because you did because you're watching
now
anyway where did you learn english in
this case in the case of like these
videos i learned english online or i
learned english from
and then the school name or the program
name so i learned english from
englishclass101.com for example if you
studied english at university you can
say i learned english at university or i
learned english from my friends perhaps
where do you live where do you live
depending on the situation where you're
asked this this can mean your country
like
i live in america i live in china
sometimes it's about the place in the
city where you live sometimes it's about
the country where you live so you can
kind of feel i think which question
which type of question is being asked
where do you work where do you work
is talking about your job you can use
the pattern i work
at
company name or i work for
company name either is fine i work at
abc company i work for abc company
either is okay but you know if if you
have answered with the wrong information
the other person will just ask you like
oh i mean where is your office or oh i
mean which company do you work for use
the force for this one
where is the bathroom where is the
bathroom very important question where
is the bathroom in american english
where is the bathroom or where is the
restroom is more common than where is
the toilet using the word toilet is a
little bit too direct in american
english so i recommend bathroom or
restroom so those are 15 questions that
you should definitely know know how to
ask these questions and know how to
answer these questions they are very
useful
and very important for everyday
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