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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia
the weekly series where you ask me
questions and i answer them maybe the
first question comes from
wishiar hi washir wishar says i
understand english but i can't speak
what's your advice for me on how i can
start speaking
um well we get this question a lot so
the short answer is to practice so if
you can find a language partner to
practice with if it's difficult to find
a language partner you can practice by
shadowing so shadowing means repeating
quickly after something someone says so
if you watch our videos or if you watch
other videos on youtube you can try
repeating quickly after the speaker so
just trying to practice making english
words english sounds english sentences
other things you can do are like there's
i think there's a voice recorder on the
website
that you can use to compare your voice
to a native english speaker's voice too
other things something i do i just talk
to myself sometimes like i think about
what i'm doing and then i think of how
do i say that in japanese so i do that
like when i'm at my house or if i'm i
don't know thinking about what i need to
do
later that day i might try to think of
it or say it to myself in japanese as
just a way to practice like using a new
vocabulary word or a new grammar point
i've recently learned so i hope that
that helps you i hope that helps you in
like finding ways to practice your
speaking thanks for the question let's
go on to your next question next
question comes from karthikeon gee hi
karthikayan uh karthcan says i have two
questions okay one first what is the
difference between umpire and referee
second what is the difference between
breathe in and breathe out and inhale
and exhale thanks okay your first
question umpire and referee have the
same meaning like they're the people who
decide the rules who determine what is
part of the rules and what is outside
the rules in sports the difference
between these two words is just that
umpire is used for
baseball and referee is used for other
sports football referee soccer referee
and we use ref for short like to
abbreviate the word referee umpire is
used in baseball you might hear it
abbreviated to ump as well regarding
your second question
breathe in and inhale and breathe out
and exhale they have the same meaning in
some situations maybe i guess inhale and
exhale could sound a little more like
scientific than breathe in or breathe
out but we use them the same way so you
might hear them in like a yoga class or
like visiting the doctor
they're both kind of the same level of
politeness and formality i guess we
really use them the same way but i hope
that that helps you all right let's move
on to your next question next question
comes from
danny hi danny danny says how do we use
these words desirable and desired
preferable and preferred
okay well to begin let's think about the
roots of these words so we have desire
and prefer to desire something means to
want something to prefer something means
to like something more than something
else
so desirable is an adjective
that means something that people want or
that they recognize is a good thing to
have we also use the word desirable to
talk about people we find attractive so
examples
she lives in a desirable part of town or
he's a desirable man we can use the word
desired as an adjective yes but i feel
like it might be more commonly seen as
the past tense of the verb desire so
like our clients desired more time to
make a decision or like we desired extra
noodles for our dinner i don't know but
like desired does sound a bit more
formal same thing with preferred we
don't use these so much in everyday
speech moving on then to preferred and
preferable preferable is the adjective
form and early morning flight is
preferable and when we use the word
preferable we often drop the like the
opposite thing so preferable as an
adjective again you could use preferred
as an adjective as well but i feel like
it could be more commonly used
as the past tense form of prefer so like
our client preferred the steak instead
of the fish for example or our team
preferred spring for the event but the
venue wasn't available those are a few
ways that you can use those words i hope
that that helps you thanks for the
question all right let's move on to your
next question next question comes from
antonio locco hi antonio antonio says hi
alicia
what's the difference between one i see
a movie with alicia tonight two i'm
seeing a movie with alicia tonight three
i'm going to see a movie with alicia
tonight four i'll see a movie with
alicia tonight thanks okay so sentence
number one is not grammatically correct
sentences number two and three are the
most natural sentence number four is
unnatural because you're using will
there we use will for things we're not
sure about or for like plans that we
make during conversation so when you're
saying i'll see a movie with alicia
tonight it sounds like you're explaining
a plan but you clearly already had the
plan before the conversation so it
sounds unnatural to use will there so
two and three are the most natural uh
number one is just incorrect so i hope
that that helps you thanks very much for
the question all right let's move on to
your next question next question comes
from dewey hi dewey uh dewey says hi
alicia can you give a simple explanation
about the word mighty
um okay
i'm not exactly sure in what situation
um we're gonna use this word but
generally mighty as an adjective can
mean like great or strong
we might use it in like epic stories
like the lord of the rings
or in
like a superhero movie
like um
she was a mighty queen
they gave a mighty effort for example
we can also use mighty as an emphasis
word to mean like really or very as in
there's a mighty strong wind out there
today or we're mighty tired
so that's kind of an old-fashioned use
of the word mighty we don't really use
it that much nowadays but you might hear
it so i hope that that helps you thanks
for the question all right so that's
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