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hi everybody welcome back to ask Alisha

the weekly series where you ask me

questions and I answer them maybe first

question this week comes from sun-joo

Huygens on you Sanju says hey Alisha how

can I think

fully in my target language whenever I

see you speaking fluently I feel like I

want to become like you so how can I

make my communication like yours

this is a very common question and it

requires practice it requires regular

practice so this means you need to

practice a little bit every day where

you can immerse yourself in the language

you’re studying if you’re studying

English try to use English as much as

possible in your day so if you can try

to make a time in your week or in your

day when you only speak English or you

only read English so try to read English

books watch English TV or movies listen

to music in English talk to people in

English where you can you need to get

used to using it in your everyday life

so that your brain gets used to using it

when you’re just thinking about things

so this takes time absolutely you need

to practice and you need to give

yourself time every day and every week

to get used to doing this so practice

every day practice regularly of course

if you really want to practice speaking

like me you can mimic me you can shadow

me if you want but please keep in mind

as I’ve said on this channel before I’m

speaking in a way that’s helpful for

learners so I’m trying to use very clear

pronunciation I’m trying to use kind of

simple grammar or grammar that’s not

super complex and I’m also not speaking

in exactly the same way that native

speakers do in everyday conversation so

please remember that the way I speak on

this channel is not necessarily the way

that native speakers talk in everyday

life that being said if you want to use

me for your shadowing practice please

feel free you won’t have any community

occasion problems if you practice

speaking like me so I hope that this

helps you if you’re interested there are

some other videos on the channel that

have lots of tips about how to think in

your target language and how to get used

to applying English in your everyday

life so definitely check those out too

okay I hope that this helps you thanks

very much for the question

alright let’s move on to your next

question next question comes from Eric

Pashkov hi Eric Eric says what’s the

difference between present perfect and

past perfect okay present perfect is

used one for general life experience in

the past at a non specific point in time

this can be an experience you had or an

experience you did not have so when the

point in time is not important we can

use present perfect to talk about that

for example I have been to France I have

never written a book we also use present

perfect tense to talk about actions that

started in the past and continued to the

present or the effects of that action

continue to the present

you’ll see verbs used with progressive

tense in this case too so for example

have been plus the ing form of a verb we

also commonly use for and since to talk

about the entire length of time an

action has happened or has been

happening rather so for example I have

been speaking for about 4 minutes or he

has been listening to me since I started

this video so this is a common way that

we use present perfect tense past

perfect on the other hand refers to

things that happened in the past so

we’re not talking about the relationship

between the past and the present we’re

talking about the relationship between a

past action and some other past point so

for example I had been studying for 3

hours when I fell asleep so in that

example sentence we see that there was

one past continuing action and a second

action that happened closer to the

present that interrupted the action when

I fell asleep so we can you

past perfect tense to show like

sequences if you’re telling a story and

there are two points in your story that

we’re in the past you can use past

perfect tense to explain the thing that

came first then use simple past to

explain the thing that happened nearer

to the present as I did in this story as

I also mentioned in this example

sentence if you want to describe a past

action that was continuing and that was

then interrupted you can use this

pattern this past perfect - simple past

tense pattern so we use it for that we

also use it to talk about life

experience again so general life

experience or no life experience but at

a past point in time so for example by

my tenth birthday I had saved $100 for

example so by my tenth birthday is a

point in the past I’m obviously not ten

years old now so by my tenth birthday I

had saved that means up until that point

in time I had saved $100 so when we want

to talk about past experiences in

relation to other past points you can

use the past perfect tense so you can

find some other videos about present

perfect tense and soon about past

perfect tense on the channel soon so I

hope that you check those out for some

more information I hope that this helps

you - thanks very much for the question

all right let’s move on to your next

question next question comes from Hannes

Bayou

hi Hannes Hannes says what’s the

difference between follow and subscribe

because they have the same meaning okay

for online media hubs like Twitter and

Facebook and YouTube they have the same

feeling they have the same meaning like

you click the button and you receive

updates from that person or from that

company or whatever in terms of kind of

a more historical meaning though the

word subscribe was and is used for

regular publications so for example we

subscribe to a magazine or we subscribe

to a newspaper when you subscribe to

something there’s an expert

that you will receive that thing on a

regular basis on a regular schedule so

for example if you subscribe to a

monthly magazine you expect to receive

the magazine once a month that’s a

subscription so the same word carries

over into YouTube when we subscribe to

someone’s channel we expect to see their

content we expect that when that person

creates something we are going to

receive it so in YouTube’s case this

means we have like you know a channels

you follow list or we see like something

in our email that says oh this channel

has posted a new video so subscribe in

this way means like you have some kind

of expectation of receiving something

somewhat regularly of course not

everyone on YouTube posts regularly but

this is the idea to follow however like

with Twitter or with Facebook or

Instagram is like you’re just waiting

for updates from that person maybe

you’re not expecting to receive

something on a regular basis but if that

person or that company or brand or

whatever chooses to share something

you’re saying you want to have the

ability to quickly and easily check that

thing so this is why we don’t really use

like subscribe for Twitter or subscribe

on Facebook or on Instagram it sounds

more like a service for a youtube though

it makes sense because it’s like we’re

getting something regularly many people

on YouTube create content regularly so

subscribe is a better fit in this case

okay so I hope that this helps answer

your question thanks very much for

sending it along alright let’s move on

to your next question next question

comes from a bra hiya bra a browser says

are like and sees the same word if not

what’s the difference and how do we use

them Thanks okay it depends on how the

words are used we can use both of these

words to share our opinion of someone or

something like in these example

sentences she seems nice she seems like

a nice person notice how in the first

example sentence here we follow seams

with an adjective she seems nice in the

second example sentence she seems like

a nice person we’re using like and we

need to follow this with a noun phrase

so a nice person is a noun phrase when

you’re using like in this way you need

to follow like with a noun phrase you

can’t use an adjective there as we did

with seems so we followed the same rule

when we’re using like to make

comparisons for example he eats like a

pig you look like my brother so when

we’re making comparisons like this we

need to use a noun phrase after the word

like also we can use seems with verbs

for example this seems to be the right

answer

he seems to like hiking so another quick

point about the word seems is that we

use seem or seems when we want to make a

guess or share an opinion about

something but maybe we can’t quickly

confirm so like she seems nice it’s like

our opinion our quick opinion of that

person but maybe we don’t know yet she

might not be a nice person we don’t know

but when you want to make a quick guess

about something that you can’t actually

check you can’t really confirm you can

use seems to do that in the second

original example sentence I introduced

she seems like a nice person we’re

combining seem with like their so she

seems like that means it’s like you’re

comparing this person she to a nice

person that’s kind of the idea here so

she has the appearance or I guess she

seems as though she is a nice person so

this is an over complicated explanation

but think about using like when you want

to compare things think about using seem

when you want to maybe just share a

simple adjective or maybe when you want

to make a quick guess about someone so I

hope that this helps you thanks very

much for the question all right let’s

move on to your next question next

question comes from junior high junior

junior says hi Alicia someone once said

to me

you’re neat and I was kind of confused

what does it mean okay neat is kind of

like a cute word or a nice word that

means cool or interesting it sounds

casual very friendly maybe a little bit

childish we would use meat in the same

way as we use cool but cool is a little

bit rough neat sounds kind of precious

and nice and childish a little bit so

you can say that someone’s drawing is

neat or that someone is neat however

there’s a second meaning of neat

which means tidy or organized so if

someone like came to your house and said

wow you’re neat like to talk about the

way that your house is organized or like

to comment about how clean your space is

it could have this meaning so it depends

how did the person use the word when

they were speaking to you what was the

situation so it can mean cool great

awesome nice or it can mean tiny and

organized some other examples I saw that

movie it was neat my new computer is

neat your parents are really neat aren’t

they

okay so I hope that this helps answer

your question thanks very much

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