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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 wish Shia

Hayashi our wish sure says I understand

English but I can’t speak what’s your

advice for me on how I can start

speaking 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 speakers voice

to 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 is 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

Karthik haein ji hi Karthik and cars can

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

that umpire is used for baseball and

referee is used for other sports

football referees soccer referee and we

use ref for shorts like to abbreviate

the word referee umpire is used in

baseball you might hear it abbreviated

to um 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

alright 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 client 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 an early morning

flight is preferable and when we use the

word preferable we often

the like the opposite thing so

preferable is 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 Locke oh hi Antonio Antonio says

hi Alicia what’s the difference between

one I see a movie with Alicia tonight -

I’m seeing a movie with Alicia tonight

three I’m going to see a movie with

Alicia tonight four I’ll see you 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 conversations 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

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 Dewey says hi Alicia

can you give a simple explanation about

the word mighty um okay I’m not exactly

sure in what situation 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

then 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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