What is the difference between Miss and Madam

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back to ask Alicia the weekly series

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them baby okay let’s get to your first

question this week first question this

week comes from Jaya Krishna hi Jai

Krishna Jai Krishna says in school we

call teachers other names like madam or

miss what is the difference between

teacher miss Madame in other words yeah

it’s a good question in American English

in schools in the u.s. that are high

school and below so like junior high

school or elementary school we do not

call our teachers teacher we don’t use

that title for our teachers we use

mister for male teachers or we use miss

and last name and mrs. and last name for

female teachers the difference between

miss and Madame and misses is usually

related to whether or not the woman is

married so if a woman is not married

usually we use miss or if you’re not

sure we use miss if the woman is married

we use mrs. Madame however is something

that we don’t really use in settings

like these we use Madame in service

situations usually so we use this

particularly in like luxurious settings

so imagine going to like a really

expensive hotel and you meet staff at

the hotel they address you if you’re a

woman or your female companion with

Madame so that’s like a high kind of

respect term so it’s kind of an

old-fashioned term as well we don’t use

it so much in everyday speech in the

u.s. Madame but you might hear it in

kind of like these luxurious expensive

situations another situation where you

might hear Madame used in US English is

in situations relating to official

positions like in the government so

there’s a position for example where a

a woman holding the position might be

called madam job title so for example

madam secretary there is a government

position called Secretary of State and

if a woman holds that job we might call

her madam secretary when referring to

her official duties so that’s a very

specific case where we would use madam

in relationship to someone’s job but

generally when we’re talking to somebody

in other fields of work we do not use

this title if you are going to school in

the US and you’re going to high school

or below just use mister or miss or mrs.

Plus the last name for your teacher if

however you’re going to college or

university in the States you should use

professor if your instructor is a

professor or doctor if your instructor

has achieved that level of education if

they have their PhD many professors or

instructors prefer to be called doctor

so you should use that title of course

some professors also like to keep things

casual and they say please use just my

first name or please use my last name

whatever so pay attention to how your

instructor prefers to be called and just

use that okay thanks very much for the

question let’s move on to your next

question next question comes from

Francois Luci hi Francois Francois says

hi Alicia thanks a lot for your videos

could you please explain the difference

between remember remind and recall from

a French follower sure so remember and

recall have the same meaning they both

refer to thinking of something being

able to think of something that happened

in the past so that could be a

conversation it could be a person a

place whatever

so remember and recall both have that

meaning to be able to think of that the

difference between them though is that

recall sounds much more formal much more

polite we don’t use recall so much in

everyday conversation in everyday

conversation we use remember some

examples I can’t remember that phone

number do you recall the name of that

restaurant I can’t believe you

remembered my birthday

so recall

remember do have the same meaning yes

but in everyday life we use remember

much more often so please try to use

remember if you want to sound more

polite choose recall remind however is a

bit different from recall and remember

to remind means to cause someone to

remember so you give someone information

like to refresh their memory they know

about something and you want to tell

them again so to cause them to remember

some information for example can you

remind me about tomorrow’s lunch meeting

you remind me of someone I knew a long

time ago did someone remind you it was

my birthday ok so I hope that this helps

you understand the differences between

recall remind and remember thanks very

much for the question ok let’s move on

to your next question next question

comes from Winn Mintz way hi Winn Mintz

way widman’s way says hello Alicia what

is the difference between trust and

believe ok trust means to be able to

rely on something we feel confident

about our understanding of something or

someone so we can trust a person or we

can trust a situation or we can trust an

object so to trust means you’re able to

rely on that thing for example it’s

important to work with people you trust

this computer crashes a lot I don’t

trust it to believe however refers to

having faith in something like you are

confident that something is true so we

use believe a lot when talking about

religion or when listening to people’s

stories like when we believe a story we

are confident the story is true when we

don’t believe a story we are not

confident the story is true so you may

here believe used in the common

expression I can’t believe it which we

use a lot when we feel shocked or

surprised so depending on the speaker’s

intonation this can mean they actually

do believe it but they’re very surprised

or they really don’t believe it

so let’s hear a couple of examples I

believe hardware

is important for success I got a huge

promotion I can’t believe it so in the

second example there that kind of

excited voice shows that the speaker is

really surprised and really excited and

even though they say I can’t believe it

they’re just kind of expressing shock so

it’s a true situation yes that condition

is true but they want to express their

shock in an excited way so I hope that

this helps you understand the

differences between trust and believe

thanks very much for the question ok

let’s move on to your next question next

question comes from Mudge tomash Marsh

says can I say I don’t give a damn in an

English lesson I would not say this no

this sounds very aggressive and rather

rude so if you want to communicate that

you don’t have a strong opinion about

something or that someone else can make

the choice I would recommend something

like I don’t have a preference or it

doesn’t matter to me something like that

sounds a lot lighter and a lot more

friendly if you say I don’t give a damn

you’re probably going to make people

upset they’ll probably think that you’re

being very rude similarly please be

careful with the expression I don’t care

so if you say I don’t care a lot of

people feel that it sounds kind of rude

again so slightly rude not as rude as I

don’t give a damn but I don’t care can

also sound a little too rough so instead

please use an expression like I don’t

have a preference or maybe whatever you

think is fine so please try to be polite

in your English lessons

although the expression you used is

grammatically correct and it

communicates an idea effectively you

will probably upset someone in your

class so I hope that this helps you

thanks very much for the question ok

let’s go on to your next question next

question comes from Jean Paolo hi Joe

Paulo Joao Paulo says Alisha you know

the video about American convenience

stores can you explore something similar

to the way Risa did on the Japanese

channel yes we have started making

videos about culture in the US so this

video about the u.s. convenience store

is now available on the English class

101 channel I’ll put it behind me on the

green screen here yeah okay great so we

didn’t explore it I personally did not

explore the channel but we’re trying to

think of some other similar things that

we could maybe do so check this out if

you haven’t seen it already and also

check out the second video in the series

about supermarkets in the US and we’ll

have some more stuff coming out there

soon as well so we’re kind of exploring

some culture topics if you are

interested please check those out thanks

for this idea will we can consider it

but we’ll try to see how we can work

things out thanks very much for this

idea much appreciated

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