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hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia

the weekly series where you ask me

questions and i answer them maybe

okay let's get to your first question

this week first question this week comes

from harry hi harry harry says

how do you pronounce words with two r

sounds in american english

like earlier or further i think i sound

so weird when i pronounce this sound

yeah unlike in british english which has

a very soft kind of

ah sound in words like these in american

english we pronounce the r

sounds very distinctly so earlier

earlier as in i met him earlier

or further further as in we walked down

the road

further or we walked further down the

road so

this is maybe a pronunciation point

difference between british english

and american english i hope that that

helps answer your question of how to

pronounce these sounds in both british

and

american english thanks very much for

the question okay

let's move on to your next question next

question comes from

fatima hi fatima fatima says i've

paraphrased your question it's

uh full of information how do i talk

about the future of the future

for example a friend invited me to

participate in a course

but i want to decline because i know i'm

not going to use the things the course

will teach me

how do i express this should i say i

won't join in

because i won't use what i'll learn i

won't try what i'll have learned

i won't try what i learn thank you good

question

and depending on the person the response

might be a little bit different there

are a few different ways that someone

might respond to this situation

i would probably say thanks but i'm not

going to join you because i know i'm

probably not going to use the stuff the

course teaches

so in my answer i would say probably not

gonna

meaning there's a high chance that this

thing is not going to happen

and i would probably phrase it like as i

said in my example sentence i'm probably

not going to use

the stuff the course teaches so i would

probably use

present tense there because the course

itself doesn't change right like the

topics of the course

uh like the lessons in the course that

doesn't change that's always true so i

might use

present tense there and then i would say

with simple future tense plus probably

i'm probably not gonna because that

shows a high level of certainty

i think uh in my case i probably

wouldn't

use will or won't in this case because

going to

sounds like you've thought about it a

little bit more

prior to the conversation but again this

is just how

i might answer the question somebody

else might choose a different response

somebody else might say like ah thanks

for the invitation but

i think i'll probably pass this time you

know they could just say something like

that

another way you might answer this is i'm

not going to come because i probably

won't use the things the course is going

to teach us

so again we're using a mixture of that

will

and won't in the negative form and going

to so this is really kind of up to the

speaker

i would say from the options that you

provided

i would not use will have learned in

that case

i would probably just use simple present

tense and a simple future

tense i would put those two together and

then we would understand the situation

based on the context so if you're

talking with the person who

invited you for example we can generally

understand from context

what the future and the future future

parts are so that's fine

this is also actually a situation where

if things are unclear at all it's

very natural to ask for confirmation to

ask for clarification

so if you're explaining the situation to

someone outside the situation and they

don't understand what you mean

you can clarify you can make it like a

little bit more specific like i think

i'm not going to use the things the

course is going to teach so i'm not

going to go you know you can break it

all down if you really really need to

in some to break it down i would

probably use simple future tense

a negative form like probably not going

to and i would probably use just a

simple

present tense verb to refer to the

things the course

teaches because that doesn't change but

again

depending on the person there might be a

slightly different answer

i would suggest you just don't use will

have

learned so i would not suggest using

that future perfect

tense there so i hope that this helps

you thanks for an interesting question

okay let's move on to your next question

next question comes

from kiran hi kiran kiran says hi alicia

i noticed sometimes we use little to

give the meaning of

nothing in what situations do we use it

okay

yeah i've talked about this here and

there in live streams and in like the q

a from time to time

but let's review so we can use little

before an uncountable noun to give a

negative

feeling sometimes so let's take a look

at two sentences to compare

first we have a little time to finish

this project

and second we have little time to finish

this project

so the difference between these two

sentences is that the first sentence

includes the article

uh before little so we have a little

time to finish this project

this sounds like a simple report of

information it's neutral like a fact

in the second sentence however there is

no article there's no

uh before little we have little time to

finish this project

this sentence sounds negative it sounds

like this is not a good thing

so i think that this is what you're

referring to when you say

little being used to mean nothing so

this is the case in situations like this

where the noun that follows little is

kind of positive or something

that is desirable this is not a rule

however

please note that if your noun that

follows little

is something that's not desirable that

is negative then it can actually have

the opposite meaning

so let's take a look at an example here

the city

has a little pollution and the city has

little pollution

in this example sentence we have the

same little versus a little

difference but the noun that follows it

is pollution

so pollution we understand is bad or

negative or not

desirable so when we say the city has a

little pollution

it again sounds like just a simple

report simple fact

but when we say the city has little

pollution it sounds like a good thing

actually so keep in mind that the noun

that

follows little does affect the meaning

of the sentence

if it's something that's undesirable

like pollution then

it sounds like it's a good situation if

the noun that follows little is

something that we actually do

want like time in my first set of

example sentences

then it creates a negative feeling so

this is how we can use

little to mean very nearly nothing or to

create that negative feeling i hope that

this answers your question

thanks very much okay let's move on to

your next question

next question comes from miriam atef

hello miriam

miriam says hey alicia i don't know

whether to use

any way or any ways i would use anyway

without the s but you hear any ways all

the time in speech

i would suggest in writing you use any

way with

no s just be consistent that's my

personal preference i suppose

any ways is also used yes but in

merriam-webster it is listed

as the informal or casual version of any

way

merriam-webster is an american english

dictionary for reference

so whatever you choose just be

consistent in your writing again i

suggest anyway

it's just one letter that you don't have

to include so it seems a little more

efficient to me

in speech don't worry about it whatever

you prefer is fine so i hope that this

answers your question thanks very much

okay on to our next question next

question comes from

lubin hello lubin hi uh newman says you

like star wars don't you

could you tell me how we can use the

force to increase our memory when we

study

english okay well what do you think

is the best way to improve your memory i

think that the answer is quite obvious

you just need to practice

yes okay that is everything that i have

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您问我问题的每周系列

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本周的第一个问题 本周第一个问题

来自 harry hi harry 哈利说

你如何

在美式英语中发音两个 r 音的单词，

就像更早或更早我觉得

当我发这个音时我

听起来很奇怪 在英式英语中，

在类似这样的单词中发出非常柔和的 ah 音 在美式

英语中，我们发音的 r

发音非常明显

在

路上，所以

这可能是

英式英语

和美式英语之间的发音点差异，我希望这

有助于回答您关于如何

发音的问题 unce 英式

和

美式英语中的这些声音 非常感谢您

的问题 好的，

让我们继续您的下一个问题 下一个

问题来自

fatima 嗨，法蒂玛，法蒂玛说我已经

转述了您的问题，它

充满了信息，我

该如何谈论未来

例如，一个朋友邀请我

参加一个课程，

但我想拒绝，因为我知道我

不会使用课程

将教我的东西我

该如何表达我应该说我

不会参加

因为我不会使用我将学到的东西我

不会尝试我将学到的东西

我不会尝试我学到的东西谢谢你的好

问题

并且取决于人的反应

可能会有点不同

有一个 有人

可能会以

几种不同

的

方式来应对这种情况

意味着机会很大 这

件事不会发生

，我可能会像

我在例句中所说的那样表达它我可能

不会使用

课程教的东西所以我

可能会

在那里使用现在时，因为课程

本身不会 像

课程的主题

一样改变，就像课程中的课程

不会改变这总是正确的，所以我

可能会

在那里使用现在时，然后我会

用简单的将来时说加上可能

我可能不会，因为这

表明 高度确定性，

我认为，在我的情况下，我可能

不会

使用 will 或 won't 在这种情况下，因为

听起来你在谈话之前已经考虑过

更多一点

，但这

就是如何

我可能会回答这个问题，

其他人可能会选择不同的回答，

其他人可能会说，谢谢你

的邀请，但

我想这次我可能会过去，你

知道他们可以用

另一种方式说类似的话 回答这是我

不会来，因为我可能

不会使用课程要教给我们的东西，

所以我们再次使用

否定形式的意志和不会

的混合物，所以这个 真的取决于

演讲者

我会从你提供的选项中说

我不会使用在

这种情况下

我可能只会使用简单的现在

时和简单的将来

时我会将这两者放在一起

然后我们会

根据上下文了解情况，因此，例如，如果您

正在与邀请您的人交谈，

我们通常

可以从上下文中

了解未来和未来的未来

部分是什么，这很好，

这实际上也是一种情况，

如果事情不清楚

要求确认要求澄清是很自然的，

所以如果你向情况

之外的人解释情况并且他们

不明白你的意思

你可以澄清你可以让它有点像

更具体地说，就像我认为

我不会使用

课程将要教的东西，所以我不会

去你知道你可以把它

全部分解，如果你真的需要

把它分解，我会

可能使用简单将来

时否定形式，例如可能不会

去，我可能只使用

简单

现在时动词来指

代课程

教授的内容，因为这不会改变，但

再次

取决于人，可能会

略有不同 回答

我建议你不要使用 will

have

learn 所以我不建议在那里使用

将来完成

时所以我希望这可以帮助

你感谢一个有趣的问题

好的让我们继续你的下一个问题

下一个问题

来自 kiran hi kiran kiran 说，嗨，艾丽西亚，

我注意到有时我们用 little 来

表示什么都没有的意义，

在什么情况下我们会使用它，

好吧，

是的，我

已经在直播中和不时在 QA 中讨论过这个问题

但是让我们回顾一下，所以我们有时可以

在不可数名词之前使用 little 来给人一种

消极的

感觉，所以让我们

看两个句子来比较一下，

首先我们有一点时间来完成

这个项目

，其次我们没有一点时间来完成

这个项目，

所以 这两个

句子的区别在于第一句

包含了文章

uh before little 所以我们有一点

时间来完成这个项目

这听起来像是一个简单的

信息报告它是中性的，就像

第二句中的一个事实但是

没有文章就没有

呃，在不久之前，我们几乎没有时间

完成这个项目

这句话听起来很消极，

听起来这不是一件好事，

所以我认为这就是你

所说的当你说

很少被习惯于无意义时所指的，所以

情况就是这样 在这种

情况下，后面的名词很少

是肯定的或

可取的，这不是规则，

但是

请注意，如果您的名词

follow little

是不受欢迎的东西，它

是负面的，那么它实际上可以

具有相反的含义，

所以让我们看一个例子，这里

的城市

有一点污染，城市有

一点污染

在这个例句中，我们有

相同的小与 a 差别不大，

但后面的名词

是污染，

所以我们理解的污染是坏的或

负面的或

不可取的，所以当我们说这个城市有

一点污染

时，听起来就像是一个简单的

报告简单的事实，

但是当我们说这个城市几乎没有

污染 这听起来实际上是一件好事，

所以请记住，如果

后面的名词是像污染

这样不受欢迎的东西，那么它会影响句子的含义，那么如果后面的名词是我们实际上的东西，

那么

听起来这是一个很好的情况

在我的第一组例句中确实想要时间，

然后它会产生一种消极的感觉，所以

这就是我们如何使用

little 来表示非常 n 早点什么都没有或

产生负面感觉 我希望

这能回答你的问题

非常感谢 好吧 让我们继续

你的下一个问题

下一个问题来自 miriam atef

你好 miriam

miriam 说嘿艾丽西亚我不知道

是否使用

任何方式或任何方式 无论如何我都会在

没有 s 的情况下使用的方式，但是你在演讲中一直听到任何方式

我会建议你在写作中使用任何

方式，

没有 s 只是保持一致这是我

个人的偏好我想

任何方式也可以使用，但是在

merriam-webster 它被

列为任何方式的非正式或休闲版本

merriam-webster 是一本美国英语

词典供参考，

所以无论您选择什么，只要

在您的写作中再次保持一致，我

建议无论如何

它只是一个您

不必包含的字母，所以它

对我来说

，演讲似乎更有效率 不要担心，无论

你喜欢什么都可以，所以我希望这能

回答你的问题，非常

感谢我们的下一个问题 下一个

问题来了 来自

鲁宾你好鲁宾嗨纽曼说你

喜欢星球大战你

能不能告诉我

当我们学习英语时如何使用武力来增加我们的记忆

好吧好吧你认为什么

是改善你记忆的最好方法我

认为答案很明显，

你只需要练习

是的，好吧，这就是

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