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hi everybody welcome back to ask Alicia

the weekly series where you ask me

questions and I answer them maybe first

question this week comes from my hi my

my says hi Alicia can you explain the

difference between attractive and

attracting for example Denver is a

famous tourist destination and is

renowned for its cuisine and something

scenery yeah okay I would use the word

attractive here attractive in the

adjective form attracting would be the

progressive form of the verb attract so

to attract means like to draw something

or to pull something in like to gain

attention for some reason so attractive

on the other hand means something that

is like appealing something that seems

good or exciting something that people

want that's something that's attractive

let's look at a few examples of how we

would use this Denver's delicious

cuisine and beautiful scenery are

attracting many tourists our job

advertisement is attracting lots of

great candidates the light bulb in our

living room is attracting moths okay so

now let's compare this to attractive the

adjective the travel company prepared

some attractive summer vacations for

customers a good sense of humor is very

attractive how do we make our products

more attractive okay so I hope that this

helps you understand the difference

between attractive and attracting thanks

very much for the question all right

let's move on to your next question next

question this week comes from I'm N hi

I'm n I'm n says hi Alicia I'm from

Algeria my first question is one what is

the difference between years and year

old my second question when can we use I

were instead of I was okay regarding

your first question we use years old to

talk about age we do not use year to

talk about age the only time that we use

year old in the singular is when we're

talking about a baby

a baby that is one year old in all other

cases we use the

years old so he's 13 years old she is 47

years old when we're talking about age

we use gear in the plural form years old

to do that when you're talking about

just like a length of time you can use

year or years to talk about that so just

remember that years old is for ages okay

regarding your second question then

about I were and I was we use I were

when we're talking about unreal

situations so this can be something

that's in the past and it can be

something that's in the present so some

great examples are like if I were a

doctor or if I were a teacher or if I

were rich so that means you are not that

thing now so it's not a real situation

it's not true we use I were to describe

those kinds of situations so a lot of

native speakers actually make a mistake

with this they use I was like if I was a

doctor if I was a teacher if I was rich

it's actually not correct but so many

people have made this mistake that it's

quite common now it's become quite

common actually but the correct way to

express unreal situations is with if I

were if I were so we use was just to

make simple past tense statements about

ourselves so like I was a teacher five

years ago or I was in the car this

morning for example so I work is for

unreal situations I was it's for simple

past tense statements about yourself I

hope that this helps you thanks very

much for the question okay let's move on

to your next question next question

comes from app graph I hope I said that

right hi a craft a craft says hi Alicia

I've been learning English for many

years now in school but I feel that my

English level has stagnated over the

past few years so I've started reading

English classic books like Jane Austen

and the Bronte's books in the beginning

I looked up every word I didn't

understand but I have to stop about 20

times every page I decided to just read

without looking up the difficult words

do you think this is a good idea ah okay

I think that

strategy sounds good but the book that

you're using sounds too difficult I

think that using a book to learn like

this is great one of the problems here

though is that classic English

literature is often written in like

old-fashioned English so that means that

the books English and today's English is

a bit different so if you're learning

English I probably I would say baby

don't choose a classic English

literature book as it's going to be

difficult to read just the way that

things are expressed in those books are

kind of different from the way that we

speak in everyday life so I would

recommend first choose an easier book so

by that I mean choose a book that was

written recently fairly recently and

also I would suggest when you're making

your book choice try to choose something

that you can understand about 70% of

without a dictionary so it sounds like

right now if you're stopping 20 times

per page that the book is too difficult

so look for something that you can stop

maybe two three four five maybe tops at

the most per page otherwise I think

you're gonna kill your motivation and

you'll feel just discouraged and you

don't get to enjoy what you're reading

so I would say yeah choose something

that's modern and choose something that

you can get about 70% of without using a

dictionary so that's different for

everybody as far as what kinds of

materials that might be helpful for you

I've personally found that reading

biographies so stories of people's lives

is really great and I also have enjoyed

using lecture books to study so I

recommend these or I've found these

useful because with a biography there

are very few characters there's usually

one main character telling a clear story

there's not a lot of characters and it's

usually someone you're already

interested in so you probably already

have some vocabulary about that story so

that's good I also like lectures because

if it's something that you're interested

in a topic you're interested in you can

gain more vocabulary about that thing

and again maybe you already have

vocabulary so I hope that this helps you

and good luck as you continue with your

studies thanks very much for the

question okay let's move along to your

next question next question comes from

Alexander hi Alicia I have a weird

question what's the difference between

the following words murder homicide

killing murderer killer and assassin

this is indeed a very weird and dark

question let's begin with the first two

words here which are murder and homicide

okay so actually murder and homicide

refer to the same thing homicide is the

legal word for murder murder means

taking a person's life so homicide is

just the legal way to describe that the

defendant was found guilty of homicide

there was a triple homicide in the city

last month killing is the progressive

form of the verb kill which we can use

for people we can use for animals and we

can also use this for time actually in

the expression to kill time which just

means to wasted time someone is killing

pets in our neighborhood terrible

sentence a terrible organization killed

a journalist last month so the next word

on your list was murderer okay so a

murderer is a person who kills or has

killed other people someone who has

committed murder murderers are dangerous

people the police are looking for a

murderer

you're next word is killer so a killer

in this case refers to someone who kills

so again this could be animals this

could be people we can also use the word

killer to talk about someone who ruins

things actually some examples there's a

killer on the loose that guy is a

conversation killer so the final word

that you have here is assassin so an

assassin is someone who is highly

trained in killing people so that sounds

like a very specific job that they have

is killing people so some examples of

assassin the assassin was on the roof

the government hired an assassin so that

was probably the weirdest and darkest

question I've ever received on this

series but I hope that that helps you I

hope that helps answer your questions

thanks very much for this ok let's move

on to your next question

next question comes from Andy hi Andy

Andy says what is the difference between

these words definition concept theory

notion and conception okay definition

your first word is definition so a

definition is the accepted meaning of a

word or a phrase we find definitions in

dictionaries check the dictionary for

the definition your next word was

concept so a concept is like a way of

thinking about something a concept is a

thought a type of idea this is an

exciting new concept your third word

here was theory so a theory is a new

idea it's something to test we see

theories used in science a lot like

theory of something so that means it's

an idea that can be tested we can

experiment to learn more like to try to

prove a theory or disprove a theory we

developed a theory about our customers

your next word was notion a notion so a

notion is an idea or a thought we tend

to use notion in more polite discussion

so maybe like in an academic discussion

for example the notion that we should

wake up early and go to sleep early is

crazy your final word is conception a

conception so conception is the point

where a new idea forms it's like the

beginning point for some new theory for

example it's the beginning point maybe

for a new project that start point is

called the conception she's been a part

of this project since conception so

these are all fairly similar words but

we tend to use like concept and notion

the same way some other words we use

similarly are like idea and thought so

when we're having these sort of like

philosophical discussions especially

these words get mixed around a lot but I

hope that that helps you understand

again I would recommend checking a

dictionary for other example sentences

and for some other explanations of these

words I hope that that helps you so

that's everything that I have for this

week thank you as always for sending

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每周系列，您问我

问题，我回答他们也许

本周的第一个问题来自我的你好我的

我说，嗨，艾丽西亚，你能解释一下有

吸引力和吸引人之间的区别吗

，例如丹佛是一个

著名的旅游胜地

，以其美食和

风景而

闻名 动词的吸引

如此吸引的意思

是喜欢

吸引某些

东西

让我们看几个例子，说明我们

将如何使用丹佛的美味

佳肴和美丽的风景

吸引了很多游客 我们的招聘

广告吸引了很多

优秀的候选人 我们

客厅里的灯泡吸引了飞蛾 好吧，

现在让我们将其与有吸引力的形容词进行比较

旅游公司为客户准备了

一些有吸引力的暑假

幽默感非常好

有吸引力 我们如何使我们的产品

更具吸引力 好吧，所以我希望这

可以帮助您理解有

吸引力和吸引人之间的区别

非常感谢这个问题 好吧

让我们继续您的下一个

问题 本周的下一个问题来自 I'm N hi

我是，我是，你好，艾丽西亚，我来自

阿尔及利亚

岁来

谈论年龄我们不使用年份来

谈论年龄我们唯一使用

单数的年份是当

我们谈论婴儿时 ar old 在所有其他

情况下，我们使用

年龄，所以他是 13

岁，当我们谈论年龄时，她是 47

岁，当您谈论长度时，我们使用复数形式的齿轮来做到这一点

你可以用

一年或几年来谈论这个问题，所以

请记住，

关于你的第二个问题，

关于我曾经和我曾经

，我们在谈论不真实的情况时使用我曾经，

所以这可能是一些事情

那是过去，也可能

是现在

这不是真的我们用我来

描述那种情况所以很多以

母语为母语的人

实际上会犯错误 很多

人都犯了这个错误，这

很常见 现在它实际上变得很

普遍，但

表达不真实情况的正确方法是如果我

是，如果我是，我们使用只是

对自己做简单的过去式陈述

，就像五年前我是一名老师

或者我在车里

例如今天早上，所以我的工作是针对

不真实的情况 我是针对您

自己的简单过去时态陈述 我

希望这对您有帮助

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

来自应用程序图表 我希望我 说

对了 hi a craft a craft 说 hi Alicia

我在学校学习英语已经很多

年了，但是我觉得过去几年我的

英语水平一直停滞不前，

所以我开始阅读

简奥斯汀等英语经典书籍

和 勃朗特的书 一开始

我把每一个我不

明白的词都查了一遍 但我每页都要停下来大约 20

次 我决定

不查难词

就直接读 你认为这是个好主意吗 好吧，

我认为这种

策略听起来不错，但是

您

使用的书听起来

太难了 英语，这

意味着英语和今天的英语书籍

有点不同，所以如果你正在学习

英语，我可能会说宝贝

不要选择经典的英语

文学书籍，因为它

很难以那种方式阅读

这些书中的表达

方式与我们

在日常生活中的说话方式有点不同，所以我

建议首先选择一本更简单的书

，这样我的意思是选择一本最近写的书，

而且我建议你什么时候 让

你的书选择尝试选择

一些你可以理解的东西，大约 70%

没有字典，所以现在听起来

如果你每页停止 20 次

，这本书太难了，

所以寻找 你可以停止的东西

可能每页最多二三四五，

否则我认为

你会扼杀你的动力，

你会感到气馁，你

不会享受你正在阅读的内容，

所以我会 说是的

，选择现代的东西，选择

不使用字典就可以得到大约 70% 的东西，

所以对于

每个人来说

，可能对你有帮助的材料都是不同的

我个人发现阅读

传记这样的故事 人们的

生活真的很棒，而且我也很喜欢

使用讲义书来学习，所以我

推荐这些，或者我发现这些

很有用，因为传记中

的人物很少，通常

只有一个主要人物讲述一个清晰的故事

，人物不多 它

通常是你已经

感兴趣的人，所以你可能

已经掌握了一些关于那个故事的词汇，所以

这很好我也喜欢讲座，因为

如果这是你感兴趣的东西

对您感兴趣的主题感兴趣，您

可以获得更多关于该事物的词汇

，也许您已经掌握了

词汇，所以我希望这对您有所帮助

，并祝您在继续

学习时好运非常感谢您提出的

问题，好吧，让我们继续前进 到你的

下一个问题下一个问题来自

亚历山大你好艾丽西亚我有一个奇怪的

问题

下面的词谋杀凶杀

杀人凶手杀手和刺客有什么区别

这确实是一个非常奇怪和黑暗的

问题让我们从这里的前两个

词开始 和杀人

好吧，所以实际上谋杀和杀人

是指同一件事 杀人是

谋杀的合法词 谋杀意味着

夺取一个人的生命 所以杀人

只是描述

被告被判犯有杀人罪的合法方式

有一个三重凶杀案

上个月的城市杀戮

是动词杀戮的渐进形式，我们可以

用于人，我们可以用于动物，我们

也可以 这实际上

是为了消磨时间的表达，这只是

意味着浪费时间有人

在我们附近杀死宠物可怕的

判决上个月一个可怕的组织杀死

了一名记者，所以你名单上的下一个词

是凶手，好吧，所以

凶手是一个人 谁杀死或

杀死了其他人

犯下谋杀罪的人 凶手是危险的

人 警察正在寻找

凶手

你是下一个词是杀手 所以

在这种情况下杀手是指杀人的人

所以再次这可能是动物 这

可能是 人们我们也可以用杀手这个词

来谈论

实际上破坏事物的人一些例子有一个

逍遥法外的杀手那个人是一个

谈话杀手所以你在这里的最后一个词

是刺客所以

刺客是受过良好

训练的人 杀人，所以

听起来他们的一项非常具体的工作

就是杀人，所以一些

刺客的例子刺客

在政府雇用的屋顶上 d 一个刺客，所以

这可能是我在这个系列中收到的最奇怪和最黑暗的

问题，

但我希望这对你有帮助 我

希望这有助于回答你的问题

非常感谢你，好的，让我们

继续你的下一个问题

下一个问题来了 来自 Andy 嗨 Andy

Andy 说这些

词有什么区别

你的下一个词是

概念 所以概念就像是

思考某事的方式 概念是一种

想法 一种想法 这是一个

令人兴奋的新概念 你的第三个

词是理论 所以理论是一个新

想法 它是要测试的东西 我们看到

科学中使用的理论很像

某事物的理论，这意味着它是

一个可以测试的想法我们可以

通过实验来学习更像是试图

证明一个理论或证明 ove a theory 我们

开发了一个关于我们的客户的理论

你的下一个词是概念 一个概念 所以一个

概念是一个想法或一个想法 我们倾向于

在更礼貌的讨论中使用概念

所以也许就像在学术讨论

中，例如我们应该醒来的概念

早起早睡是

疯了你的最后一句话是概念一个

概念所以概念是

一个新想法形成的点它就像

一些新理论

的起点例如它是

一个新项目的起点可能是一个起点是

称这个概念，她从概念开始就参与

了这个项目，所以

这些都是相当相似的词，但

我们倾向于使用类似的概念和

概念，就像我们使用的其他一些词

类似的想法和想法一样，所以

当我们有这些时 类似的

哲学讨论，尤其是

这些词混杂在一起，但我

希望这可以帮助您

再次理解我建议您查看

字典以获取其他例句

对于这些词的其他一些解释，

我希望这对您

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