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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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