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the weekly series where you ask me

questions and I answer them

maybe first question comes from Vanessa

Rodriguez hi Vanessa Vanessa says hi

Alicia I'd like to know the difference

between kind of sort of and somewhat

greetings from Brazil let's begin with

kind of and sort of so kind of and sort

of can be used before verbs and

adjectives to mean a little and when

we're speaking quickly we say keine and

sorta you'll also see this spelling used

in casual messages like text messages or

maybe less formal emails so some

examples I kind of want to eat Korean

for lunch this dessert is kind of sweet

don't you think I sort of like that new

movie our neighbors are being sort of

noisy tonight we also use kind of and

sort of as softeners especially for bad

news some examples I sort of forgot to

send you the details I kind of broke

your computer also keep in mind that

kind of and sort of can come before a

noun but when they're used in this way

kind of and sort of mean type they don't

mean a little for example what kind of

ice cream do you like what sort of car

are you thinking of buying so let's move

on to some what some what means a little

or slightly also but it sounds more

formal than kind of or sort of we can

use somewhat before adjectives we can

also use somewhat with verbs but you'll

find somewhat used after the verb so

it's an adverb there some examples our

answer depends somewhat on today's

meeting the lesson content may vary

somewhat in accordance with students

questions like I said we can use it

before adjectives but it feels more

formal than kind of or sort of I'm

somewhat surprised you replied to my

email this decision seems somewhat odd

okay so I hope that that helps answer

your question thanks very much for

sending it along let's move on to your

next

question next question comes from David

Hasan oh hi David david says hi Alicia I

am Japanese and not religious is it

acceptable for me to use religious words

like oh my god or bless you if not

acceptable is there an alternate way of

saying it hmm this is kind of a tough

question because it depends on your

listener so let's start with the phrase

bless you here I've never heard of a

situation where someone has gotten in

trouble for saying bless you if you're

not familiar with this phrase bless you

is a common expression English speakers

use after someone sneezes it has kind of

an interesting history I've read two

things actually about where this

expression comes from one people used to

believe that when you sneeze that part

of your soul or part of your spirit

leaves your body so they said bless you

the other thing is that I heard that the

phrase originated around the time of the

Black Plague and so sneezing was like

the first sign that someone might die so

people said bless you when they heard a

sneeze interesting I don't know which is

true but it's an interesting it's an

interesting expression for sure but

regardless when people say bless you it

typically isn't a problem if you're not

sure or if you're not feeling

comfortable just say nothing that's

totally natural as well some other

people like to use the German word

gesundheit

I don't know if my pronunciation is

correct there but it means roughly

health to my understanding so some

people like to use that I personally

don't you might hear it from time to

time but if you're ever worried my

recommendation would be to say nothing I

personally don't use the expression

bless you

regarding the question about oh my god

this one is perhaps more sensitive

depending on the person you're talking

to there are some people especially

people who have strong religious beliefs

who believe that using the word God

outside of a religious situation is bad

it's not a good thing to do so in those

cases those people might feel offended

if you use the word God in the

expression oh my god for many people

it's not a problem if you're worried if

you're not sure if you're not

comfortable you can use the expression

oh my gosh this is a very

and very acceptable and natural

substitute so oh my gosh in place if you

listen to the people you're around and

you hear them saying oh my god oh my god

you can probably safely use oh my god as

well but if you're worried you can just

say oh my gosh that's fine too so I hope

that this helps you thanks very much for

this question okay

let's move on to your next question next

question comes from cannot I cannot

cannot says hi Alicia could you please

explain the difference between what do I

have to do and what am I supposed to do

yeah the difference between 1/2 2 and

supposed to is subtle so let's start

with 1/2 2 when we use the expression

1/2 2 we're talking about like an

obligation or a responsibility when we

use supposed to it's like there's some

kind of outside expectation like a

societal expectation or like a

relationship expectation something you

are supposed to do like a specific way

you are supposed to behave so regarding

your question then let's imagine two

people are having an argument

if someone says what do I have to do

it's like they're asking about their

obligations they're asking about their

responsibilities what must they do if

someone asks the question what am I

supposed to do it's often like they're

asking for the other person's

expectations of them so maybe it's not

even necessarily like a responsibility

but you're asking for someone else's

expectations with that question

so the situations where you would hear

these two are maybe a little bit

different like what do I have to do

would be used more when we're looking to

achieve a goal like what do I have to do

to get a good score on this test or what

do I have to do to get this job if

you're asking the question what am I

supposed to do it's often in a situation

that's like trouble so maybe you're in

trouble with like the person you're in a

relationship with or maybe you're in

like trouble with like a landlord for

example like what am I supposed to do if

I don't have this house I'll be in

trouble

so it's like what are your expectations

of me versus what are the things I must

do so it's a very subtle difference

supposed to is kind of more like

societies and relationships and those

kinds of like people related like

connections and have to can feel more

like obligations responsibilities so I

would suggest to just pay attention when

you see these two words used in text and

you can kind of get a feel for the times

when we would use these I hope that this

helps answer your question thanks very

much for sending it along okay let's

move on to your next question next

question comes from ty hi ty ty says

hello Alicia can you tell me about the

word record and the way to read it when

it's a verb and when it's a noun yeah so

as a verb the word is pronounced record

records so for example we're recording a

video or let's record a song next year

when used as a noun to talk about like

the discs that you can use to play music

or to talk about like a written note

where you keep a lot of information the

pronunciation is record record so he

bought a lot of records last week or do

you keep a record of your tasks so as a

verb record as a noun record I hope that

this helps you thanks very much for the

question let's move on to your next

question next question comes from

Victoria hi Victoria Victoria says I

would be grateful if you could explain

the difference between want to and

wanted to also when can we use one and

two okay

the short answer here is that want to is

present tense and wanted to is past

tense examples I want to eat lunch you

want to get a coffee he wanted to go

jogging she wanted to cook dinner so

something that might confuse people here

is when we're trying to be soft and

polite we might use wanted in past tense

to make like a soft request or to ask

for information in a soft way so

examples I wanted to know where the

restroom was I wanted to ask you about

the new software I wanted to talk to you

about the presentation

so yes we're using the past tense here

like I wanted to talk to you about the

presentation it just makes the question

sound softer using past tense in that

way so we don't do this for all verbs we

do this for like questioning verbs like

I was wondering is another good example

or I was hoping so we're trying to like

make an inquiry

you might hear this past tense structure

used so we use this in situations where

there's a little bit of distance between

us and the listener maybe with like a

work colleague we're not so close to or

maybe with like staff at a department

store so we use it typically with

strangers but we're trying to be a

little bit more polite of course you

don't have to do this some people are

very direct and they use present tense

they say I want to know where the

restroom is or I want to talk to you

about the presentation I personally

prefer to be a little softer and a

little more polite so I also tend to use

the past tense form so you can choose

which you prefer but if you hear past

tense in situations like these it's to

make a softer question I hope that this

helps you thanks very much for the

question all right that's everything

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每周系列，您问我

问题，我回答他们

也许第一个问题来自 Vanessa

Rodriguez 嗨 Vanessa Vanessa 嗨，艾丽西娅说，

我想知道来自巴西

的那种和有点

问候之间的区别让我们从

那种和那种那种和

那种可以在动词和形容词之前使用

来表示一点和当

我们时 再说快点，我们说 keine 和

sorta 你还会看到这个拼写用

在随意的消息中，比如短信

或者不太正式的电子邮件，所以一些

例子我有点想在

午餐时吃韩语这个甜点有点甜，

你不觉得吗 我有点喜欢

我们邻居

今晚有点吵的那部

新电影

坏了

你的电脑还要记住

那种和那种可以出现在名词之前，

但是当它们以这种方式使用时，

那种和那种意味着类型，它们并没有

一点意思，例如你吃什么样的

冰淇淋 就像你想买什么样的

车，所以让我们继续

讨论一些什么，一些什么也意味着一点

或轻微，但它听起来

比种类或种类更正式，我们可以

在形容词之前使用，我们也可以在

动词中使用，但是 你会

发现在动词之后使用了一些所以

它是副词那里有一些例子我们的

答案在某种程度上取决于今天的

会议课程内容可能会

根据学生的

问题而有所不同就像我说我们可以

在形容词之前使用它但感觉更

正式而不是亲切 或者我

有点惊讶你回复我的

电子邮件这个决定似乎有点奇怪，

所以我希望这有助于回答

你的问题非常感谢你

发送它让我们继续你的

下一个

问题下一个问题 estion 来自 David

Hasan 哦，嗨，大卫 david 说，嗨，艾丽西亚，

我是日本人，不信教

，我可以使用

像 oh my god 之类的宗教词语吗？如果不可接受，请祝福你？

是否有另一种

说法？嗯，这有点像 一个棘手的

问题，因为这取决于你的

听众，所以让我们从

这里的祝福你这个短语开始 我从来没有听说

过有人

因为说祝福你而陷入麻烦，如果你

不熟悉这个短语祝福你

是一个常见的 说英语的人

在有人打喷嚏后使用的表达 它有

一段有趣的历史 我实际上读过两篇

关于这个表达来自哪里的东西

一个人曾经

相信，当你打喷嚏时

，你的灵魂或精神的一部分会

离开你的身体，所以 他们说 bless

you 另一件事是我听说这

句话起源于

黑死病时期，所以打喷嚏就像

有人可能会死的第一个迹象，所以

人们说 bless you 当他们听到一个

有趣的喷嚏时，我不知道哪个是

真的，但它很有趣，它肯定是一个

有趣的表达，但

不管人们何时说祝福你，

如果你不确定或者你不是，这通常不是问题 感觉

很舒服，只是什么都不说

，而且其他

人喜欢使用德语单词

gesundheit

我不知道我的发音是否

正确，但这

对我的理解来说意味着大致健康，所以有些

人喜欢使用我个人不喜欢的

词' 您可能会不时听到它，

但如果您担心我的

建议是什么

都不说 你说

的有些人，尤其是

有强烈宗教信仰的人，

他们认为

在宗教环境之外使用上帝这个词是

不好的，在这种情况下这样做不是一件好事

如果你在表达中使用上帝这个词，那些人可能会感到被冒犯

oh my god 对于很多人

来说，如果你担心

如果你不确定你是否不

舒服，那不是问题，你可以使用表达

oh my gosh this 是一种

非常非常容易接受和自然的

替代品，所以哦，我的天哪，

如果你听周围的

人说，哦，我的上帝，我的上帝，

你可能也可以安全地使用哦，我的上帝

，但如果你' 很担心你可以

说哦，我的天哪，这也很好，所以我

希望这对你有帮助非常感谢

这个问题，好吧，

让我们继续你的下一个问题，下一个

问题来自不能，我

不能说你好，艾丽西亚，你能

解释一下区别吗 在我

必须做什么和我应该做什么

之间，是的，1/2 2 和

应该做的区别是微妙的，所以让我们

从 1/2 2 开始，当我们使用表达式

1/2 2 时，我们正在谈论就像

当我们

使用应该的义务或责任时 就像有

某种外部期望，比如

社会期望或

关系期望，

你应该做的事情，比如

你应该表现的特定方式，所以关于

你的问题，那么让我们想象一下

，

如果有人说什么，两个人正在争论 我必须这样

做 就像他们在询问他们的

义务 他们在询问他们的

责任 如果

有人问我

应该做什么 他们必须做什么 就像他们在

询问对方

对他们的期望 所以 也许它

甚至不一定是一种责任，

但你在问别人

对这个问题的期望，

所以你听到

这两个的情况可能有点

不同，比如

当我们 想要

实现一个目标，比如我必须做什么

才能在这次考试中取得好成绩，或者

如果你问我必须做什么才能得到这份工作

我应该经常

在遇到

麻烦的

情况下这样做 如果

我没有这所房子，我会

遇到麻烦，

所以就像你对我的期望

与我必须做的事情

一样，这是一个非常微妙的区别，

应该更像是

社会和关系以及那些

类似的人与类似的

联系和必须更多的感觉

更像是义务责任所以

我建议当

你在文本中看到这两个词时要注意，

你可以

感觉到我们会使用这些词的时代 希望这

有助于回答您的问题

非常感谢您发送它 好吧 让我们

继续您的下一个问题 下一个

问题来自 ty hi ty ty say

hello Alicia 你能告诉我有关

单词记录的信息以及当我阅读它时的方式

t 是动词，当它是名词时，是的，所以

作为动词，这个词的发音是记录

记录，例如，我们正在录制

视频，或者让我们明年录制一首歌，

当用作名词时，就像

你可以使用的光盘一样谈论 播放音乐

或像书面笔记一样谈论

你保留很多信息

发音是记录记录所以他

上周买了很多记录或者你

是否记录你的任务以便作为

动词记录作为名词记录 我希望

这可以帮助你非常感谢这个

问题让我们继续你的下一个

问题下一个问题来自

维多利亚你好维多利亚维多利亚说

如果你能解释

想要和想要之间的区别我将不胜感激

我们什么时候可以使用一个 和

两个好的

，这里的简短回答是，想要是

现在时，想要是过去

时的例子我想吃午餐你

想喝杯咖啡他想去

慢跑她想煮晚餐，所以

这里的人可能会感到困惑

是当我们试图变得温柔和

礼貌时，我们可能会用过去时的wand

来提出一个软请求或

以一种软的方式询问信息所以

我想知道洗手间在哪里的例子我

想问你

关于 新软件我想和你

谈谈演示文稿

所以是的我们在这里使用过去时

就像我想和你谈谈

演示文稿它只是让问题

听起来更柔和以这种方式使用过去时

所以我们不这样做 这对于所有动词我们

这样做是为了像

我想知道的疑问动词是另一个很好的例子，

或者我希望所以我们试图

做一个询问

你可能会听到这个过去时结构，

所以我们在有a的情况下使用它

我们和听众之间的距离可能有点像

我们不太接近的工作同事，或者

可能是百货公司的类似员工，

所以我们通常与陌生人一起使用它，

但我们试图

更有礼貌 你当然

没有 为了做到这一点，有些人

非常直接，他们使用现在时，

他们说我想知道洗手间在哪里，

或者我想和你

谈谈演示文稿我个人

更喜欢温和

一点，更有礼貌，所以我也 倾向于

使用过去时形式，因此您可以

选择自己喜欢的形式，但是如果您

在此类情况下听到过去时，那是为了

提出一个更温和的问题，我希望这

对您有所帮助，非常感谢

您提出的问题

本周非常感谢您

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