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Welcome back to ask Alicia the weekly Siri's where you ask me questions and I answered them.

Maybe first question comes from Wish she are high wash.

Er, Weishar says.

I understand English, but I can't speak.

What's your advice for me on how I can start speaking?

Um, 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 sound English sentences.

Um, 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 too.

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 as 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 A on G Hi Karthik.

Can Qarth 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 is just that umpire is used for baseball and referee is used for other sports.

Football referee, Soccer referee and we use ref for short.

Like to abbreviate the word referee umpire is used in baseball.

You might hear abbreviated to swell regarding your second question, um, breathing 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 breathing 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.

All right, 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?

Um, 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.

Toe 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 is 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 thes 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 drop the like.

The opposite thing, so preferable is an adjective again.

You could use preferred, um, 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 onto your next question.

Next question comes from Antonio Lock Ojai.

Antonio Antonio says Hi, Alicia.

What's the difference between one?

I see a movie with Alicia tonight to I'm seeing a movie with Alicia tonight.

Three.

I'm going to see a movie with Alicia tonight.

Four.

I'll see a 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 conversation.

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 High.

Dewey.

Dewey says highly Sha, Can you give a simple explanation about the word mighty?

Um Okay, I'm not exactly sure in what situation we're going to 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 she was a mighty queen.

They gave a mighty effort, For example, um, we can also use mighty as an emphasis word to mean, like, really or very as in There's a mighty strong wind out there today or were 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 everything that I have for you for this week.

Thank you.

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Alicia.

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