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and this one's the proper camera okay
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close up we have a close-up camera now
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camera and ask Alicia who are we hi everybody welcome back to ask Alicia
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the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them maybe first
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question this week comes from ways highways ways says hello can you tell us
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which sentence is correct did you used to play ball or did you use to play ball
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thank you yeah nice question in speech you'll hear used to used to know D sound
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used to this is because it's really difficult to pronounce that D sound next
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to the T sound quickly in speech regarding text though there's some
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debate so there are some people who believe used to is correct in text and
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other people who think that use to with no D is fine I would say just follow the
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rules of whatever text book you use whatever you choose just try to always
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use the same one if you prefer used to try to use that in text if you prefer
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used to you can use that just try to stick to the same one so I hope that
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helps you thanks for the question all right next question next question comes
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from Fernando Valencia hi Fernando Fernando says hi Alicia I would like you
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to explain the difference between unbelievable and incredible also
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especially and especially and when should I use them okay first let's start
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with the word unbelievable and compare that to incredible so when we look at
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unbelievable there are three parts to think about first there's unn which
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means not or like the opposite of something next we have that root which
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is believed so to believe something means to have faith in something like to
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trust something finally we see the end part that suffix Abel Abel means like
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something that we have the ability to so when we look at unbelievable it means
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something that we are not capable of or we do not have the ability to trust or
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to believe or to have faith in to find is true all right so we use unbelievable
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for surprise or for shock and actually your intonation matters your intonation
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is really important here because you communicate which you mean like surprise
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or shock some examples this dessert is unbelievably good
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someone stole my bicycle unbelievable so you can hear when someone wants to
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communicate a positive meaning of unbelievable they use that upward
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intonation like this dessert was unbelievably good when someone wants to
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communicate that negative meaning they use the downward intonation someone
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stole my bike unbelievable now let's look at incredible incredible we can
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break down incredible in the same way as we broke down unbelievable so first
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let's look at in and incredible the in just like the onion unbelievable means
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not so it's like opposite against something then we have this root part
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cred which relates to like credibility which means something is legitimate or
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true or genuine finally we see the suffix double again the spelling is
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different from unbelievable but it means like the ability to do something so here
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incredible means something that we do not have the ability to believe is
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genuine or true or legitimate so that means that incredible and unbelievable
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have similar meanings but it's just that incredible is something that's like we
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can't believe it's real unbelievable is like we're not able to trust it or we're
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not able to believe in it also incredible tends to be used in more
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positive situations than unbelievable today's lunch was incredibly good we saw
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an incredible movie last night does anything incredible movie which movie
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all the Incredibles yeah and the movie Incredibles of course okay let's go on
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to your next question the next question you had is the difference between
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especially and especially okay so let's start with
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especially especially is used to mean in particular or above all other things
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like above everything else I especially love the red dress he hates spicy food
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especially peppers we can't wait to go on vacation
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especially to our summer campsite so especially is used to refer to things
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that have a specific purpose we often use it for things that are made or
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designed or created or like set up so some kind of making or building is very
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very commonly associated with this some examples I had this dress specially made
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the computer was specially set up for classroom use our lessons are specially
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designed for young students so though there are these two separate meanings
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for these words you may hear especially used to refer to things that have a
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specific purpose this is just a general guideline but I hope that that helps you
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in choosing between these two words thank you for the question next question
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next question comes from nerd on M Annette Hagan nerd on nerd on says hi
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Alicia what is the difference between knowledge and information okay all right
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think about information like data we use information like to share things between
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people so information is sort of everywhere we can find information
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everywhere knowledge however is something that we gain so by taking lots
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and lots of pieces of information and putting that together and like studying
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a topic or learning about something specific we gain knowledge so knowledge
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is like lots and lots of specific information together that we can use to
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like you know make things or form opinions or live our lives we lack
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knowledge about this topic I don't have enough information so I hope that this
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helps you thanks very much for the question the next question comes from
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Ronnie Ahmed hi hi Ronnie Ronnie says do you
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have any tips on how to improve vocabulary within a limited time also
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please what is the meaning of hope this email finds you well and
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not more the casual in relationship okay let's begin with your question about
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improving vocabulary in a limited period of time I'll just share with you what I
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did when I was studying and what helped me a lot was writing I would just write
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like crazy the new vocabulary words like a few days before the test
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I would like cram them in my head and just practice writing them over and over
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and then I would cover up like the the words in English in my language and look
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at them in the other language I was studying and try to recall from that
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then once I saw that like in the language I was studying in Japanese I
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would cover that up and try to write the English equivalent so I was always like
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producing producing it wasn't only input I forced myself to actually produce so
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that really helped me for tests yes but I should say that this is not something
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that you can expect is going to help you remember words forever like you have to
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continue studying those words so like in my case because I would focus so much on
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the test and when like when the test was over I wouldn't go back and try to
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practice those words again and then I would forget them until like the next
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time we needed them so this may be this could be a good short-term vocabulary
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study strategy but if you really want to remember the words you need to continue
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that kind of study let's move on to your other two questions your first one was
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the about the expression hope this email finds you well it's just a formal
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greeting it's just saying I hope that when you read this message that you are
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doing okay that's what this means your other question is about the expression
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not more the casual actually I'm not sure this doesn't appear to be a common
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phrase I wonder if this could be not more than casual in talking about
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relationships so when we say that you don't want a relationship that's more
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than casual it means that you don't want a romantic relationship or a serious
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romantic relationship in other words you just want to be friends with the person
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or you just want to have like a casual like
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friendly relationship with someone nothing serious so maybe that's what
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this means not more than casual I hope that that
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helps you okay thanks for your questions our next question this week from door
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Gregory hi door door says hi Alicia what does it mean it's time to turn new leaf
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ah this is the expression it's time to turn over a new leaf or he turned over a
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new leaf so we use this expression to mean someone changed their behavior so
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they made an improvement on past behavior so if something was bad in the
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past but they turned over a new leaf past tense turned over a new leaf it
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means that they made an improvement to their past behavior they are now doing
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something better than they did before my brother finally started taking care of
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himself and cleaning his house he's turned over a new leaf
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she began cooking at home instead of eating out at expensive restaurants she
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turned over a new leaf so I hope that that helps you understand
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the expression turn over a new leaf thanks for the question alright so
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that's everything that I have for this week thank you as always for sending
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your questions please remember that you can send your questions to me at English
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class 101.com slash ask - Alicia of course if you liked the video please
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already and check us out at English class 101.com for some other things that
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can help you with your English Studies thanks very much for watching this
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week's episode of ask Alisha and I will see you again next week
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maybe I which is the best incredible the kid the little the little the little kid
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Jack Jack write that like just bursts into like flames incredible unbelievable
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No
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