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search and check them out very quickly to review let's begin with at we use at to mark specific locations in cities that means like buildings so for example i'm at the bank or she's at the supermarket we can also use at to refer to specific locations outside cities like in the countryside like we're at the river today we also use at before times to mark specific times of day like let's meet at 2pm or she arrived at 3 30 we also use at with night as in at night please note we do not use at with morning or afternoon or evening those are incorrect we only use it with at night then let's talk about in we use in before the names of cities and countries like she lives in switzerland or he lives in barcelona or it's in toronto so we use it before city names and country names we can also use in before a length of time to mark a duration like let's meet in 10 minutes or we finish the project in one hour we also use in with months for example she moved in february or i'm going to europe in june finally let's talk about on we use on with days of the week and to talk about the weekend as in something we did on the weekend in some variations of english you may hear people saying at the weekend but this is not used in american english we use on the weekend so we use on before days of the week as in let's meet on tuesday or we had coffee together on saturday so this is a very quick introduction to different ways to use act in and on as i said please do a quick search of the channel for prepositions to find other videos with more details about this topic so i hope that this helps you thanks for the question okay let's move on to our next question next question comes from nazanin hello nazanin nazanin says hi alicia what is the difference between park and garden thank you ah a park is generally a big open area with lots of grass you can come to a park and you can do like a variety of different activities if you want to have a picnic or a barbecue or you want to maybe play a sport or something like that you can generally do that in a park there's a lot of really big open space so maybe we can show a picture on screen here so you can see what a park a typical park looks like a garden on the other hand is something that's supposed to be enjoyed for its design and when i say design i mean like the landscape design like maybe there are special flowers inside the garden or there's uh maybe special decorations there's some kind of like landscape that is special in the garden so you might see parks and gardens like together there might be a garden inside a park but a garden is generally not a place that you go to to do a specific activity like we don't go to a garden to have a barbecue or we don't go to a garden to play a sport generally we go to a garden to enjoy the scenery to enjoy being in the garden like walking along the paths in the garden so parks are generally more open spaces where we can do a variety of activities gardens are spaces that we use for enjoyment of that natural space so i hope that this helps you thanks for the question okay let's move on to your next question next question comes from sumitha aaron hello sumitha sumitha says i would like to know the difference between resume and curriculum vitae okay they are very very similar a curriculum vitae or cv as it is often called these are very very similar documents we use both of them to apply for jobs so a cv is generally longer than a resume maybe like three to four pages and it includes everything you have ever done all of your professional experience so that's like your work experience and your education experience yes so where you went to school the degrees that you have uh the topics that you studied and so on but we also on a cv include our credentials our certification so if you got some kind of special recognition if you got a scholarship a grant if you've published anything like a book or a paper or if you have a thesis somewhere if you've given a presentation basically anything connected to your work and your professional experience will be listed on a cv so a cv is like a very long list of all of your achievements all of your professional and your educational achievements these are kind of longer documents a resume on the other hand is generally a little bit shorter it's maybe like one to two pages long and it's kind of more of a summary so in addition to including like your contact information uh you might have a short career objective like that means the thing that you are trying to do in your career you might have that and then generally with a resume you have a series of summaries of your past work so maybe you have three or four companies or three or four positions on your resume and you summarize your accomplishments and your role in each of those positions so that someone has a good idea has like a good image of what kind of work you have done and therefore how it connects to your current objective so again a resume tends to be a bit shorter than a cv maybe one to two pages but a cva like could be maybe three to four pages if you have a long work history in the uk you might find that nobody actually uses the word resume so if you're speaking with a british english speaker they might only use the word cv cv generally refers to the same concept as a resume so 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 siam hello siam siam says what's the difference between not and no uh i'll give a very general answer to this question we use not and no to give negative responses to things the grammar of the sentence is what's important here so we use not before adjectives and verbs for example i am not hungry or she's not sleeping or they do not work on saturdays so this comes before adjectives or verbs no of course is also used to respond to yes or no questions with the negative answer you may also hear not used in kind of a sarcastic way to reply to someone's opinion or to respond to someone's opinion for example person a might say i really liked that movie and person b might respond with yeah me too not so this is kind of an old style humor it's not it's actually not very funny but some people try to use this not to show contrast to the thing that they just said so this really means i'm going to pretend that i agree with you for a moment but i don't really so you might hear some people use not in this way too so i hope that this helps you thanks for the question okay let's move on to our next question next question comes from arkan git hello arkhan arkhan says what's the difference between police station and police department nice question yeah a police station is a building it's a physical place that we can visit so people work inside a police station a police department on the other hand is a part of an organization so the police department refers to a group of people working together to do police work this is the same as like a marketing department in a company or as like a sales department in an online store it refers to a group of people that are doing the same type of work a police department so a police department refers to that group of people the police station refers to the physical building where police officers are located so in sentences you might say something like i went to the police station to file a report about my lost wallet hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia the weekly series where you ask me questions and i answer them maybe okay let's get to your first question this week first question this week comes from mari hi mari mari says could you please explain how to know when i can separate a phrasal verb by putting a noun between the verb and the preposition great question let's think about this in two categories phrasal verbs that you can split are phrasal verbs that take a direct object these are called transitive phrasal verbs but please note that just because a phrasal verb takes a direct object does not necessarily mean that you can split it let's take a look at some examples i wrote down her phone number i wrote her phone number down this is an example of a phrasal verb write down or wrote down in past tense that can be split the direct object here is her phone number we can put her phone number after wrote down in the past tense or we can put it between rote and down this is one that we can split let's look at another example he opened up the file and started working he opened the file up and started working in this sentence the phrasal verb is open up past tense opened up we can move the file the direct object to the middle of the phrasal verb if we want to opened up the file is fine opened the file up is also fine so this is another example of a phrasal verb that we can split a transitive phrasal verb that is splittable let's take a look now at a transitive phrasal verb that we cannot split we got in the car this is an example of a phrasal verb that we cannot split so to get in something means to put yourself into something but we cannot move the car between get and in we cannot say we get the car in this is an example of a transitive phrasal verb that we cannot split so how do we know which ones are splittable and which ones are not splittable or separable and inseparable unfortunately there isn't an easy rule for distinguishing the two it just takes time and practice let's now talk about intransitive phrasal verbs so phrasal verbs that do not take a direct object which are intransitive phrasal verbs cannot be split we cannot move the noun after the phrasal verb to the middle of the phrasal verb some examples of this i like to work out my plan fell through she loved her trip to france she's planning to go back next year the interviewee never showed up so in each of these example sentences the phrasal verb is in bold in each of these examples as well the phrasal verb does not take a direct object that means that we cannot split the phrasal verb so again these are called intransitive phrasal verbs in sum intransitive phrasal verbs cannot be split some transitive phrasal verbs can be split please take a look at inseparable transitive phrasal verbs to get a list of vocabulary words that you can study so that you can remember which ones need to stay together so 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 jose elias hello jose jose says hi alicia i would like to know how to use rap for example when people say your life was a wrap or you are a wrap i would like to know other possible meanings please generally when we use the expression it's a wrap or that's a wrap it means that something is finished it's complete we often use this word in like media like film production movie production or tv production related work when something has come to an end we can say it's a wrap or that's a wrap which means we're finished or we're done we might also hear this in business or professional settings to mean this is finished as in this project is finished or this meeting is finished you might say let's wrap up this meeting which means let's finish this meeting or let's conclude this meeting so it tends to have this idea this feeling of something being finished something being completed to look specifically at the examples that you provided here while they're not sentences i would say maybe not phrases i would say perhaps those would be used in very specific situations like he got in trouble with his parents and they said he couldn't go out for a month his social life was a wrap which means his social life is over as a result of something that happened so that might be a situation where you'd hear something like his life was a rap or her life was a wrap if someone says you are a rap it sounds like maybe i'm finished with you i suppose again these are not expressions that i personally would say but that might be how someone would use this okay to end this question let's talk about one more very common use of rap we have the expression to be wrapped up in something or to be wrapped up in someone which means you are so involved or so interested in someone or something that you ignore things outside that or you don't pay enough attention to those things so for example i'm so wrapped up in this tv show i forgot my friend's birthday or why are you so wrapped up in your new relationship i never see you anymore so it means that someone is too interested or too involved in something and they forget about the other things in their life we also have this meaning associated with rap so i hope that this helps you thanks for the question okay let's move on to your next question next question comes from miriam atef hi miriam maryam says hey alicia what is the difference between infectious and contagious good question something that is infectious is something that is capable of causing sickness so an infectious disease is a disease that can cause someone to become sick so that means that diseases are commonly called infectious diseases some examples prevent the spread of infectious disease by washing your hands there was something infectious in my food and now i'm sick contagious on the other hand refers to something that can be passed to another person through contact some example sentences i'm sneezing a lot but don't worry it's just allergies i'm not contagious there's a highly contagious cold going around this year so to think about the relationship between these two words something that is contagious is always infectious so for example a cold a cold is a germ it's a disease and it can be passed between people so it is contagious and it is infectious however something that is infectious is not always contagious i gave the example of allergies in an earlier example sentence allergies are an example of something that is infectious but not contagious so we can't pass allergies from person to person one person just has this unfortunate relationship with like dust or maybe like cats or dogs or something something causes this unfortunate reaction in a person but it is not contagious it's the same idea with something like food poisoning if you eat something and there's an infectious germ in there you can get sick but you can't pass that to another person through contact so again something that is contagious is also infectious but something that is infectious is not necessarily contagious on a lighter note we also use these words to talk about moods feelings and emotions like you might say her laughter is infectious or his energy is contagious so we can use these words to talk about concepts as well so i hope that this helps you thanks for the question all right let's move on to your next question next question comes from risa hi ryza rysa says hi alicia i'm trying to memorize some phrasal verbs but sometimes i don't understand the need to use a preposition when the verb without the preposition means the same thing for example what's the difference between she called him and she called him up thanks yeah this is a good question in this example the two have the same meaning yes as you said but the one with up sounds a little more casual so she called him and she called him up are the same but she called him sounds a little more formal i would use she called him in a more polite situation and she called him up in a more casual situation if you're not sure just use she called him another example of this might be something like close down so for example if we say the story hi everybody welcome back to ask alicia the weekly series where you ask me questions and i answer them maybe okay let's get to your first question this week first question this week comes from hamza hi hamza hamza says what's the difference between collaborate and cooperate and how do we use these words in sentences okay well it depends a little bit on the situation let's talk about cooperate first so to cooperate means to do something in accordance with rules like to follow rules to do something that's like in line with society's expectations this is one use of cooperate for example you might have seen a sign in english that says no smoking here thank you for your cooperation so that's an example of cooperate used as a noun as cooperation but it means thank you for following the rules thank you for your cooperation so it's like you're following some kind of societal guideline so cooperate can have this meaning we also see cooperate used to mean working together especially when it's like two people or two groups that might not usually work together for example the two countries cooperated to reduce pollution in the ocean in that example sentence it sounds like the two countries might not otherwise work together we use cooperate to express that both parties both groups get some kind of benefit from the situation so cooperate has these two primary meanings of following rules and of working together with somebody for mutual benefit usually somebody that you wouldn't work with so let's compare this then to collaborate collaborate and the second meaning of cooperate share the meaning of working together with someone yes but when we use the word collaborate it's like you're working together closely with someone to make something very intellectual like creative or artistic so this can be like music it could be a research paper it could be a movie it's like two people or two groups combine their specialties to make something special to make something unique so for example my two favorite musicians collaborated and made an amazing album let's all collaborate to make the event a success or researchers from the engineering department and the computer science department collaborated on this research paper so those are situations in which collaborate is much more natural to use than cooperate it also sounds when we use collaborate like it's kind of natural for those people to work together if you use cooperate it kind of sounds like it's not so natural or they might not do those things there's one other meaning of collaborate which is like to help the enemy or to work for the enemy so like if you imagine a spy from one country goes to another country and starts working for the other country we can use collaborate to describe that relationship as in the spy started collaborating with our enemies or we suspect that one of our employees may be collaborating with a competitor so that means working together with someone and it's usually used in a negative situation so it's used to mean like someone is working for someone else to like reduce our credibility or to hurt us somehow and give someone else an advantage so there is also this meaning of collaborate but generally you'll hear it used to mean the first meaning that i described so i hope that this helps you thanks for the question okay let's move on to your next question next question comes from andrea olivier hi andrea andrea says hi alicia i love your videos very much cool could you help me with the differences between warranty and guarantee yeah sure nice question as nouns warranty and guarantee these two mean the same thing they both refer to a promise it's some kind of promise about like a product or a service so when you buy a product like a new piece of equipment or you buy some kind of like machine for example you might see it says like two year warranty or lifetime guarantee so that refers to the length of time that the person who made the product promises it will be good so if it breaks you can get a refund or you can exchange it for free or something like that so in this sense warranty and guarantee have the same meaning this kind of product promise however guarantee can be used as a verb and in some of these verb uses it has a little bit of a different meaning than just simply promise so one of these is like to say something with confidence one of the meanings of guarantee is like to say something or to share an opinion with confidence for example i guarantee you'll love this restaurant so that's like someone saying i know 100 i am very confident that you will enjoy this restaurant we can't use warranty to describe that we can't use that in any way to describe that kind of confident opinion sharing so guaranty has this meaning we also have another meaning of guarantee which is to secure against so for example the insurance company secured the house against storm damage another way to say that is the insurance company promised the house would be safe from storm damage so to secure against is a special meaning of guarantee and again we cannot use warranty to have this meaning at all so a good way to know which meaning of guarantee is being used is to look at the word that follows the verb so guaranteed the house against storm damage if you look after the word guarantee and you see against is somewhere after it it's a pretty good chance that it's this secure against meaning if however it's just someone kind of sharing an opinion it's probably that asserting something with confidence saying something with confidence meaning and yes we can also use guarantee as a verb to mean making a promise so i hope that this helps you understand warranty and guarantee and the different ways that we can use the word guarantee as a verb thanks for the question okay let's move on to our next question next question comes from bianca hi bianca bianca says hi alicia i think the words to also likewise even and as well have similar meanings what are their differences and in which situations do i use them yep common question okay so let's review two also and as well have the same functions so we use them in just different parts of the sentence so two tends to fall at the end of a sentence like i want to go to the movies two or she bought a coffee too as well typically falls at the end of a sentence but it sounds a little bit more formal than two in everyday speech we tend to use two more often you may see two used before a verb like i too want to go to the movies or she too bought a coffee this use however sounds a little bit old-fashioned and we tend not to use it seriously if you hear this it's probably being used for humor so keep in mind again in some here to and as well can go at the end of the sentence that's typically where they go also on the other hand typically comes before a verb like i also want to go to the movies or she also bought a coffee so we typically find it before the verb you may see also at the beginning of a sentence this happens when the speaker wants to add some information and they kind of just forgot it in the first sentence so you might see it at the beginning of a sentence as well likewise to move on to the next item in your list tends to be used by itself it's like a response to something someone else said it's like saying me too and it's kind of friendly but a little bit polite so for example if speaker a says i had a great time chatting with you b might say likewise it was fun so it's like saying me too but it's a little more friendly and polite and usually we just use it alone finally even so even is probably the most different of all of these words that you introduced before we talk about even let's take a look at an example situation i'm so excited for my friends to come over to my house this weekend i deep cleaned my house i bought a bunch of snacks and drinks and i picked out some movies to watch i even bought some games to play so you'll notice that even comes before the last item in this situation i even bought some games to play so we use even in place of like and when we want to emphasize that we're doing something with all of our effort or that we're kind of really focused on something so the speaker expresses this excitement and the speaker did thing a and b and c to prepare for her friends to come over and then there's this other thing that's even more like intense or she's she's kind of expressing excitement by using even here instead of just and so we tend to use even to express emphasis this sounds like a lot more like excited than just saying and i bought some games to play if you say i even bought some games to play it's like showing your commitment i guess or like your intensity in the situation so i hope that this is a good introduction to the differences between these words maybe i can make a whiteboard about this in the future thanks very much for the question okay let's move on to your next question next question comes from emma hi emma emma says hi alicia i'm wondering when we use the expression you guys can i use this in a formal situation and can i use this with male and female friends what about kids when my kids are fighting is it okay to say you guys stop fighting thanks yeah nice question generally when you say you guys or even hi guys or hey guys is a greeting it means everyone or everybody it refers to all people whether they're men or women so this is also like a very common way for people on youtube to say hello to their viewers they maybe start the video by saying hi guys or hey guys it's very common to do but it is important to note that especially over the last few years people are considering carefully the words that they are choosing and guys in this expression can for some people feel like it's a little too male centric and like women are kind of getting left out of the expression so because of this situation some people are trying to use different ways to greet people or using different words instead of you guys as in the expression that you introduced so it's good to consider this for example i don't start videos by saying hi guys i say hey everybody or hi everyone that's what i prefer to use so some other words that people have suggested are words like you all or y'all or folks or fam or you can choose words that are specific to your group like in your case if you are talking to your kids you could say kids stop fighting or like in our case if we want to talk to the people who watch our videos or if i'm making something for like video or for audio content for the internet i might say learners for the people who watch this channel or i might say viewers or i might say listeners so instead of saying you guys you can kind of pick a more specific word that's general for all genders so yes to answer your question directly you can use you guys to refer to your kids or to refer to your friends but i think it's maybe just good to consider that more and more people are being conscious and thinking carefully about the best words to use so that all genders can be covered in these everyday expressions so i hope that this helps you thanks very much for the question okay let's move on to our next question next question comes from sergey hi sergey sergey says hi alicia you are a great teacher and a jolly girl i really like it i heard the phrase go big or go home could you please explain what it means yes first as an american english speaker just a small side point i strongly associate the word jolly with santa claus so that's why your question made me laugh a little bit jolly usually is only used to describe santa claus but just a funny little note there anyway regarding your main question go big or go home go big or go home is an expression that means do something with all your effort or your full intensity or don't do it at all it's like saying do something if you came all this way to do it or if you've worked this hard to do it you should do it or you should just stay at home so you would hear this maybe in like extreme sports or other kinds of like intense activities or maybe if you go to a restaurant and there's some amazing food there and you have one chance to eat it your friend might say go big or go home it's a very casual friendly kind of rough expression i used to use it a lot in videos i guess i don't use it so much these days but it's kind of like a an encouragement phrase to say like you know do it with all your effort or don't do it at all so go big refers to doing something with your effort like having big effort or go home like don't do it just stay in your house so i hope that this helps you thanks very much for the question okay that is everything that i have for this week thank you as always for sending your questions remember you can send them to me at englishclass101.com ask hyphen alicia of course if you like this lesson please don't forget to give it a thumbs up subscribe to our channel if you haven't already and check us out at englishclass101.com for some other things that can help you with your english studies thanks very much for watching this week's episode of ask alicia and i will see you again next week bye bye hi everybody my name is alicia in this lesson i'm going to talk about the differences between may and might let's get started first i want to begin this lesson with the word may i want to talk about two ways that we use mei in modern american english first we use mei to request and give permission so that means when we ask for permission we can use may and when we give permission we can use may let's look at a common example first person a says may i use your pen may i use your pen b says yes you may yes you may so in this question may is used to request to ask for permission may i and then b gives permission with may yes you may so this yes you may means yes you may use my pen in other words in many cases however native speakers drop this part they just say yes or sure or okay when you're making a question like this make sure that may comes before your subject so may i use your pen not i may use your pen don't use that pattern please use may i use your pen may we use your pen or use your computer for example so make sure may is coming before your i or we or he or she you can choose to reply with yes you may the negative here would be no you may not no you may not another common example with may a common request is may i use the restroom may i use the restroom i'm going to talk a little bit more about another expression we use can in this question and similar questions a little bit later for now though let's consider this point one fermei let's go to point two for may the second use of may is to express a low to moderate moderate is like medium a low to moderate level of possibility so may has this meaning yes so does might as i'll talk about later but may is less commonly used than might in american english so if you use may in a case like this as we'll see in a moment it's going to sound a little more formal a little more polite in american english we tend to use might more but let's look at some examples there's no communication problem here it just sounds a little formal first a positive statement i may visit a restaurant later today i may visit a restaurant later today means there's a possibility so kind of low to moderate level maybe like 20 to 40 50 chance i'll visit a restaurant later today in the negative then the next two sentences we may not have time to finish our report today we may not have time to finish our report today so this may not means there's a possibility that we will not have time so there's kind of this chance that this thing will not be done today so same thing in the next one she may not be able to make it to the meeting so it might not is another way to say this yes but there's a low or moderate chance she will be able to make it so we use may not or as we'll see later might not to express that one more positive sentence he may join us later so again positive so that shows there is a chance that he's going to come later so think about this you can use may to talk about something in positive sentences that you think has a chance of happening a chance of occurring and may not to talk about something you think has a chance of not happening so finally i want to end this section with this note about may versus can for permission so i mentioned that in this question here may i use the restroom for example we use both may and can in modern english to ask for permission so there's generally not a communication problem however some people prefer to use historical rules for these two words historically may has been used for permission so for this kind of thing this is a situation where the speaker is asking for permission like is it okay if i do this can however historically has been used to talk about abilities so the things we are able to do for example i can speak english i can speak french so if you're thinking historically can i use the restroom for some people some people who are very strict about rules think it means like do i have the ability to use the restroom of course in modern american english we use them the same so it's a permission question but occasionally you will meet people who prefer to use this may rule the historical may rule so if you want to be sure to be correct always please use may when you're trying to ask for permission in a situation like this or like this as well so if you want to be very very strict you can use may but many people use can i think i probably use can most of the time because may does sound a little bit formal but for your information this is the historical difference between these two words okay so with that in mind let's continue to might might so we use might to express a low to moderate level of possibility just as with mei here however might is more commonly used than may in american english so again this point is about american english we tend to use might more often than may in american english it might be a little different for british english speakers so we can make the same sentences that we made over here we can substitute might in place of may for example i might visit a restaurant later today i might hear so a positive sentence and to me an american english speaker this sounds much more like friendly much more commonly used i might visit a restaurant later today a negative we might not have time to finish our report today we might not have time so again there's a chance we won't have time to do this another negative she might not be able to make it to the meeting she might not be able to make it to the meeting so again this doesn't sound so formal she may not sounds a little more polite finally he might join us later he might join us later a positive expression so again it sounds friendly it sounds like an everyday conversation so if you want to sound a bit more polite maybe you're using this at work for example you could use mei to sound a little bit more polite otherwise i would recommend using might to sound friendly and have kind of a more everyday feel to your conversation one final point here is this old-fashioned point so um this is not used mite is not used in this way in modern american english but you might hear it sometimes so um it's an old-fashioned use but using might to make requests for permission so like we talked about here but like i said this is not used in modern american english except for media so this is why i chose to include this point in this lesson so you might hear sentences like these like might i come in or might i help you so these are like um requests we're asking is it okay to come in or like is it okay if i help you so it's kind of like making an offer this is an old-fashioned or archaic use of might in american english perhaps you'll hear this in british english but this is very rarely used in modern american english unless you're watching a movie that's set in a time period a couple hundred years ago perhaps but this is not so commonly used if you want to make a question a permission question use may instead but you may hear this okay so this is a quick introduction to the differences between mei and might and a quick discussion of may versus can for permission so i hope that this helped you understand the differences between using these words if you have any questions or comments please feel free to let us know in the comments section of this video of course if you like the video please don't forget to give it a thumbs up subscribe to our channel if you have not already and check us out at englishclass101.com for some other things that can help you with your english studies thanks very much for watching this lesson and i will see you again soon bye hi everybody my name is alicia in this lesson i'm going to talk about the differences between however nevertheless and despite i'm also going to talk a little bit about the expression in spite of too so let's begin the first one that i want to look at is the word however however let's take a look at three different ways we can use however first however can mean on the other hand or but it's like a more formal way of saying but something kind of more polite than just butt so let's look at a couple of examples of however used in this way first example i wanted to go to a movie however i stayed home and studied one more sorry we don't have tea we do however have coffee okay so these two examples show how we use however to mean but like in this first example it has the feeling of but and in this one the second example it's more like on the other hand so it's like another option is available we also see that kind of the positioning of however or the use changes can shift a little bit here we see that it's connecting these two ideas i wanted to go to a movie a however so even though there was this thing i wanted to go to a movie but i stayed home and studied so we're connecting those two ideas there it can have kind of the feel of even though but not as much as some of the other things we're going to talk about later in this sentence you might be surprised at the positioning of however here sorry we don't have t that's one point we do however have coffee so this is a pattern you might hear native speakers use first we use this do we do we use this to contrast to give like a strong opposite to this negative don't we don't have tea we do have coffee so this however is like on the other hand so you could put this here as i've done we do however have coffee you could put this before this comment however we do have coffee that's also okay so you might hear an expression in an expression like this you might hear the position of however shift a little bit but these uses are on the other hand or but let's move on to a totally different way of using however we can use however to mean to whatever degree or no matter how much no matter how much so first let's look at some examples however hard we tried we couldn't stop him from smoking and however badly we wanted to win we couldn't beat the top team in our league so these two uses of however could be replaced by this expression right here no matter how much so it doesn't matter how much something for example it doesn't matter how hard we tried or in this case past tense it didn't matter how hard we tried we couldn't stop him from smoking so no matter what we did it didn't matter how hard we tried this was something we were unable to do so this is a long expression no matter how much is a long expression however is much shorter same thing in the second sentence however badly we wanted to win again past tense we couldn't beat the top team in our league so no matter how much we wanted to win is another way to say this so no matter how much might sound a little bit more casual however using however in this way sounds a little bit more formal so if you want to express something in a more polite way you could use however instead of no matter how much so you'll see however you'll notice here positioned at the beginning of these expressions so it's like you're no matter how much statement however comes at the beginning of that we don't see it at the end okay so with that then let's continue on to the last use of however we use however uh to express surprise or shock like you might know the expression how on earth so i have here a question mark and an exclamation point we can informally we can use these two together to show like surprise and a question at the same time so this is kind of a formal expression and it's a little uncommon we don't use this so much so when we want to express shock often times about like a negative situation or like a really surprising situation we could use this for example however are we going to get home tonight the car has been stolen so this is a really shocking situation using however here though makes the speaker's shock sound rather formal so i would say this is probably not like a really the first this is not kind of the first thing and most native speakers would say i think today most native speakers would say how are we going to get home however there are some cases where however could be used to express shock like this like a really formal shock however are we going to get home you can think of this like how on earth are we going to get home so it really kind of elevates it levels up that shock and surprise feeling one more example however did you find the answer to this question so again surprise kind of shock we really want to know how on earth did you find the answer to this question i'm really surprised however did you find so we use these two for polite shock but again it's fairly uncommon this is not a pattern that i use very much you might see this perhaps in like movies or tv from time to time but again not so common in everyday speech so these are three ways to use however with that in mind let's move on to nevertheless nevertheless so nevertheless basically means even though even though something something else so even though a b is kind of the field let's look at some examples first we got lost driving in a new city nevertheless we made it to the airport on time and many said her dream project couldn't be done nevertheless she continued working to achieve it so in both of these sentences we see nevertheless comes at the beginning of the second sentence when we use nevertheless in this way it means even though the thing previously said so even though this thing in sentence one so a nevertheless comma b is a very common pattern with nevertheless same thing here many said her dream project couldn't be done is our a statement nevertheless so nevertheless meaning even though many said her dream project couldn't be done she continued working to achieve it so what's the difference why should i use nevertheless instead of even though nevertheless sounds a bit more formal than even though if you want something to sound a little bit more serious less casual you could use nevertheless in a pattern like these so we essentially keep the meaning of even though we just make kind of a different sentence structure there okay so with this in mind then i want to go to despite and then we'll compare these two so despite just like nevertheless means even though actually yes but when we use despite we need to build different sentence structures so let's look at the examples first i ran out of time to style my hair before an important meeting despite that my presentation went well one more despite the fact that she arrived late at the airport she made it to the conference on time so you might notice here i'm not using despite alone in my first example sentence i'm using despite that my second sentence despite the fact that this is a key difference between despite and nevertheless when we use despite we have to connect it to a noun phrase when we use nevertheless we do not so this is the key difference between these two so when i say connect despite to a noun phrase i mean patterns like these despite that where that is your a statement so despite that means the statement that came before that means despite the fact i ran out of time to style my hair before an important meeting so even though this happened my presentation went well that's what it means so we have to use that or maybe this as well that could be okay depending on your situation so we have to use that we cannot use just despite we can't do that we must include that noun phrase so some common examples of that as i said despite that or despite the fact that as i've done here or just despite a b so i don't have an example sentence here but we could change um one of these sentences to use just despite at the beginning of the sentence um so for example um despite my favorite donut shop being open every day um i didn't go this morning for example so you could make an example sentence or you could make a sentence an a statement here and attach it directly to despite but essentially it has to be some kind of noun phrase we need to use something in direct connection to despite here so this is a key difference with nevertheless so we always follow nevertheless or i'm sorry we always introduce our a point and then introduce nevertheless so it's like a nevertheless b it will always follow that pattern so one more point i want to mention here is the very closely related in spite of in spite of so in spite of we can actually use this to replace despite they have the same meaning the same function just be careful we use in spite of as a phrase as a set phrase to mean despite so for example in spite of that or in spite of the fact that or in spite of a b so if you want to use in spite of you can you can replace despite with in spite of so to summarize all of this over here nevertheless we can think of nevertheless like despite that then we can think of despite as equal to in spite of and we can think of nevertheless as in spite of that so these are kind of the equivalents the things that are equal to each other when we're using these words so yes they all mean even though they have the same meaning but it's just that the way we make the sentence is a little bit different so i hope that this helps i'll say too that i feel despite is a little more commonly used despite that or despite the fact that is a little more commonly used than nevertheless or in spite of but actually everything is common but i think the most common perhaps is despite from this group okay so this is a quick introduction to however nevertheless and despite and in spite of if you have any questions or comments or if there's something else you would like to know about this topic please let us know in the comment section of this video of course if you like this lesson please don't forget to give it a thumbs up subscribe to our channel if you have not already and check us out at englishclass101.com for some other things that can help you with your english studies thanks very much for watching this lesson and i will see you again soon bye bye hi everybody my name is alicia in this lesson i'm going to talk about using just for the very recent past and for the near future let's get started all right i want to begin this lesson by talking about the very recent past so i have two different patterns that you we can use to talk about the very recent past with just the first will be for actions that were completed very recently and the second will be for actions that were planned for completion recently so let's start with this first one here number one i've marked it on this timeline here with a check mark so on my timeline this is the present back here is the past uh for actions then that were very recently completed we can kind of imagine this check mark as like something that happened very very recently so just before now so um a simple statement pattern that we can use with just is this subject plus just plus a simple past tense verb this is the most basic way to make a statement with just some examples are i just finished work or he just arrived or they just left so you see in each of these very simple example sentences we have just followed by a simple past tense verb in these cases finished arrived and left so if you want to make a basic statement about a finished action something that has finished it's done in the very recent past you can use a pattern like this i want to include one note about this this particular point this number one point you might also hear the present perfect used by that i mean instead of i just or he just or they just sometimes people will use i've just he's just they've just so this v and s here this is i have just he has just they have just you may hear present perfect used as well um it has this same meaning like i've just finished work or he's just arrived or they've just left the meaning is the same for whatever reason the speaker has chosen to use present perfect tense perhaps it sounds a little bit softer but these two uses or rather these two patterns have the same purpose it serves the same function so you may hear these two let's look however at kind of the opposite of this so point number two here is used to express an action that was planned for the very recent past but that did not get finished it's not done it was not completed it might get done in the future we don't know but it did not happen so to imagine this like visually we can use this x mark in the very recent past so something just before the present time that did not happen but we had a plan to do this so some examples of this actually i'll introduce in a second but when we want to make a statement with this kind of grammar we can use again the subject but we'll use the past tense form of b so by that i mean the b verb so that means like was or were plus just about two so this is a key difference here between the regular completed action pattern and then we'll use the present tense form of the verb so here you'll already notice maybe there are a couple of different points between this and this so some examples of this in action i was just about to call you or we were just about to leave or she was just about to cancel the appointment so in each of these example sentences we see our subject plus the past tense form of the verb to be in this case i was we were she was so here's our b verb then we include just about two there's no change in these sentences just about two something and then our verb is the present tense form of the verb call leave and cancel in these cases so when you want to talk about something that was planned for the very recent past but that did not happen you don't need to change the verb you don't need to conjugate the verb to past tense we conjugate the verb to past tense when we're talking about finished actions so please keep these points in mind so simple past tense for completed actions uh present tense simple present tense for actions that um are not completed or were not completed okay so with that in mind about the very recent past i want to talk now about some patterns you can use with just for the very near future so let's begin with this first one number one here this pattern is used to talk about an action in the very near future so something we have planned we are thinking about that action or we're planning to do that action in the very near future so here on this timeline we're looking now into the future so this is my now point this number one i've represented with a check mark here so this marks an action that i have planned i want to do that or i'm thinking about that action and i'm going to do it soon to make a basic sentence with this a basic statement we can say subject plus the present tense of the verb to be plus just about to and the present tense form of the verb so you'll notice actually there's only one difference between this sentence and this sentence and that's this part right here in this part where we were talking about the very recent past we used the past tense form of the verb to be i was you were here we're using the present tense form of the verb be i am we are so this is one hint that it's actually a future action so this will tell you is it a future action or is it a past action it's a small point to listen for some examples though are i'm just about to finish work or he's just about to arrive or they're just about to leave so here i've reduced it in each of these example sentences but my be verb is here i'm is i am he's is he is and there is they are so i'm just about to finish work he's just about to arrive they're just about to leave these tell us something is going to happen very soon another point about this is that sometimes native speakers will drop just from this pattern so i'm about to finish work he's about to arrive they're about to leave these are all fine they communicate the same thing it's just the speaker's preference so you can choose whichever you prefer okay then i want to continue to point two for this part point two let's look at the pattern first is subject plus the present tense be again here plus just and then we see the progressive form of a verb so this is something that we use for an action that's happening now and it's like something that we expect is going to finish in the very near future so we use just to emphasize this to visualize this then on a timeline we can imagine with this kind of wavy line here that something is happening now and it will continue until the very very like near future so maybe it stops or it finishes here if you want to talk about an action like that you can try using this pattern so some examples are i'm just finishing work or he's just arriving or they're just leaving so these show like the action has already started so i'm just finishing work means maybe i'm making my last like uh steps in my day or i'm taking the last um i don't know bits of information from my day and putting them somewhere i don't know it depends on you but we use these to talk about actions that started and that we expect will finish very soon so you can try using one of these um at like the end of your work day or like maybe uh when you're leaving a location those are some common situations where we would use patterns like this so please keep that in mind when you're using the progressive form of the verb it's going to sound like something is already like happening now it's begun when you're using it without when you're just using the present tense form of the verb here it's something you are planning to do in the future okay so that's a quick introduction to using just for the very recent past and for the near future i hope that you found some patterns that you can use to talk about your recent past and to describe some of the things you're going to do in the near future of course if you have any questions or comments please feel free to let us know in the comment section of this video and also please feel free to leave some example sentences if you want to practice using this grammar of course if you like the video please don't forget to give it a thumbs up subscribe to our channel if you haven't already and check us out at englishclass101.com for some other things that can help you with your english studies thanks very much for watching this lesson and i will see you again soon bye-bye hi everybody my name is alicia in this lesson i'm going to talk about pronunciation i'm going to focus on beginning th sounds let's get started okay beginning th sounds are broken into two categories there are voiced th sounds and unvoiced th sounds let's start with the voiced th sounds so a voiced sound means we use our vocal chords to make the sound so one big tip for today's lesson especially is over here about voiced and unvoiced sounds if you're not sure about the difference between a voiced sound and an unvoiced sound you can practice by touching your throat right here when you make the sound so for voiced sounds if you touch your throat when you make the sound and you hear or you feel a vibration that means the sound is voiced so you're using your vocal chords to make the sound so vibration means it's a voiced sound if you touch your throat when you make the sound and there's no vibration that means it's an unvoiced sound so this is a quick way to test if you're making a voiced sound or an unvoiced sound so you can use this for today's lesson so i want to begin as i said with voiced th sounds so to make the voiced th sound you can practice by putting the tip of your tongue that means like the top of your tongue or not the top of your tongue but like the part of your tongue that's like right here it's right there put that uh against the back of your upper teeth so your upper teeth put that the tip of your tongue that part of the tongue i just pointed to put that against so if this is your tongue and this is your teeth put that against your teeth to make that first position then when you release that position make the vowel sound that follows the word so it's not just making the th sound but because this is a voiced sound we're making this sound together with like another vowel sound so when we release our tongue from this position we continue on in our mouth to making the vowel sound next so some great examples to practice with are words like these this that these those the and there so you'll notice as well that the words that are voiced th sounds or the words that use voiced th sounds are kind of like these grammar words they're really closely linked to the grammar of the sentence it's not like the nouns or like the verbs in a sentence but it's like those small words so again when we make these sounds this this so the beginning position my tongue is against my teeth and i pair that as i'm moving away from the back of my teeth with my tongue i go to the vowel sound this this this i change the vowel sound and i change my mouse position that that so when i say i change my mouth's position i mean i change the position that i move to so this position i always begin from this position i always start there but then i change the position of my mouth to make the next vowel sound so this that so my mouth is kind of wide to make the that sound these these so it's like i'm smiling when i'm making this sound so my tongue begins against my teeth and then i move to an e sound these i make the sound when i release my tongue from that position these when i make the o sound those those this is a case where you might notice the tip of your tongue comes between your teeth a little bit that's okay those those that's totally natural so my mouth is making an o shape those those but basically the top of my tongue still begins against my upper teeth i make an o sound so i release my tongue from that position those and i make an o sound to follow it with this one the the this is another case where the tip of your tongue might move between your teeth a little bit that's okay da da da another one there there there so another example where the tip of your tongue might move a little more between your teeth to make the sound so these are all voiced sounds so to test again you can touch your throat when you make this sound so this my throat vibrates that these those the there so these should all make a vibrating or a vibration rather in your throat when you make the sound so these are voiced th sounds beginning sounds with th that are voiced i want to compare this then to unvoiced sounds so again as i said an unvoiced sound or you might know a voiceless sound is a sound in which no vocal chords are used to make the sound so if we touch our throat when we make the sound we won't feel any vibration that's correct so to practice making an unvoiced sound you can begin by practicing this very slowly so you can put the tip of your tongue between your teeth to make this sound so that's the beginning position that you can slowly practice so that means between your top teeth and your bottom teeth put the tip of your tongue between those that's the starting position so some examples a great example we can begin with is think think so you might think why is this an unvoiced sound i hear a vowel sound when i touch my throat and say think my throat vibrates yes that's true but we're focusing on the th sound only so make the th sound in think there's no voice like there's no vibration in your vocal chords the i sound in think is voiced yes but the th sound is not voice so it's a f sound it's just the feeling like you have the feeling of air passing through your mouth there's no vibration in your vocal chords so this is the correct way to make an unvoiced th sound so let's try this with another word we practiced a little bit with think think another example thanks thanks so this is a word i often hear students make an s sound instead like thanks not correct so make sure you use your tongue thanks thanks to make the sound another one thought thought so again begins with no sound so thought thought i open up into the next vowel sound thought another one thunder thunder so here i'm making a u sound after my unvoiced th thunder thunder another one thigh thigh so you can hear as i did with all of these i'm like making the next vowel sound so my mouth is already moving to the next vowel sound as i'm making my th sound so they're very closely connected if you'd like to practice slowly by maybe breaking down the the sounds like ink it's okay but try to put them together so f ink maybe f angs that's how we could perhaps break down these but try to put them together practice making the sounds together to make your speech sound more natural let's look at some more examples three three three so here maybe is a little tricky point this r sound that comes after the th three three so you can kind of imagine there's another e here three so that's the position we don't say an e but that's sort of the position of the mouth to make that r sound after the th three three so i'm kind of dropping my jaw a little bit to make the er sound three three another example 13 13 13 so when i make this sound there's a little gap here right here 13 13. so again the th is unvoiced 13. so my voice does not begin until the i sound here there's a little gap 13. okay one more thud fudd thug so again th makes no sound my uh my vowel sound is a voiced sound thud thud so these are a few words that you can use to practice making these voiced and unvoiced sounds so you can begin by practicing words like these individually by themselves then you can begin making sentences and trying tongue twisters that use these sounds too so practice these words together in sentences as well so don't focus just on like one word you can of course put them together and try to say them quickly like this that these those the there you could try to say it quickly like that or for unvoiced sounds think thanks thought thunder thigh 313 thud if you want to practice making those sounds quickly so you can kind of build your own tongue twisters in this way if you want but this is a basic introduction to voiced and unvoiced th sounds especially at the beginning of words that was the focus for today's lesson so if you have any questions or comments or if there's something else that you'd like to see on the channel please feel free to leave us a comment below of course if you know a good tongue twister that uses these sounds please share that with us as well if you enjoyed the video please don't forget to give it a thumbs up subscribe to our channel if you have not already and check us out at englishclass101.com for some other things that can help you with your english studies thanks very much for watching this lesson and i will see you again soon bye-bye okay the first tip is learn words through phrases so learn words through phrases what does this mean this means instead of studying one vocabulary word at a time and having that be your only way to study vocabulary it means study entire phrases study a group of words at a time so for example don't study like morning only study good morning or how was your morning those kinds of expressions so you're not just studying one word at a time and thinking about how you need to link that word to other words instead set yourself up to know how to put those words together by studying a few phrases at a time okay the next tip is to watch your favorite video with subtitles so when you do this choose a video or maybe a movie that you like and turn on the english subtitles for that movie so while it might be difficult to catch everything that's happening in each scene you can at least check the subtitles you can check the information as it's being said so if you can't catch everything by listening you can at least read the words on the screen and understand these as kind of units or as sentences that you can study so again you're not looking just at one word or maybe even two words together but you're studying things as a phrase or as a question or as a sentence okay let's go to the next tip the next tip is to think in the language you want to learn think in the language you want to learn this is a really really tough one especially when you're starting out and it will take time so don't worry if you can't do this right away but this means as you go about your day as you wake up and eat food go to school go to work whatever try to think spend some time thinking in english think in the language you're studying so this can be really really boring stuff like thinking about what you're doing how could i express that in english so think about those sorts of everyday actions and activities and try to express them in english you can do this out loud to work on improving your speaking skills okay let's go to the next tip okay the next tip is to use available learning applications use available learning applications so that means if you have a favorite application and app that you like to use to study make sure you use that so maybe you've downloaded our application for example thank you you can use that to work on your speaking you can do that by reading dialogues by trying to shadow conversations that you hear you can also just use your phone's recording function and record yourself and then listen to it later that might sound like a really simple tip but it can help you a lot so we sound very different when we're talking and we often don't hear that unless we kind of step outside our body a bit and listen to ourselves from outside and recording your voice is a really really good way to do that so make sure you check out the apps and the functions that you have on your phone or your computer to do that the next tip is to expand your vocabulary by reading expand your vocabulary by reading so a common complaint from learners is they say i don't feel like i have the vocabulary i need to express myself i know lots of basic words but i don't feel like i can say the things i want to say when the time comes in a conversation so one way to do this is to work on building your vocabulary reading is a really great way to do that so choose things to read that you have a connection to they're related to your hobbies to your work to your studies whatever choose things that are relevant so like they're connected to your life and read those things and find the key vocabulary words that people use within your daily life activities and try to remember those try to make those the vocabulary words that you study and practice so that you're able to use them when you speak in conversations the next tip is to talk to yourself talk to yourself like talking to yourself sounds a little bit crazy sure but this is a great way to practice speaking when there's nobody around you can just practice making the sounds that you're working on you can practice saying sentences and questions you can practice talking about your day so for those of you that maybe don't have somebody to practice with this can be an excellent tip and again as you talk to yourself you can also record yourself and listen back and i know a lot of people say i hate the sound of my own voice i hate the sound of my own voice it's only you you're the only person who is going to listen to that recording and it's to help you study and it helps a lot actually this is something that i do when i need to improve my own speaking skills so i highly recommend this tip if you want to work on speaking and improving your speaking so talk to yourself sounds weird but it helps okay next tip is to listen to recordings and repeat listen to recordings and repeat another word for this is shadowing shadowing so that means basically you listen to a lesson for example like if you want to listen to this video or you want to listen to one of our lessons you can listen to it and then quickly try to say the same thing that the speaker is saying right after them so if you're using this video for example it just means you try to repeat the same things i say now in just a moment so shadowing like this the point of shadowing like this is to try to match the intonation and the rhythms of the speaker in addition to the pronunciation so this can be helpful if you're having trouble like linking words together on your own if you're having trouble building your own sentences by shadowing after a native speaker you can kind of get a better feel sometimes for the rhythm of how a language is supposed to sound and how you can produce that language yourself the next step is to prepare for daily routine situations prepare for daily routine situations so that means like think about your day and think about the things you need to say in your day and how you would express those things in english so for example when you greet your co-workers or you greet your fellow like classmates or whatever how do you greet them how would you greet them in english prepare something for that or when you want to ask about dinner how would you ask for dinner in english so think about these things you know you're going to do in your day and just prepare them ahead of time it will save you time and it will also make the other person feel more comfortable right because they'll be ready for a natural question the next tip is to try to practice your speaking with a native speaker try to practice your speaking with a native speaker this is challenging for many people i know because they don't have a native speaker in their community or they don't have a native speaker to connect with online it might take some time to find that person but this is of course a hugely important thing to do so a native speaker does not mean a teacher so just because a person is a native speaker does not mean that they are a teacher in fact most native speakers probably don't know all of the rules of grammar and they're not prepared to answer all of your questions which is fine but a native speaker does know what feels and sounds natural so they can help you to make more natural choices with your speaking they can also help you to address any questions that you might have about pronunciation or maybe like vocabulary choices within a specific region so it's important to remember that not every native speaker is a perfect speaker but they can help you a lot in helping you sound more natural the next tip is know your audience know your audience so what does this mean to know your audience means to think about the person to whom you are speaking so that means don't just think about you think about the other person like when you're talking to someone else what are they looking for in the conversation are they talking to you to get information are you study partners are you co-workers are you classmates what are their needs so how do you meet their needs how do you match their manner of speaking so please try to remember to think about the other person in the conversation as well the next tip is to ask for feedback and reflect on it ask for feedback and reflect on it so try to think of someone in your community that you can ask for feedback about your speaking skills if you don't have a teacher you can check out the online options that we offer of course or maybe you have an online exchange buddy that you can practice with but make sure to ask for feedback and when they give you feedback don't take it as criticism so if someone says for example oh your pronunciation of this sound needs some work don't feel offended like that feedback is intended to help you improve so when you receive feedback like that think about how you can focus your energy on improving those points so that means please reflect on that feedback and think about what you can do to integrate it so to integrate it means how do you put that feedback into your mind and put your energies towards improving that point all right the next tip is to avoid reading directly and try to use an outline avoid reading directly and try to use an outline so this tip is specifically if you need to give a presentation or if you need to like share some information like a report in a classroom so instead of just printing a piece of paper and reading directly from the piece of paper like this in a classroom setting or if you're giving a speech or a presentation try to print just an outline of your main points and then practice talking about those things before you're speaking presentation before whatever presentation you need to do this will help you sound a lot more natural it's really unnatural and it's not very much fun or and it's not very interesting to watch someone just read a report in front of a classroom or to read a report in a business presentation so instead of doing that try to refer to an outline throughout your presentation so your outline might be something like introduction main points i want to talk about and then you move on to the detailed points you want to talk about and just write a few words so that you can remember the things that you want to make sure you share with your audience so again this goes back to that point about knowing your audience in our earlier tip think about their perspective too the next tip is shadow language cds and then repeat what you heard shadow language cds and repeat what you heard so very very similar to the earlier tip about repeating quickly after a native speaker like when you're watching this kind of video if you're not comfortable using a movie or using a video like this one you can try using language learning audio so maybe you have cds or maybe you have podcasts or other lesson content that is at a slower pace and that is easier for you to understand you can practice shadowing with these things too you don't have to practice with a native speaker that's talking at fast pace you can also use these slower practice cds and practice audio files to do your shadowing exercises so don't feel like you have to speak super super quickly to practice your speaking efficiently practicing slowly is also okay keep practicing regularly otherwise your hard work will be wasted keep practicing regularly otherwise your hard work will be wasted so this one i think is pretty clear but it's important for all aspects all parts of learning a language keep practicing regularly so that means practice your speaking a little bit every day if you just try to speak for like an hour one week it's way too much so try to practice speaking like one minute today and then a minute and 10 seconds tomorrow so keep building keep working on things every single day and you'll see much better results in the long term all right let's go to our last tip the last tip is don't give up and stay positive don't give up and stay positive so that means please be kind to yourself so if you make a mistake in a conversation it's not the end of the world if you forget a word or if you say something funny that's fine it's all part of the learning process please don't worry about those sorts of things you'll get over them and you'll learn how to improve so make sure that you always continue moving forward and you keep a positive attitude hey everyone welcome to the monthly review the monthly show on language learning [Music] where you discover new learning strategies motivational tips study tools and resources by the way all the lessons and bonuses you're about to see can be downloaded for free on our website so click the link in the description right now to sign up for your free lifetime account okay today's topic is how to make sure you keep going when your reason for learning language changes did you know that the reason most people start learning languages isn't why they continue with the language successful learners change up their reasons along the way in order to keep themselves motivated so if you started learning for whatever reason but no longer feel motivated then this episode is for you you'll discover 1. why your reason for learning a language can and will change and two how to keep going with language learning when your initial reason no longer works [Music] but first listen up here are this month's new lessons and resources be sure to download these now before we take them down in a few days first be going to a restaurant conversation cheat sheet do you know how to order food in your target language you'll be able to with this pdf cheat sheet you'll get the must-know restaurant phrases and vocabulary for common dishes second the daily conversations pdf ebook with this you'll learn over 100 phrases for everyday conversations download and review the ebook on any device third can you talk about grammar in your target language if you're learning a language you'll need to be able to say verb adjective and much more and in this one minute lesson you'll pick up over 25 grammar related words fourth how to talk about working from home you'll learn how to say wi-fi online meeting work from home 25 phrases in total with this one-minute lesson fifth must know art vocabulary learn how to say canvas brush and much more with this quick vocab bonus to get your free resources click the link in the description below right now they're yours to keep forever okay let's jump into today's topic how to keep your motivation going even when your reason for learning a language changes first here's a question for you what was your reason for starting this language you might have started learning for travel for the culture to watch tv shows or understand music or because someone you know speaks it and you want to try speaking with them all of these reasons have something in common they're external meaning you're trying to get some outside reward or benefit like a friendship a personal relationship travel or living in the country you can say they're also external motivations all of these reasons are why most people start learning languages they're exciting all of us want to understand a tv show 100 or have a conversation with native speakers but the problem with external reasons is that they may not last very long have you ever been motivated to start learning only to lose that motivation and months later you realize you made no progress on a goal you wanted it happens quite often for example you want to learn a language for travel but then the pandemic happened and you weren't able to travel or you were learning to enjoy tv shows but the shows are way too complicated and you find you're no longer enjoying them or you're learning for your partner but then you break up when that happens all learners come to a crossroads continue or quit most people quit because the reason they started is no longer motivating so how do you keep going in the first part you learn that most reasons for starting are external reasons like traveling meeting new people being able to watch tv shows and such for external motivations however your reason for starting a language isn't often the reason why you continue learning it's natural for your reasons to change so what do you do when your initial reason for learning is no longer working if your current motivator isn't working switch to an internal reason external reasons are about getting some outside benefit internal reasons have more to do with yourself for example you could say you're learning the language because you want to improve yourself you want to achieve this goal you've failed goals in the past so now you're determined to make it work for once you're the type of person that gets things done all of these are examples of internal reasons where you make it about yourself external reasons can only last so long even external reasons like you want to live in that country so you want to learn the language aren't enough there are plenty of people that move abroad to learn a language but end up losing their motivation anyway and psychology studies show that internal reasons internal motivation doing it for yourself is much more powerful than external doing it because you want to is much more powerful than doing it because you have to so thank you for watching this episode of monthly review next time we'll talk about the first step in your language learning journey that will guarantee your success if you enjoyed these tips hit the like button share the video with anyone who's trying to learn a language and subscribe to our channel we release new videos every week and if you're ready to finally learn language the fast fun and easy way and start speaking from your very first lesson get our complete learning program sign up for your free lifetime account right now click the link in the description see you next time bye know any good tips for mastering conversations well there are some words and phrases that tend to be used more often than others in everyday conversation so if you know the most common questions answers and phrases you'll be able to handle a lot when you think about it a lot of conversations are quite predictable they're about topics we're already familiar with so if we approach our studies to these conversations like we're working on remembering parts of a script we can study efficiently in this video we'll cover one hack for improving your speaking skills first understand what you say when you meet a new person what do you say to them things like what's your name and where are you from then you talk a little bit about yourself and even if you know that person there are common lines you use all the time right these lines you use all the time in your conversations are your scripts these are your most commonly used questions answers and phrases targeting these expressions in your studies will help you be able to handle a lot of everyday conversations so take some time to examine what you talk about most or what you're interested in talking about next where to find scripts for speaking luckily we have hundreds of scripts that you can use with our language learning program you get the line by line scripts for all of our lessons in fact lessons like the top 25 questions you must know the three-minute lessons and survival phrases are specifically designed to help you master the most commonly used questions answers and phrases for example the top 25 questions you must know focuses on the 25 most common questions you'll hear in a conversation this includes basic questions like where are you from what's your name and how old are you as a learner of another language these are the questions you'll hear almost every time you meet someone new and you'll use them every day it goes like this you hear the question then we break down its meaning and teach you how to respond that way you'll be ready to speak right after the lesson you can listen to these lessons and read along with the lesson notes with our dialogue study tool you'll get line-by-line scripts of the conversation so you can review each line as many times as you want you can listen to the audio read the script and the translation you can also do this with our three minute and survival phrases lessons in these lessons we give you line by line scripts for how to introduce yourself how to make conversation or even order food at a restaurant if you're a premium or premium plus member you get the dialogue tool and line-by-line scripts for all of these lessons starting to speak in your target language might be scary but this simple hack will help jump-start your conversations so if you're ready to speak better check out our complete language learning program sign up for your free lifetime account by clicking on the link in the description get tons of resources to have you speaking in your target language and if you enjoyed these tips hit the like button share this video with anyone who's trying to learn a new language and subscribe to our channel we release new videos every week i'll see you next time bye do you want to have access to tons of language lessons but you don't want to have to buy more textbooks in this video you'll learn six ways you can get language lessons for free this video will cover ways to get our audio and video lessons on a regular basis so you can work on improving your language skills you can use these anywhere anytime alright let's take a look at how to get access first write on our website new lessons come out every single week mondays tuesdays and video lessons on fridays access them all in the lessons drop down menu on the site click on newest lessons if you're on the go you're going to work driving or running errands you can easily learn with your mobile device and that brings us to our next tip second get lessons on the innovative language app if you're an iphone ipad or android user learn on the go with the innovative language 101 app download it for free after you download the app you can keep up with all the latest lessons there is a newest lessons icon right on the home screen and it gives you instant access to your free lessons anywhere anytime just look for innovative language 101 on the app store or google play the third way is the apple tv app you can learn on the big screen turn on your tv and access all of your audio and video lessons you can learn at home keep the lessons playing and immerse yourself all day long with the innovative language 101 app look for it on the apple tv app store now this one is useful for only apple tv subscribers but if you're not an apple tv subscriber don't worry the fourth way get lessons with our itunes feed itunes can download your lessons automatically and have them saved forever you get every single lesson as it comes out you'll never miss one they're saved in your itunes simply search for us on itunes and subscribe fifth is the daily dose of language app this is for the iphone ipad and android with this you get bite-sized lessons sent to your device every day each day you get a notification that your daily dose of language is here doing the lesson takes just a minute these aren't our full-sized audio and video lessons but these one-minute lessons will help you build a habit of learning daily find the daily dose of language app on the app store or google play the sixth way is with our brand new alexa skill if you own an amazon echo dot or show or are planning to get one you'll want the daily dose by innovative language find it in the amazon skills store with it you get new audio lessons and vocab lessons every day across all 34 languages if you're ready to start learning a new language these six tips can help you get started learning with our language learning program just pick which way works best for you and get started learning today there are so many ways to start learning for free just check out our complete language learning program sign up for your free lifetime account by clicking on the link in the description get tons of resources to have you speaking in your target language and if you enjoyed these tips hit the like button share the video with anyone who's trying to learn a new language and subscribe to our channel we release new videos every week i'll see you next time bye great work here's a reward speed up your language learning with our pdf lessons get all of our best pdf cheat sheets and ebooks for free just click the link in the description

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Published: Tue May 18 2021