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I say welcome back to ask Alicia in
Spanish Nino's de nuevo leprae a
preguntan Techint and Olay Alicia no
hablo espanol hi everybody welcome back
to ask Alicia the weekly series where
you ask me questions and I answer them
maybe first question this week comes
from Saad hi Saad Saad says hi Alicia I
want to know the difference between all
every and each okay this is a big topic
I made a whiteboard video about this
recently and it will be out on the
channel eventually but here's a quick
introduction let's begin with all all
means 100% of something so we use all
when we're talking about a group so many
of something and 100% we want to focus
on the group with all some examples all
the questions in this series come from
viewers all my family members live in
another country we use every when we
want to talk about the parts of a whole
we use this with the singular form of a
noun so some examples every person in
our class passed the test every member
of our team received an award so in
these cases with every we see that there
are individual parts to a larger whole
to like a group and we want to mention
the individual parts yes but in
relationship to the whole we use every
to do this in the singular form each
then focuses on the individuals so we're
not focusing so much on a group but we
want to really focus on the individual
we can use each with the singular form
and with the plural form of a noun
examples she wears earrings on each ear
each person in our group gave a
presentation so another point with each
is that we use each when there's only
two of something if there's more than
two you can use every or maybe each
depending on the situation just make
sure if there's only two like ears for
example or arms or legs make sure to use
each using all or every will sound
strange because we're focusing on large
numbers so that's a quick introduction
to the differences between these words I
hope that that helps you and please
watch for the whiteboard video to come
out soon okay let's move on to your next
question next question comes from valina
hi valina
the Lena says hi Alicia I would like to
ask you about the difference between no
wonder and wondering and how to use it
in sentences okay let's start with no
wonder so no wonder it means that's why
that's why so we use it when we kind of
solve a mystery
sort of it's like a small mystery like
no wonder this happened or no wonder
something in the past when we're
wondering that's the progressive tense
of the word wonder it means we're
thinking about something like there's
something we're curious about or
something that we would like to know but
wondering is kind of like light thinking
I guess you could say so I'm wondering
about my future maybe hey so it's kind
of you're dreaming or you're imagining
something perhaps he's out of the
country no wonder he didn't answer my
phone call you're out of salt no wonder
your food tastes bland excuse me I'm
wondering where the restrooms are i
wonder what's going to happen next week
so in the last example sentence there i
used wonder in the present tense meaning
it's just something that i'm thinking
about for the future you could say I'm
wondering about next week that's fine if
you're actually doing it now
with someone but wondering refers to an
action happening now in this moment so I
hope that that helps you understand no
wonder and wondering thanks for the
question alright let's move on to your
next question next question comes from
sweet devil hi again sweet devil a sweet
devil says hi Alicia and my question how
do I pronounce these words in fast
connecting speech
of it of her of his okay well first with
the her and his examples that H sound
almost disappears like it becomes very
reduced of her and of his I'll give some
examples in a moment with of it the two
kind of connects they make a V sound
patterns that might use something like
this are not so common in everyday
speech but these are a couple cases
where you might hear it
your sandwich looks delicious can you
give me some of it that was a great
performance
did you make a recording of it so in
these examples you can hear of it
becomes of it of it did you make a
recording of it can I have some of it so
it's like a V sound there let's move on
to the other two with the H sound which
of her movies have you seen pictures of
her are really interesting so here you
can also hear that that H sound becomes
very very soft and we have that same
sound with of pictures of are really
interesting which of her movies have you
seen the same thing happens with of his
how many of his books have you read what
do you think of his work so we have that
same look again with of and the H sound
is very very soft it's like I'm just
exhaling the sound of his of his of her
as well of it so kind of a theme here is
that the F becomes a quick v sound
almost and we're sort of just releasing
air to make the H sound with the his and
her examples of it of her of his so I
hope that this helps you with this
pronunciation point thanks very much for
the question ok let's move on to your
next question next question comes from
so higher Heysel higher so higher says
what is the difference between
persuading and convincing great question
yeah many people use these
interchangeably but there is a key
difference to convince someone means to
change someone's mind to change
someone's way of thinking so it refers
to giving someone information with the
intent of changing the way that they
think to persuade however is giving
someone in for
or telling someone something with the
aim of causing them to take an action so
to convince is referring to someone's
thinking to convince someone of an idea
to persuade someone is to cause them to
take an action like to persuade someone
to give you money for example so
convinced ideas persuade actions some
examples we convinced my parents that we
were responsible enough to take the car
out for the night I convinced my team of
the importance of social media we
persuaded management to buy us new
equipment I'm going to persuade my
parents to loan me a few hundred dollars
for a vacation so here you can see
convinced is used to talk about a way of
understanding our way of thinking
persuade is used to talk about getting
someone to do an action to take an
action so I hope that this helps you
understand the difference thanks very
much for the question ok on to your next
question next question comes from Lise
Reggie Ori hi Lise Lewis says hi Alicia
my question is what's the difference
between hint and clue in your videos you
say for example here we have a hint
could we use clue instead ah yeah for
sure in a case like this you could use
hint and clue in the same way clue is
something that I feel is used more when
we have like a mystery or there's kind
of like a puzzle to solve you might also
hear it in like detective stories so if
like a detective is investigating
something and they're looking for
evidence when they find something they
might say oh this is a clue in there
like mystery solving process but clue
that's I mean it's a great example if
anyone has played the game clue
absolutely your job in that game is to
collect information to collect evidence
about a murder that happened so that's
your job you're collecting clues so
that's sort of the feel of the word clue
you're trying to solve a mystery so when
I said it's okay to use clue to replace
the word hint you can kind of imagine
that like a sentence could be like a
puzzle especially if you're learning so
you're trying to solve the mystery of
the meaning
the grammar of the sentence so if you
can think of it that way it's okay to
use the word clue I prefer to use the
word hint and yes I do use that word a
lot in our videos because hint has the
feeling of something that's communicated
indirectly so I'm not saying something
clearly or maybe my example sentence
doesn't say something clearly but I'm
looking for these small like bits of
information that kind of tell me
indirectly something so when I say here
we have a hint it's like I'm kind of
referring to this indirect information
I'm getting from this sentence someone's
vocabulary choice for example could give
me like a hint about that person's
emotions for the day so it's an indirect
way of receiving information is a hint
so I prefer to use hint but I think it's
fine to use the word clue let's look at
a few more examples sentences that maybe
can show some of the differences in how
these words are used also I want to
point out that both hint and clue can be
used as nouns and as verbs we found a
clue at the scene of the crime a
fingerprint we don't have any clues as
to who robbed the store this
announcement from the CEO might include
some clues about upcoming policy changes
can you give me a hint about your
surprise party plans management hinted
that we might get a bigger budget next
year here's a hint about the meaning of
the sentence okay so I hope that this
helps answer your question about clue
and hint thanks very much for sending it
okay let's move on to your next question
next question comes from Mohamed Salah
hi Mohammed Mohammed said what's the
difference between sympathy and empathy
yeah
sympathy refers to seeing feelings in
another person seeing emotions in
someone else and recognising those
feelings because you have also
experienced them so if for example your
colleague or your friend like they have
an emotional situation like a family
member has passed away and you have also
experienced that you can say you
experience sympathy for that person
because
you have the same experience that's the
noun form sympathy as a verb it's
sympathize as an adjective it's
sympathetic some example sentences I can
sympathize with your work struggles we
had a tough time last month I'm lucky to
have a boss that's very sympathetic so
empathy is different from sympathy in
that we recognise feelings in another
person but we have not experienced that
situation ourselves we only recognize it
and we can maybe imagine what the other
person feels like but we don't have that
experience ourselves so empathy is the
noun form to empathize is the verb and
empathetic is the adjective some
examples I was so relieved my friends
empathize with my need for support it's
wonderful to have empathetic colleagues
so I hope that this helps you understand
the difference between sympathy shared
feeling and empathy and understanding of
someone else's feeling I hope that that
helps you okay so that's everything that
I have for this week thank you as always
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