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back to ask Alicia the weekly series
where you ask me questions and I answer
them baby okay let's get to your first
question this week first question this
week comes from Jaya Krishna hi Jai
Krishna Jai Krishna says in school we
call teachers other names like madam or
miss what is the difference between
teacher miss Madame in other words yeah
it's a good question in American English
in schools in the u.s. that are high
school and below so like junior high
school or elementary school we do not
call our teachers teacher we don't use
that title for our teachers we use
mister for male teachers or we use miss
and last name and mrs. and last name for
female teachers the difference between
miss and Madame and misses is usually
related to whether or not the woman is
married so if a woman is not married
usually we use miss or if you're not
sure we use miss if the woman is married
we use mrs. Madame however is something
that we don't really use in settings
like these we use Madame in service
situations usually so we use this
particularly in like luxurious settings
so imagine going to like a really
expensive hotel and you meet staff at
the hotel they address you if you're a
woman or your female companion with
Madame so that's like a high kind of
respect term so it's kind of an
old-fashioned term as well we don't use
it so much in everyday speech in the
u.s. Madame but you might hear it in
kind of like these luxurious expensive
situations another situation where you
might hear Madame used in US English is
in situations relating to official
positions like in the government so
there's a position for example where a
a woman holding the position might be
called madam job title so for example
madam secretary there is a government
position called Secretary of State and
if a woman holds that job we might call
her madam secretary when referring to
her official duties so that's a very
specific case where we would use madam
in relationship to someone's job but
generally when we're talking to somebody
in other fields of work we do not use
this title if you are going to school in
the US and you're going to high school
or below just use mister or miss or mrs.
Plus the last name for your teacher if
however you're going to college or
university in the States you should use
professor if your instructor is a
professor or doctor if your instructor
has achieved that level of education if
they have their PhD many professors or
instructors prefer to be called doctor
so you should use that title of course
some professors also like to keep things
casual and they say please use just my
first name or please use my last name
whatever so pay attention to how your
instructor prefers to be called and just
use that okay thanks very much for the
question let's move on to your next
question next question comes from
Francois Luci hi Francois Francois says
hi Alicia thanks a lot for your videos
could you please explain the difference
between remember remind and recall from
a French follower sure so remember and
recall have the same meaning they both
refer to thinking of something being
able to think of something that happened
in the past so that could be a
conversation it could be a person a
place whatever
so remember and recall both have that
meaning to be able to think of that the
difference between them though is that
recall sounds much more formal much more
polite we don't use recall so much in
everyday conversation in everyday
conversation we use remember some
examples I can't remember that phone
number do you recall the name of that
restaurant I can't believe you
remembered my birthday
so recall
remember do have the same meaning yes
but in everyday life we use remember
much more often so please try to use
remember if you want to sound more
polite choose recall remind however is a
bit different from recall and remember
to remind means to cause someone to
remember so you give someone information
like to refresh their memory they know
about something and you want to tell
them again so to cause them to remember
some information for example can you
remind me about tomorrow's lunch meeting
you remind me of someone I knew a long
time ago did someone remind you it was
my birthday ok so I hope that this helps
you understand the differences between
recall remind and remember thanks very
much for the question ok let's move on
to your next question next question
comes from Winn Mintz way hi Winn Mintz
way widman's way says hello Alicia what
is the difference between trust and
believe ok trust means to be able to
rely on something we feel confident
about our understanding of something or
someone so we can trust a person or we
can trust a situation or we can trust an
object so to trust means you're able to
rely on that thing for example it's
important to work with people you trust
this computer crashes a lot I don't
trust it to believe however refers to
having faith in something like you are
confident that something is true so we
use believe a lot when talking about
religion or when listening to people's
stories like when we believe a story we
are confident the story is true when we
don't believe a story we are not
confident the story is true so you may
here believe used in the common
expression I can't believe it which we
use a lot when we feel shocked or
surprised so depending on the speaker's
intonation this can mean they actually
do believe it but they're very surprised
or they really don't believe it
so let's hear a couple of examples I
believe hardware
is important for success I got a huge
promotion I can't believe it so in the
second example there that kind of
excited voice shows that the speaker is
really surprised and really excited and
even though they say I can't believe it
they're just kind of expressing shock so
it's a true situation yes that condition
is true but they want to express their
shock in an excited way so I hope that
this helps you understand the
differences between trust and believe
thanks very much for the question ok
let's move on to your next question next
question comes from Mudge tomash Marsh
says can I say I don't give a damn in an
English lesson I would not say this no
this sounds very aggressive and rather
rude so if you want to communicate that
you don't have a strong opinion about
something or that someone else can make
the choice I would recommend something
like I don't have a preference or it
doesn't matter to me something like that
sounds a lot lighter and a lot more
friendly if you say I don't give a damn
you're probably going to make people
upset they'll probably think that you're
being very rude similarly please be
careful with the expression I don't care
so if you say I don't care a lot of
people feel that it sounds kind of rude
again so slightly rude not as rude as I
don't give a damn but I don't care can
also sound a little too rough so instead
please use an expression like I don't
have a preference or maybe whatever you
think is fine so please try to be polite
in your English lessons
although the expression you used is
grammatically correct and it
communicates an idea effectively you
will probably upset someone in your
class so I hope that this helps you
thanks very much for the question ok
let's go on to your next question next
question comes from Jean Paolo hi Joe
Paulo Joao Paulo says Alisha you know
the video about American convenience
stores can you explore something similar
to the way Risa did on the Japanese
channel yes we have started making
videos about culture in the US so this
video about the u.s. convenience store
is now available on the English class
101 channel I'll put it behind me on the
green screen here yeah okay great so we
didn't explore it I personally did not
explore the channel but we're trying to
think of some other similar things that
we could maybe do so check this out if
you haven't seen it already and also
check out the second video in the series
about supermarkets in the US and we'll
have some more stuff coming out there
soon as well so we're kind of exploring
some culture topics if you are
interested please check those out thanks
for this idea will we can consider it
but we'll try to see how we can work
things out thanks very much for this
idea much appreciated
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