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Many questions from the Internet.

Hi, everybody.

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

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Let's get to your first question this week.

First question comes from Moolaade Vuitton again.

High blood, lots of highly sha My question.

What is the difference between perhaps and maybe perhaps sounds more formal?

I use it now and then, when I want to sound a little bit softer than usual.

I think that your contrasting this perhaps with maybe so, please be careful.

May be with a space is different from maybe, ah, we use maybe in conversations, for example, are you going to go to the party later?

Maybe, Or is he coming to dinner, maybe, or the way that I start this?

Siri's Maybe like I might answer your questions.

Maybe I'll answer your questions.

I don't know, perhaps sounds much more formal than that.

Like if I started this video with all answer your questions, perhaps like it doesn't sound quite the same.

It sounds kind of formal, a bit softer, too, but maybe reflects a possibility like this may be the correct restaurant, or this may be the right textbook.

So be careful in your speech and in your writing, maybe and maybe have different purposes.

But generally speaking, perhaps, and maybe the only difference there is that perhaps, is more formal.

Maybe it's more casual.

Hope that helps you.

Thanks very much for the question.

Okay, let's get to your next question this week.

Next question comes from Ah, Sarah.

Hi, Sarah, Sarah says.

What's the difference between would have and would have been?

And how do we use this in a sentence?

The's follow the same route pattern would have plus a past participle verb.

So the past participle form of B is been when we use would have with a verb.

Other than be, we're using a verb.

So that means there's an action like I would have come if I had had time or I would have helped you.

But I had to take care of a family emergency, for example, so we're following would have with another past participle verb form when we're using would have been We're talking about a potential state.

So, for example, like a job.

Or maybe it's like some other adjective phrase you used that reflects a person's condition.

Like, um, she would have been fired if the project failed, for example, or we would have been dead if you hadn't saved us something like that.

I hope that that helps you.

Thanks very much for the question.

Okay, let's move on to your next question.

Next question comes from Dark.

Delfin 83 High Again, Dark, Kelvin Dark, Delfin says.

What's the difference between inspiring and inspirational?

Good question inspiring is used for something that causes us to feel that excitement like we're motivated.

We want to do something that's inspiring.

It was an inspiring speech.

It was such an inspiring work, so something that causes us to feel motivated.

Inspirational, however, is used to describe something that is intended to inspire.

So maybe it does.

Maybe it doesn't, but its aim is to inspire So, for example, like the university hired an inspirational speaker for the event, or I read a list of inspirational quotes today.

So something that aims to inspire is inspirational, something that causes us to feel that motivation is inspiring.

I hope that that helps you.

Thanks for the question.

All right, let's move along to your next question.

Next one comes from Carla.

Hi, Carla.

Carla says hi, I'm from Argentina.

And next month I'm going to live in Australia for a couple of months.

What kind of advice do you have to give me to start talking?

Um, well, it depends on what you're going to dio.

If you're going to be a university student, you can try to find other international students in your university.

There are often university groups or meet ups for international students where people can meet and chat and share their experiences.

If you're not going to a university, you can look for similar community groups.

So, like the website, meet up dot com, it is sometimes a really good resource where you can find people interested in international exchange.

Eso you might look for that or other international exchange groups in the place where you're going toe live.

Um, third is just my personal favorite.

Find your hobby in the place where you're going, like if you already enjoy doing that thing, just try to do it in English.

Then you can listen to the vocabulary words the way people speak about your hobby.

You can think about those after you take your lesson or after you participate in the activity, and maybe you can try to work on those.

Study those so that you're more prepared for the next time you take the lesson.

So those air three maybe ideas forth.

Perhaps I don't know how old you are, but if you're old enough to go to like a bar or a music venue or something like that, that can also be a really great way to meet people and to feel relaxed when talking to people, too.

So I hope that one of those tips helps you enjoy your trip to Australia.

All right, thanks very much for the question.

Let's move along to your next question.

OK, next question comes from Sami.

Hi, Sammy, Sammy says.

How do I know when to use as or like?

Yeah, I talked about this in one of the early episodes of this series.

Maybe Episode three anyway.

To review we use like when we follow the expression with a simple noun phrase.

So when you're trying to decide, who should I use, like or as here, look at the part that comes after that kind of space in your word.

If it's just a simple noun phrase, use like if you're using a clause with a verb in it used as so some examples, my neighbor's cat sounds like a monster, or recently I sleep like a baby.

So in both of those example sentences, the part, after like is just a simple known freeze.

There's no verb.

There are neighbors care for our son as if he were their own child.

The police treated her as if she were the one that robbed the bank.

So in both of these sentences, you can see that after as there's a clause that includes a verb.

In both cases, it's were.

But when you use something like this, you can use as instead of like, I should also say that native speakers often make mistakes with this.

Like in American English, we tend to rely more on like and not think so much about as.

But this is the rule that generally accepted rule for right now, so I hope that that helps you.

You can check out the other episode for some more examples.

All right, hope that helps.

Thanks very much for the question.

All right, so that's everything that I have for you for this week.

Thank you.

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