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hi everybody welcome back to ask Alicia

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the weekly series where you ask me

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questions and I answer them maybe let's

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get to your first question this week

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first question this week comes from

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komal godara hi komal I hope I said your

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name correctly Comal says could you

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please make a PDF on tense's narration

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and voices with lots of examples it's

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amazing to learn through PDFs they are

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very easy to comprehend okay thanks for

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the question so we can consider sure

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making a PDF about that that's up to the

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team to create but I thought I would try

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to answer your question a little bit

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here so first you ask about tenses so I

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would recommend if you want to practice

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with tenses and lots of examples of

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tenses you do a quick search on the

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YouTube channel I have a video about all

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of the tenses of English and I have some

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other videos that focus on other tenses

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like simple present tense or present

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perfect tense or simple past tense so I

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practice with tenses check out some of

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the videos that are already on the

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channel just do a quick tense search and

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you can find those the second part of

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your question was about narration and

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voices so I think that this is maybe

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about the different ways that we

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describe stories for example so I hope

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that this will answer your question and

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I wanted to talk about something called

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first second and third person Voice or

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these types of narration and what they

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are because you use these in your

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writing and you might also hear them and

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see them in things like movies and TV

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shows from time to time so what is this

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first person narration let's start with

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this first person narration is a way of

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telling a story where I is the subject

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of the sentence so when we use first

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person narration we say I went to the

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store I saw my friend I did this I did

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that so the focus is the speaker so the

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person who is telling the story is the

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person that is sharing the I statements

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so this is called first person narration

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second person narration what's called

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second person narration is kind of a

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rare form of Storytelling if you've ever

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read a book that's called a Choose Your

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Own Adventure book you'll know this kind

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of Storytelling it's with you as the

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subject of the sentence so this is

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describing something that happens to you

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so in these kinds of story books that

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are usually written for children in the

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story you'll read things that are

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written in the story you'll read actions

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that are happening in this story like

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they're happening to you so for example

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you enter a haunted house you see a

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scary monster this kind of Storytelling

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experiencing that in the moment so this

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person narration this is the least

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common kind of narration and you really

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people's story books where they're

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trying to share an experience as though

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it is actually happening for the reader

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the last type of narration or

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storytelling is called third person

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third person narration or third person

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writing refers to when we use people's

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name names so there's no I there's no

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one single person who's the narrator

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it's everybody in the story so we

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understand everybody from everybody

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else's perspective if that makes sense

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so for example if I'm writing a third

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person story I would not use I did this

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I did that instead I would say Alicia

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did this Alicia did that Alicia went to

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the store Alicia saw her friend Alicia

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entered the house so even though I'm the

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person writing the story I use Alicia

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because it's third person storytelling

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this is very very common in books and in

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other types of Storytelling like essays

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first person storytelling when we're

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speaking from our own perspective and

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then we see third person storytelling a

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lot in like news media and in other

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books so those are situations where we

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don't need to focus on ourselves right

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so you can probably apply first person

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storytelling when you do things like

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share updates on social media for

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example or maybe share a story about

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your childhood and you can use third

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person storytelling when you're sharing

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a report about something that happened

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and you do not need to be the focus

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second person storytelling as I

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mentioned is kind of rare it's not so

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common but you may see it from time to

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time to give that feeling of someone

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experiencing something in the moment so

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I hope that this quick answer helps you

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understand a little bit better about

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narration and different voices that we

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use in our writing and again if you want

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to know more about tenses I would

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recommend just doing a quick search on

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the YouTube channel for some videos

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about tenses so I hope that this is a

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quick answer for your question thanks

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very much for sending it along okay

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let's move on to your next question next

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question comes from Elise Waldo hi Elise

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Waldo Elise Waldo says how do we use the

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repetition system to learn English okay

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so I think this question is about

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something that I talk about on the

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channel quite a lot the space repetition

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system so the basic concept with space

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repetition is that after you study

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vocabulary word you give yourself a

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short break that's the space in spaced

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repetition so for example if you study a

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vocabulary word today in the morning

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work or at school and then you study the

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word again in the evening so that's your

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first space right so from morning to

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evening and then the spaces get longer

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and longer so you study the word again

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in the evening okay then you don't see

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the word again until the next evening so

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next review and so on so the idea with

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space repetition is that you study

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something multiple times but you give

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your brain a chance to think about the

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information for a while and then you

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review it again so you can apply the

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same concept with grammar points as well

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review it three days later then another

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repetition system with pretty much

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anything that you're working on studying

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you can use this with listening practice

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you can use this with your speaking

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practice as well just try to give

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yourself a little bit of a break after

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you study something or practice

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something and then come back to it again

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evaluate yourself so think about what

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you did well and think about the things

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that you still need to work on so of

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course this doesn't mean that you should

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only practice and that you shouldn't

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ever try to evaluate yourself and see

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what's good and what's not so good but

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rather it's just about getting into a

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rhythm of making sure that you space

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your practice sessions out so you're not

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every month and you're also not just

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doing maybe like 30 seconds of study

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that you have spaces throughout your day

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and throughout your week that are there

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for your studies so this is a very open

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answer I know but I hope this is a good

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introduction to spaced repetition

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practice if you want to try this out

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there are some space repetition flash

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cards on the englishclass 101.com

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website you can check that out so those

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are flash cards that will do this for

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you if you want to study vocabulary

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words it will give you vocabulary words

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to study and then remember which ones

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were difficult for you and quiz you on

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those words sooner than the words that

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were easy for you so check that out if

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you want to try a little bit of spaced

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repetition practice so I hope that this

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helps you I hope this was a good answer

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for your question thanks very much for

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sending it along okay let's move on to

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your next question next question comes

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from Nicole L Tran hi Nicole Nicole says

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hi Alicia I've heard many people say I

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don't do nothing when they want to say

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they don't do the thing is that right as

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far as I know negative plus negative

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equals positive what's the right

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sentence if we want to say we don't do

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any actions in a situation I don't do

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anything or I don't do nothing thanks

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yeah great question so in very basic

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don't do anything that would be the

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standard correct form of English however

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this I don't do nothing or these kind of

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dialects of English so depending on the

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region or the community where someone

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dialect that uses these double negatives

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sometimes so this is an example of one

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of those double negatives I don't do

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nothing while yes it is a double

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question is also a manner of speaking

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that also just means I don't do anything

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Learners I completely understand but

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once you can identify these kinds of

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dialects and realize that this is a way

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of speaking in certain communities or in

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certain regions then you can kind of

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understand that oh this is just the way

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that this person speaks okay I can adapt

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to that so it doesn't mean that that's

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bad or wrong or anything like that it's

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just a manner of speaking so yes it is

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different from the English that's taught

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in most textbooks but that is a style of

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English speaking that is used in certain

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hope that this answers your question and

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you can keep an ear out earn an eye out

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for other kind of double negative speech

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as well so thanks very much for this

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interesting question that was cool okay

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that is everything that I have for this

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week thank you as always for sending

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your great questions remember you can

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send them to me at English class one

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101.com ask hyphen Alicia there is also

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a link in the YouTube description so you

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can send them to me there too also if

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watching this week's episode of ask

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Alicia and I will see you again soon bye

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thank you

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