Name: How to Speak Fast in English? How to Sound Like a Native Speaker
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Welcome back to ask Alicia the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them.

Maybe first question this week comes from Nagar Juna hina Gardena Nagar, Juna says.

What is the difference between being and having?

Okay, let's start with the word having we use the word having in set expressions that use the verb have, for example, I'm having a good time or I'm having trouble with this.

Okay, so then being has a lot more uses than having we use being to talk about temporary conditions.

We can use this before adjectives keep in mind that when we use being before adjectives, we're using it to describe something that's temporary in cases where we use the same adjective without being, it's describing something that is a regular condition.

The first sentence he's weird is a simple, present, tense sentence.

There's no being here that shows us that weird is a regular condition, so he's usually weird.

The second sentence, though he's being weird, uses being in the progressive tense, so that shows us it's a temporary condition.

It means at this moment he's weird on Lee this moment, So usually he's not weird, but for right now he is.

So when you see being used before adjectives in this way, it's referring to this temporary state or this temporary condition so we can use being before and noun as well.

But we use it to talk about an ongoing conditions, such as our job.

We want to talk about, like this state of being something that's like, always like the same for us.

That's usually our job or something that's unchanging.

That's a regular condition for us, so we can make sentences that have the same meaning that just use be in different ways.

For example, is being an artist difficult?

Both of these sentences use the verb to be Ah, the 1st 1 uses being and just refers to the ongoing condition of an artist.

So is it difficult to be an artist and is being an artist difficult?

They're just slightly different grammatical structures.

When we do this, we tend to use it in passive voice, and we use verbs in the past.

It's referring to an action that is ongoing Now when we're talking about past tense situations, it's referring to an action that was continuing in the past, so unfinished action in the past.

Sometimes there will be an interruption that we can see in the sentence later in the sentence.

But in some cases it's just referring to an unfinished action.

So these show ongoing unfinished actions that maybe we can see or we know about.

But they're continuing, so we can use being to talk about those so we use, have or having in the progressive form in set expressions that use have I hope that this helps you Thanks very much for the question.

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

Ah, Faisal says, How can I talk very quickly in English?

Um, don't worry so much about speaking quickly or like a CE fast as you possibly can, like everybody speaks at a pace that's natural and comfortable for them.

But if you want to work on improving the smoothness of your speech, something that you might try is just reading text out loud.

So something that you can do to practice is fine, like an interesting news article or maybe a blogger or even a short story to read.

Ah, something that's got a little bit of length to it.

Ah, but something that you can read that you can follow along with practice reading this out loud.

Practice saying the words and connecting the words toe one another so you can do this first.

It's fine to read slowly at first, but then come back to the same article.

Practice reading that again like later in the week or a couple days later and practice making the sounds a little bit faster.

A couple times until you're comfortable with the grammar points until you're comfortable with the vocabulary words.

And then when you're fine, you can move on to another article, challenge yourself with another article that uses different grammar points, different words and so on.

Something that I find interesting and fun kind of to do when I practice this way is to try to take recordings of myself.

So maybe on one day I'll practice for like an hour will study for an hour or something.

And at the end of my practice session, I will record myself and then I can listen to or watch the recording later and see maybe what parts weren't so good or what parts I was good at.

Then at my next practice session, I could do the same thing and compare it to my first practice session.

After a few weeks of this, then I can look back at my first practice session compared to my last practice section, our session rather and see how much I've improved.

At least I've found to kind of track progress.

So this is something that could maybe help you as you try to improve your rate of speech.

So again, don't worry so much about speaking superfast like it's going to sound unnatural if you're just pushing yourself to speak super quickly all the time.

So just try to find a comfortable pace that allows you to communicate clearly and smoothly.

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

Use off says, How can I politely ask my teacher if it's okay to exit the classroom?

If you would like to leave your classroom, you can say something like, May I leave the room or can I leave the room?

So some people are really strict about the difference between May and can.

Historically, May has been used to ask for permission.

Can has been used to talk about possibility or ability.

Rather Ah, so if you want to be super strict, May is better.

But May could sound a little bit more polite, so may I leave The room is okay.

It's probably a good idea to include the reason you would like to leave the room, for example, May I go to the restroom or may I go to the office or may I go to the health center?

So if you want to include a reason you can do that, May I go to some place?

So this is how you would politely ask your teacher if it's okay to exit the classroom.

Um hired me, um, Artemis and says Hi, Alicia isn't required to put the indefinite article in front of an adjective that follows an uncountable known, for example, hot milk or neat writing or good education.

In most cases, actually using the indefinite article in this way would be incorrect to refresh everybody.

The indefinite article is a or an, and we use indefinite articles before, accountable now nes in the singular form.

But I do want to talk a bit about these examples that you've introduced.

The first example that you introduced was the phrase hot milk.

So the only way that I can think of that we would use an indefinite article before an expression like this, is it?