Name: How to Learn English with Movies without Subtitles
Uploaded: 2020-04-13T17:52:21.000Z
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Welcome back to ask Alicia the Weekly Siri's where you ask me questions and I answer them.

Maybe first question this week comes from on hell.

Having weighed up the pros and cons, he decided against resigning present participle.

Okay, so to my understanding, this question is about the use of the present participle in resigning in decided against resigning so we can use the present participle to function as a noun.

So this can take the position of the subject of a sentence.

The object of a sentence in direct object can have many different functions here.

It's functioning as the object of the proposition against, so against resigning.

It's the object of this proposition against so decided against is kind of its an idiomatic phrase.

So to decide against something to decide against a noun phrase means to decide not to do that thing.

So here decided against resigning means he decided not to resign.

But we're just using this idiomatic expression decided against something but yes, here the present participle is acting as a known.

So here are a couple other examples of JJ.

I always try to finish as quickly as possible.

So here cleaning is the subject of the verb bores.

We're seeing it as the present participle form of the verb clean.

We love cooking because we can try lots of different things at home.

Okay, so in this example, sentence cooking is the gerund, and in this case, it's functioning as the object of the verb love.

So these air just a couple of examples of the different positions that Jared's can take in sentences.

But yes, we use this present participle as a noun in different places in sentences.

So I hope that this helps answer your question.

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

Okay, so in language learning, I p a stands for international phonetic alphabet.

So the international phonetic alphabet is different from this standard alphabet, like a bee sees that many of us.

No, this is different from the standard alphabet.

Because the phonetic alphabet is an alphabet of sounds.

So when we learned the ABC is like many native speakers, I think most native speakers probably no, like the ABC song A B C, D.

We don't actually learn how we pronounce those letters.

So, like a good example, is like the second and third letters of the alphabet song B and C.

So we learned that B is called be, but we don't actually learn how to pronounce be with the phonetic alphabet, though we learn that be makes a sound.

And if we want to get really specific, there are a couple of marks that show us exactly what kind of but sound a B is supposed to make with a complex letter like See though the fanatic alphabet can be super useful.

So in the alphabet song we learned that the letter is C.

But we don't learn all the different pronunciations that we can make with this letter.

So, of course, there's the pronunciation as in, like cat or car or cape.

But we don't actually hear that in the song.

So this sound is represented with a K actually in the frenetic alphabet.

When we pair see with another letter like C H to make the sound, we see this sound represented with a different letter in the phonetic alphabet.

So it's like cheat or chair or chat so the phonetic alphabet can show us pronunciations.

So even if we don't know exactly how we should read a word like the first time we see it, we confined the pronunciation in many dictionaries with the frenetic alphabet.

So, for example, if I look for the word chair in an online dictionary that uses the phonetic alphabet, I'll find a spelling like this so it uses that symbol, which doesn't look like a C, and then it ends with this air part.

Refers specifically to the air sound, So if you look at an international phonetic alphabet chart.

You'll see some symbols that are the same as the standard alphabet like with continents like B or K sounds, for example.

But when you're looking at like vowel sounds and some of these special sounds like, for example, you'll notice that there are these new symbols.

So if you look at these sorts of symbols and kind of study them as sort of sounds instead of just names instead of just like symbols, you can use these to help with your pronunciation of something.

So if I'm learning and I don't know any rules of pronunciation, I might think the word chairs pronounced like a higher something if I'm reading each letter individually with I p.

However, I can look at this information, and I can understand the correct pronunciation easily as long as I've studied the sounds.

So this is a quick introduction to the I P.

And how you might use it, so I hope that this is helpful for you.

If you want to know more about the I P A.

I would suggest a Google search for an I P A chart.

Wikipedia has a nice one in a nice explanation.

Um, and there are some that you confined that will play audio so you can click a button near a symbol, and it will give you the sound for that.

So the symbol corresponds to a sound, Not just a letter name.

As a side note, I p a also has a beer reference I p a also means Indian pale ale or India Pale ale.

So quite different from the alphabet we're talking about here.

There are those two very common abbreviations.

Next question comes from a lamb high alum.

I want to learn English by watching movies.

So should I watch it with or without subtitles And should the subtitles B in English also or in the language that I understand.

And so what I usually say or what I try to say what I recommend is that you planned tow Watch your movie or your TV show more than once.

So the strategy that I like to use and that I have used in the past is to watch one time with subtitles in your native language.

So in my case, I watched with English subtitles.

So in this example, I was watching a Japanese TV show.

So I watched it one time with all the subtitles on in English so I could read everything.

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