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Maybe. Let's get to your first question this week. First question this week comes from Yuri. Hi, Yuri.

Yuri asked, hi, please tell me what's the difference between to bring and to fetch, thanks in advance.

Cool. Okay, so bring and fetch, the basic answer when we're

talking about carrying something to someone else is that bring is the word we use much more

commonly in today's American English, and fetch tends to sound much more old fashion. They're

both 100% correct and they have the meaning of

carry something to another person. Like we could say, for example, hey, can you bring me my coffee

or why don't you bring your computer over and we'll study together? So we can use these two words

in the same way in the sense that they both mean to carry something

to someone else, like after they ask for it. That's the idea here. So we could say, for example,

hey, will you bring me my coffee or can you please fetch me my coffee? It's like we're requesting

that someone do something, requesting that someone carry something to us. So both of those example sentences

are 100% correct, but fetch sounds a lot more old fashioned. We probably would not use

fetch in American English in this situation. We probably would not use fetch in today's English.

Instead, we would definitely use bring. We would we would say hey can you bring me my coffee

so again we use these two verbs when we're asking someone to carry something to us so like

when we're making a request for something we can't use fetch when we're just talking about

carrying something to a location like if i said for hey, why don't you bring your computer over

and we'll study together? We wouldn't use fetch in that situation because the idea with fetch

is that you're asking someone to do that thing for you. You're asking someone to carry that thing

to you. It's like kind of a goal. There's sort of a purpose behind it. With the second example sentence,

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