Hello everyone, and welcome back to
'English Tips for Finns' and this is video number 13.
I've gotten a few requests to make a video about
everyday situations in English, and
that's what this video is about. This
is something that's surprisingly hard in
practice. It's something that you learn
early on when learning a language, but
then when the actual situation comes up
it's a little bit more difficult -- whether
it's because it doesn't follow the
textbook, or your own language gets in
the way. I think a lot of these
phrases are going to be review for you, but
hopefully you get something new out of
it as well. Hopefully you're able to
readily use them in the right situation.
Just one more thing:
My purpose in making these videos is
to help you improve and get by with your
English. My purpose is not to make you a
better person. I recognize that there
are differences between the way English
speakers do something and the way Finns do
something...and I recognize that there are
positives and negatives to both. So
strictly English language learning here.
As I often like to do in my videos,
I'm going to give you a list of
questions about things I'm going to talk
about in the video. You should try to
answer these. yYou should pause the video
and you should compare your answers to
my answers. Remember some of these
have many many different answers, so my
answers are not the only answers.
I just want to say from the start
that 'How are you?' is a very good and
acceptable way to say something. It's
a good fallback. You can always say 'How
are you?' in every situation...and actually
you have to use it, I think, in very
formal situations and the situation
where you don't know somebody so well.
That being said, I actually don't say 'How
are you?' very often in my life, because
I'm not often in those situations. I say these other
phrases - and I've made a list for you
in the slide that follows this section,
and I divided them into two parts: the
questions that start with 'how' and the
questions that start with 'what'. They have
different answers which I'll talk about
in the section that follows the slide.
The 'how' questions are 'How are you doing?' (that's very
common),
'How's everything going?' (it's also very
common), 'How's it going?'
(that's probably the one I say the most) and
'How are things going?' OK, then the 'what'
section.
'What's up?' (actually very common as well),
'What's going on?' and 'What have you been
up to?'
So the textbook answer to 'How are you?'
in every textbook around the world is 'I'm fine
thank you, and you?' Again, it's a very
acceptable answer. It's a good fallback
answer. But, in reality, we don't actually
say that very much. We answer in many
different ways. If you're doing very
well you could say 'Great, actually...how
about you?' Two things with this.
The word 'actually' is a great word that
you should really get into your vocabulary.
We say it all the time. Notice I said
'How about you?', so I reflect the question
back to you.
That's a very important skill. You
could also say 'Not bad...
how's it going with you?' That's probably
the one I say the most. It's pretty neutral --
your're not doing fantastic, you're not doing bad...so not bad.
Then again, I reflect the question back
to you. If you're doing a little bit
negative, you could say 'It could be
better, I guess.
'How are you doing`?' Again, you're reflecting
the question. If you're doing
terrible -- and you're speaking to the
right person -- you can say 'Awful, actually.
It's been a rough week.
How are you?' Again, I reflect the
question back to you.
So those are the 'how' questions,
right? With the 'what' questions, it's actually
pretty easy. If you say...if I say to you...
or if you say to me 'what's up?' I could say
'Not much. What's up with you?'
'Not much' is a very good answer to the
'what' questions.
The standard response to 'thank you' is,
of course, 'you're welcome'. This is a
very good response, and you can use it in
any situation. I do use it quite a
lot. I think I more often say 'no
problem' --
that's a good response to 'thank you'.
You might have learned that you could
say 'my pleasure', and this is ok...but it's
a little bit too much -- and a little bit
too formal -- and I wouldn't use it very
much.
Okay, a few
responses to 'I'm sorry'. Again, I think it
depends on the level of the apology.
If it's...if somebody is just a little bit sorry
about something, you could say 'Don't
worry about it' or 'It's ok. It's no
problem.' That might be a good response.
If it's a huge apology, and it really
effects your life, and the person says 'I'm
really, really sorry.'
You could say 'apology accepted.'
This one is actually the easiest of
the bunch. Let's say you ask me 'Can
you hand me the marker?' I would say
one of two things. I would say 'Here you
go.' or 'Here you are.' So 'Here you go' 'Here
you are.'
That's about it.
I've just cooked a dinner
and I have friends and family around, and
I want them to start eating because
they're waiting patiently and politely.
I think what I would say in an informal
situation is 'Dig in.'
So just start eating. I could also
say, for example, 'Help yourself'...
so just start eating, basically.
In this familiar phrase that is used in
many languages around the world, if you
want people to enjoy the food in English
then we usually use the French. You
would say 'Bon appetit'. If you don't
want to use that foreign language, then
you could say 'Enjoy your meal.'
I'm introduced to somebody. Let's say
someone says 'This is Timo.' I would say
'Nice to meet you.' Then Timo would say
to me back,
'Nice to meet you, too.' It's always good
to say 'Nice to meet you, too,' so you
shouldn't hesitate to do that.
Okay, this is a little extra tip. so I've
noticed that Finns -- the second or the
third or the fourth time they meet
somebody -- they keep saying 'Nice to meet
you.' In English, we only say 'Nice to
meet you.' the first time we meet somebody.
After that we say 'Nice to see you.' or
'Nice to see you again.'
It's very common in English to say
'Have a nice day.' and the proper response
to that is 'Same to you', or just 'you too'.
This applies for many situations.
'Merry Christmas.' 'Same to you.' 'You too.'
'Happy New Year.' 'Same to you.'
'You too.'
Yeah, so 'goodbye' is a very standard
response. It's a very good response and
you can fall back on it.
However, it's the same kind of thing as these
other things. We don't actually say
it that, that often. I will give you some
examples of other things you might say.
Y ou could say just 'bye'. You could say
'bye-bye'.
'You could say 'see you later' -- and I think
that's the thing I probably say the most. You
could say 'take care', and 'take care' is
very nice...it's a... it's not overdoing it,
and it's kind of a kind way to say
'goodbye'.
You could say 'so long' which is something
I also say a lot. And you could say -- to be
totally informal -- 'Have a good one.'
That might be the informal one you might
have in your arsenal.
When I made a list of these different things I'm
going to do, I totally forgot about
'please'. I can't believe I forgot 'please'.
It's the word that you don't have a
translation for in Finnish. I think a
good rule of thumb with 'please' is you
only use it once -- and I think you should
use it once if you're asking somebody
for something -- so use it once and only
once. I think that's the rule.
So 'Can I have a beer, please?' 'Could you
please help me?', something like that.
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