Hello everyone and welcome to 'English
Tips for Speakers of Chinese Languages'.
Normally, every week, I present to you one
common English mistake made by Chinese
speakers, but this week I'm going to do
things a little bit different. This week
I'm going to present to you ten everyday
English situations, and teach you how to
handle yourself in those situations.
Let's get started.
I thought it would be best if I
presented to you a list of the ten
everyday situations, and then you can look
at them and then you can try to decide
yourself how you would handle it.
Then I will talk about each one. You can
see how you did after that. Here is
the list here.
Just one other quick thing: so you will probably have to pause the
video, and think about each answer
individually.
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. 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. I've made a list for
you in the slide that follow this
section. I divided them into two
parts: there's 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?' (that's also very
common), 'How's it going?'
(that's probably the one I say the most) and
'How are things going?' Then the 'what'
section.
'What's up?' (that's 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) and 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`?' and that's probably the one I say
the most because it's pretty neutral -- you'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?' So, again, you're reflecting
the question. If you're doing
terrible --
and if 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.
Ok, 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' and this is a
very good response, and you can use it in
any situation...and 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's 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
affects 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 have 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's used in
many languages around the world, if you
want people to enjoy the food in English
then we usually use the French. So 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.' You
shouldn't hesitate to do that.
I just wanted to talk a little bit
about a mistake I hear a lot. The
first time you meet somebody you say
'Nice to meet you.', but that's the only
time you ever say 'Nice to meet you.' to
somebody. After that, you 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, and 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.
You 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...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. You could say -- to be
totally informal -- 'Have a good one.'
That might be the informal one you might
have in your arsenal.
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