30 Useful Collocations with “Let me…” (Natural, Polite & Confident English) Hello English learners 👋 Welcome to a new lesson. Expressions with “let me…” are extremely common in everyday English. Native speakers use them to offer help, ask for time, interrupt politely, take responsibility, or soften requests. They sound natural, Read more
Hello English learners. Welcome to a new lesson. Today, we will look at other ways to say excuse me. First of all, we can use the phrase to show regret and ask for forgiveness. Secondly, to ask people to repeat things because we have not heard or understood what they are saying. And thirdly we can use it as an exclamation to get someone’s attention.
Improve your spoken vocabulary with today’s lesson and learn new ways to say “excuse me”
Hello English learners. Welcome to a new lesson. Are you tired of the word “please”? We normally use it to be more polite when making requests, or when we want someone to do something for us. We also say “please” as an affirmative response to an offer. In today’s lesson, we will look at different ways to say “please”.
Being able to speak English is not only about speaking to native speakers. As the third most widely spoken language in the world and a global language, English is a perfect tool for communication to pretty much everyone. Conversational English is the language native people use for everyday communication. That language can be more or less formal or polite, depending on who you are talking to and what about. We need to know the natural expressions and phrases that are used to make suggestions, advice, recommendations, offers, etc. to be truly proficient. Follow the link to learn how to make offers in English.
If we don’t understand what someone is telling us or if we are not quite sure what they meant, we can ask them for repetition or ask them for clarification. To do that, you need to know some commonly used phrases, so that you sound natural. In other words, we’ll learn how to ask for clarification in English.
We make requests when we ask someone to do something for us. Therefore, we should be polite and try not to be too direct. For example, we shouldn’t say: “Lend me your car for the weekend” because the person we’re asking for a favour will most probably not lend us the car because we sound rude.