DO NOT say youre welcome Respond to thank you PROPERLY

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hello everyone

and welcome back to english with lucy

today i’m going to be teaching you

all of the ways that you can respond to

thank you

now you’re welcome or you are welcome

is a perfectly valid way to respond to a

thank you

but i think it’s a little bit overused

especially by learners of english

it’s completely natural you find one way

you like to say things and then you say

it again

and again and again the purpose of this

video is to expand

your vocabulary bank so that you have

many more options when somebody

thanks you so this video is going to be

perfect for improving your vocabulary

but if you want to improve your

listening and your pronunciation even

further

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because english is not a phonetic

language if you are hearing the word

as you read it your brain will make the

connection

and next time you see that word you will

know how to pronounce it

and next time you hear that word you

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right let’s get started with the lesson

let’s begin

with informal or casual phrases that you

can use with your friends and family

the first one is you’re welcome but

let’s expand on that a little bit

if you really want to emphasize that

their thanks has been taken into

consideration

you can say you’re very welcome this is

quite a british one i think

for example thank you so much for

packing my shopping for me

oh you’re very welcome number two

this one is slightly more american it’s

no problem no problem bear in mind that

the older generations seem to dislike

this one

so keep that in your head if a slightly

older person is thanking you

an example thanks for the help today no

problem

i enjoyed helping you number three the

third way to respond to thank you

is thank you but this one is

all about the emphasis if somebody

thanks you

but you think that they should be

thanked you can say

no thank you or just thank you

for example thanks for accepting the

invitation

thank you i’m emphasizing that really i

should be thanking them because they

invited me somewhere

number four this one is much more formal

if we say it in its entire form

it’s the pleasure is mine the pleasure

is mine

you can also shorten it to make it less

formal by saying

my pleasure or simply pleasure that’s

very casual

for example thanks for taking the parcel

in for me

pleasure that’s a short way of saying it

was my pleasure

or the pleasure is mine or was mine

number five is a very friendly one only

use this with people you know well

it’s ah i know you’d do the same for me

for example i’d like to thank you for

looking after my cat so well

the response i know you’d do the same

for me i know you’d look after my cat so

i looked after yours even stevens

number six is much more casual

and it’s slightly less heartfelt

you might say this if you don’t really

care or

if somebody is thanking you for doing

something

that you might not have wanted to do but

depending on the intonation and the tone

of voice

it can also be quite warm it’s

that’s all right so i could say thank

you for picking me up from the station

i could say either that’s all right or

that’s all right my tone of voice is

telling you everything you need to know

there

number seven is a very casual one it’s

no worries no worries in use

thanks for letting me know that my car

alarm was going off

no worries i thought i’d better tell you

the next one is

very british it’s quite self-deprecating

it’s don’t mention it for example

thank you so much for bringing the

dessert oh don’t mention it

it was a lot of effort to bring dessert

probably and they probably do want you

to mention it but we just say

don’t mention it because oh you know it

was nothing

number nine is very heartfelt it is

it was the least i could do for example

thank you for visiting me in hospital oh

it was the least i could do

again very british very self-deprecating

number 10 is quite casual it’s anytime

thank you for stopping by ah anytime

it’s quite a generous response i like

this one

number 11 is a really american one i

hardly

ever hear it used in the uk but i

thought i should teach it to you

because british english is not the only

english it’s good to know about

all of the different slang phrases and

yes this is a very casual one

it is sure a one-word answer

to say you’re welcome thank you for

thinking of me

sure it often goes hand in hand with no

problem

sure no problem number 12 is

it was nothing again another

self-deprecating one

it’s a way of saying that what they are

thanking you for was no

extra effort thank you for picking my

kids up from school

oh it was nothing my kids already needed

picking up

no extra effort here now i want to talk

to you about four

more formal ways of responding to thank

you and these

are more likely to be used in business

situations

or maybe in a shop or restaurant number

one is very british

it’s quite old-fashioned and it is much

obliged

the full formal way of saying it is i’m

very much obliged to you

for example thank you so much doctor i’m

very much obliged to you

i actually experienced this one in use

the other day at a shoe shop i said

thank you so much after paying and he

said

much obliged and i thought oh i haven’t

heard that phrase in a while i’m gonna

put it in a video

the guy had an amazing cockney accent as

well he was really nice and really

helpful

great shoes they had a gel bottom number

two

is a more formal way of saying you’re

welcome it is

you’re most welcome now this does sound

very posh so i wouldn’t use it willy

nilly willy-nilly means without careful

thought

or planning i wouldn’t use it

willy-nilly but if you’re in a formal

situation

for example i thanked my solicitor on

the phone the other day for sending me

some forms

and she replied with you’re most welcome

because she’s quite a formal person and

it was a formal

legal situation number three is we

appreciate your business

or we appreciate your custom custom

if you’re talking to a customer and

business if you’re talking to a business

client

for example thank you for sending the

sample so promptly

we appreciate your business and the last

one definitely a business one

it’s i’m happy to help for example

thank you for helping me carry the

coffees to the office ah

i’m happy to help right that’s it for

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