3 SIMPLE STEPS TO SAY GOODBYE IN ENGLISH How To Say Goodbye In English

i’m teacher tiffany let’s jump right in

now to start i want to introduce you to

mike

mike is a business owner he has been

studying english

for years he has international clients

and he conducts meetings totally in

english

now you may be just like mike maybe

you’re also dealing with international

clients

but sometimes you experience some

trouble

because you don’t know how to say

goodbye to your clients

you see this is what mike wants to do

mike has a desire

he wants to end english conversations

naturally he also doesn’t want to end

conversations

in an abrupt way you know what i mean

right you’re having a good conversation

the meeting is going well you’ve

expressed what you need

and then crickets

and you say bye very awkward

and abrupt mike doesn’t want to do that

anymore

the problem is here you see the problem

he’s experiencing is

he doesn’t know the correct process for

ending

a conversation naturally that’s right

there’s a natural way to end the

conversation

and say goodbye in english but mike

doesn’t know in other words

he always feels awkward when he tries to

end a conversation

now what will happen if mike doesn’t

learn how to say goodbye

there are three things that will happen

first he will continue

feeling frustrated next he will get

stressed whenever he has to end

an english conversation and finally

he might just lose clients because he

seems rude when he says goodbye

this is something that is very important

i need you to understand this

if you have international clients and

you don’t know how to say goodbye

properly

you might lose those clients because

just saying goodbye

can be taken as rude so let me give you

the three

simple steps that you can use and that

mike can use in order to say goodbye

properly in english here’s the formula

step one

recap step two question and step three

thanks and bye that’s right three simple

steps again

recap question thanks and bye

so let’s see exactly what these steps

actually involve

again step one recap the first

step is to recap or quickly summarize

what you spoke about during your

conversation

with the individual in other words this

shows that you were

actively listening you see when you are

about to say goodbye

you don’t just want to jump right into

it and say goodbye

you need to first let the individual

know that you were actively listening

but there are three different examples i

want to give to you for how to recap for

example

let’s say you’re in a business meeting

like we’ve been talking about with mike

now to recap a business meeting this is

what you can do

give the three main points decisions or

takeaways that you and the partner

you’re working with or the client you’re

working with

went over during the meeting that’s

right to recap

a business meeting you need to give the

three points

the three takeaways or the three

decisions that were made

during the meeting now what if you’re

actually talking to a friend

do you want to end it the same way no no

no

if you’re having a conversation with a

friend what you need to do

is think of one thing from the

conversation that was

funny or interesting or important

one thing alright for example let’s say

your friend told you a story

about their experience last year when

they went to california

and it was so interesting well in your

attempt to say goodbye you recap by

saying

man your trip to california sounded like

it was amazing

you said what the person was talking

about but what about

a time when you’re speaking with your

english teacher how can you end the

conversation

with me here’s what you do with a

teacher tell them the main

lesson you learned again you’re showing

that you are

actively listening so after the meeting

or the conversation

with your english teacher or with your

teacher you can say ah

thank you so much i learned that this

means

this so you said what you learned all

right now again so that’s step one

to recap now what’s step two here we go

step number two is question that’s right

you’re going to ask a question in order

to say goodbye properly let me explain

so step two the second step is to ask

the individual

if they have any final thoughts related

to what you spoke about

in other words this shows that you care

about

their opinion so again you’re letting

them know

hey first you recapped telling them hey

i understood what we talked about

now you’re going to ask them about their

opinion so let’s say for a business

conversation again you’ve already

recapped

for the business conversation this is

what you’re going to do you’re going to

ask them if they have any final points

or thoughts that you’d like to bring up

next

time or anything they think is important

for everyone to remember all right

but what about with your friend all

right this is important with your friend

as well after the conversation you’ve

recapped said what the most important or

funny thing was

what you need to do is say what your

plan is for the rest of the day

or ask them hey what are you going to do

for the rest of the day

or what are you going to do tomorrow

you’re asking them about their life

and what about a conversation with your

teacher again

in this situation you’ve already

recapped by saying what you learned

now you need to ask the question teacher

is there any other tip is there any

other

lesson you would like me to focus on you

see what’s happening right

again step two is the question and

you’re showing that you

care about the other person’s opinion

very very important

now this moves us into step number three

thanks and bye the third step

is to thank the individual for taking

the time to speak with you

and then you can say goodbye in other

words

this shows that you enjoyed the

conversation

now the same goes for all three

scenarios

the business meeting or conversation the

conversation with your friend and even

the conversation with your teacher

you’re just saying hey

thank you so much for taking the time to

speak with me today i’ll

talk to you later or goodbye have a

great day

again you’ve already recapped you’ve

already asked them for their opinion or

any question that they may have for you

you’ve asked them to know

uh to let you know what they think right

in step two

now step three is just thank you so much

i’ll talk to you later and even for your

friend you may be wondering teacher what

about friends

you can say thanks hey man really thanks

so much for sharing your story

i’ll talk to you later bye so that makes

sense right again

no matter what the situation is you can

end the conversation naturally by

following the three steps

recap you got it step two what is it

again

exactly question and step three thanks

and bye you got it so what about mike

now if mike decides to follow the three

steps this is what’s going to happen

instead of him feeling frustrated he

will no longer feel frustrated when he

ends a conversation

instead of him being stressed he will

gain confidence in his ability to

smoothly

end a conversation and instead of losing

clients

he will gain lots of respect from his

international

clients now you know what time it is

right now right

you know it’s story time

hey i said a story time

all right so i love telling you guys

stories about my life and i want to tell

you a story about a time

i had to say goodbye to one of my

closest friends

so one of my closest friends she lives

in korea she’s korean

and i went to korea this is after living

there for 10 years

i went back to visit actually for her

wedding and i was getting ready to come

back to america

but you know i have so many friends in

korea so i was trying to balance

you know seeing everyone before i left

but i knew i had to see her

and her husband of course because i went

to korea for their wedding

but i was staying at another friend’s

house you know with her and her mother

and her father

and we were having a really good time

and then my friend called and said

hey tiff can you come over we want to do

something for you to say goodbye before

you go back to america

so i said okay so i left my other

friend’s house

and i was traveling back to this

friend’s house and when i had almost

gotten there

she said oh we’re running a little bit

late ah

are you okay and i was on a really tight

schedule because again

i was about to go back to america but

remember

i wanted to make sure i said goodbye

properly there’s always a process right

remember the recap then what you want to

also ask the question and then finally

thanks and bye

so i said hey no worries and i went to

their house and when i got to their

house

they were cooking food for me now for

those of you

that have been watching me for a long

time you know

how much i love food and i really do

like

korean food and my friend she can cook

she’s really good in the kitchen so i

got to their house

and i realized that they had been

spending so many so much time

cooking food just for me so i said okay

she said do you want to help

i said no worries no problem so i sat

down and i helped

her and her husband you know kind of fix

things and then we finally sat down to

eat the meal

now i told you she could cook but when i

tasted that food my favorite dish my

favorite korean dish is

tate and it’s kind of like low main and

i may have told you all about this

before

but when i tasted that chopped jay oh my

goodness

it was so good and i kept saying oh my

goodness this food is so

amazing so we really enjoyed our meal

together right that was our

experience now again i said i was

leaving korea to go back to america

right

so even though she moved me to the

airport it was kind of like this

situation was one of our last goodbyes

between

me her and her husband and again so we

talked about our experiences together

her husband used to be my student so we

talked about our experiences

we were recapping you following now we

were recapping all of our experiences

and then we started asking each other

like hey what was your favorite memory

or what do you want to tell me before i

leave or what would you like to say

to me that you may have never said

before so again we recapped then we

asked each other questions

and then i thank them for being good

friends and they thanked me because i

actually put them together

as husband and wife i was the one that

introduced the two of them so

we said thank you thank you to me and i

said thank you to them for being great

friends

and then we said goodbye so even in that

situation

we were there for a while but it was an

entire process of saying goodbye

so we recapped our time together we also

did what

we asked each other questions and then

we finally said thank you to each other

and goodbye so that’s my story i hope

you guys enjoyed it

again i told you i love good food now

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