3 Polite Expressions for Suggestions Advanced English Vocabulary Lesson
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm how can you politely
suggest something let’s talk about it
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recently one of my friends wanted to
meet up with me and she suggested going
to this bar cafe place that specializes
in wine and beer and i wanted to make
her happy
i wanted to see her but i didn’t want to
go there because at the moment i’m gonna
have a baby so i can’t drink alcohol and
i didn’t want to go to a place that only
served specialty alcohol so how did i
suggest something else well i want to
give you three expressions for polite
suggestions all of these polite
suggestion expressions are just the
beginning of a question and the first
one is what if we went to this other
restaurant instead what if we went to
the park instead what if what if using
if here as a suggestion what if you came
to my house and i made you tea
what if we did this that’s super polite
and you can use this in a lot of
situations so even if you’re in the
middle of a business meeting and someone
says i think we should do this to
improve our marketing plan you maybe
disagree so you could say oh what if we
did this next month and this month we
tried this instead what if what if
that’s extremely polite and you’re
asking a question instead of just saying
i think we should do this instead what
if we did this instead let’s talk about
the second polite suggestion the second
wine is quite similar to the first one
because it uses gift let’s go back to
the situation with my
and she probably just didn’t think that
I couldn’t drink alcohol it probably
didn’t cross her mind she didn’t think
about it so I want to make sure I’m
extra polite to suggest something else I
could say how about if we went to this
other restaurant instead how about if
you came over to my house instead how
about if we went to the park instead how
about if so the first expression was
what if and the second one is how about
if and it is going to be a question how
about if we go to that restaurant how
about if we go to the park what do you
think how about if we decide this other
marketing plan for our business instead
it’s super polite and the third way to
make a polite suggestion is a little bit
longer and it doesn’t use if it is what
do you think about this restaurant what
do you think about this marketing plan
what do you think about this restaurant
for dinner instead of that one because I
can’t drink alcohol right now well we’re
using what do you think about because
we’re focusing on the other person
what’s your opinion what do you think
it’s extra polite so you could use this
in almost any situation to give a nice
suggestion especially if you don’t want
to push your opinion if you don’t want
to say we have to do this yes I could go
to that cafe that serves alcohol I could
drink some soda or Jews or something
else but I want to go to a different
place so instead of pushing my opinion I
could use one of these three expressions
so now I have a challenge for you in the
comments below this video can you make a
polite suggestion using one two or all
three of these polite expressions
I challenge you to use them yourself
it’s great to hear my stories and to
hear this watch this video but it’s best
to use it yourself so in the comments
below please write your own polite
suggestion questions and we can learn
from each other thanks so much and I’ll
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