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
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connection
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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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