How to Respond to Sorry Back to English Basics Series
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm it’s okay let’s talk about
it welcome to the sixth lesson in the
series back to basics because this month
july 2017 is the month that my baby will
be born i thought we could use this
concept and go back to the basics of
english back to the beginning and learn
some of the fundamentals that you need
for english conversation you might
already know some of these expressions
and some of these will be building on
your knowledge that you already have
let’s talk about what to say if someone
apologizes to you in the last lesson
lesson number five we talked about how
to say i’m sorry in a couple different
ways but how should we respond to this
let’s talk about this let’s imagine that
you get the opportunity to go to New
York City for vacation and you walk into
the hotel and you’re trying to talk with
the hotel clerk about your room and some
other arrangement but you feel like
maybe you didn’t explain it 100%
accurately you’re worried that maybe
your English wasn’t exactly what you
need it first of all I recommend not
saying I’m sorry for your English but a
lot of people do this so if you say I’m
sorry I don’t know if I explained it
correctly the hotel clerk would probably
say it’s okay it’s okay and this is one
of the most common responses when
someone says I’m so sorry I’m going to
be late you could say it’s okay of
course if it’s not okay you’re going to
find another way to respond but
generally in these situations it’s not a
big deal
oh I’m sorry that I bumped you in the
store I’m sorry oh it’s okay it’s okay
that is our most common response let’s
talk about a couple others the next
expression is Oh
little more casual you can still use
this in business situations but if you
use it in business situations I
recommend adding a little bit this
expression is no problem no problem or
no worries no worries if you’re in a
business situation and someone says oh
I’m so sorry that I’m five minutes late
for our meeting I tried to be here on
time you could say no problem don’t
worry about it
no problem that’s perfectly fine what if
you want to be a little more casual well
you could use the other expression we
just talked about no problem and make it
a little shorter no prob
no prob I use this all the time because
most situations where someone is saying
sorry it’s for little things they open
the door too fast and they accidentally
hit your arm or they bump into you in
the store some small thing like this you
don’t need to say oh don’t worry it’s
okay it’s not a big deal you don’t need
to get stressed about it you can simply
say oh no problem no problem and this is
really quick and casual so in these
small situations this situation this
expression is perfect let’s talk about a
final expression that’s going to be the
most casual of them all it is it’s all
good it’s all good so let’s imagine a
situation where you just got a coffee
drink and you’re walking you’re so
excited you’re about to drink it and
then someone bumps you and it’s still
some of your coffee it’s not the end of
the world but you wish that it hadn’t
happened you could say it’s all good if
someone said I’m so sorry I didn’t want
to hurt your coffee I’m so sorry I
didn’t mean to do it you could say it’s
all good don’t worry no worries no prob
it’s all good sometimes we add these all
together if you want to be extra if you
want to extra emphasize what you’re
saying great idea
add them together now let’s imagine that
that same situation happened to you you
just got some coffee from the coffee
shop and someone bumps you a little bit
and it’s still some of your coffee how
would you respond which one of these
expressions would you use or maybe you
would say ah because you love your
coffee so much well I recommend using
one of these polite expressions so in
the comments below this video write your
answer and we can learn from each other
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