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hello everyone and welcome back to

english with lucy when you are learning

english there is one sentence that you

have to say a lot or you feel you have

to say a lot it is can you repeat that

can you repeat that please

or please could you repeat that when you

talk to natives and especially when you

are listening to native speak it is

highly likely that you won't understand

everything that they've said and you

will probably want to ask them to repeat

something so you can try to understand

unfortunately many students feel

embarrassed because they're saying the

same sentence over and over again can

you repeat that sorry can you repeat

that please can you repeat that a lot of

my students tell me that in the end they

just give up and stop asking for

repetition which really isn't good for

their listening practice this video is

really going to help you improve your

listening skills and indirectly help you

with your vocabulary as well and your

pronunciation but if you want to improve

your vocabulary and your listening

skills even further then I highly

recommend the special method of reading

books and at the same time listening to

their audiobook version inaudible it

sounds complicated but it's not so let

me explain take a book that you have

already read in English or a book that

you would like to read in English I've

got lots of recommendations for you in

the description box and I'm also

thinking of making a video all about the

different books that you should read for

different levels let me know down below

if you would like that and once you've

chosen that book read it whilst

listening to the audiobook version on

audible I recommend audible in

particular because they've got the most

amazing range of books with fantastic

native narrators and I really like their

subscription model it encourages you to

do a little bit each month reading alone

will not help you with your

pronunciation because English isn't a

strict

phonetic language the way something is

written in English might not give you

any indication as to how that word is

pronounced in English it's like the

spelling and the pronunciation is nearly

separate this is why so many students

find pronunciation so hard but if you

listen to a word as you read it your

brain will start making connections and

the next time you see that word written

down you'll know exactly how it's meant

to be pronounced and the next time you

hear that word you'll know exactly how

it's spelt it's such an effective method

and the best part is you can get one

free audio book of your choice that's a

30-day free trial at audible to do is

click on the link in the description box

and sign up give it a try because it

really really works right let's get

started with the lesson so the first

alternative way of saying sorry can you

repeat that sorry I don't understand is

the most natural native way it is just

one word it's sorry sorry this is what

we are most likely to say if we can't

hear or can't understand what someone is

saying make sure you focus on the

intonation we want to go sorry

down up down up sorry that way we are

showing the listener that it is a

question we are showing doubt this is

also a word that you can add on to lots

of the other phrases which are going to

follow but it's a really nice quick one

and because it's so short you don't feel

like you are repeating yourself as much

if you have to say it over and over

again next we have a slightly more

formal one it is excuse me excuse me

now I don't like this one as much as I

like sorry this is because sometimes if

said with the wrong tone of voice and

the wrong intonation it can make it

sound like you're slightly offended if

somebody says something offensive to me

I would say excuse me excuse me but I

definitely show with my body language

that I'm offended if I can't understand

what someone's saying I would say excuse

me excuse me

and maybe shake my head to show that I'm

having trouble following what they're

saying another one which is even more

formal and this isn't even the most

formal one yet the most formal one is

coming after this one

this is pardon pardon and this is quite

a posh word not everyone will consider

it to be posh but in general I think it

is more of a posh word

I remember being taught this word by my

grandmother as a little girl instead of

saying what I had to say pardon and then

the most posh of all of them the poshest

is I beg your pardon I beg your pardon

now you have to be careful with the

intonation of this one because again it

can be used to show offence if somebody

says something offensive I could say I

beg your pardon it's often used in a

jovial sense kind of in a sarcastic way

maybe to respond to an accidental

innuendo or something like that if we

want to use it to ask for repetition

you've got to say it like this I beg

your pardon I beg your pardon really

showing with your body language and that

upward intonation at the end that you

are asking a question a genuine question

if we're showing a fence we're likely to

push our body back I beg your pardon

now back to neither informal nor form

all these are just normal phrases you

can say you could say what was that what

was that this is much nicer than just

what even better you can follow it with

sorry what was that sorry what was that

sorry

you could also say what did you say what

did you say

or what did you say sorry what did you

say sorry it feels strange to repeat

them over and over again but really the

intonation makes it so clear what did

you say sorry sorry sorry now what if we

want to be just really really clear we

could just put it out there you could

just say I don't understand could you

say that again please or I don't

understand please could you say that

again it

really matter where you put the please

as long as you say please I always like

to put please first because then the

person knows from the very beginning

that I've said please please could you

say that again in my household growing

up pleases and thank-yous were

incredibly important overly important

and it scarred me for life I just can't

not say please thank you

now if you want someone to repeat

something that they have only just said

very recently and you want to interrupt

them stop them there and say I want that

exact sentence repeated again then you

can use the word just for example sorry

what did you just say what did you just

say and note that I'm not saying what

did you just say I'm saying what did you

just say just just what did you just say

what did you just say that's real

connected speech there what did you just

say I'm missing out the sound between

just and say I'm saying just say instead

of just say just a little pronunciation

tip for you there or an alternative

version what did you say just then what

did you say just then again I'm not

including that after just I'm saying

just then just then now if you didn't

understand everything that someone said

but you did understand parts of it and

you could say sorry I didn't quite catch

that I didn't quite catch that and the

quite is implying that you understood

some of it you caught some of it but you

didn't catch all of it and catch here is

used to mean to hear and understand it's

a slang use of catch I didn't catch what

you just said I didn't understand or

hear what you just said an alternative

for this is sorry I didn't quite get

that I didn't quite get that and both of

these could imply then it's not because

you didn't understand what they said it

could be that you didn't hear what they

said and if you can't hear what

saying then you could say something like

would you mind speaking up a bit would

you mind speaking up a bit this is a

nicer way of saying please could you

speak more loudly or please could you

speak less quietly to speak up is to

increase the volume of one's voice now

if you want to make it clear that it's

not anything to do with volume it really

is that you're just not understanding

your understanding little bits but

you're not managing to understand

complete sentences you could say sorry

I'm not following what you're saying I'm

not following what you're saying or an

alternative wait a second I'm a bit lost

wait a second I'm a bit lost and both of

these imply that you would like the

person to slow down if you're struggling

to follow or you're getting lost it

could make the speaker think that they

are speaking too quickly and implying

that they need to slow down without you

having to ask them to slow down if you

do want to be clear about it or they

don't understand you when you're trying

to imply that they're going too quickly

you could say would you mind slowing

down a bit I'm struggling to follow I'm

struggling to follow now if there is a

specific word or phrase that you don't

understand but you understand everything

else but you want to ask a specific

question about a specific word or phrase

then you could point it out and say

something like I'm not sure I understand

what you mean by word or phrase or you

could simplify it and say I'm not sure

what you mean by word or phrase it's a

bit of a funny preposition so make sure

you learn it properly to mean by I'm not

sure what you mean by pidgin I've

mentioned pidgin again just squeeze it

into every video now one annoying thing

about asking for repetition is that you

constantly feel that you're interrupting

someone but I think it's okay to

interrupt as long as you apologize for

interrupting and you can say something

as simple as I'm sorry to interrupt but

would you mind repeating blah blah blah

another alternative if you're with

friends you can use ace

bang phrasal verb which is to butt in to

button I'm sorry to butt in but I'm

sorry to butt in again I'm sorry to

interrupt again those two are really

really useful if you feel that you're

constantly stopping someone to ask them

what they mean now let's have a look at

four idioms or slang phrases that we can

use to say that we don't understand

someone or to ask them to repeat

something or make themselves more clear

a really fun one is this is all Greek to

me this is all Greek to me

this is all a foreign language to me

that would be a really funny one to use

if you are actually Greek this basically

means this is all impossible for me to

understand another one is that was as

clear as mud that was as clear as mud

now this be careful with it just use it

with friends and people that you like to

have a joke with because you're

basically saying that what they have

just said was very unclear and obviously

a teacher or a professor or someone you

don't know that well is not going to

appreciate such a sarcastic remark so if

someone has been trying to explain

something but they've been doing a very

bad job of it then you can say well that

was as clear as mud if you want to say

that something was far too complicated

for you you can say that went right over

my head that went right over my head it

didn't go into my head it went over like

this I didn't understand or process any

of it and the last one I think this is

fairly British but if there are any

Americans watching please do let me know

it is what are you on about what are you

on about

and this means what are you talking

about but the phrase to go on about

something implies that somebody is

talking too much to go on about

something is to talk excessively about

something so when you say what are you

on about it means what you're talking

about you've been talking for ages again

another one to use just with friends

people you have mutual trust with and

maybe share a sense of humor with not

professors not teachers

not your boss right that's it for

today's lesson I hope you enjoyed it and

I hope you learned something and most

importantly I hope you feel more

comfortable when asking for repetition

because you absolutely should ask for

repetition and any good person

any good native speaker should not be

offended or should not get bored by you

asking for repetition constantly I've

said it in previous videos a really good

way to get people to accept that you're

going to constantly ask them for

repetition is to flatter them and to say

look I really like the way you speak

English I'm trying to improve would you

mind if I ask you a couple of questions

or ask you to repeat something and then

you can just use one word repetition

questions like sorry sorry or just

gesture to them so it's less

embarrassing and awkward for both of you

don't forget to check out audible you

can claim your free audiobook the link

is in the description box and don't

forget to follow me on all of my social

media I've got my facebook my Instagram

and my Twitter and I've got my new

vlogging channel as well it was just a

personal channel at first but now I do

all of my vlogs documenting my daily

life on an English farm in the British

countryside I've really been enjoying

making them and they've had a really

lovely response and they're all

completely subtitled so that you can

pick up some new vocabulary and practice

your listening right I will see you soon

for another lesson

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大家好，欢迎

和露西一起回到英语学习

英语的时候，有一句话你

必须说很多或者你觉得你

必须说很多，你

可以重复吗？你可以重复吗？

你能重复一遍吗？当你

和当地人说话时，尤其是当

你听当地人说话的时候

，你很可能不会

理解他们所说的一切，

你可能想请他们重复

一些事情，这样你就可以尝试 理解

不幸的是，很多学生感到

尴尬，因为他们

一遍又一遍地说同一句话，

你能重复一下吗？对不起，你能重复

一下吗？你能重复一下吗？我的很多

学生告诉我，最后

他们放弃了，不再问了 对于

对他们的听力练习确实不利的重复，

该视频

确实会帮助您提高

听力技巧并间接帮助

您提高词汇量和

发音bu t 如果你想进一步提高

你的词汇量和听力

技巧，那么我强烈

推荐阅读书籍的特殊方法

，同时听

他们的有声读物版本听不见，这

听起来很复杂，但不是那么让

我解释一下拿一本书你

已经读过英文或

你想读英文的书我

在描述框中为你提供了很多建议

，我也在

考虑制作一个视频，所有关于

你应该阅读的不同书籍的视频

如果您愿意，请在下面告诉我级别，一旦您

选择了那本书，一边在

听有声读物版本的同时阅读它，

我特别推荐有声读物，

因为他们拥有最

令人惊叹的书籍范围和出色的

母语叙述者和 我真的很喜欢他们的

订阅模式它鼓励你

每个月做一点单独阅读

不会帮助你的

发音因为英语不是

严格的

p 亲切的语言

用英语写东西的方式可能无法告诉

您该单词

在英语中

的发音方式 就像拼写和发音几乎是

分开的 这就是为什么这么多学生

发现发音如此困难的原因，但是如果您

听 当你读到这个词时，你的

大脑会开始建立联系

，下次你看到写

下来的那个词时，你会确切地知道它的

发音，下次你

听到那个词时，你会确切地知道

它的拼写方式是这样的 一种有效的方法

，最好的部分是您可以获得一

本您选择的免费有声读物，它是

30 天免费试用的 audible 要做的是

单击描述框中的链接

并注册试一试，因为它

确实有效 好吧，让我们

开始上课，所以第

一种表示抱歉的替代方式，你能

重复一下，对不起，我不明白

是最自然的本地方式，它只是

一个词，对不起，对不起，这

就是我们 如果我们

听不见或听不懂别人在说什么，我们很可能会

说 确保你专注于

我们想要表达的语调 抱歉

向下 向上 向下 向上 抱歉 这样我们就

向听众表明这是一个

问题 表示怀疑这

也是一个词，你可以添加到

许多其他的短语中

一遍又一遍地说，

接下来我们有一个稍微

正式一点的，

对不起，对不起，现在我不喜欢这个，我喜欢，对不起，这是因为有时

如果用错误的语气和错误的语气说

如果

有人对我说一些冒犯的话，

我会说对不起，我会说对不起，但我

肯定会用我的肢体语言

表明如果我听不懂

别人在说什么，我会被冒犯。 说

对不起对不起

，也许会动摇我 你去表明我在

听他们说的话时遇到了麻烦，

另一个更

正式的，这甚至不是最

正式的，但最正式的

在这个之后，

这是原谅原谅，这是

相当时髦的词不是每个人都会认为

它是时髦的，但总的来说，我认为

这更像是一个时髦的词

我记得小时候我祖母教过这个词，

而不是

说我不得不说的

话 最时髦的

是我请你原谅我请你原谅

现在你必须小心

这个语调因为

如果有人

说一些冒犯的话它可以用来表示冒犯我可以说我

请你原谅它是 经常用在一种

愉快的意义上，有点讽刺，

也许是为了回应一个偶然的

影射或类似的东西，如果我们

想用它来要求重复，

你必须这样说，

对不起，对不起 真的

和你的男朋友在一起 dy 语言和

最后的向上语调，你

在问一个问题，一个真正的问题，

如果我们展示一个栅栏，我们可能

会将我们的身体向后推，请原谅，

现在回到既不正式也不形式

所有这些都是正常的 短语你

可以说你可以说那是

什么，这比

什么更好，你可以跟随它，

对不起，那是对不起，那是什么，

你也可以说你说了什么你说了什么

或什么 你说抱歉了吗 你

说了什么抱歉 一遍又一遍地重复它们感觉很奇怪

但是

语调真的很清楚

你说了什么 抱歉 抱歉 抱歉 现在如果我们

想要真的很清楚 我们

可以说出来 在那里你

可以说我不明白 你能

再说一遍吗 或者我不

明白 请你再说

一遍

你把请放在哪里真的很重要

只要你说请 我总是喜欢

把请放在第一位 因为那时 这个

人从一开始就

知道我说过请你能不能

再说一遍，在我的家庭

长大请和谢谢你

非常重要非常

重要它让我终生伤痕累累我

不能不说请谢谢你

现在，如果你想让

某人重复他们最近才说的话，

而你想打断

他们，让他们停在那里并说我想要

再次重复那个确切的句子，那么你

可以使用这个词，例如对不起

你刚才说了什么 你刚才

说什么，并注意我不是在说

你刚刚说什么我在说你

刚刚说了什么你刚刚说

了什么你刚刚说了什么那是真正的

相关演讲你刚刚

说了什么我' 我错过了

just和say之间的声音我说的是just say而不是

只是给你说一点发音

提示或替代

版本你刚才说了什么

你刚才又说了什么我不

包括那个 后 只是我刚才说的

是，如果你不

理解某人所说的所有内容，

但你确实理解了其中的一部分，

你可以说对不起，我没有完全

理解我没有完全理解，并且

相当是 暗示你理解了

其中的一些你抓住了一些，但你

没有抓住所有的东西，这里的 catch

用来表示听到并理解这

是 catch 的俚语用法 我没有抓住

你刚才说的我没有' 不明白

或听到你刚才说

的话 抱歉，我不太

明白 我不太明白，这两者

都可能暗示那不是因为

你不明白他们所说的

可能是 你没有听到他们

说的话，如果你听不到他们在说什么，

那么你可以说类似的

话，你介意

大声说一下吗？

或者请你

能少说点小声点，大声说出来是为了

提高音量 现在是 e 的声音

如果你想明确表示这

与音量没有任何关系，那真的

是你只是没有理解

你的理解，但

你没有设法理解

完整的句子你可以说对不起，

我不是 听从你说的话 我

没有听从你说的话 或者

其他的 等一下

如果您难以跟上或迷路，

可能会让说话者认为他们

说得太快，并

暗示他们需要放慢速度，而

如果您确实想清楚，您不必要求他们放慢速度

或者

当你试图暗示他们走得太快时他们不理解你

你可以说你介意

放慢一点我正在努力跟随我

现在正在努力跟随如果有

您不

理解但您理解的特定单词或短语

别的什么，但你想问一个

关于特定单词或短语的特定问题，

然后你可以指出它并说

类似我不确定我

理解你所说的单词或短语的意思，或者你

可以简化它并说我是 不确定

您所说的单词或短语是什么意思 这

是一个有趣的介词，所以请确保

您正确地学习它的含义 我

不确定您所说的 pidgin 是什么意思 我

再次提到了 pidgin 只需将其

挤入每个视频中

要求重复的烦人之处在于，您

总是觉得自己在打断

某人，但我认为

只要您为打断而道歉就可以

打断，而且您可以说

一些简单的话，我很抱歉打断，

但您介意重复吗 blah blah blah

另一种选择 如果你和

朋友在一起，你可以使用 ace

bang 短语动词，即对接

按钮我很抱歉对接但我很

抱歉再次对接我很抱歉

再次打断这两个

如果你真的非常有用 你觉得你一直在

阻止某人问

他们是什么意思现在让我们看看

四个成语或俚语，我们可以

用它们来表示我们不理解

某人或要求他们重复

某事或让自己变得更

很有趣的是，这对

我来说都是希腊语，这对我来说都是希腊语，

这对我来说都是一门外语

，如果你是希腊人，那将是一种非常有趣的语言

理解另一个是

像泥一样清晰现在像泥一样清晰

这要小心它只是

与你喜欢开玩笑的朋友和人

一起使用它因为你基本上是在

说他们

刚刚说的是 非常不清楚，

显然老师或教授或

您不太了解的人不会

欣赏这种讽刺性的言论，因此，如果

有人一直试图解释

某事但他们一直

做得很糟糕，那么您 可以这么说

就像泥巴一样清晰 如果你

想说某件事对你来说太复杂

了 你可以说 就在

我的头上 就在我的

头上 它没有进入我的头 它像

这样过去 我没有 理解或处理其中

任何一个，最后一个我认为这是

相当英国的，但如果有

美国人在看，请告诉我

这是你在做什么，你

在做什么

，这意味着你在说

什么，但是 短语继续谈论

某事暗示某人

谈论太多而无法

继续谈论某事是过度谈论

某事所以当你说你

在谈论什么时意味着你在

谈论你已经谈论了很久

另一个 一个只与朋友一起使用的

人，你相互信任的人，

也许与

教授、老师、

不是你的老板分享幽默感，这就是

今天的课程我希望你喜欢它，

我希望你学到了一些东西，最

重要的是我希望你

当你要求重复时，你会感觉更舒服，

因为你绝对应该要求

重复，任何好人

任何好的母语人士都不应该被

冒犯或不应该因为你

不断要求重复而感到无聊我

在以前的视频中说过一个非常好的

方法 让人们接受你

会不断要求他们

重复是为了恭维他们，并

说我真的很喜欢你说英语的方式

我正在努力提高你

介意我问你几个问题

或 让你重复一些事情，然后

你可以只使用一个单词重复的

问题，比如对不起，或者只是

对他们做个手势，这样

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