Stop saying 'I'm sorry...' - say THIS instead - 17 more advanced alternative phrases (STORY LESSON)
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'I'm sorry' is overused, boring and can make you seem weak - improve your spoken English with these 17 alternative phrases for 'I think'. 📊 *FIND OUT YOUR ENGLISH LEVEL!* _Take my level test here_ 👉🏼 bit.ly/EnglishLevelTest12 👩🏼🏫 *JOIN MY ONLINE ENGLISH COURSES:* englishwithlucy.teachable.com/courses - _We have launched our B1 and B2 Complete English Programmes!_
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Funny, entertaining and informative - all in one!
Oops, is there a spelling error in the description of the video? "'I'm sorry' is overused, boring and can make you seem week.."
For "week" should be "weak", shouldn't it? :-)
Quite funny examples, by the way... :-b "headlock", "conga line" "cleaning dip", "dragging someone by their tie" etc - seems like you have been partying really hard in Spain, oh well... :-)
Thanks for all your progress
Really enjoyed..maam
FIRST:D
Second 😘
Third😄😄
Third ❤
19th
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Super useful. :)
1. I owe you an apology…
2. I take full responsibility for my actions … (Very formal)
3. It was wrong of me/ It was wrong on my part …
4. I am so/very/so very sorry
5. I am ever so sorry
6. I’m terribly/awfully sorry …
7. It was thoughtless/careless of me to
8. I sincerely apologize for … (written formal)
9. I hope you can forgive me …
10. I hope I can be forgiven …
11. I didn’t mean to …
12. I shouldn’t have … to …
13. I deeply regret …
14. I really messed up (I made a huge mistake)
15. I was in the wrong …
16. I really hope you can find it within you to … (ask for forgiveness)
17. It won’t happen again.
Im heartfelt sorry, THIS is another way
Cheers!
It all sounds less honest than the simple and straightforward “I’m sorry”.
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Thank dear
@@sadiyaakter8536 sadiya this a bit personal but do u have a religion if so ehich one
I’m from Ukraine, and I just start to watch your videos and they are wonderful, interesting. Thank you very much 💞
Also you are very pretty ☺️
Sofiko i am happy because i was understand your Word
Вау, радий бачити тут рідну душу)
This woman is a genius!
"Please" is extremely overused ,do we have alternatives "Please" 😊?
or kindly
@@nafrazisha9621 Would you mind!
It would be great if Lucy could make another episode about it. I hope she doesn’t mind.
I would greatly appreciate if you could do this or that.
Kindly
Hi..Lucy Ma'am
This is Wajiha and I regularly attend your lecture on UA-cam
Well.Your lectures are really helpful and your voice is so sweet...Actually I am quite confused with active and passive voice so I want you to make a video regarding this..
Lots of Love from Pakistan
Regards ❤️❤️❤️
Absolutely adding something in I'm sorry is more impressive.
My goodness that's one awesome story! Lucy you're the best, your fiancee is the luckiest
Thanks for teaching us with magical method way.
One day a Christmas party was organised by Lucy’s CEO, and everyone in the office was invited. At first Lucy had decided not to go, but she stopped by on the way home from the pub. She had totally let her hair down that night! There she got drunk (this is not me hating on her) and made fun of the receptionist’s dress. She said, “That dress you’re wearing, you like a marshmallow.” She was now discussing at the top of her voice how low their salaries were “Overworked and underpaid.”, she said. Amy (my name for the CEO) was now going to deliver a sensational speech, then suddenly Lucy burst into a conga and everyone was shocked to see that. She raised her voice and said, “Hey lady, this isn’t the oscars, get a move on.” Everybody gasped and looked at Lucy in disgust and surprise. It was horrendous actually. Eventually, the speech and ended. A coworker of Lucy was in the middle of a chat with the CEO’s husband. When
Lucy burst out saying in a childish tone, “You have a fat tummy, you’re fat. Fatty, fatty.” Amy was on the verge of firing Lucy. Lucy hadn’t stopped there. After that, she pulled Paul (my name for the CEO’s husband) from his tie and dragged him on the dance floor. While getting her food from the buffet, she dropped an entire bowl of sour cream dish on his trousers. She tried to clean the dip too! She told Amy to back off and find her own man, when Amy came to help. Lucy was outraged and tried to start a fistfight with Amy. She caught her in a headlock!! Amy filed assault charges against her. At last Lucy apologised and got her job back.
The end. This took a while to write.
Hilarious . I hope that wasn't a true story.
Thanks for your effort.
I liked how you creatively linked all this together, I'm sure it did take a while. Therefore proofreading is most important: When I read through this some words were incorrectly used or were missing ... consequently the sentence didn't make sense. What I like to do is (old school method) write something out on paper in pencil, for ease of editing. It's also good to leave it a while ... then come back to read it again with what I call "refreshed eyes".
You have my gratitude for disclosing such interesting phrases .
Excellent content as always Lucy. You are simply Amazing!
TheLizardKing1967 Absolutely right❤️
I love the way the examples tell a story
Hi Lucy, your examples are hilarious. Have a great day.
Stop saying "have a great day "
Take care , get to go, etc
I'm very grateful to you Lucy Mam
Hi cute Lucy,
Your channel is really excellent to learn British accent keep doing it sincerely .Thanks for providing us an reliable and superb oppurtunity to learn English
Thank you very much Madam Lucy!
I love you, Lucy. Enjoy your lesson.
You might end up saying "I'm sorry" after using some of them..you know right?
Yah
Thanks for your video im always watching it and apply to my self
Very good Lucy
4:58 haven't we learned in one of your lessons NOT to use "very" 😁 love the video anyway. Even if i still don't know why i watch this, i speak English 😁😁😁
Same here. I just come to admire her beauty for 12 minutes.
@@piruz3243 so I'm not the only one 😁😁😁
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No. Judging by the perfect English of most of the comments, looks like we are at the back of the lineup.
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بطريقة لوسي. Thanks so much
This so nice dear Lucy
Bless you
Please, don't say "I take full responsability for my actions." and say "I'm sorry." instead.
Why not?
@@filizyuksel5771 Ugly unnatural commonplace. Makes you sound like a lying politician.
@@G315HA i agree with you!
@@G315HA ok sir
Luсiеn Lе GuеIIес How so? I mean it is a bit more formal, but "i'm sorry" lost all meaning to me so I'm biased
I like your teaching way and your videos. kindly make videos on basic English grammar. I don't have words to describe your work. It is my humble request make some videos on basic Grammar such as parts of speech upload videos regularly.
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Good lesson
2nd one was my favorite😍
Thank you our beautiful teacher Miss Earl.
English is an alien and a second language for most of the people living in different parts of the world. It makes no difference that one can write or speak it properly or not. Language is merely a source of communication. It's not a source of honor or pride. Those who still believe that the English language is a source of pride are living in the days of slavery (colonialism). Western colonialism is the darkest phase of human history. There is not a single European country in which the History of colonialism is taught as a subject. Even in the British syllabus there is no mention of colonialism. English is merely a language like any other language but its international status compels the people world over to read, write, speak and understand it. Every language is highly respectable and esteemed. Even an African or Amazonian tribal language is highly respectable although just a few illiterate tribal people are speaking it living far and away from the civilized world. The most important factor of a language is that those who are speaking it, should feel comfort and ease at the time of communication. People should learn English as an international language not as a matter of pride. French Prime Minister Clemenceau in 1904 said that "English is a badly pronounced French." English is terribly influenced by the French.
I couldn't disagree more.
@@3Jackblack : Thanks for your kind words. I am grateful.
Aleem Pervez i totally agree with you sir
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@@3Jackblack : Thanks for kind words and appreciation.
You can used bravolol dictionary which shows both American and British pronunciations of words
Fascinating video as usual ❤ But to cut a long story short , we've got to avoid making mistakes as much as possible to avoid remembering this huge amount of ways to just say "Sorry" ..😁
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Hello Bella!!! Thanks alot for the video & taking time to produce it. It was really very helpful... Really appreciate it...
Thank you Lucy, you are so useful!
You are a brilliant teacher 👍
Really you are amazing teacher i have ever met in youtube. in all my honesty i owe you so much thing which you have learnt to me.thank you dear teacher best sincere
Please keep doing it!!!
I thought there would be "My bad" :v. But these ways are also very helpful. Thank you.
haha yes this is a very informal way to say sorry!
Thanks a million Teacher Lucy.
Really enjoyed and learnt something new..
I once got scolded hard by western exchange student. so I say.. "I am sorry.. may I ask?". then he got so offended.. why you say sorry.. did you do something bad to me?? he kept giving me long lecture.. but still I couldn't understand him.
here in Indonesia.. we say sorry first when texting our teacher.. or starting conversation with stranger or someone older. it's pretty common to say sorry first in everyday sentence.. it's to show respect for them.. to lower ourselves (I mean being down to earth).
but because he wanted it that way, I tried to follow. I feel like a bad person. also there's this assistant professor who's much older than us. and he told us to called him by name. woaaaah... i feel so guilty to do that.. so I tried to avoid calling his name.. difficult difficult..
As a Canadian it is part of our social DNA to always say “I’m sorry”
I am most excited about there and then
🤣🤣🤣 cracking up here. This apology letter is just another (and even bigger) boo-boo by the poor girl. She's a lovely piece of trouble though 😁😁😁 Thanks Lucy and bravo!🌷🌷🌷🌷
Hey again Lucy
Which one is absolutely better to use I am so very sorry or I am ever sorry?
The most important thing is never to say "I'm sorry, but..." That is a horrible weasel expression.
Hahaha true. And especially if you say: but he started it (pretty childish tho)
Thank you Lucy. As usual you make the difference for me 👍
Lucy, I am sorry is a very Canadian thing to say. We just say sorry all the time because we are super polite.
I just wanna ask if it is very helpful to us watching and listening to your videos without taking an action like writing of it and memorize? Please reply.
I learned a lot from you Lucy, thanks!
I'm a non native speaker but i work mostly in English. Most of the time, i write something like "sorry, i meant [something], my mistake
I think she should be an english tchr for my cousin ' s kid plus she' s pretty
OMG THANK YOU YOU KNOW EVERYTHING QUEEN 👑
Thanks Lucy, very helpful
Thank you you suport my ❤️🙏
Thank you so much!
Jathu Jathurshana your welcome..
Can u pls make a video on preparing for interviews?
Thanks Lucyyyy💘💘💘💘💘
Am late again 😔😔😔
Sorry but you imagine how I like your videos??
Thanks pretty Lucy 💐🌹🌷
Thank you so much Lucy💗😊 your videos are useful...could you please make a video about vocabulary differences in British and American english
I made one about US/UK spelling on my channel if you are interested 😀
Amazing !
I love you Lucy!!!
It's brilliant! Really funny! Thanks Lucy! I adore your lessons!
can you please provide us papers of editing, omissions and sentence reordering
A special thanks to you for this class
Can you teach us how to use punctuation mark PLz🙏🙏👆☺️😆😆🌷🌷🌷
Much love elegant Lady! 🌼
"clever girl".
[ hands in speach]
I dare you to find the ones she used in her apology video about sounding unprofessional dumb, and stupid.
2:50 video start
I was wrong by Scott Katz, it’s a song btw and no curse words
from Kurdistan, you are amazing
Hey , good job, please add substitle to be perfect. Good luck
I always found it interesting how British people will apologize to objects or in situations that are just awkward.
Yes especially when WE walk in to them... haha 😀
I wonder if you could make a video on writing personal statements for UK universities. Thank you :)
Good idea!
What does it mean with this sentence. I really shouldn't have tried to clean the dip off there and then. I realy confuse with dip off meaning. Kind regards
You know as an English speaker of English in England I feel the need to start and end every sentence with 'sorry' just in case someone takes offence at my existence and having had the audacity to think they may permit me to speak to them. It is just how I was raised to be polite and to expect everybody in the world to be disappointed with me for daring to exist. I think 'sorry' is an integral part of our culture and language!🙂
By the way, listening to that story, who on earth did you do that to and did you end up being done for assault? I hope it all worked out in the end?
Definitely true! I am also British and totes relate.
It won't happen again, I usually used this when I first time in my job 😄
Lovely
Lobe u and your video 😍😍
What did happen at the Chistmas party Lucy??
We really really need to know.
Plz suggest some good novels for english learners...
hey Lucy! i have tried for the 30 day trial version but i couldn't sign in. please let me know how to do it?
Thanks you so much.l love you.
I luv U too.
I need .. i want..learn english..i hope so..
I beg your pardon!
Don't tell you're sorry when you're not ~
We sincerely apologise for our mistake, ma'am. It was wrong on our part
Is it correct?
i love u pac pac
Please make 10 ways to say i don't care
What about *My bad*
I deeply regret you don't teach German so I can learn it the best, sooner and most sophisticated way.
Some of these phrases really just rub me the wrong way because I've been told them so many times by Staff members that I realise they are just following the handbook and don't really care about how you felt in that moment. Oh no, problem with a customer? Better read page 56. Really makes what you're trying to say robotic and unfeeling. I don't get why people can't just be sincere when they they say sorry... it's not that difficult.
Number 1: 1000 pardons
"I owe you an apology" is the only way to apologize without actually even apologizing :)
Around here they say things like "I'm sorry that you feel that way...." and non-apologetic apologies like that.
@@nodakjak Haha, that is a good one. In other words, the person saying this is not sorry for what he did. He is just sorry that I feel bad about it - which again sounds more like an accusation than an apology ^^
Well, a very formal way in Germany to say that you are sorry is "Ich bin untröstlich" which literally means "I am inconsolable" which is quite the opposite of your example.
lol so true
@@nodakjak and a huge "but" is coming up...
How is that not apologizing?
"I let my hair down/I'll let my hair down" would be so funny if a bald person use it.😁😄
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
That would be quite smooth of them 😂
Yeah, write haaaaaaa
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Is it only me who finds her so beautiful? And her lips are just gorgeous.😍❤
She is gorgeous
@Natasha Reif beauty lies in the eyes of beholder.😁
Natasha Reif different people different choice. Russian women are beautiful; agreed. But the beauty of English women are absolutely catching.
Yeah she's gorgeous.
@Natasha Reif What one person thinks is attractive is often completely different than what someone else thinks. Also, maybe the people of moscow are pretty but she isn't less that anyone. At least for me.😁 thanks and have a good day ahead.