DO NOT say "you're welcome"! Respond to "thank you" PROPERLY!

[Music] 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 further then i highly recommend listening to audiobooks it's something i mention a lot in my videos but i mention it a lot because i know it works

i advise you to take a book that you already have a book that you've maybe already read and download the audio version and listen to it whilst you are reading just reading alone will not help you with your

pronunciation because english is not a phonetic language if you are hearing the word as you read it your brain will make the connection and next time you see that word you will

know how to pronounce it and next time you hear that word you will know how it's spelt you can get a free audio book that's a 30 day free trial of audible by clicking on the link in the description box

i've got loads of recommendations for great audio books and also the physical book counterpart on amazon i really encourage you to try out this method because it could

transform your pronunciation your spelling your vocabulary and your listening 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 today's lesson i hope you enjoyed it and i hope you learned something

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