Name: Learn English Conversation | Asking Native Speakers to Repeat Themselves
Uploaded: 2020-06-08T05:01:27.000Z
Duration: 3 min 30 s
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Today, I'm going to give you some tips that are going to help you improve your English

Today's tips are about how to ask someone to repeat themselves if you didn't hear,

or understand them, or maybe they're speaking a little bit too fast.

These tips are very important to help you start sounding like a native speaker.

So sometimes when I'm talking to my students, I know that they don't quite understand

But, they are a little bit afraid or shy to ask me to slow down.

And I just want to let you know that it's totally okay to ask someone to repeat themselves,

This is going to help you sound more like a native speaker.

So actually, there are a lot of phrases in English, that you can use, to help you to

ask someone to repeat themselves, or to speak slower.

The first one you can say is, “Please say that again.”

They will be happy to repeat themselves one more time.

Another one you can say is just, “Excuse me.”

That means you didn't hear what they said.

And they'll either speak a little bit louder, or a little bit slower to tell you what they

Another one you can use is, “Sorry, I didn't hear that.”

That's another simple phrase to help someone know that you didn't quite hear what they

Another one is, literally, “Please speak slower.”

You're learning English and everyone will understand.

The next one is, “Sorry, what did you say?”

Or you can even just say, “What did you say?”

And in a much more casual setting, you can even use, “Pardon me?”

Even just saying one word, “What?”, is better than letting the moment pass by.

And you not understanding what someone said.

If you ask people to repeat themselves, or to say what they said one more time, that's

So if you follow these tips, you'll be sounding like a native speaker very soon.

So the next time someone says something you don't understand, now, you know exactly

Follow these tips that I gave you, and you'll me on your way to sounding like a native speaker.

If you can think of any other expressions to say when you don't hear someone, let

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