Name: Different Ways to Say 'Goodbye' in British English
Uploaded: 2020-10-30T20:25:13.000Z
Duration: 10 min 33 s
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in today's lesson, we're going to be learning the best ways to say goodbye in modern British English and of course, how to pronounce all of these words.

Yes, Today I'm helping you with goodbyes.

I find it really hard to say goodbye to people.

And you'll know that from one of my recent video lessons where I taught you how to end a conversation, I recommend you watch that before you watch this just because it will show you kind of how to build up to the goodbye which we're learning today.

The link will be in the description off this video.

Let's get to the reason why I'm making this video eyes.

Actually, because of you, my students, I receive a lot of emails, Facebook messages and of course, I speak to hundreds of students daily who joined my pronunciation course on talk to me on what's app on?

The one thing a lot of you have in common is that you don't really know how to say goodbye in, um or modern way.

Now I've had students who have said so long.

Now, although these sound very, very British.

I mean, they're British if you're living in, like, the 19 thirties.

Okay, these thes thes phrases, they don't really happen that much anymore.

Now, just so you know, we're not going to get heavily into the Internation today, mainly because that would make this video lesson way too long.

I've saved all of that for my pronunciation course.

When you join that there's a whole chapter about Internation as well as all of the sounds and everything else in British English.

But today we're just focusing on the vocabulary on.

We're also focusing on some of the vowels, the most important vowels and sounds in thes words and ways of saying goodbye.

So without further ado, let's start with the most common one on.

It's probably the oldest one as well on we still use it today and that's simply goodbye.

Or by now, the main thing I want you to look at before we start talking about this word is the diff thong at the end.

I Okay, So what's happening here is we're starting with the tongue at the bottom of the mouth are.

Then we're lifting the tongue up during the whole sound.

So as soon as you start making that are sound, I want you to immediately lift your tongue up just behind your top teeth on smile slightly, I by.

Okay, so we go from an open shape to a smiling shape.

So when we combine two vowels together on it makes one sound.

Now this sound will actually make you sound very, very British.

It's a very British sounding sound if you get it right, so give it a practice and see if you can say bye, just like me.

Now you might hear some people say bye bye.

It's a bit more kind of childish, but it's still fine, like I might say that toe to a kid.

But by But if you're saying it to an adult, the safest option would be goodbye or by formal and informal is very complicated here.

We don't have as extreme rules anymore with etiquette and things in the UK, as you see in things like Downtown Abbey.

It's not like that, but before I get into the other ways of saying goodbye.

The first thing I want to mention is I like to put things in threes.

This is my favorite way of saying goodbye.

So I don't know if you've watched my videos before, but you'll see at the end of all of my videos I say three things.

Take care is my way of saying look after yourself.

Cheers is like a thank you on by is by Right.

So I've combined three things I've combined.

Wishing someone a good day or toe be healthy with a thank you.

And with a good bye Now what that does is it kind of makes my own personal ultimate goodbye.

And that's how I say goodbye to most people I know.

That's one of the really useful ways of saying goodbye Informally.

So firstly, let's look at the word Cheers.

So, in terms of pronunciation, we have another difficult ear.

So we start with our tongue at the top this time here.

Then we moved to the middle of the mouth, ear to the Schwab's sound.

Now that's what we would call them or RP way of saying cheers.

But if you wanted to do it a bit faster and a bit mawr that say modern and quick, you would say Cheers, chairs.

That's only when you're talking really, really fast.

People will still understand it only if you add the on the end.

We need that the sound or else people will have no idea what you're saying.

You could be saying cheese, You could be saying anything, so make sure you add that continent now.

A lot of my students on my course have, and I have a whole chapter which helps with this omitting final continents as a challenge for you.

Over the next week, I'd like you to try and pronounce the continent's at the end of your words, particularly ones which end with cheers so important to make sure people clearly understand you.

So now you can say bye now you can say cheers.

Let's just talk about take care very quickly.

I'm not pronouncing the at the end of take so one word ends with on the next word begins with.

So because of that, it doesn't really matter.

We don't need to pronounce both, so we can just say, Take care, take care, take care, Don't say take care because it's too much.

By now you've said goodbye how I most often say goodbye and how I say it in my videos.

I think it's really great because you're combining three things and it doesn't make it as awkward.

It's not like you're just saying okay by your saying something in a controlled manner and you're saying three things and it makes you sound confident.

Or you could say, Have a nice day, bye, Goodbye, farewell.

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