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  • - Hello, everyone, and welcome back to English With Lucy.

  • Today, I am 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,

  • than I highly recommend listening to audio books.

  • It's something I mention in a lot of 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 audiobook, 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 you're 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 emphasise

  • 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 generation

  • 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. (laughs)

  • 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 emphasising 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, 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 desert.

  • 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, 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, oh, 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, oh, 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.

  • This is shortened down to, 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, 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

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