Name: STOP saying I DON'T LIKE IT: Polite Advanced English Vocabulary
Uploaded: 2019-09-10T13:14:48.000Z
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I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com I hope you'll like this lesson.

Modal verbs - A2

But if you don't, here are some ways you can tell me you don't like it politely.

One of the most important speaking tools is how to be polite.

But, it's easy to be polite when you're having a good time, when you're happy.

It's a little bit harder to be polite when you're upset, you're angry, or maybe you don't

There's a famous proverb, and maybe it's the same in your country, if you don't have something

I think every parent or teacher has said this a million times.

But the truth is sometimes we need to say something negative.

Sometimes you have to say that you don't like something or you didn't have a good experience.

So today, I'm here to help you politely talk about something negative.

We're going to talk about 20 expressions that politely mean I don't like it without actually

I thought about this lesson topic because I live in the South, and it's really typical

to hear a Southern woman say, "Bless your heart."

This sounds like a positive thing, right?

It really means, "Oh, you're not so smart."

So for example, if I give a Southern woman some cookies that I made, and really those

cookies are awful, she might say to me, "Oh, you made these?

It means that you're a nice person, but you're not so smart, especially when it comes to

Now, I don't recommend you use this expression, bless your heart.

This is only for people who were born in the South of the US.

I live in the South, but I was born in the North, so I feel like I can't even use this

But I wanted to share this with you because sometimes negative language is coded and seems

So I hope that the expressions that you learned today will help you to be aware of what other

people are saying, maybe they're saying negative things and you don't even know it, and also

to help you use this kind of indirect language to be more polite.

So let's get started with the first five expressions about how to talk about something that you

Let's imagine a situation that maybe happened to me.

Let's imagine that you go to a play with your friend.

You're going to go see a play with your friend Sam because your other friend, Sherry, is

The plot, the characters, the scenery, the story, nothing about it is what you like.

Maybe after the play when you talk with Sherry, you probably tell a white lie and say, "Oh,

It was nice to see what you're working on."

You don't need to tell her the absolute truth about what you think.

But when you talk with your friend Sam, who you went to see the play with, how could you

talk about your true feelings for this in kind of a polite way, but also showing that

Well, you could say, "It was... interesting.

Do you notice with all four of these sentences I'm using kind of positive words, interesting,

But there is one thing all of these sentences have in common, a little pause.

If you say, "Oh yeah, it was interesting."

The inflection in your voice is very upbeat and positive.

It was... eye-opening," with a little pause, it is completely different.

It means it was not interesting, it was not eye-opening.

Maybe it was different, but in a bad way.

It was an experience that I don't want to have again.

This is a coded language with a little pause to tell your friend Sam, "I didn't like it,"

but you're not telling him that directly.

Sam will understand exactly what you mean.

If you said that to me, "It was... eye-opening," I will understand exactly what you mean.

I'll understand that it wasn't your type of play.

You didn't like the plot, the characters.

You don't want to say, "Ugh, that was terrible.

That was the worst two hours of my life."

So instead, you'll use one of these paused expressions.

You might hear these kind of pauses used with other positive words, but I feel like these

four are probably the most common that you'll hear.

You might hear this in TV shows and movies.

And I hope you can use it too when you experience something that maybe you don't really like.

If you want to be a little bit more direct, you could add to the end of those sentences

So you might say, "It was... an experience, if you know what I mean."

You're telling him, "Hey, it wasn't a good experience.

This is coded language, if you know what I mean."

It's kind of like you're sharing a little inside secret.

So if you add this to the end of your sentence or if you hear someone else say that, it means