Answering “Do you mind?”

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means

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don't smoke

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do you mind if I smoke no go ahead have

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a cigarette right again smoking or any

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other situation do you mind if I sit

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here

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go ahead or no do you mind if I sit here

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yes I'm saving it for my friend who's

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coming soon right so you can you can

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always say why your answer is yes or no

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but a lot of people say do you mind if I

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smoke no

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I don't mind means go ahead and smoke

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but it means but what you're actually

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thinking is no don't smoke right so you

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have to be very careful about that

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because native speakers will take your

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answer to mean the opposite of what you

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might think it is okay I hope that's a

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little bit clear as well whatever

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whenever you hear this question think of

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the opposite of what you want to do or

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the person to do and say that yes means

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don't no means do okay so it's a little

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bit tricky now I'm going to give you a

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few more questions that are a little bit

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more I guess Street language more slangy

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therefore they're very tricky for

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non-native English speakers they're very

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hard to understand but I'll explain to

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you what they mean and how to answer

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them

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okay so now we're going to look at some

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questions that native speakers use all

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the