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Using sorry politely

sorry to bother you but [Music] i know this is long we are weird i'm sorry about that see we do it all the time but if we say it and now you say it we assume that you're one of...

Course: Sounding polite and considerateSection: Polite requests and questionsSubtitles: en

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me

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sorry to bother you but

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[Music]

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i know this is long we are weird i'm

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sorry about that see we do it all the

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time but if we say it and now you say it

1:35

we assume that you're one of us and we

1:37

love you

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today we are going to do polite

1:41

questions

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in progressively more difficult ways

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so let's start easy

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you want to sit there but that's very

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close to this guy always got to respect

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someone's personal space so how can we

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ask i want to sit there

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in a polite way obviously can i sit

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there is fine you can say that there's

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nothing wrong with it but we want to

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make this more polite sue

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do you mind if i sit here do you mind

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means is this a problem for you

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so the answer um that's a problem yes i

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mind or if it's okay of course i don't

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mind do you want to talk about jesus

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yes i mind

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no

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i don't mind

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pronunciation to get a good flow of

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pronunciation and intonation stress

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these two verbs do you mind if i sit

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here

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do you

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