Why direct requests can sound rude

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I remember in my first year living in

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Spain I went to the shop with a friend

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of mine a Spanish friend and place it to

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the man in the shop the Spanish

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equivalent of hello please could I have

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some tomatoes please and then my friend

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said to him give me bread and I thought

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wow that's a bit rude you see in certain

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circumstances in Spain maybe that's okay

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but in England you must never ask for

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things by saying give me give me bread

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so in this lesson I'm going to teach you

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different ways of asking for things

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without saying give me don't say give me

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in English don't say I want in English

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instead we say one of these beautiful

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polite expressions let's go

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