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Professional ways to check

it's gonna help you to sound more professional and more polite they are but I'll try to find out but I'll double-check but I'll look into that and I'll get back to you and I'll...

Course: Speaking with ease every daySection: Ways to say “I don’t know”Subtitles: en

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and

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it's gonna help you to sound more

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professional and more polite they are

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but I'll try to find out but I'll

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double-check but I'll look into that and

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I'll get back to you and I'll let you

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know can you guess why these tag

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expressions are so important if you just

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tell someone I don't know well you're

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not really showing that you care an

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awful lot but when you use these key tag

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expressions you're showing I care I'm

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gonna do some more research and I'll let

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you know what I find out so we're gonna

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be adding these tag expressions onto all

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of the idle no sentences that we're

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about to talk about so that you can

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remember them and use them yourself if

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someone asks you is the meeting at 4

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p.m. you could say I'm not sure but I'll

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try to find out the expression I'm not

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sure is much softer and kinder than I

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don't know so this is really

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like to use if somebody comes up to you

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and says we're having a big company

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dinner next week can you come you could

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say let me think about it and I'll get

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back to you if you said just the

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sentence let

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