Avoid Saying Sorry! Use These Better English Phrases Instead! Advanced English Speaking Practice

[Music] hey everybody welcome back to let's talk this is me mira today we're going to talk about how i am sorry the phrase is overused by all of us and how people don't take it seriously anymore do you think that is probably because you just have one line to say i'm sorry do you think it's because of that i think so and that is why we're going to talk about a variety of phrases that we can use and completely replace i am sorry and that is why the lesson for today actually says don't be sorry anymore because there are so many other things that you can actually use to replace that phrase let's begin sometimes i can be a real airhead you're actually trying to say that you're a forgetful person and you are just being very um careless at times and just forget you forgot something and that is why you want to apologize to someone or say sorry to someone and that's the sentence you can probably use you can say that sometimes i can be a real airhead forgetful right [Music] okay and that is how you can apologize don't you think this was so much better or is so much better than i am sorry please forgive me well i'm not going to believe you the reality was you forgot and that's why you're going to talk about how airhead you can be at times well moving on from there we have i wish i could erase it don't you think you often face a lot of moments and memories where you regret your actions right so this is about the actions you regret and that is why you sometimes secretly wish that you could erase it a very very serious and a very genuine way of apologizing to someone that i know i did this but i really wish i could erase it i think this one has so much more gravity and so much more genuinely in the whole sentence than just i'm sorry well guys moving from there we have the next sentence which is how thoughtless of me i'm so sorry right so you basically mean that you are being careless you're being thoughtless and you are confessing it to someone that oh my god i should have i should have thought about this why didn't i think about this before that was so careless of me that was so thoughtless of me isn't it simple i understand some people for some it's very difficult to accept that you're sorry but in this way you are just accepting your small mistake of being thoughtless or being careless and i think this is a fantastic way for all those out there to start saying i'm sorry to people your apology addictive let's move on guys we have i put my foot in my mouth well this idiom is usually used for embarrassing situations well if you are not sorry you're obviously not embarrassed that means you make mistakes you're sometimes embarrassed of and that is why you want to apologize to someone right embarrassing mistakes and you're apologetic for that from moving on from i put my foot in my mouth i'm i shouldn't have done it i put my foot in my mouth i shouldn't have worn a casual dress for a formal meeting i put my foot in my mouth and i'm i feel embarrassed for it right okay i'm a schmuck a very okay disclaimer before i teach you what it is please promise me that you would only use it for close friends and family not even an acquaintance not a stranger and nobody not because it's too bad it's because it is too informal it is too casual and can be only used with near and dear ones right this means you are saying that you are so foolish okay i'm a schmuck or i was a schmuck but i'm not anymore which means you were foolish and you were sorry for that but you're not anymore another way of apologizing to someone by accepting that you were foolish and you are sorry about that or you feel sorry about being a schmuck you're not anymore moving on from there i push your buttons i apologize for that which means you irritated someone so much that they got angry on you and it's your turn to say sorry okay so i pushed your button which means you made someone you you irritated someone and you make them made them angry okay and that is why you're apologizing i realized i pushed your buttons i shouldn't have said that i shouldn't have made fun of you i realized i pushed your buttons simple okay great moving on from there we have i will go nuts if you don't forgive me do you find yourself in this situation quite often or people who are watching right now do you think you've made a mistake where you want someone to forgive you and you're going to go nuts if they don't forgive you well if that's a yes then please go ahead and use this because go nuts means going crazy [Music] and you need someone's forgiveness so bad that if they don't forgive you you will go crazy another way of apologizing to someone by saying that hey i know i realized that i did this i shouldn't have but if you don't forgive me i will go crazy i will go nuts right probably that person would end up smiling or laughing and probably they could forgive you well only one way to find out try it okay let's move on how can i make it better well whenever you make a mistake and when someone points it out to you saying hey you made a mistake go ahead and ask that person how can i make it better i wish i could erase it right we can always combine the two i wish i could erase it how can i make it better and they will make sure probably those these people will tell you how to make it better but it is your job and it is your responsibility to ask how can i make things better and do it if it's in your hands all right guys moving ahead from there i was in a foul mood maybe foul means bad bad mood i was taught since childhood never say things or do things especially when you're angry or in a bad mood chances are that you make someone else you hurt someone else you make someone else sad or you get make someone else angry and that is why you end up doing things or saying things which you're sorry for well then in that case you can always say i was in a foul mood i realized i'd i realized i did that right simple yet very genuine okay moving on from there we have i had no idea it would hurt you well that's the truth sometimes don't you think so the truth is you hurt people you say things you do things and they it hurts someone unknowingly or knowingly well you can always use this and say i had no idea it would hurt you i am sorry it's another way of saying sorry and that you understood it first of all that you hurt someone and you will not do that again right well moving on from there i realized i overreacted probably you said something or your actions [Music] or your actions were not good or were bad or were inappropriate incorrect and that is when you can say that you overreacted to something before listening to someone else before yearing out others and that is the time when you realize when someone else tells you that hey you know what you should have heard her out or you should have heard him because whatever you did was incorrect and then you can confess it to someone by apologizing and saying i realized i overreacted could you please forgive me or i will go nuts if you don't forgive me i realized i overreacted now that i have said this i can tell you that all of these can be mixed matched and actually used in one sentence or in one apology as well that's all for today guys i will make sure that i come up with more interesting topics you can always go and watch my other videos which would be popping out right here all right make sure that you're smiling keep practicing spread a lot of love this is me meera signing off for the day guys ciao

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Length: 10min 40sec (640 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 13 2021