How to Say Sorry in English | Basic English Phrases

cool begin hi everybody welcome back to our weekly live stream my name is Alisha and today we're going to talk about ways to say you're sorry we're going to talk about a lot of different ways of apologizing today we have a lot to do and you can see we have this new set up or maybe some of you know this set up already but finally we have a big big space to write on for our live stream so we have lots to talk about so when you join please don't forget to send a message to the chat and make sure to LIKE the video and share too if you like as well I see Facebook is up I think yes hi Facebook hi Facebook I don't see you in the chat yet and maybe YouTube is on the way soon as well Oh yep Facebook's up great uh hi YouTube I see you Leila and root and a shoe and Gabriel and fieger and Marcela and Sami and a Bodhi oh my gosh Tiago hi everybody okay great I think we're ready we will give a minute or two for other people to join and then we're going to start so today's topic is how would you say sorry I'm going to talk about three different categories of apology and then we're going to enjoy the rest of our time together as you can see yeah we have we have like a brand new set up for the live stream so I'm kind of nervous but it should be good yeah yeah great control desk is right behind you right now you can't see but I can see okay so I think before we begin while we wait for others to join a couple announcements one oh I'll stand here I'll stand here okay one big one is this some of you I've shared this on Instagram and Twitter and all that good stuff but we have this brand new series that's out on the YouTube channel you can check out this video on the YouTube channel we're trying kind of a new idea to talk about current events so current events means recent news like recent world news so this is a series we're trying and kind of working on to improve so the idea here is that we can practice vocabulary words and kind of like some discussion topics about a recent news event so some of you I know already saw this video thank you so much for watching if you have not seen the video yet you can check this out on youtube so please take a look at that I'm really excited to make more and thanks for your feedback so far that's great all right so that's one oh I should not stay in there great okay Wow I see a lot of people in the chat now - hi everybody arjan and it is just easy in my and Andres and Jose and I jr. and another my and Arturo and sulky panda from Syria ah then on Facebook dominic and Carlos and Lopez Miguel hi Khaled gold oh gosh there are a lot of names okay anyway today we're talking about ways of apologizing how to say you're sorry so okay okay good I have to get used to this new setup I think but anyway this is today's topic this expression I'm terribly sorry we'll talk about this a little bit later so let's begin today's lesson then I'll slow down by speaking we have three groups as you can see there are three groups for today's lesson I separated our different apologies so the first category for today is expressions you can use when you make a mistake you caused a problem you did something bad how do you apologize for that second we'll talk about ways to express sympathy so if you hear bad news how do you express your sympathy that you feel bad for someone else third we'll talk about casual apologies and stuff you can use for like quick like bad news situations so these are our three groups for today let's begin over here some review I think for most of you so first when you make a mistake when you make a mistake which camera on that one okay cool thank you so when you make a mistake of course the easiest one to remember the basic form is just sorry just say sorry casual it's quick it's easy to remember this is the most basic apology for sure if you want to make a full sentence from your apology just a time so I'm sorry I'm sorry so this is again quick it sounds a little more polite than just I'm sorry so use don't don't type it mean you can say words right no he can't talk to me okay sorry our control our control team is right behind the camera you can't see okay so I'm sorry I'm so sorry so you can add so to increase like the intensity to increase the level of your apology it's however thanks if however you're in a more formal situation I'm terribly sorry it's like saying I'm so sorry or I'm super sorry but you can use this in a more formal situation so for example a business email or like in I don't know a like a client relationship if you make a mistake you can say I'm terribly sorry okay and if you have questions send them in the chat this is quick review okay good next one is I apologize I apologize is more formal than I'm sorry so quick point here a grammar point in this expression we have I'm sorry this is the contracted form of I am so I am sorry however this word apologize this is a verb sorry is an adjective I am sorry describes your emotion right now so hmm and then I apologize is a verb this is my action that I'm taking okay shall we fix that okay all right then the last two in this group I want to move on to our sorry about that sorry about that this part about that we use about that when the problem is clear so you made some mistake at work for example and you want to express an apology specifically for that problem use sorry about that so that means that problem specifically um Pablo on YouTube nice one you wrote I deeply sorry but just like with this expression when you use sorry and you want to like level up the apology I'm deeply sorry I'm deeply sorry remember this is an adjective so you need to include your verb I am but nice one um junior what about I'm sorry I screwed up yeah nice one I'm sorry I'm sorry you can add here I screwed up to screw up nice one junior to screw up this one is the past tense form up screw up why just you on the chair oh sorry oh that's perfect I screwed up means I made a mistake but it's a casual mistake I screwed up pardon me extreme English says pardon me yeah I will explain that now along with excuse me so what's the difference between sorry and excuse me excuse me is used when you're interrupting someone like a stranger on the street excuse me you need help with something in a store excuse me you can use pardon me as well but pardon me sounds a lot more formal we don't really use it's so much in American English so I would recommend excuse me instead someone in YouTube says sorry that I betrayed you before that's a rather serious apology like you just you did something really really bad to the other person I can't think of many situations where I would use that so yeah okay how much okay okay um good it is about ten minutes in so that's kind of our quick review of stuff you maybe already know so we'll take a break there I think um yeah looks good to me what's up oh thank you special delivery thanks Damon great alright so as always we have free stuff for you guys this week um this week oh we go to this 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so this is our topic how would you say you're sorry I'm terribly sorry we reviewed a moment ago okay what okay let's move along then let's go to the second topic sorry I'm in the way let's go to this second group the second group of apology words or apology expressions for today these are expressions of sympathy so if you missed it don't worry you can watch this video back but the first group this is like expressions you can use when you made a mistake but in this group of expressions we're going to talk about expressions where like you hear bad news or someone else made a mistake and you want to say sorry for them if that makes sense so let's take a look let's begin with this one I'm sorry to hear that I'm sorry to hear that if there's one thing from this week's live lesson you remember that's new I hope it's this expression so what's the difference I'm sorry to hear that and I'm sorry about that a lot of students mix these two up mix them up means like they confuse the two they don't understand the difference so sorry about that and sorry to hear that are different expressions sorry to hear that we use this for bad news so you hear like someone has a problem at work for example or like they lost something important to them you can say I'm sorry to hear that I'm sorry to hear that if you say I'm sorry about that it sounds like you think you caused the problem or like you made the mistake so please use I'm sorry to hear that when you get bad news or when you hear someone else's bad news I'm sorry you hear that okay um next one we'll look at the next two are actually for someone else causing a problem you want to say you're sorry so this is kind of specific these two so let's read them first there sorry about him or sorry about her and please excuse him or please excuse her so when would we use this like if you imagine for example you're out with your friends and maybe one friend is a little too noisy or makes a rude comment or something strange happens you feel embarrassed your friend does not apologize but you want to make an apology you feel bad so you can say sorry about him like sorry about his behavior in other words or sorry about her behavior sorry about something that person did so when you use about him or about her it means not me but I want to apology is because of someone in my group so you can use sorry about him or sorry about her to do that someone wrote I'm sorry about Alicia what did I do hey hey okay the other one is uh please excuse him or please excuse her this is what you can use to apologize for someone else however this is a good expression to use if let's say someone feels sick and they quickly need to leave an event you can say please excuse him please excuse her like they didn't do anything like rude necessarily however there's some change in the plan so you can use excuse him so this is quite similar to excuse me right same thing but instead of asking forgiveness for yourself you're asking forgiveness for some other person's behavior here so excuse him excuse her okay good Sarah on Facebook it says or your child yeah you could use this for your kids as well for sure nice one Carlos I'm a little nervous why am i angry no we have a new setup I'm getting used to the new setup okay but let's continue on to the next two expressions going back to this expressing sympathy theme this first one is we apologize for the inconvenience this is a really common expression in like construction situations so if you've seen a construction site construction site is a place where they're making a new building they're creating something new in your city you might see this on a sign we apologize for the inconvenience so inconvenience means like a change in your regular routine we apologize for making a problem in your day and inconvenience so this is using we here you can use this same expression for like business emails as well so if you make a mistake in a business email or there's a delay in an order you can say we apologize for the inconvenience okay good then let's go on to the last one for this category which is we regret to inform you we regret to inform you this one is popular popular this one is common on rejection letters rejection letters especially rejection letters from universities so by this I mean if you make an application to a university and you are your application is declined the University says no the typical response is a letter and the first line the beginning of the letter says we regret regret to inform you we regret to inform you your application has been declined okay good shall we take another break ish okay I will check comments do you guys have any questions ah let's see Oh someone on Facebook just said something excuse me sorry for that or it I'm not sure can you help me Taher I'm not sure what your question is can you say it again um excuse me is the same as sorry for that mm not necessarily we use excuse me when we want to like ask forgiveness like we want to interrupt someone or like maybe apologize for stepping on their foot on the train for example yeah okay yeah on YouTube someone writes we regret to inform you that you are fired Wow that would not be a good day to get that um no Henry what does it mean I don't know um nice okay I don't see any other questions so let's move along to our break yes yes okay all right if you missed it before we've got free stuff for you guys this month we've got free stuff for you guys this month as always this month this yeah this month's free stuff it's a package it's like a set of things it's not just one thing so you'll see it on the screen in just a second I showed this earlier this is like travel expressions things you can say at the airport I showed you this before so like how to give someone your passport or explain the purpose of your trip so like sightseeing business how to talk about your luggage your suitcase these sorts of things so this is one thing that's in the free gifts for this month so 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this category so I've labeled this casual apologies and bad news so these apologies over here these are like polite apologies or like proper apologies a full sentence apology however if it's just a small mistake or it's just an expression that you want to use like you hurt yourself or something quick these are expressions we use first one is oops so you might hear oops with like a long you sound oops or you might hear a short one oops oops we use both it's up to you both are fine you might also hear another variation that has a W sound which is whoops whoops so oops and whoops and oops these are all words we use for like really really small mistakes and we say this we say this to ourselves I probably use these words a lot in this live stream I think like for really small mistakes like an example it's like I dropped something oops or like I I drew on this chair earlier and I think I said oops something similar you'll see it later so when you make a small mistake you can say oops or whoops another kind of funny thing this word some people will try to downplay to downplay means to make something seem less serious than it actually is so some people try to downplay their mistakes by using the word oops or whoops like if you've seen it you might have seen it in a movie I suppose but if someone makes a serious mistake this is like discovered by someone else and the response from this person is oops like they're trying to make it sound less serious than it is so oops and whoops these are used for really really small mistakes if you use it for a big mistake it sounds like insincere or like you're not taking the situation seriously good okay um Abu on Facebook says only these no probably not actually I'm not talking about curse words today that's that's a whole other room of ways to express sympathy sort of okay but for now let's continue on to another expression perhaps a more American way of apologizing this expression is my bad my bad we almost always use the same intonation when we say this my bad not my bad but my bad oh my bad that kind of expression my bad so this we use when we make a mistake so here bad means my bad behavior or a bad action or a bad decision so this is a very useful expression but very very casual so again like with oops or whoops we don't use this for serious mistakes my bad is used like something small again you forgot something small like you forgot to buy milk at the store for example oh my bad I will go and get more so something really really small my bad we don't really change this to your bad or his bad or her bad we almost always use my bad my god so this is my mistake sorry about that this is like sorry about that but the much more casual version my bad my bad my mistake okey dokey okay I don't see any questions in chat uh can I need your sorry phrase I'm not sure what that means Oh Doha Martha I'm not sure I'm not sure when do the summer holidays start I don't know is that related to this listen I don't know okay hi mozzie oh sorry Junior asks what does may I be excused ah nice question jr. I will write it here so this is our bonus stuff for today thanks jr. may I be excused this is something we use usually in group situations when you want to leave when you want to leave somewhere you could say excuse me like if for example you want to use the restroom you can say excuse me for a moment for example before you do that so may I be excused it's usually used when you want to leave like a dinner like a formal dinner or perhaps like in a classroom situation where you're in there like a discussion for example may I be excused this really means this is a formal expression for can I leave can I leave but you're asking permission here may I so is it okay if I leave essentially nice one other things teacher what is your name my name is Alicia uh yeah Brazilian guy you're onto our next one my dad wouldn't let me go to the gym someone else says that sucks dude yeah all right let's go on to the next expression here that sucks that sucks but be careful I lost your comment but that sucks there's nothing here not that's but that that so that means your situation the problem you are experiencing sucks means it's not good it's it's not great it's too bad so if it's difficult for you to remember this expression which is very common and quite casual you can imagine this situation is like sucking is removing like the happiness or the good things from that person's life that sucks so very casual so don't use this at work I don't recommend this work we will not talk about that one I don't think okay so I would not recommend using this at work you can use this with your friends perhaps with your colleagues would we say this at work do we see this work I say this to you so it depends it depends a little bit on who you're talking to [Music] you can use you can use this with friends but make sure it's always that that sucks or another point this is one you use for your friends situation that sucks so just as we use like this and that for like something close to you and something far from you thank you when you want to talk about something that's close to you like your own personal situation and it's not good you can use it sucks like I just found out my rent is going to increase it sucks so when you use it sucks it means like that's your problem it's your situation that's not good when you're talking about a situation related to your friend you can say that sucks that sucks so good one all right what our other sorry phrase is used in slang um other apologies I feel like we don't have that many slang apology so we have lots of slang for like when you hurt yourself not so many for like apologies or sympathies that sucks is pretty good and there are some expressions we cannot talk about on this livestream because they are very rude words so you'll have to Google Google some English curse words you can you can do that it's not an official recommendation from the channel okay yeah then say sorry after yeah yes yeah so say your curse word then say sorry pardon my french that's a good one okay we have to finish I think yeah yeah pardon my what okay oh my gosh it's crumbling it's crumbling let's finish there okay all right we have to end there before we get into too much curse word territory so let's finish up today sorry today's lesson sorry if you missed the lesson today we talked about ways to say you're sorry uh you can't see right now cuz there's a banner on the screen that's okay anyway if you missed the video please don't worry you can find this on youtube or on Facebook or Twitter no no one of those two is a good place to check don't forget to get your free stuff for this week too yes this is live the live is about to finish so if you miss this week's live lesson you can find us again next week next week we will be back at the same time same channel the date oh my gosh the date August 1st is it really already August Wow no no that's not right oh no it's at the bottom it's at the bottom sorry I assumed you would be at the bottom I put it down there anyway next week's topic will be famous English quotes famous English quotes so I'm choosing or I have chosen actually some really famous quotes from like different people in different industries so they might be movie clothes or like quotes from politicians perhaps but I'm going to explain what they mean stuff that you might hear or you might have heard before so we're going to talk about some of those quotes and what do they mean are you sure it's August 1st really not okay huh mmm I see Wow time flies okay anyway this will be back next week Wednesday at 10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time 10:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time is New York City time what's up there it is actually July 25th that's what I thought I was trying to do math and it was confusing anyway July 25th this is actually July 25th I'm surprised friends anyway next week Wednesday 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time is New York City time so please Google your cities time so you can join us for next week's lesson yeah next week's lesson will be famous English quotes yes perfect now it is July 25th that is the corrected day thank you okay Stephanie my accent I have an American accent a west coast American accent thank you for subscribing silky panda we appreciate it Carlos thanks for the materials awesome enjoy I hope it's helpful 40 knots oh yeah you caught my die on there sorry anyway we have to finish up please make sure you download your free stuff this is one of the free things you can get today how long will this be up like the next week or so maybe you have one week to get this something like two weeks okay cool so don't miss this that this is one thing in the package so you can find in the link below the video on YouTube above the video on face book so with that we're going to finish thank you very much as always for joining us live this week I'm happy we have this new space I need some time to get used to it a little bit but we are excited to be up here doing all this good stuff so 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Published: Wed Jul 18 2018