Asking for Advice

When we have an issue and we ask for advice sometimes we can just come right out and say Could you give me some advice.

Then after our friend says Yeah sure we can say what we need advice about.

Sometimes we say this after Listen I’m having a problem with blah blah blah blah.

Could you give me some advice please.

Could you please give me some advice.

And then our friend can give us advice.

Now again usually advice is something a little more serious.

It can be used for very simple things.

Should I wear the blue one or the red one.

Give me some advice.

OK.

It’s OK.

Sure.

Sure we can do that but advice is a great word to describe somewhat more serious situations problems that we’re facing in our lives.

Can you give me some advice please.

Or I could.

That’s an L.

I could really use some or your advice.

I could really use some advice.

I could really use your advice.

I need some help.

I need some help can be used in lots of other situations.

I need some help.

Could be about I don’t know carrying a sofa but I need some help.

Could be asking for advice.

Listen my boyfriend broke up with me and said something really terrible.

I don’t know what I should do.

I need help.

I need advice.

So there it’s the same although help can be about many other things too.

Now to be more casual about it we could say I wonder if you could tell me what you think about so maybe we’re looking for a new job.

I wonder if you could tell me what you think about working at Google.

Do you think it would be do you think it would be cool.

I wonder if you could tell me what you think about or you could just say this part.

What do what do you think about me working at Google.

What do you think about me working that’s whole.

That’s a riff it’s the worst one so far.

Working at Google.

OK.

So we can ask for advice in this way.

That’s a little bit more a little bit more casual now as I mentioned advice can be kind of the same as a suggestion or a recommendation.

So we could say could could you recommend some or you could say suggest here.

You could also say suggest maybe could you suggest some ideas for how our company can maybe deal with our financial problems.

Could you suggest some.

This one again.

Is it advice.

Is it a suggestion OK.

Maybe they’re kind of very similar.

So it’s OK if we use the word recommend or suggest when we’re asking for advice that’s totally ok.