Confirming Details

So let’s just run through it really quick up to the point where we decide what to eat.

All right.

Hello.

Hey.

Hey Luke.

Hey how’s it going.

It’s going all right.

You.

Yeah.

Going pretty well just sitting around at home eating some snacks.

OK.

Cool.

How are you.

You’re free to talk.

Yeah yeah.

Free to talk.

What’s up.

Well I was thinking of going to grab some dinner tonight.

Would you like to come along yeah.

Sounds great.

What time.

How about How about seven.

Seven work for you.

Actually at 7:00 I need to go pick up my friend from the airport.

Could we move it to 8:00.

Yeah sure.

8:00 works 8:00 works.

All right.

8:00 sounds great.

What did you have in mind.

Or we could say what were you thinking of having.

What were you thinking of eating.

What kind of thing would you like to eat.

Basically these expressions.

What did you have in mind.

Did you can say Do you have in mind.

But we often say did because it makes it sound a little softer or we say What were you thinking of eating or having.

It’s a very strange have I know but you’ll get used to it.

What were you thinking of having.

These are very very very common or what are you in the mood for if you invite me and then I say to you OK.

Yeah sounds great.

I’d love to go.

What were you thinking of having and you go oh I don’t know you haven’t thought about where to eat right.

So then maybe you need to say to me What are you in the mood for.

You’re inviting me.

Why are you asking me what.

I’m in the mood for that means what do I feel like eating.

What do I want to eat.

All right.

That’s fine.

Then I say you’re inviting me but I’m deciding where we eat.

Ok then I say How about.

So the way we suggest things often is to use.

How about

OK.

How about Thai food.

I know a great Thai restaurant.

But you the person inviting me you had Thai food for lunch just to be clear that’s Thai.

Thai is the adjective for Thailand the adjective is shorter than the name of the country.

So Thai food.

How about How about Thai food.

I know a great Thai restaurant.

Actually it’s near your house.

Actually I’m not really in the mood.

We often start sentences this way.

Actually I’m not really in the mood for Thai.

We don’t have to say food after every type of food every type of cuisine.

I’m not really in the mood for Thai because actually I had it for lunch.

I just had it for lunch just means very recently.

Oh OK well what are you in the mood for.

Now I’m asking you you’re the person who’s asking me first where I’d like to go.

Now I’m asking you what are you in the mood for.

What do you feel like eating.

Now maybe you have a friend who knows a good place.

My friend told me about a really good sushi restaurant.

I’ve never been there.

That’s USA Chai.

My friend told me about a really good sushi restaurant.

I’ve never been there.

How about that.

Yeah.

Sounds great.

That’s great.

You should have said that the first time right.

Because you’re inviting me and you asked me what I felt like eating.

I told you and you said no because you had it for lunch.

So now it’s back to you.

And now you tell me about a place your friend told you about OK.

Or have you ever been to and then maybe places called Sushi sushi.

That’s a good name for a sushi restaurant.

If you were been to sushi Sushi.

Oh I’ve never been there.

It’s good.

Yeah it’s great.

It’s fantastic.

It’s the best the best sushi in the city.

All right.

Sounds good.

Sounds good.

Sounds great.

Again we can use that same expression to say yes.

All right.

So when we want to say no we say I don’t really feel like it I’m not in the mood for it.

We want to say yes we say.

Sounds great.

Sounds great.

OK.

Have you ever been to have you ever been to have you ever had.

Just to be clear these are separate.

Have you ever had if you say Have you ever had then maybe we won’t say the name of the restaurant.

Maybe we’ll say the type of food.

Have you ever had Ethiopian food.

Oh it’s amazing.

No I haven’t.

I know a really good Ethiopian restaurant.

How about that.

Sounds great.

Yeah.

Let’s go.

So in this lesson we’ve talked about everything you need to know when you want to invite people to do things.

We’re using food in this case.

We talked about how to do small talk how to make sure other people are free how to ask people why they’re calling us how to actually invite in a casual and natural way.

Lots of phrases for that how to say no politely how to say yes politely and show different levels of excitement and also how to decide where to eat how to get other people’s suggestions and how to give our own suggestions even if we haven’t been there.

Now at the end of the call all you have to do is confirm the person who is inviting the person who is asking the other person to go out for dinner that person is the one who should confirm at the end of the call to do that.

All they have to do is start with.

So any time you want to confirm information just to make sure you say so.

So it’s pretty simple.

All you do is say everything that you talked about until now.

So I’ll see you I’ll see you at Sushi sushi at 8:00 p.m..

I’ll I’ll text you the address.

Texts can be a verb here.

That means send it as a text message.

I’ll see you.

So I’ll see you at Sushi sushi at 8:00 p.m..

I’ll text you the address then I say all I have to say is great.

Great.

Can’t wait.

Can’t wait.

Can’t wait.

See you then.

See you then.

Great.

Can’t wait.

See you then.

All right.

So this is how we invite people.

This is how we say things politely in this kind of situation.

It’s important to remember that the phrases we learned today are not the only phrases there are many more.

And you can do variations of these kind of mix them together in many cases.

There are many many possibilities more than we could ever cover in even a whole course.

All right.

So to practice this recorded dialogue get your phone out and turn on the record function.

Record yourself recording is a great way to actually practice because you have to listen to it and you’ll hear some mistakes and you’ll catch yourself and get used to self-correcting.

So record yourself recorded dialogue between two friend.

You need to play both people.

Right.

Don’t be embarrassed because you’re you’re in a room by yourself.

Just try it and you might have fun with it.

And if you do try it again try to do it two or three different ways.

Try to use as many of the expressions that we learned in this lesson as you can and again have fun with it.

This is basically all of the general stuff you need to know in the invitation situation.

So good luck.