Ways to Say 'You're Welcome'

So we know the polite phrases when we’re asking for information when we’re making an inquiry or an inquiry.

And we now know how to if we need to call the landlord and make an inquiry or ask the landlord for more information about the apartment before we go to look at it.

Hopefully you feel very comfortable with that and you can actually do it.

Now what I’d like to do is just quickly talk about some different ways you can say You’re welcome.

After you thank somebody who has maybe given you information you need to say thank you.

And then they might say you’re welcome.

You can say thanks.

You can say I appreciate it but let’s look at different ways that people can say You’re welcome.

These are the first ones are pretty informal.

So these are things you would say to your friends if you say sure sure sure.

Thanks a lot.

Sure.

Can I borrow a pen.

Yes or Sure.

Thanks.

Sure you can say it again.

Sure can be used in many ways sometimes yep if it’s very quick if you hold the door for somebody you hold the door they go in they say oh thanks you go yep yep.

Very quick very informal not formal not formal.

OK.

How about.

Of course this is a little bit more and you can use this in lots of different situations.

OK.

So hey do you think you could.

Do you think you could maybe help me with my homework.

Of course that means yes or Sure.

That means yes.

And then I’ll thank you so much.

Then you can again say of course.

So sometimes these mean both.

Yes.

And of course these three all mean.

Yes.

And they mean you’re welcome.

Thank you very much.

Of course.

Sure.

Yeah.

No worries no worries.

Again this is one that is usually informal informal and when you’re helping out a good friend they say Oh thanks man.

Aw thanks a lot.

And no worries no worries.

Thanks for helping me move my sofa today.

I know that it was inconvenient.

No worries.

Don’t worry about it.

Sometimes people will say don’t worry about it.

That’s this one down here.

OK.

Sometimes if it’s very quick and you’re not even paying attention.

Oh hey thanks by the way thanks for sending out that email for me.

Huh huh.

No problem.

That’s a very quick one and you would use it only when maybe you’re in a rush or you’re focused on something else.

OK.

Now the more formal ones a little bit more formal obviously you’re welcome.

Happy to help.

This is something that somebody may be in customer service might say Oh happy to help.

Happy to help or if maybe I help one of my students and my student says thank you for helping me correct this.

I might say Happy to help.

Happy to help.

I won’t say Happy to help.

I’ll say happy to happy to happy to help.

OK this one I think is very formal and I don’t use it very often.

My pleasure.

My pleasure.

In customer service you do hear it.

So if you call somebody.

My computer’s broken.

And then they help you fix your computer or whatever and then you say Oh thank you so much for helping me.

It might say that’s my pleasure.

It’s my pleasure.

I use it once in a while but it’s pretty formal so I don’t use it that much.

OK.

No sweat.

This one this one sometimes is used in customer service but it could also go up here in the ones that are not so formal.

These two are similar to no sweat but can be used in many different situations.

Not at all and no big deal no big deal.

Again thank you so much for helping me do my homework yesterday.

No big deal no big deal.

Not at all not at all.

Don’t worry about it.

Same thing.

OK.

So these are all really really common and they can be used in lots of different situations and sometimes forget it forget it forget it.

That means you don’t even need to talk about it.

Forget it.

Forget it.

Right.

So those are some of the different ways that we can say you’re welcome in different situations.

You’ve got to listen out for where they’re used and how they’re used because again sometimes they’re used formally and sometimes not formally.

You really have to pay attention to the situation.

They’re used in but hopefully now you know more ways that you can say you’re welcome.

So to practice this what you can do is go on to the Internet maybe go to Craigslist or Zillow or any other site and find an English apartment listing or English apartment post something that you’re maybe interested in and read it and then do a phone call a role play record yourself between both people the landlord yourself and if you can get a friend involved if you can get a friend to do it with you.

That’s great.

You can do it together.

Could be really fun do it several different times.

Make sure to record it so that you can listen to it again and pick out where you might actually improve things that you said that might be strange.

Make sure to try to use some of the words and phrases that we talked about in this lesson.

All right good luck.