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Sometimes we all get things wrong, not me obviously I'm perfect,
but when you get things wrong it's really important to be able to apologise for them
and yes we can say I'm sorry and that's fabulous but it's a little bit limited,
so I'm going to give you some different ways to apologise in English. Take it away Bez! Oh
when's the baby due? Very exciting! Oh.. you're not pregnant..
my bad. Okay my bad you can either just say my bad on its own or you can say that's my bad this one
is quite American but it's traveled over to the UK and I do hear it every now and again in the UK
but if you're living in the US this one might be a little bit more common than over in the UK and
it just means that was my bad thing I did, that that was my fault, I did a bad thing sorry my bad.
Oh dear I completely forgot the sprouts! Sorry guys, I hold my hands up, that's on me/ Okay we've
kind of got two phrases here we've got I hold my hands up: this comes from surrendering when we
put our hands up we are surrendering we are saying okay I give up I'm not going to fight it anymore
you're right, so when we hold our hands up we admit responsibility we admit that we were wrong
we're not trying to fight the argument anymore, yes I hold my hands up that was me it was me
I take responsibility I'm sorry. And then we have that's on me that's on me again a little bit
American but we do hear it over in the UK that's on me that's my problem it's on me the problem is
on me I caused the problem I hold my hands up yes I admit that's on me my problem I caused it. Sorry
kids I'm gonna be honest I forgot your passports so there'll be no holiday this year, my fault,
okay let's just go home watch the TV. So obviously if you make a mistake and it was your problem
then we want to admit this we want to say yes that was my fault completely my fault a lot of
the time you just hear those two words on their own so yeah my fault I'm sorry
or you might hear completely my fault or you know what that was totally my fault it's just admitting
that you were the cause. Now obviously we can just say I'm sorry but sometimes you need an extra word
in the middle to really exaggerate your point so here are some words you can put in between
I'm and sorry. I'm so sorry, I'm extremely sorry, I'm ever so sorry, I'm really sorry, I'm terribly
sorry. Okay let's hear some more formal ways of apologising: Oh you were asking for red wine?
My apologies, madam. Oh you wanted your steak medium rare? Oh my sincerest apologies, madam,
I'll be right back. Thank you so much for coming madam, again I can only offer my apologies on
behalf of myself and the restaurant for all the things we did wrong tonight, come again to Burger
King. So there you heard things like my apologies we can say this on its own it's quite formal it's
quite proper my apologies you might put it in writing if you're working in customer service
for example and then you have things like offering your apologies so can I offer my apologies may I
offer my apologies I can only offer my apologies my sincerest apologies sincere means
true real genuine my sincerest apologies that they're real apologies I'm not just pretending
so these are quite formal so save these for writing or in really formal situations.
Pardon me! Okay this one's a little bit juvenile I admit it but if you burp or fart you say pardon
me that's what you say, okay? Listen I'm an English teacher that wants you to know all
of the English that you're going to need if you burp or fart you need to know what to say you can
say sorry you can go sorry but it's more common to say pardon me pardon me but this isn't just
reserved for burps and farts you can say pardon me if you make an error if you make a mistake
but again it's quite formal. Lisa! Lovely to see you again, good to see you, good to see you,
Lisa's mother! How wonderful is to see you, you're looking- oh excuse me, sorry, Lisa's sister!
So next up we have excuse me meaning sorry but I'd say specifically we tend to use this one
if we misspeak so if we say something wrong you might hear someone say
excuse me no that was wrong you wouldn't really use excuse me for a big apology you
know you wouldn't say oh I ran over your dog with my car excuse me it's it's too little we
just use excuse me for little mistakes. In the beginning was the word and the word was dog,
sorry I messed up, can I go back? I messed up, again this is admitting that you did something
wrong it's very casual it's very informal I messed up. Yeah yeah great meeting guys, great meeting,
I really think that pitch is going to be brilliant, yeah yeah, sorry guys sorry for, uh,
stripping naked in the middle of the, uh, the presentation there,
I don't know what came over me, I really dropped the ball there. Next up we have I dropped the ball
I love this phrase it means I stopped thinking I stopped focusing I just for one moment completely
lost my professionalism I lost my focus and I just made this huge mistake and it was a massive
problem and I'm really sorry I dropped the ball and it comes from sports you know imagine in a
basketball game you're playing basketball and someone literally drops the ball because they
weren't focusing and then the other team win drop the ball. Well I had a lovely date, it was very
nice to meet you, oh yes the explosive diarrhea, yes sorry about that it's, uh, it runs in the
family. This one is very similar to I'm sorry but it feels slightly different so if I say to you
I'm sorry I'm telling you that I feel sorry I'm so sorry however sorry about that is more like saying
I'm sorry that that thing happened I don't feel extremely you know emotional and I don't feel
so sorry yeah sorry about that thing that happened so we might say oh I used
your toothbrush this morning sorry about that you know I don't feel this extreme
sorry but I'm sorry that that happened. Somebody ate the entire wedding cake? Oh gosh…
Yeah I take full responsibility for that… it was very nice though.. lovely. Next up
we have I take full responsibility, just means that you take the full responsibility it's all
me it was all me no one else got anything wrong it was me I take full responsibility for that.
Mom's gonna be really really angry we broke one of her favorite plates!
My fault? I can't take the blame for that, you take the rap!
This is just more of a casual way of saying I take full responsibility I take the blame I take
the rap taking the rap is quite American quite informal but still common. I owe you an apology.
to call you a fat, ugly, stinking lady it's not acceptable, especially in a wedding speech
but I'm so lucky to call you my wife. Next up we have I owe you an apology to owe someone it's
something that they deserve so we tend to say this before we apologise listen look I owe you
an apology I shouldn't have done that I'm sorry. Another thing you can say if you want to apologise
is that was_ of me so you can put an adjective in the middle there and it explains how you acted:
that was wrong of me, that was terrible of me, that was unacceptable of me, that was selfish of
me, that was cruel of me, so pretty much however you acted put that adjective in the middle
to explain that you are aware of how you acted. And I can assure you that I will not call you a
fat, stinking lady ever again, it won't happen again, definitely not on my next wedding.
And finally it won't happen again this is like a promise for the future it won't happen again.
And that's about it! I know for a fact that you guys will never need to use any of these apologies
because all of my viewers are absolutely perfect I'm sure you guys never make any mistakes look at
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