Have you ever been talking to an english-speaking person and at the end
of the conversation the only thing that you can think of to say is well goodbye
well that's not what native speakers would say in this video I am going to
share with you exactly how to say goodbye in every situation just like a
native speaker are you ready let's go
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any of my twice weekly lessons so how many ways do you know how to say goodbye
this lesson will teach you lots of new essential ways to say goodbye and sound
like a native speaker of course saying goodbye is how people remember us
whether it's in a formal or an informal situation so you need to be prepared
with the right expressions so that you sound like an advanced English native
speaker now I'm going to start with some formal goodbyes and then if you watch to
the end I'll also be giving you some great goodbyes that you can say to
friends and family as well so let's start with the more formal ways of
saying goodbye now you could use these that are meeting at a job interview
saying goodbye to your boss at the end of the day or say goodbye to clients if
you work for a company or parents if you're a teacher so in these situations
you want to sound professional so you could end the conversation with
something like it was really nice talking to you it was great talking to
you these are really good native speaker ways to end the conversation whether
you're on the phone or if you're face to face but particularly on the phone
because you're using a verb to talk but you can also add something else after
those points I'm afraid I must be going now
so the whole thing would be it was really nice talking to you but I'm
afraid I must be going now and then give a reason if you like which might be
something like I've got a meeting in five minutes
I've got a lesson now I've got to pick up my children from school now if you've
been face to face with the person rather than on the phone you might want to
change the verb from talking to seeing or meeting so it would be something like
it was nice to meet you but I really must be going now or it was nice seeing
you again notice that we used two different tenses here either the
continuous form it was nice seeing you or the infinitive with to so it was nice
to see you again okay so there were some great ways to end a conversation and say
goodbye native speaker style in a formal way but how about friends and relatives
or even people that you talk to in the street or people in a shop how would you
say it then well here are some ways for you take care and you could add by I
really personally like take care and I use it a lot and it's very much the sort
of thing that we native speakers use a lot so you could use take care bye to
anybody that you know very well close friends family and you can use it on the
phone or face-to-face or even in a friendly email but it's probably going
to be used with people that you're not going to see so often now the next one
is see you or see you soon if you're definitely going to see the person again
this is a really nice casual one to say to close friends or colleagues at the
end of a working day for example if your colleagues are actually quite close
friends as well you could easily say see you to them because you'll be sure to
see them the next day now the next one is even more informal more casual and
slang see you later or even more informal catch you later
this is definitely not one for your boss but you could use it with good friends
another one to use with friends is I've got to go now or gotta go now you could
also add see you to that so I've got to go now see you bye one important note
never use gotta in writing it's very bad so it was great talking to you
but I'm afraid I must be going now so I hope you've really liked this video if
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practicing too saying all these goodbyes enjoy your English and I'll see
you really soon by