Are you an English student? Yes, yes you are. What are we doing right now? We re trying
to agree. Yes and this lesson is all about learning how to agree with someone and how
to say that somebody's right? It's a long time that you've been disagreeing with people
and saying that they are wrong. With me Michelle you're going to learn, How to say yes to somebody?
Different ways of saying yes.
Let's start. The first phrase here, Yes that's right. That's a very regular phrase and If
I ask you a question like, Is this a vase? If there's one, What will you reply to that?
Yes that's right that is one or If I ask you, Are you an English student? You will say,
Yes that's right I am an English student or If you follow any other language then maybe
your'e a German student. So you could reply, Yes that's right to it. It's a general response.
With this we come to the second phrase. You’re quiet right. The word quite reduces the agreement,
the agreement which here was about ninety nine percent or ninety eight percent. Here
comes around to at least seventy percent. Because thirty percent maybe that person is
not right or their answer is incomplete. Let me give you an example for that. Let's say
your friend has filed for a divorce and you meet him after sometime, you ask him, Hey
you're divorced right? And he might say, You're quite right, because he's still in the process
of divorce. He hasn't yet been divorced and he will soon be, but because he's in the middle
of it. He might say, You're quite right, but not hundred percent. Not hundred percent about
seventy percent, let's say some disagreement.
The third one here, Yes that's correct. If you're the brother of John and your name is
Mark and somebody might ask you, Hey Mark are you the brother of John? What will you
reply? Yes that's correct, I'm John's brother. That will be a perfect answer because here
you're completely agreeing with the person and it's also a neutral response, like yes
that's right.
That's spot on. What if you have called, you know you're thinking about the interior designing
for your home and you're thinking of the shade. Maybe you wanna grayish silver shade for your
interiors and you've called an interior designer to decide the shade with you. And she brings
a shade card and she suggested, Sir why don't you go for this particular color? And you
would reply spot on that's exactly the color I was looking. Because she's also showing
you the same shade grayish silver, which you wanted, so this is hundred percent agreement.
Now we come to the next phrase, You're dead right. Let's imagine please put your imagining
caps on and continue to imagine with me all these interesting situations. You're in a
meeting and you're having a discussion about, Why your companies market shares are going
really low?And one of your friend there your colleague he suggests that the reason is because
our products are not very competitive. And you agree with that hundred percent. So what
will you say? You might respond to that as a comment that you're dead right. Yes our
products are not very competitive. That's where you can use this phrase. Correct response.
These are all different ways of agreeing with somebody. The one's here are slightly neutral
and they are near to a complete agreement, near to a complete agreement. But these two
here ,That's spot on, Your'e dead right and You've hit the nail on the head are absolutely
full agreement. Hundred percent agreement phrases. For this one, You've hit the nail
on the head. This is a phrase which talks about doing exactly the right thing. In other
words, You're doing precisely the right thing which is exactly what is demanded of this
situation. Exactly the right thing. For this phrase let me give you an interesting example,
I was once having a discussion with my friends about computers everyone you know we were
just having a discussion, there were some people who said that you know we need to be
very efficient for using computers. Well I don't think that way, I don't think we need
too many skills for using computer. And right then when I was thinking this one of my friend
Mike got up and he said that you don't need to know how it works in order to use a computer.
And I told him Mike you've hit the nail on the head . It's just what I was thinking,
so that's where you can use this phrase.
Coming over to the last two phrases. You could say so. Just like, You're quite right this
also means an incomplete agreement. So let's imagine again, we are going for a movie, You're
going for a movie with your friends and none of you after the movie is over really liked
the movie. You're just walking out of this theater and none of you liked it and you were
just about to get in to a discussion, where one of your friend said, it’s such an awesome
movie and you were really surprised that he liked it, because you did not want to offend
him although you disagreed. You said, You could say so, it was a nice movie that would
not offend him also and you also have made your point. So if you want to make your point
without disagreeing completely then this is one way to agree. One way to say that yes
you're right but not hundred percent. So here the percentage which was seventy percent here
comes around to about fifty percent. Fifty percent, How do you feel when your boyfriend
is leaving the city? Of course not nice right? And what happens when your girlfriend leaves
the city? You also don't feel good about it. So let's say you're leaving the city and your
girlfriend, you're telling her , your'e calling her and saying that, Hey I'm going back to
my own city, I've gotta go now. And she tells you, Really is it important you have to go?
Can't you stay a bit longer? What would you reply to her? You can tell her, I'm afraid
to say so, but yes I need to go now. That's one way of agreeing again, but not offending
somebody, when you use the phrase, I'm afraid so. This phrase means that you're trying to
be very polite. I'm sure you don't want to be rude to your girlfriend, so please use
this phrase. And the agreement here, it’s like you're just confirming. This phrase is
used for confirming to someone's question mostly. And always it will be response to
a question or it can be used in the beginning of you telling a sad news or a bad news.
Finally after doing all these phrases, I hope you've learnt interesting ways to agree with
somebody. So please don't wait and start agreeing with people. It's not good to disagree too
much, so agree with your friends, be merry and enjoy your time. I'm gonna see you again
with a new video very soon. Till then you take care. Bye, bye.