Hello and welcome back to go natural English
I am so excited you're here friends because today we're talking about how to make new friends
It's all about connecting with people like literally getting their contact
Information if you meet someone once that's great
But in order to really establish a great friendship or a business connection, you really have to connect with that person over
time now last week we talked about how to change a topic or end a conversation, but you know
What if you want to stay in touch with that person even after that first conversation ends?
So today we're going to learn ten phrases you can use to smoothly and naturally stay in touch with your new
Friends, so whether you are a native English speaker
Networking at a business event, or maybe if you're an English Learner looking to make more
English-speaking friends, this is for you now if this is your first time here welcome
My name is Gabby Wallace and I'd love to help you have better connections with people and better conversations
so let's jump into ten phrases that you can use to stay connected now a really
Important point here is that before you ask for someone's contact information
I think it's really important to establish that you have some reason to stay in touch
So maybe you have a common interest or an activity you'd like to do together or like an event that you both want to go?
To so something in common
Otherwise if there's no reason for you to really stay in touch, it just feels a little awkward
so first
establish that you have something in common and then go ahead and use one of these phrases now as you're watching this I want to
Know what is your favorite way to stay in touch with people?
What do you use the email whatsapp Instagram and can you think of any other?
Phrases that are not listed here. Can you add them to the comments and help us out? All right. Here we go
Number one, let's exchange
Info let's exchange info. So simply make the suggestion
Hey, let's exchange info or we should change info or let's exchange contact information
So different ways of saying the same thing, but it's very common. It's very natural to simply say. Hey, let's exchange info
It's been great talking with you over - you're gonna ask more specifically do you use whatsapp? Yeah. Sure. Let me give you my number
Number 3. Do you have Instagram? Yeah, let me give you my profile
Let's follow each other number 4 you can simply offer your information
Let me give you my Instagram so we can stay in touch
Let me give you my email so we can stay in touch
Let me give you my phone number so we can stay in touch number 5
This one is a little bit more advanced a little bit more
Ninja skills because you're actually going to say something that makes the other person
Want to give you their contact?
Information so number 5 is I'm going to an events
Next week that I'd love to invite you to so you should actually have an event in mind
Ideally and then that person hopefully will say oh, that sounds interesting
You know and tell them a little bit about the event and hopefully they will want to give you their information
Because they would like to be invited to that event number 6. This one is really great for a business networking context
Is it okay if I reach out to you about this in a couple weeks or?
Two for one here. Is it okay if I circle back to you about this in a couple weeks?
Another person says yeah sure. Let me give you my contact information number seven. I'd really love to followup with you on this topic
Let's exchange information. So obviously you can mix and match these phrases here
You don't have to use only one you can use
Two of them or three of them depending on your conversation number eight. Is it okay if we stay in touch?
Sure, that'd be great. Here's my contact info number nine. How can I connect with you after this?
Oh, here's my card. And finally number ten pretty direct and simple
Do you mind if I get your contact info or do you mind if I get your contact information?
So pay attention to if you're learning English to the pronunciation here
You can make your pronunciation sound a little bit more natural
If you say let me instead of let's meet so now if you get someone's contact information
What are you gonna do with it in next week's video? We're gonna talk about how to write better email in English
So this will be really helpful because you're gonna know in next week's video
Exactly what to say when you follow up with someone in an email because what is the point if you get someone's contact information?
But then you never follow up with them. It's so sad. So next week Wednesday 10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time
We're gonna learn ten phrases that you need to know to write better
Emails for networking for business reasons and even for making new friends. So awesome now what to watch next?
You should check out last week's video about how to change the topic or end a conversation right up
Here another suggestion is to check out the conversation killers video right over here so that you can have better conversations
And get to that point where people want to give you their contact
Info, so I will see you in both of these videos and thank you for watching. Bye for now