hi everybody and welcome back to love English and welcome back to twelve days
of Christmas with love English now as you guys know we are approaching the
festive period in the UK and we're getting very excited about all the
events we're going to go to and catching up with friends and family but not all
of those events are great fun sometimes you end up getting stuck in an awkward
conversation with someone at work that you don't know very well your boss, a
family member that just keeps and keeps talking and you want to end the
conversation but you want to do it subtly and politely, after all there is
only so many times you can hear your boss talking about his cheese-making
hobby or that you can put up with your auntie Linda showing you your baby
photos again so in this video guys we're going to look at three ways to end an
awkward conversation
but you guys you can of course use these all the year round at work with friends
with family just when you want to bring a conversation which is really going
nowhere to an end now the key guys with all of these is of course politeness
but it's also not making the person feel bad you don't want to let them know that
you want to get out of the conversation you don't want them to know that you
think they're boring so you always want to have some kind of excuse as to why
you have to leave so in number one we extricate which means find a way out of
the conversation by saying that we feel bad we feel guilty that we haven't spent
enough time with other people there's no way that they can feel bad about that of
course they want you to be polite to everybody so this is a great way to get
out of the conversation so you can say wow that's so interesting I really
enjoyed hearing about it could you tell me the rest later I just feel really bad
that I haven't spent any time with this colleague yet or I haven't talked to my
aunt yet this kind of thing and then you can say well we'll catch up again later
even if you don't intend to do that it's a nice way to round off the conversation
number two it's a cliched excuse guys but it still works you can say that you
you've seen a call that you need to respond to or a message or an email it
still works even if people might be a little
suspicious it's still a good excuse so you can say oh it's been really great
talking but I've just seen an email and must respond to it it's a really
important one or I've just had a text message I need to reply to do you mind
if we catch up later or do you mind if we carry on this chat another time and
if you are worried that they might think you're being rude or they're suspicious
you can always add I'm so sorry I hope you don't think I'm being rude number
three sf my personal favourite and it's one I use all the time and basically
it's where you suggest that you go and talk to other people and then slowly you
can start to separate from that person that you would rather not spend any more
time with so you can say wow it's been really interesting talking to you or
really great catching up shall we shall we go and network shall we go and
talk to some other people or you can say shall we go and do the
rounds which means go and network meet other people to do the rounds at the
party so I always use this one and it always works for me so it was great
talking to you it was great catching up what do you say we go and do the rounds
now what do you say we go and network usually this works because people want
to do that as well they want to socialize as well but sometimes it's
difficult doing it on your own so it's quite nice to do it with somebody and
also it means that you are not making them feel bad that you're saying bye-bye
I want to end this you're suggesting you do it together so that's a great one
guys give that a go right guys they were our three phrases and ideas about how to
end an awkward conversation do tell me below in the comments what do you do if
you want to end an awkward conversation and what phrases do you use be sure to
tune in soon guys for the next video which is on five ways to give a
compliment in English we'll see soon guys bye bye