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I'm sorry!

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Justin... hi, sorry, I have to apologize to
Justin Bieber, because I have already made

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a mistake.

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You might be asking, "What are you talking
about, you just started the video?"

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Today's video is "sorry vs. excuse me".

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And now, I'm living in Canada and they're
very - they're world-famous for saying "sorry".

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But even Canadians can learn a lesson from
this particular lesson, because there's a

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time to use "excuse me" and a time to use
"sorry".

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Let's go to the board and explore it.

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So, E. E's singing as well: I'm sorry!

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And Justin Bieber is Canadian.

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I guess in this song he couldn't say "excuse
me" because he already screwed up.

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How do we know?

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We're going to explain on the board here.

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And I've put them in order for a specific
reason, because they happen at different times.

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We say "excuse me", "excuse me" is a phrase,
okay, because it's got more than two words.

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It's not a word, it's a phrase, but I broke
it down and said, "Well, let's look at excuse".

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I know what "me" is, right, pronoun.

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But why do we say "excuse me"?

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Well, we - excuse is a verb.

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It means to judge with forgiveness.

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In other words, you're about to see something
and when you judge or think about it, you

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need to do it with forgiveness in your heart.

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Which means you need to give me some space
and not to judge me badly or be too - too

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hard on me.

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Okay?

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Also, it means to overlook, it means to not
look at something, to go by it.

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So, if you overlook something - imagine there's
a white wall and there's a little black mark

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right there.

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Now, you go "The wall is perfectly clean,
but there's a little black mark."

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You're not going to destroy the wall, you'll
just overlook it and say "Okay, I'm just going

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to ignore that because it's a small blemish
or a small - a small mark and it doesn't destroy

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the whole thing."

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Or apologize.

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So, when you say, "excuse me", you can be
apologizing to someone.

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In this case, it's a general rule, we can
say excuse me is usually said before you have

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done something wrong.

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Okay?

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And to give you examples where this might
come in true, or be true, the first one is

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to get someone's attention.

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Now, in a restaurant, you'll find a lot of
Canadians or - not Canadians, Americans, British

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people, they'll go "Excuse me, excuse me",
because they want to get your attention.

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They're directing to get someone to look at
them.

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They haven't done anything wrong, but they
do need your attention.

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So "excuse me" comes up there, right?

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Remember we talk about forgiveness, overlook,
and apologize?

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So, overlook me yelling in the restaurant,
"excuse me", because I actually need your help.

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Or in a store, I need your help.

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I don't know your name, your name night be
"Susie", but I don't know Susie, so I have

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to go "Excuse me", okay?

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So, forgive me for calling you like that,
but we don't know each other well enough yet.

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Interrupt somebody.

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Now, imagine I'm working at my desk and you
need my attention, right?

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So, going back to attention.

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But I'm actually working.

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I'm not just standing there.

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You might say, "Excuse me", because I'm interrupting
you, right?

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And we go up to here, when we go, I'm apologizing
for interrupting you during your work, right?

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It's very polite, because in saying that,
I'm acknowledging or I know that you're working

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and I respect that, but I need your attention.

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And the third one we have down here is: ask
somebody to move.

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Now, I'm apologizing in a way because I am
interrupting you, but I need your attention

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because you have to move.

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Whew.

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All three.

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So, if you're getting on a bus and someone's
sitting there and they have their bag there

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and you go, "Excuse me, can I have that seat?"

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Okay, excuse me, I need your attention, I
don't know your name.

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I'm interrupting you because you're sitting
down, maybe you're playing a video game, I

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don't know.

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And I'm asking you to move, please.

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Alright?

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So, excuse me, could you move over?

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I need the chair.

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Cool?

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Alright.

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So, we've got all that.

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This is "excuse me".

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Now, there are some exceptions to that, where
I might say, "I'm sorry to interrupt" when

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- sorry, let me come back to you on that one,
because I actually want to do that over here

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when we say "sorry".

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This is an exception that I will come back to.

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Let's go over to "sorry", seeing as I started
there and I'm sorry I did.

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I'll go over to "sorry" to show you how that's
different.

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"Sorry" is an adjective, so right at the bat
we can see that - right off the bat, sorry,

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we can see that an adjective is different
than a phrase.

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So, even in the formation they're different,
right?

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When we talk about "sorry", it means to feel
distress, something is stressing you out.

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It means also offer sympathy, which you don't
see over here, right?

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And it's an apology, so this is where they
come together and this is where people have

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a problem.

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Because we know "sorry" is an apology and
"excuse me" can be used to apologize for doing

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something, but apologize is a verb and an
apology is a noun, okay?

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So, we're offering two different things when
we use these words, and we want to keep that

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in mind.

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Now, here's the other difference, besides
the structure.

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We usually say sorry after 
you've done something wrong.

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Now, keep that in mind.

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We use "excuse me" before we've done something,
so we're saying we know what we're about to

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do isn't comfortable or isn't good, and I
want to bring that attention.

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I want to be polite and let you know.

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But we say "sorry" after we've done it, because
it's like "Uh, too late, I've already done it."

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So, "excuse me?" doesn't quite work.

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You have to say "I'm sorry" because I've done it.

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We use "sorry" to show sympathy for unpleasant news.

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Let me give you an example.

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I'm sorry to hear that your dog died.

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I have sympathy for the pain that you're going through.

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I feel for you, okay?

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Disappointment at what you wish you could have done.

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Let me give you an example.

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Oh sorry - what you could have done and
 you could have changed something.

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So, I'll give you an example.

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You have 100 dollars and you buy comic books.

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100 dollars' worth of comic books.

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Batman comic books.

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You know I love Batman, but I forgive you
already, okay?

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Don't worry, you don't have to say sorry to me.

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But you buy 100 dollars' worth of Batman comic
books.

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Then you go to the train, you get to the train
and the train costs 75 dollars.

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I bet you're sorry now that you spent your
money.

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You wish you could have changed it.

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You did the right thing!

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Trust me, in 100 years, those Batman comic
books will be worth way more money!

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But you wish you could have done something
- you're sorry that that had happened, okay?

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So, what about this one?

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Sorry to say you can't do something.

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Well oftentimes, someone will say, "Hey, I'm
having a party Friday, can you come?"

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You go, "I'm sorry, I can't do it.

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I've got to work that night.

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Wish I could, but I just can't do it, sorry."

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Right?

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You can't use "excuse me" in this one.

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You have to say "I'm sorry", right?

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Because you are apologizing in a way.

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You're offering up an apology for your inability
to attend that function or that invitation.

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Now, I like this one.

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Describe a bad situation.

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I know you're going, "How can you say 'sorry'?

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I don't understand."

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Well, how about this?

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You're a sorry excuse of a man.

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You're a bad man.

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This is a sorry excuse for an educational
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It's a bad school.

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So, you can put that "sorry" in a sentence
and you're not apologizing.

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You're saying what this is is disgusting or
bad, mwahaha.

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I like it, see?

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I'm not just giving you basic English.

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I'm giving you English to insult people in
a native way.

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Now, can you imagine walking up to someone
to say, "You're a sorry excuse for man".

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You're saying "You're not a man, you're nothing.

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You're not even a boy, you're a worm!"

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Sorry, E. No, I don't mean - No disrespect, okay?

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You understand?

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Right?

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So, you say, "It's a sorry situation", you're
saying there's no excuse for this.

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Some people are sorry examples of leaders.

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I'll let you do your own math.

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Okay.

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So, I wanted to come back over here because
I said "excuse me" and "sorry" can't be used

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for the same.

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But sometimes, we use "sorry" to interrupt.

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Remember I said we could talk about "excuse
me" because it's before you do something,

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and I came back and said "oop", because I
kind of interrupted myself.

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Here's the exception where you say "I'm sorry".

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When you say "I'm sorry to interrupt you",
it's because - now, let's take a step back,

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understand the logic here.

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As I say to you, "I'm sorry to interrupt",
I've already interrupted you.

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Remember, I said you use "sorry" after you've
done something?

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Well, just me saying "I'm sorry to interrupt
you" has interrupted you.

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I've already done it.

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So, sometimes you hear - because I know some
people will go "Well, you can say 'I'm sorry

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to interrupt you'".

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Yeah, that's an exception because actually
you've already interrupted them.

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"Excuse me" is like - we say that as a preamble
or we're saying pre like "before I interrupt you."

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But the fact of the matter is you already
have interrupted someone.

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So that's why sometimes you hear people say
"I'm sorry to interrupt" instead of "Excuse

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me to interrupt", because they understand
just by saying the words.

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If somebody is concentrating and writing and
you go "I'm sorry to interrupt".

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You're like "Yeah, you just did.

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I was busy, what do you want?"

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But I'm trying to be polite and here, I'm
acknowledging that I've already done it.

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Here, I'm saying I'm not about to, or I'm
just about to interrupt, but I want to be polite.

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I'm not an ignorant or not an annoying person.

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Cool?

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So, I'm about to - oh, sorry.

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I forgot.

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Notice how I said "I'm sorry"?

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I forgot about the exception over here.

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Now, there is an exception for sorry that
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you have to say "sorry".

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After you pass gas.

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And you're probably saying, "What is passing gas?"

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Well, if you're thinking - I know what gas
is, teacher.

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I know it's not petrol.

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Gasoline in North America is what I put in
my car and I can drive away, but I don't know

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why I would have to say "sorry".

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Well, this is what happens when you - when
you pass gas or you fart, that's the word

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we actually use, when you fart or you have
bad smell coming from your bum into the air

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that other people have to smell.

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Then you say, "Excuse me".

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What?

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You don't say "sorry", you say "excuse me".

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I don't know why, because you've already put
it in the air and everyone has to smell it.

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You go, "Oh my God, excuse me.

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Oh, it was unfortunate, I didn't mean for
that to come out, oh, bad."

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Or, here's my favorite one.

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Another one for "excuse me" instead of "sorry"
is - I have to give you two.

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I'll give you this one right now, when you
don't like what you hear, you say "excuse me."

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And you're probably going, "Sorry?"

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When you say "sorry" in that particular sense,
it means I didn't hear what you said correctly.

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So sometimes you'll hear people say "sorry?"
and they mean "What did you say?"

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Well, repeat.

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If I go, "Excuse me?"

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Both of these things are talking about hearing,
but in the first case, "sorry" means "I'm

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sorry, I didn't hear that sound you were giving
me."

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But when I go "Excuse me?"

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I don't like what I just heard.

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I don't like what you said.

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So, if you said, "Hey James, you and E should
retire this show."

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And I go "Excuse me?

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Huh, huh?

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Excuse me?"

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And you might go "Sorry, didn't mean to say
that."

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I go "Yeah yeah, mmhmm, that's right."

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Anyway.

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So, the exceptions are funny because I put
them on opposite sides just to tell you that

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in this particular case after passing gas,
you say "excuse me", you don't say "sorry",

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right?

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Unless it's really foul or really bad, then
you should say sorry, because that's just

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rude, okay?

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But when you say "excuse me", you don't say
"sorry" for "I don't like what I heard", you

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say "Excuse me?"

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And from the tone of my voice you can tell
that I don't like what you just said to me.

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Alright?

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But when I say "sorry", I actually didn't
hear what you said.

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Are we cool?

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Great.

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Now we've done that.

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A quick review, just a quick one.

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Just remember, "excuse me" comes first, and
that's why I put it first.

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Before you do something that you're going
to be sorry about.

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Sorry, there.

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And "sorry" comes after you've done that,
after you've done something wrong.

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If you can keep those in mind, you'll know
almost 90% when to use them, and don't forget

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the exceptions I just told you about.

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When passing gas, you say "Sorry", no, "Excuse
me", you say "excuse me", remember?

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Because I don't know why we say it afterwards,
but we do.

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And "excuse me" is used for things you don't
like that you hear.

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"Excuse me?

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What do you mean my Prime Minister isn't a good guy?"

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Some people don't think he's a good guy.

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Or, "I'm sorry to interrupt", even though
because the interruption has already taken

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place, okay?

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Even though I told you you can use "Excuse
me".

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Now we're done both of those.

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Let's go, because we have to do our homework
and maybe more than that, we have to do, I'm

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sorry, our quiz.

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Okay, I'm back.

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Sorry about the wait.

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Excuse me as we amble over to the board, which
means to walk over to the board.

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E and I were having a conversation and let's
take a look at it and see how we can use the

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two words we were working on, sorry and excuse
me, to change this into something a little

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bit different.

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Okay?

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So, first, E says, "Can I have your attention?"

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And then James said "I didn't hear what you
said."

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And E says, "I don't want to disturb you,
but could you move your foot?"

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James said, "I don't think I like what you said."

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E said, "You're stepping on my foot."

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And James says, "Oh, I apologize for doing
that."

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Kind of formal.

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So, let's look at what I think the first mistake we have.

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The first thing I think we can get rid of
is this.

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Yes, the whole sentence.

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How about the next one?

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Yeah, I think we can get rid of the whole
sentence.

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What about this one?

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Okay.

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And the next one, you're going, "Oh my God
James, you're erasing everything!"

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Yeah, because once we use these words, they
have so much information loaded in - sorry,

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there.

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Your foot.

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Because I'm asking you a question, I almost forgot that.

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There's so much information loaded in the
two words we are using, excuse me and sorry,

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that whole sentences can be taken - or sentence
fragments can be just removed and use those

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words alone.

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And here, another one we can take - get rid
of all of that.

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And that.

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Whew.

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There's almost nothing left, and that's right.

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Let's see what happens when we actually put
in the corrections for these sentences.

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And you're going to have a whole conversation
with just a few words like a native speaker.

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Alright, ready?

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So, "Can I have your attention?"

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What do we say when we said - to get someone's
attention?

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You can just say this, you can just say "Excuse me."

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That's it.

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"Excuse me."

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And say it in a questioning way.

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The voice goes up, "excuse me", it's like
a question, an invitation.

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I've gotta be careful, I don't want to keep
popping the cap.

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Alright.

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So, excuse me for doing that.

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Probably destroys your eardrums.

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And then James can say this, watch.

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He can say this, he can just say this one
word, one word.

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You can just say this: Sorry?

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Yep, that's it.

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You're like, "What?"

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Yeah, that's all I need to say.

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We're having a real conversation now.

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Next thing, yeah.

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Remember, the offense has already happened
in this case, so we're not going to say "Excuse

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me, could you move your foot?", but "Sorry,
could you move your foot?"

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Now, James says - I'm not usually this rude,
okay?

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Before you guys think it's me.

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It's just me writing a story.

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Because you know I love E and I would never
step on his foot.

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First of all, he doesn't have a foot.

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He's a worm, so that would be a physical impossibility.

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Okay.

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But I could say this.

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And then finally, at the end of this story,
at the end.

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Let me just clean up the board a little bit.

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Ah, hold on a second, jeez.

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Excuse me for spelling this incorrectly.

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There we go.

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And I need to - alright.

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So, look how we've changed this entire story.

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We started off with all of this and it can
be made down to just this.

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"Excuse me?"

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"Sorry?"

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"Sorry, but could you move your foot?"

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"Excuse me?"

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"You're stepping on my foot."

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"Oh, I'm sorry."

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It's like, but all these words!

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Well, it's right there.

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It's in the tone.

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It's what it's loaded with.

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With this "excuse me", it's like "Can I have
your attention?"

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"Excuse me?"

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And the other person saying "Sorry?"

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I didn't hear what you just said to me.

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And then, "Sorry, but could you move your
foot?"

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Like, I'm sorry to disturb you as you step
on me.

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And the other guy's like, "Excuse me?

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Like what?"

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Like, "You're stepping on my foot."

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Then, "Oh, I'm sorry" I apologize for that.

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Anyway, I apologize for - Oh, having to give
you the bonus and almost ending this video

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too early.

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But, let's look over here.

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I'm going to give you some other words for
"excuse me" and "sorry" that are typically

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used in English, although you'll find that
"excuse me" and "sorry" are used more.

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Apologize.

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Apologize is a verb and it's to say you're
sorry for doing something.

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I would say that's a little bit more formal
that "sorry".

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We throw around "sorry".

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When you say "apologize", you're taking the
time to maybe give a little bit more, more

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emphasis to how sorry you feel.

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Like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry - I'm sorry I stepped
on your foot, but I apologize means I'm very

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sorry about what I've done.

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Okay?

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Pardon is to forgive an offense.

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You'll notice I have that as a noun and a
verb because a government can pardon a criminal.

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So, if a criminal has done something wrong,
they can forgive that offense.

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We can also use pardon, funny enough, to say
when I don't hear something.

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If someone says something and I go "Excuse
me, pardon?"

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It means "What did you say?"

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Similar to "sorry", like I didn't hear what
you said, pardon?

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Can you repeat that?

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I beg your pardon, which no one really says
these days, but if you did say to someone,

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"I beg your pardon?", it's like could you
repeat that?

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I don't believe you said that!

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Okay, regret.

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Regret's an interesting one, because it's
going to seem similar to apologize and sorry.

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You feel sad about something, but there's
also another thing that usually goes with

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the verb type, when we use it as a verb.

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It's about a lost opportunity.

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Now, I need you to think about that.

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Because to say you're sorry, you wish that
bad thing didn't happen.

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But when you regret it, it's like that bad
thing happened, but also you notice that there

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was something lost, a lost opportunity.

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Like, I regret not helping my son in the Army.

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No, that's not a good sentence.

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Let me put it this way: I regret not asking
that girl out for a date, because she's a

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brilliant woman and she would have 
made an amazing wife.

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So, not only means sorry, I'm sad about it,
but it was a lost opportunity to have a great wife.

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Or, I regret not writing that book five years
ago, because now someone else has written

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it and no one wants to read my book.

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I'm sorry, not just sorry, I feel sad about
it, but I lost a good opportunity.

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So, you want to use regret.

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It's a nice word that adds a little bit more
"oomph", right?

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It gives more information to people.

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Condolences.

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Condolences.

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Condolences is an interesting word, because
it's not used often, but it has a very strong

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meaning in our society, because it means deep
sympathy or deeply sorry for.

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And it's usually used for death, okay?

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So, you're not going to say "My condolences
on you not doing well on a test."

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Not good enough.

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My condolences for stepping on your foot.

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No, it doesn't meet the level.

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Somebody died or has a serious disease?

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My condolences on the death of - I don't like
using it this way, but on the death of a parent

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or a child.

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This "sorry" comes from the bottom of my heart,
okay?

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So, it's not used often, but it is used - nobody
makes a mistake using it, so I don't want

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you to use it, okay?

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My condolences on your steak not being cooked well?

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No.

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Doesn't fly.

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You clearly don't speak English.

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But for death or something serious, absolutely.

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Alright?

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So now, you've got a formal word like a formal
jacket you can put on when necessary.

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Okay?

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Cool.

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Now, what do I want you to do for homework?

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I want you to write a letter to somebody that
you have wronged.

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When you have wronged them, it means you have
done something to hurt them.

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Yeah, you don't have to show anyone this one.

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You can make an imaginary letter, okay?

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You can make an imaginary few sentences.

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But I want you to do that and I want you to
use at least three of the words here.

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Example, you could say - I'm not a criminal,
but "I regret killing those five people and

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eating them", right?

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"My condolences to the families of - who had
to suffer through what I have done.

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But I hope that the government will pardon
me because of the apology I have met."

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Look, I just used all those.

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Boom, there.

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I speak English.

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And when you speak English, you can do the
same thing, right?

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I use it as a pardon, as what the government
gives, I used regret, sorry for what I did.

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My condolences, because people lost their
lives, and I apologized instead of saying

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"sorry", right?

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Anyway.

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You'll have to excuse me because we have to
draw this lesson to an end.

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But what I want to leave you with is the website,
www.engvid.com . Go there please.

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Do the test, see how well you've actually
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And this goes out to Mr. TN.

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You know who you are because of my "just/only"
video.

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You came down and said, "James, could you
do me a video on sorry and excuse me?

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I get confused" and I hope I cleared up your
confusion.

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And for any of you out there, if you want
me to do a video, pop something down.

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Watch the video, leave a message, and I do
read them and I'll get back to you, alright?

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Anyway, sorry, I've got to go, but have a
good one.

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See you soon.