you're going to learn other ways to say,
Some of these are specific to work environments,
including you will benefit from taking this lesson.
The lesson is going to work like this.
so you can see the phrasing context.
And then I'll explain it a little bit
so that you fully understand it.
We'll also have some more examples too.
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My name is Jack from To Fluency and let's get started.
Here we're starting with a retraction.
So I don't know becomes, I dunno.
And you're going to hear this all the time.
If you watch movies and TV shows in English,
let's actually practice this because by practicing,
you can better understand it when you hear it.
Okay. So let's start at the end.
No.
No.
De,
de,
And then with some intonation, repeat after me.
Again, this is more informal and you don't have to use this,
but it's really useful for comprehension
Jet, who are Preston playing tomorrow?
Hmm.
In some cases, this means you're not certain,
I'm not sure. You can also say,
I'm not sure, but I'll look it up.
Or these days you can simply ask Siri,
who are Preston North End play in tomorrow?
- [Siri] Preston North End takes on Derby County tomorrow,
That's an interesting phrase of work, to take on,
And you'll also notice that they pronounced it Derby County,
but the correct pronunciation is Darby County.
that I'm using are here instead of is.
Who are Preston North End playing tomorrow?
Preston North End are playing Darby County.
You'll hear Preston is, Preston is Darby County tomorrow.
Hey, are you guys open on Christmas Eve this year?
Great question. My boss isn't here right now.
of one that is used in business settings.
And when dealing with customers.
You can just say great question.
Great question. Which is a very indirect way of saying,
Notice that the employee also said,
And this means to contact somebody later to give them the
information that they asked for.
did that guy ever get back to you
on the estimate for fixing our roof?
Excuse me, could you tell me where the library is?
Oh, I'm, I'm not the best person to ask that question.
Sorry about the strange example.
But if you say I'm not the best person to ask that,
it means again, that you don't know,
but because you're not the right person
to ask for that specific situation,
the person presumed that he didn't know where the library
was because he didn't live there.
And therefore he wouldn't know.
what should I do to prepare for a job interview?
And I say, I'm not the best person to ask that
because I don't have specific knowledge
about how to get through interviews.
the swinger hit a Baltimore chop off the dish
that looked more like a Texas leaguer?
I have no idea what you're talking about.
to have no idea of what someone is talking about
means you have zero knowledge of what they're saying,
and you can't understand anything that they're saying.
And just for a reference, I'll leave that sentence,
the baseball jargon in the description.
So you can read more about this,
but I don't know what it means
now to have no idea can also be used in a different way.
It can be used for emphasis when talking about an
experience, whether this is good or bad or hard or amazing,
Oh, hey, how was your marathon?
Oh, you have no idea how hard that was.
My body's still aching five days after running it.
Before we move on to the next one.
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- Oh, I haven't got a clue what I'm going to get her
Well, what does she like doing?
What does she like in general?
This is similar to, I have no idea.
And again, this is quite direct.
Let's just practice the sentence. So repeat after me.
You can also say I haven't a clue,
but I think this is a little bit more informal
and it's probably specific to the US.
I haven't a clue. And another similar phrase is to say,
I'm clueless about what to get her for her birthday.
- Oh, hey, do you know where the library is?
This is where you apologize for not knowing something.
because you don't have the right information
because people like to apologize
and you might know this is quite common in the UK to
apologize for things like, oh, sorry, sorry.
Were you going to go first? Sorry. Sorry.
And I noticed this happening in the US too.
So instead of saying, I don't know, you can just say,
I'm sorry, I don't work here or I'm sorry,
I don't live here or I'm sorry, I don't have a clue.
- I've been meaning to ask you.
Who's Paul dating at the moment?
This is the opposite of apologizing,
where you're saying to somebody.
Well, don't ask me that question.
And it can often be used when you're irritated
that someone has asked you this question.
- [Phone Operator] Hello. Quick question.
Why did you get rid of the meat feast pizza.
- Don't ask me it. It wasn't my decision.
and I have no idea why they did it.
- What do you think they're building here?
My best guess is a new apartment complex,
My best guess is. This is when you don't know something,
but you wanna estimate, or you wanna have a guess
about what the right answer is.
do you think he'll run for president again?
I'm not sure and my best guess is, yeah, he will.
Sorry. That's been quite directed there.
What I to say was, if you enjoyed this lesson,
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What I want you to do now is to leave a comment
with other examples of how to say, I don't know,
or other examples of the ways that we have used in this
lesson and then check out the description
because I'll have some great resources for you,
the five step plan for English fluency.
I'll also leave the phrases that we have used today,
where you can read more about this subject.
Thank you for spending this time with me
while you're here on my channel.
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