They are one of the most beautiful things in the whole world.

I love complimenting people, but I hate receiving them.

How do I respond?

How do I say thank you in the best way possible without getting all awkward and shy?

Well, let's find out today.

Hello, It's me, your mate Elliott from E.

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And I'm here to help you with responding to compliments with the correct intonation, with the correct pronunciation on with the correct words.

Compliments are amazing.

As I said, I think it's very important that we complement people.

If we're thinking something about someone and it's something great, something beautiful, something amazing, we should say it because people deserve to hear it.

We deserve to make people happy.

But we do have to understand that sometimes when people give us compliments or we give people compliments, they're quite difficult to respond to unless you're really, really confident person.

Now, most of the time, people who are studying English are not the most confident people in the world.

The reason why is because, well, you're studying English.

You're using a different language, and sometimes you don't have the right words or the right intonation to use.

So don't worry, I understand.

And if I gave you a compliment on you, maybe gave me the wrong answer or said it in the wrong way, I'd know why on most natives do.

But let's try and convince them that we are the experts.

So let's say somebody says to you, Oh, I love your haircut.

Okay, that's a really nice compliment.

Someone likes your haircut.

Fantastic.

How do you respond?

Just say thank you.

Now we are going to get into more detail and give you a few more options.

But if you're ever worried, say thank you, but it's not as easy as that.

How do you use intonation to sound like you really mean it?

It's quite tricky on this is a problem 90% of my students have when they first joined my course, because they don't realize how important it actually is for natives, particularly British natives, to use Internation to create an effect on the create.

The effects that we're trying to create here when somebody compliments us is a thankful, grateful emotional tone on this tone.

The best tone I would say to use would be a rising tone, which falls back down.

A rise for or up, down tone.

You might want to call it.

Call it whatever you want, but the sound essentially, let's say we're saying Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thank you.

We're going up and then we're falling back down.

The reason why we're doing this is because it's a tone which shows effort.

Is it home?

Which shows emotion.

We use it for good things, for bad things to sound friendly, to sound approachable.

So try an experiment with that tone when people are giving you compliments.

Same with the word.

Thanks.

Thanks.

Thanks.

Up, Down.

Thanks.

It really, really does show that we're thankful.

So please experiment with that tone and try and sing it in the right way.

If you can't pronounce the sounds, well, then you need to practice the sounds first, for example, that a sound in thanks.

I have so many students again who joined my course and they pronounced the act in thanks as air and it becomes thanks or thanks like an American.

This is simply because they're raising the tongue too high in the mouth and it's becoming an air like in Elliot.

But We need to keep the tongue down on open it.

Nice.

The mouth nice and wide and it becomes an A thanks.

Thanks.

You'd be surprised.

It's one of the most common words, but it's actually really difficult for many non natives to pronounce a zwelling thinking about the Internation and things like that.

Let's say I love your T shirt.

Thanks.

Thanks.

What if we don't want to just always say the word?

Thanks.

Well, we know from my previous lessons, we could say Cheers again.

Same tone.

Cheers.

Cheers.

And now we've said thank you in, um, or informal way.

But what if we want to say mawr?

What if we want to compliment the person back?

Well, my best advice, if you want to compliment someone back, is don't just return the favor.

You know, if somebody says I love your glasses and let's say they're wearing glasses to don't say, Oh, thanks.

I like yours, too.

But now it is okay to do that.

Don't worry, it's fine.

No one cares that much.

But if you want to show like you've made more effort, maybe just say thanks.

You're so kind.

That's really nice of you.

thanks or thanks.

It means a lot.

So what we're doing there is We're adding something onto the thanks.

We're complimenting them back, complimenting their personality and saying You're really kind or that's really nice of you.

Okay, we're saying that What?

That's what they've done.

That effort is really nice on.

We appreciate it.

You could even say thanks.

I appreciate it.

So I always do that.

If somebody compliments me, I try to add that in and say, You know, it means a lot or I appreciate it or something like that.

It does help Make sure you're using this up down tone on the important words Toe ADM.

Or Emotion and Mawr effect to the words you're saying now.

One more thing.

Let's say we want to start a conversation with this person they've complimented us on.

We're worried about what to say next, but we want to keep talking to them.

Now is the time you could return the favor, but with a question.

So, for example, let's go with T shirt.

Somebody says, Oh, hey, I love your T shirt.

You can respond and say, Oh, thanks, I like yours, too.

Where did you get it now in a more natural everyday Internation.

Thanks.

I like yours too, actually.

Where did you get it?

Where did you get it?

Now?

Firstly, I'm using a falling tone on Where did you get it?

Because this is what we call an open question.

Where did you get it?

Now, when we use a falling tone on a question most of the time, that's that falling tone is to show that it's an open question, not a yes, no question.

But remember when I said Oh, thanks.

I did a rise fall tone.

So thanks.

I like yours too, too.

Where did you get it?

Use that intonation on.

Now what we've done is we've turned it into a question.

So now we're building conversation.

The easiest thing to do is get other people to talk about themselves.

So turn it around back on them, say, Oh, thanks.

You're too kind.

I like yours too.

Where did you get it?

From on now we're asking them to talk about themselves on.

We've started a conversation Easy.

It's a great way of keeping a conversation going.

It's a great way of getting people to talk.

It's just great.

And It's British and it's what us British people do, especially the awkward ones like me.

Ask questions on people who can talk forever.

You know, As I said, if you want Thio, learn about intonation and how to pronounce all of these sounds in more detail, you're going to need, you know, some real professional help.

I'm here.

I'm a teacher.

I have an online course.

You can also talk to me on WhatsApp whenever you want with voice messaging or wechat.

If you're in China, Andi, Uh, you can do that while you take the course.

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And hopefully I can help you with improving your British accent.

Your pronunciation on overall your English.

So thank you very much for watching.

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Cheers again, guys.

I will see you soon.

Take care.

Bye.