What useful expressions to end a conversation.
Okay, you're having a conversation and you want to end it.
But you want to do it politely.
This is a repeat after me lesson.
Let's practice some phrases.
Let me set it up first.
All right, imagine.
You've run into someone.
Run into someone?
What does that mean?
That means you met them suddenly, unexpectedly.
You run into someone.
You've run into someone on the street.
Shared a few words.
Shared a few words is a fancy way to say.
Had a conversation, chatted with them, talked a little bit, shared a few words and are now ready to part ways.
If you're ready to part ways, you're ready to go in your own direction.
They are going this way.
You are going that way.
We are parting ways.
Today, we'll practice some useful expressions for this situation.
We'll practice some expressions you can use to end a conversation politely.
We want to be polite, right?
So after a brief friendly exchange, here's another way to say conversation or chat or talk to someone an exchange.
We had a brief friendly exchange.
We had a short friendly conversation.
These phrases can help you conclude the interaction.
Another way to say conversation is an interaction.
We had a little chat.
We talked, we had an interaction.
So you conclude the interaction smoothly while maintaining a courteous and friendly tone.
That's our goal today.
All right, let's practice this.
I want you to repeat after me, okay?
Here we go.
I don't want to keep you, but it was great talking with you.
Again.
I don't want to keep you, but it was great talking with you.
I don't want to keep you, but it was great talking with you.
I don't want to keep you.
So I don't want to keep you from going where you were intending to go.
So I don't want to stop you from going.
I don't want to keep you here.
But it was great talking with you.
Oh, I don't want to keep you.
I will let you go.
Alright, let's look at another one here.
I have to go now, but I hope you have a great day.
I have to go now, but I hope you have a great day.
I have to go now, but I hope you have a great day.
You try.
I have to...
To go now.
I have to go now.
I have to go now.
But I hope you have a great day.
It was really nice seeing you, but I should get going now.
It was really nice seeing you, but I should get going now.
It was really nice seeing you, but I should get going now.
But I should get going.
If you get going, you continue moving in the direction that you were going.
Let's get going.
If you stopped, took a break maybe, and you need to go again, you say, let's get going.
So I should get going now.
I should continue my journey.
It was really nice seeing you, but I should get going now.
I'm glad we bumped into each other.
Have a great rest of your day.
Bumped into.
Just unexpectedly met on the street or anywhere.
You bump into someone.
You unexpectedly meet them.
I'm glad we bumped into each other.
Have a great rest of your day.
That's a good phrase to know.
We don't use it a lot, but we use it.
Have a great rest of your day.
I'm glad we bumped into each other.
Have a great rest of your day.
Okay, good.
Well, I should let you go.
Take care.
Well, I should let you go.
Take care.
Well, I should let you continue.
Go where you were intending to go.
You take care now.
I should really be going, but it was great to see you.
I should really be going, but it was great to see you.
I should really be going, but it was great to see you.
I hope we catch up again soon.
Bye for now.
I hope we catch up again soon.
Bye for now.
Catch up.
If you catch up with someone, you find out what they've been up to.
What have you been up to?
What have you been doing?
You catch up.
I hope we catch up again soon.
Bye for now.
I have to run, but it was lovely chatting.
I have to run.
I'm in a hurry.
I can't stay and talk.
I have to run.
I have to run, but it was lovely chatting.
It was a pleasure to chat with you, to talk with you.
I have to go, but let's get together sometime soon.
It was great to see you.
We should grab dinner sometime.
So if you grab dinner, it's not like a serious dinner.
It's like a quick... When you grab dinner, it usually refers to not expensive food.
You know, quick food.
Because you grab and go.
It was great to see you.
We should grab dinner sometime.
It was lovely to see you, but I need to run now.
OK, so if you're in a hurry and you got to go, you can say oh, it was lovely to see you, but I need to run now.
All right, I think that's it.
No, I just remembered.
I'm like, why is there a blank slide here?
I don't get it.
And then I remembered.
Oh, that's right.
I'm going to say all the sentences kind of like we do on shadowing.
Feel free to read along or shadow me.
I'm going to say all of them.
Here we go.
I don't want to keep you, but it was great talking with you.
I have to go now, but I hope you have a great day.
It was really nice seeing you, but I should get going now.
I'm glad we bumped into each other.
Have a great rest of your day.
Well, I should let you go.
Take care.
I should really be going, but it was great to see you.
I hope we catch up again soon.
Bye for now.
I have to run, but it was lovely chatting.
I have to go, but let's get together sometime soon.
It was great to see you.
We should grab dinner sometime.
It was lovely to see you, but I need to run now.
I need to run.
I gotta.
I gotta run now.
I have to.
I must.
I need to.
I gotta.
I gotta run.
I gotta run.
All right.
That's it.
Boom.
Good workout.
Keep moving forward one step at a time.
I'll see you in the next step.