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Hello, Sunshine, I'm Maria.
And my name is Rory.
And we are the hosts of the IELTS speaking for success podcast. The official Band 9 podcast that aims to help you improve your speaking skills as well as your listening skills along the way.
We started this podcast to give you gorgeous grammar and fabulous vocabulary for your high IELTS score, band 9 score.
And then Rory got band 9 for speaking.
And before that, I got a band 9 score for speaking.
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Oh Rory today we're gonna discuss a new topic.
We've never had this topic before.
Oh wow. Wow, what's the topic?
It's saying thank you.
Can you imagine dear listener, the first time in history we have a topic of saying thank you.
Ah, so cute and nice.
Let's talk about saying thank you.
Why do people need to say thank you?
Well, I suppose it's a nice way to show you appreciate something that someone's done for you but without the commitment of buying something, like a gift?
Not everything has to be so resource intensive, does it?
I don't know if they need to do it, but it's certainly expected.
On what occasions do you say thank you?
Oh, wow. It would be easier to say when I don't, to be honest. I always try to be polite to people, especially if they help me out, even in a minor way.
So that could be anything, like when they hold a door or let me pass them in a street with minimal fuss.
Do people in your country often say thank you?
I think so. They certainly seem to when I make the effort, to give them a hand, although certain older people seem to think that people in general are less thankful than before.
Maybe it was different back then.
I have no idea. Have you ever sent a thank you card to others?
Oh god, um... well I must have at some point, I suppose, though I can't remember exactly when, I think it might have been when I left...
uh, yeah, I left one of my friends after she let me stay with her for a few weeks, and that was really nice of her so I think I probably sent something then, and if I didn't I would have at least given her a goodbye present.
And if not then I can say it now, thank you Cheway for letting me stay with you when I was in Kyrgyzstan doing different things.
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See you soon! day. Do you, dear listener?
Actually, it's a good meditation practice.
Before you go to sleep, you should thank somebody or like us...
be thankful for what you have and pronounce it out loud or to yourself.
Yeah, so we say thank you.
And an adjective...
Rory, what's an adjective from?
Thank. To be thankful!
Yeah, we are thankful and the You could also be grateful and show gratitude for something.
It occurs to me that I didn't quite say that.
Another synonym is be grateful.
So I'm so grateful to you.
I'm so thankful for.
And thanks is an expression of gratitude.
So when you say thank you, you express your gratitude to someone.
It's a nice way to show that you appreciate something.
So you like something, you value something, you appreciate something or someone.
So someone has done something for you and you appreciate it, so you are grateful and you express your gratitude, okay?
And without any commitment of buying something like a gift, so no gifts, just we say, we use words.
On what occasions do you say thank like when, afterwards do you usually say thank you.
Occasions, like events or situations.
And Rory lives in Scotland.
He's from Scotland, so he's pretty much British.
So, and we know that in those countries people usually say thank you, thank you, thank you, sorry, sorry, sorry.
So these are like two words, thank you and sorry that they might overuse, they use it far too often.
How often is too often?
Hmm, that's a good question!
Yeah, but it depends on the country, right?
In certain countries, people say thank you all the time for nothing, right, also.
But in other countries, they don't.
And I'm usually quite...
I find it rude if a person doesn't say thank you when I give a present, for example.
Yeah, you should say thank you.
Yeah, but some people don't, it's just rude.
Like, what? Like I give you something even if you don't like it, like at least say thank you.
So don't do that, Delisa.
If someone gives you something just say thank you.
To be polite, to be nice, to be friendly.
So if a person helps out, so if a person helps me out, helps me, I usually say thank you.
And then you can give some examples.
If a person holds a door for me, so you are entering a shop and then the person holds the door for you.
You say thank you. Or if they let me pass them.
Right? Yeah. If you let me go past. You are on the streets and if you let me past them so I kind of go past them on the street, so I say thank you.
For presents like what else compliments all right so if I say like oh Rory you look gorgeous today Maria has never said that in her entire life but if she did then I would say thank you no come on I did say that you look stylish I know I know I'm just joking so yep Rory you look gorgeous and then Rory says oh thank you I appreciate it also we often say I appreciate it like thank you or she is for example yeah people say cheers like thanks cheers or that's so kind of you you can also say like thank you that's so kind of you your support means a lot to me such nice things huh so in your country
dear listener how often do people say thank you is it in your culture to thank people to be grateful to other people this episode is brought to you by State Farm knowing you could be saving money for the things you really want is a great feeling.
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So when I make an effort to give them a hand, give a hand, help people.
So when I help people, when I help out other people, they usually say thank you.
Older people are less thankful than before in my country.
Well, no, older people think that people in general are less thankful than before.
I did say accepting older people.
I'm sure some older people don't really care about this kind of thing, but I think it's the opinion of many older people that we are less thankful, or less grateful.
but I don't know I don't see this yeah maybe in your country like young people, teenagers are less thankful than before yeah and the other day you know I was sitting on the bench and there were many teenagers around me like talking oh my god Rory I was like I was listening to what they were saying I was looking at what they were wearing wow I was a bit scared.
Wow, you guys are scary.
Oh, because they were talking very loudly and they were using really bad words.
Some of them were fighting.
Well, that's about being impolite or not regarding other people's feelings.
That's not about saying thank you.
We can send a thank you card to other people.
So I've never sent any thank you card or a thank you email, for example.
So have you ever sent a thank you card?
If you've never done it, you can talk about thank you emails or a thank you message because usually we just write messages on Telegram, Whatsapp, so you can say that I usually write to my friends, So thank them.
It's kind of, ooh, I can't remember doing that.
So I think it's kind of it's a thing of the past, right?
When we used to send thank you cards.
Well, letter writing in general will be.
But just because it's a thing of the past doesn't mean to say people don't do it.
I certainly have, but I can't remember when.
Yeah, for example, someone helped you out or someone let you stay with you for some time, and then you left a thank you card for them, and it's a special postcard. Very important to point out the grammar. I said, I must have at some point, and it might have been.
So if you're not sure, you can use this more complex grammar to express the idea that we are not so sure about things.
Yeah and you can say that.
Yeah, I wrote to my friends, like, thank you for giving me this dress thank you for helping me.
And Rory, do you remember any situation when like someone thanked you really like nicely?
Yes, actually two years ago, when I was in the middle of doing my Delta and I did it in a school in Turkey and a whole load of students came up to me at one point in the middle of the school and they asked me if I was who I was and I said yes.
And they were like, thank you so much for the podcast. If we didn't have it, then we wouldn't get the marks that we need.
And I was like, oh, thank you.
That's really nice to hear.
And this was completely unsolicited.
I went to that school and I never told them anything about what I did.
I just said, oh, I'm an English teacher.
I just want to be here to do my Delta and that's all.
No drama. And still the recognition happens and people come up and say thank you.
What's next? It's fame.
They recognized your voice.
Nice. It was so funny, it was so strange.
Nice. But it was also extremely nice.
So if you are the students who thanked me, then you're very welcome and hopefully things are going well.
Yay. So, dear listener, a very nice, cute warm topic of saying thank you yeah you can read some articles on the internet about gratitude expressing gratitude and yeah I don't have a thank you joke ruru do you have a thank you joke no but thank you for listening how about thanks a butloud no no buts thank you so much for listening dear listener you know thank you for listening to this thank you episode We are forever thankful for all your listening.
Bye! Why do people need to say thank you?
Well, I suppose it's a nice way to show you appreciate something that someone's done for you, but without the commitment of buying something, like a gift. But not everything has to be so resource intensive, does it?
I don't know if they need to do it, but It's certainly expected.
On what occasions do you say thank you?
Oh wow, it would be easier to say when I don't, to be honest. I always try to be polite to people, especially if they help me out, even in a minor way, and so that could be anything, like when they hold a door or let me pass them in a street with minimal fuss.
Do people in your country often say thank you?
I think so. They certainly seem to when I make the effort to give them a hand, although certain older people seem to think that people in general are less thankful than before.
Maybe it was different back then, I have no idea.
Have you ever sent a thank you card to others?
Oh god. Uhm, well I must have at some point, I suppose, though I can't remember exactly when I think it might have been when I left uh yeah I left one of my friends after she let me stay with her for a few weeks and that was really nice of her so I think I probably sent something then and if I didn't I would have at least given her a goodbye present and if not then I can say it now thank you Chi We for letting me stay with you when I was in Kyrgyzstan doing different things.
