Name: 對話技巧。用英語禮貌地打岔 (Conversation Skills: Interrupting politely in English)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:29:50.000Z
Duration: 11 min 33 s
Description: 【看影片學英語】數萬部 YouTube 影片，搭配英漢字典即點即查，輕鬆掌握單字發音與用法，長久累積看電影不必再看字幕。

未來簡單式

My name is Emma, and in today's video I am going to teach you how to interrupt politely.

Okay, so this is a very important skill we need and we use a lot in conversation.

So, to start with, let's first talk about: What does the word "interrupt" mean?

So: "interrupt" can be a verb, and we also have the word "interruption", which means

So, when you interrupt it means you stop someone from doing something, like speaking.

So, in a conversation, if someone is talking and you stop them from talking, you are interrupting

So, in this video we are going to talk about how to interrupt politely.

Okay, so let's look at some example sentences of the word "interruption" and then I'm going

So, my example sentence is: "She interrupted John."

We can also say: "There was an interruption."

And in this case, "interruption" is the noun form of the word "interrupt".

Okay, so let's talk a little bit about interruptions and interrupting.

Interruptions are very normal in conversation.

They are a very important part of conversation.

Maybe in your culture interrupting might be rude, but in English it's something we do

Now, there are polite ways to interrupt, meaning good ways, and there are bad ways to interrupt.

So we need to be careful how we interrupt, but it's important that we do interrupt from

Well, if somebody is talking and they're talking... they should be talking about something and

they start going off topic, for example; maybe they're supposed to be talking about business

at a meeting and they start to talk about their family life, that might be a good time

Or maybe you have one person who is talking in a conversation and they keep talking, and

they've been talking for five minutes, that might be a good time to interrupt.

So when somebody talks too long, you might want to interrupt them.

You might interrupt somebody if you need to tell someone something important.

So maybe somebody is talking and, you know, they have something on their face, and it's

something embarrassing, so you might interrupt to tell them that there's something on their

Or, you know, maybe somebody needs to know some important information, and so they're

talking and you interrupt them to tell them that important information.

You also might interrupt when you want to add something to the conversation.

So the first person says something, then you say something, and then they say something,

Now, maybe this person is talking and you want to add to what they say, you might interrupt

So, we've covered about when we interrupt, and we can interrupt in conversations, at

meetings, in school; there are many different situations where we might want to interrupt.

The key word here, though, is interrupt politely.

So now I am going to teach you some great expressions you can use to interrupt people

Okay, so I want you to imagine this: You are in a conversation and one person has been

So, they're saying: "Blah, blah, blah", they keep talking, talking, talking, and you want

You can say: "Sorry for interrupting, but can I just say something here?"

So you would say this if you have something to add.

So let's practice this expression together: "Sorry for interrupting, but can I just say

You can also say: "Sorry for interrupting, but can I just mention something?"

"Sorry for interrupting, but can I just mention something?"

We can also say: "Sorry for interrupting, but can I just add something here?"

So these three expressions are very similar; the only difference is we're changing the

word here, the verb from: "say" to "mention" to "add", but they all mean the same thing.

We can also say, if the person looks like they're going to say something else, you can

say: "Before you move on, I'd like to say something.", "Before you move on, I'd like

We can also say... another way to say all of these things is just: "Sorry to interrupt,

"Sorry to interrupt, but I'd like to add something."

I've put in green some of these polite words we're using.

So these are polite ways to interrupt someone.

"Sorry" is a polite thing to say, and same thing with: "I'd like".

"I'd like" stands for: "I would like", and it's used when we're trying to be polite.

So hopefully when you say something like this, our friend here who is talking, and talking,

and talking will stop and let you say what you want to say.

Now, let's look at some other expressions we use when we're learning on how to interrupt

politely, and how to stop somebody from interrupting us maybe.

Okay, so we've talked about what to do if you want to interrupt someone, but what do

So there's a couple of things you can do.

If someone interrupts you, one thing you can do is you can be polite and if you've been

talking a lot, maybe you can let them interrupt you.

So you can just, you know, allow them to speak.

If you see someone who looks like they want to interrupt you, maybe they've tried a couple

times but they haven't maybe been successful, you can also ask someone, you know, especially

if they're shy, you can say: "Is there something you would like to add?" or "Is there something

This gives the other person permission to interrupt.

So, this is a great phrase, especially if you think you've been talking too much, you

can say this to someone to give them a chance to say what they want to say.

字幕列表影片播放

對話技巧。用英語禮貌地打岔 (Conversation Skills: Interrupting politely in English)

pronunciation

phrase

engage

expression