Разговорные формулы, предназначенные

Как поздороваться

(формальная ситуация)

How do you do?

Nice to meet you. / Pleased to meet you.

Good morning! / Good afternoon!

Good evening!

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(неформальная ситуация)

Hello! / Hi!

It’s so good to see you. How’re you?

How are things? / What’s up?

I’m fine, and you? / Just fine, thanks.

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See you / See you later / Good bye

Как представить себя / другого человека

May I introduce myself? My name’s …

Let me introduce Mike to you.

Excuse me, I don’t think we’ve met before. I’m …

I would like you to meet…

Как узнать

информацию

I’d like to know / Could you tell me?

Could you find out? / Could you possibly …

Could I trouble you ….

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Excuse me (to attract attention)

Excuse me for interrupting, but

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телефону

I’d like to ask

Hold on / hang on / hold the line

Please ring back / The line is engaged

I’ll put you through

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First of all

Then / Next / After that / Finally

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To begin (start) with / First / First of all

After that / Then / So / Next / So then

What’s more / In addition / And besides

Oh, I almost forgot

At the end / Finally / In short / In a word

To cut a long story short / To sum up

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As far as I know / More that that

On the one hand / On the other hand

On the whole / Fortunately / At least

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Believe it or not / It may sound strange, but

Surprisingly /Guess what!

You’d better sit down

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The main thing is / The most important thing is

Don’t forget that / The trouble (problem) is

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To tell you the truth

Frankly (a warning of the unpleasant news)

Putting it mildly / What a pity / Unfortunately

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According to / If I’m not mistaken

I think / I suppose / I believe

It’s my opinion that / In my opinion

To my mind

I’m pretty sure that (with friends)

I’m convinced that (a strong opinion)

I’m absolutely certain that

I wonder if (invites other people’s comments)

Not everyone will agree with me, but

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I’d say / Perhaps it’s / It looks like

It’s difficult to say, but I’d guess

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I’ve heard / Just between you and me

Maybe I shouldn’t say this, but

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The matter /fact / point is …

Why not / You could always / One way would be

What about …ing / Why don’t you

If I were you, I’d / Take it easy

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In a case like this / In this sort of situation

As it is known / As a rule

Как подчеркнуть главное

That’s just the point / But the real question is

But can’t you see / It should be noted that

Как исправить то, что было сказано

What I mean is

Let me put it another way

What I’m saying is

Как исправить то, что Ваш собеседник не понял

That’s not what I said at all

Where did you get that idea from?

I’m afraid that’s just isn’t true

Look, let’s get that straight (shows your annoyance)

Как согласиться

на что - либо

That’s right / Agreed Certainly / Of course / Fine

You’re absolutely right. / That’s what I thought too.

Как сказать нет тактично

Yes, but don’t you think / I agree with you, but

Yes, but on the other hand / I’m afraid I don’t know

No, I’m afraid not. / I don’t particularly like

I’d really rather not

I’m afraid, I can’t agree with you

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Can you explain why / Do you mean to say

How come

Как выразить сомнение

I’m afraid / I don’t see how

Possibly, but / What I’m worried about is

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Yes, but don’t forget

That would be great but

Even so

That’s probably true, but

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As a rule / By and large / Generally / Usually

Most of the time / Time and again

From time to time / Every now and then

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For example / For instance

To give you an idea / As for me

By way of illustration (formal)

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So what you are saying is

In other words

If I understood you correctly

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Do you follow me? / Do you see what I mean?

Does that make sense? / Are you with me?

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Oh, thank you. / That’s very kind of you.

You’ve made my day.

You’re welcome. / Don’t mention it.

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Could you help me, please?

Could you say it again, please

Could you speak more slowly, please?

Will you repeat, please? / I haven’t caught you

Would you mind repeating that?

Sorry, I didn’t catch the last part.

Sorry, I don’t follow you. / Sorry, you’ve lost me.

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I see… / Well…

You know… / Just a moment…