How to be Polite in English - | Top Tips for Language Learners!

Learning to speak English in a polite way is generally very important, especially if you want people to help you with something. If you want someone to do something for you, there are different ways of expressing it in English, depending on how polite you want to be. Joanne shares our top tips on how to use language to improve your levels of politeness in English.

0:00 Intro
0:25 An order or a request?
0:50 Why questions are politer than imperatives
1:02 'Can' or 'could'?
3:00 Past forms and modal structures
3:22 Tone of voice

Sian teaches more about being polite in English here:

Tim shows how avoiding direct language can make you sound more polite:

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[pussycatlover]

merci beaucoup greetings from Casablanca Morocco.

[AK__SINGH]

Appreciate this video as far as, I learned how to use more polite words in my sentenced.
Thanks you mama!

[blinkiny]

I've been learning English for 4 years now and this is the first time I know why "could " is more polite thant " can " thank you literally the explanation in the video is perfect 👌

[こうこな-mi]

I would really appreciate it if you possibly could open the window.

[ammarahmed]

Fantastic wonderful exclamation, thank you for this

[bonitachen]

I wonder why "could" is considered more polite than "can" until now. Thank you so much!

[ozsggqd]

Thank you so much ❤.I hope you will make another videos .We are waiting for them ❤❤🌎🔥✨️

[maggie]

That's what I'm talking about. I've had the question about why "could" is more polite than "can" for a long time. Now I got it. Thanks for the vivid demonstrations. I can't love it more. 😍

[chitraveerakhil]

Somewhere I read that we should not use 'please' more in the corporate world. Is that true?

[sharmakemohamed]

Could you give us the lesson about how we can practice in English our social media like Facebook, Twitter for writing a post?

[alithedraemer]

I am searching about people speaking English to practise the language...anyone like?

[hanam]

Perfect social distance description👌👍👏

[استثمروقتك-من]

I think English is not your original language... Thank you for lesson

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No one works on BBClearingenglish and He or she is brilliant, great, so good in teaching English. Really thanks bbclearningenglish. i wish if i will be one of the team of bbclearningenglish in future.

[starbeeleung]

this video really help me in knowing why I feel "could" is more polite than "can". I have never thought about the tense related. Thank you so so much.

[lhengnnu]

I like this girl.Who can tell me what's her name?

[okije]

i bet you can't open the window, haha!

[abhijitteli]

Please provide motivational stories around the world with subtitle. It will be very helpful to learn British English.

[saurersaurer]

Is it only me that her echoing voice bother?