12 Ways to Ask Someone to Wait in English

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Sometimes one of the most important English phrases for someone learning the English language is the ability to ask someone to wait. In this video I'll give you lot's of examples of how English speakers say this. Enjoy!

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TRANSCRIPT:
Hi Bob the Canadian here.
In English there are a lot of ways to ask someone to wait. Let's go through a bunch of them.
The first one is obvious. You can just say, "Wait" and someone usually will respond by waiting.
But you could also say, "Wait a second." or "Wait a minute."
And all of those would work interchangeably.
But there's more.
You could also say, "Hold on."
Or
"Hold on a second."
Or
"Hold a minute."
And all of those would also encourage someone to wait.
But there's more!
You could even say, "Hang on."
Or
"Hang on a second."
Or
"Hang on a minute."
And all of those would also encourage someone to wait.
Now as with a lot of things in English in the spoken form we use a few short forms.
And with waiting it's really just the word "second".
We sometimes in spoken English say, "sec"
So you might say, "Wait a sec." or "Hold on a sec." or "Hang on a sec."
And all of those would mean the same thing as, "Hold on a second." or "Wait a second."
In addition you could also say, "Whoa!" and that usually causes someone to stop right away.
And there is also another phrase.
You could say, "Not so fast." to ask someone to slow down.
"Not so fast Bob, you're speaking too quickly."
"Not so fast. Not so fast there."
Another one, which isn't quite as familiar as the rest is the term, "Hold your horses."
And "Hold your horses." means wait just like all the other ones.
Well that's a number of ways to ask someone to wait in English.
Bob the Canadian here. Learn English with Bob the Canadian.
Thanks for watching and don't forget to subscribe.
Have a great day.
Hold on. Hold on a sec. Wait a minute here.
Whoa. Hold your horses. Stop.
Whoa hold your horses. Stop. Hang on.
Not so fast. Not so fast. Wait.
Whoa! Whoa! Hold on a sec. Hold on a sec.
Whoa! Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute here.
Whoa! Hang on. Hang on. What do we have here. Whoa! Hang on!
Wait a sec. Whoa.
Whoa! Hold your horses. Hold your horses.
Whoa. Wait a sec.
Thanks for watching! Learn English with Bob the Canadian.

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When I first started to watch your videos I always wanted to say " not so fast Bob, you are speaking too quickly" )) But now understand you much better!

fho

Hello everyone from Russia. It's one of the best videos if you want to understand casual phrases.

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I will write a comment to promote the video. your old videos are very interesting. although here you are like an announcer on television addressing the camera. so many do. but in the new videos, you already communicate with the audience as with close acquaintances. but almost no one does that anymore. this is what your new videos are good for. It's like I'm talking to my old friend or relative and not watching a video.

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Appreciated letting me work on my own pace! Love!

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Thank you very much bob . hold your horse 🐎 is new for me. Wonderful session

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aishaalabed

That's funny! "Hold your horses" is sounds like Russian "Придержи коней! (predergy konjey)". It's funny because these frases are absolutly similar in words and meanings...

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