Last year, I cut Amal Clooney out of her wedding pictures (sorry Amal, but thank you Hello! magazine), inserted my own face in them, and sent them out as Christmas cards.
I began with a seven-word vocabulary: Yes, no, please, thank you, hello, goodbye and beer ("peevo").
Students can learn some useful words including: please, name, thank you, hello, goodbye, good, bad, friends and sorry using these attractive flash cards.
In one you must always say please, thank you, hello, goodbye, and ask permission to go out; in the other these things are not necessary.
Since I only know "thank you," "hello," "excuse me," "do you speak English?" and now, "good night," "nice to meet you," and "my name is…" in Greek, I've had to become much more aware of my body language as a way of communicating.
Forbes said you arrived in the United States knowing only three words of English, yet there are different sets of those first three words: Inc.: Please, thank you, help; Bend, Not Break: Thank you, hello, help; NPR: Thank you, help, excuse me.
When visiting an ethnic restaurant ask the hostess how to say "thank you" or "hello" in her language.
Cheerful, welcoming local residents help with logistics and love to practice their English lessons calling out "thank you and "hello".
They taught us thank you and hello.
What does it take to say thank you or hello?
After a few minutes they changed places, with a quick "thank you, partner," and "hello, partner".
