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English Vocabulary for difficult situations: confess, regret, condolences…
Imagine you said or did something that hurt your closest friend. You feel terrible, and you want to ask for forgiveness. How should you express yourself? What words should you use? It’s not always easy to say the right thing in difficult situations. I am here to help. In this lesson, I will teach you vocabulary that will allow you to express yourself in conversations of an awkward or upsetting nature. We will look at words likeregret, empathize, acknowledge, mend, and more. I will also give you a few examples, and we will practice together to help you sound genuine during a difficult conversation. You might even be able to fix the situation if you use the right words. So watch the lesson, do the quiz, and good luck.
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76 COMMENTS
Great as always Mr James
helpful lesson thank you so mach
100 great job and I acknowledge this is empathizing lesson for us because let us consider about to the high level of words in English vocabulary.
Best regards
I got 9 correct out of 10. Thank you James.
Thanks
What a great lesson. Got 10/10. Mr.James from
Engvid, you definitely are a great professor.
Thank you very much for your lessons.
That’s what Engvid is all about!
At my daddy’s funeral, as people gave me their condolences acknowledging his merits, I was glad they emphatized- but I regretted the time not spent with him
Thanks a lot James!!Interesting vocabulary!
R.E.M :Losing my religion…so nice:)
Useful lesson.
10/10 great, even though I ‘ve gone wrong
Cool teacher :) Thaaaaanks
Is Mr. E worm?! I thought it’s a snake!
Me too.
thanks for your effective lesson
I got a suggestion, could you make a lesson about the difference between some synonyms like “infer vs conclude ” or “suggest vs insinuate vs imply”, you know, these kinda of things that are so confusing for us to use in different situations,about their connotation and other stuff
? Got 100℅ .I m so surprised . What a useful lesson. Sociopath is the newest vocab overall in this lesson . I feel good by knowing new words in my memory. Thanks a lot , James.
“empathize” it’s a word very important; understand and share the feelings of another. Thanks for this lesson!
got 10/10
there is my first try, ready to have ane comments on it.
1. I was disillusioned about her when I herad what she’d said about a woman, who was asking for a help and support because her husband was seriously ill. There was not an ounce of empathy, she was very harsh and cynical. She was saying like the man had been acknowledged to be dead(or being dead? I’m confused, which is right?)
2. If you truly regret about something, maybe you should find an opportunity to mend it.
3. His story of overcoming something that had seemed to be impossimple to handle had a great impact on my conscious. It still motivates me, when I have troubles and almost feel despairing.
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You are perfect!
I got them 100%!
Hi Zohreh!
James, I only regret one thing – I don’t have such a cool shirt :))
Your face in the title image is priceless, James.
very well sir ..i love you adam sir,your expression is really good.
Thank you James !
Professor James, I imagine how busy you are, but I’m
going to ask you a colossal favor: could you prepare
a lesson on split infinitives? It’s a topic I have
always had problems, not to mention dangling participles.Hope you read this comment.
Excellent. Thank you very much.
I’m truly empathized with your videos,sometimes i got problem with my english but with your help i have to acknowledge that i getting better and better cause u are mending all my english problem.
tks James.
thank you James
Very good lesson!Thank you teacher!
I have to confess one thing- seeing how you are breaking up with Mr E was the saddest moment I’ve ever witnessed online. Ii is going to have a lasing impact on the rest on my life. My condolences to poor Mr E. You should have told him earlier.Now i’m disillusioned with you teacher. I regret watching this video.
Hilarious lesson. Thanks
Thank you teacher….!!
Hi there! James, gotta say this lesson blew my mind up. I got 10 out of 10. About my homework i will come up with it soon.
Bye bye
Mr. James. You are so great. You make me understand, absorb and love English.
Many thanks to you.
Khaled
I’ve got 10/10 Great! Thanks James.
Very useful lesson, thank you! I got 10/10.
James can you teach me how to write a compare writing please I need to do for my homework!!!!!!
thanx
You or Mr. E should consider to become the new president of Brazil… I’m kidding, hahaha! Great lesson James
thanks
You got 8 correct out of 10.
thank you.
ho my GOD 3 different quizzes and i’ve always 90. so funny
anyway you’re a good teacher
yeeees..! i did it..mr james ur my superb teacher…
I regret to tell you that I disillusioned about your lessons. I hope to consider my little acknowledgment about you, but nothing can mend my English after following your lessons. I’m sorry but I confess that your lessons are …..
:) I’m just joking Mr.james you are a really superb teacher. I tried to use what I have learned recently by following your fantastic lessons.
you are the best Mr.James
What a great lesson! Thank you.
Thank you, so much sir.
This was very helpful….. ?
I got a hundred
Here’s one of my assignments. I tried to make it funny and I wanted to share it would you. I’m open to suggestions. Thanks and let me know yours.
* As the captain of your national football team, I regret having to bring this news for my fans (also for those not so fans). The Argentinian football team is conscious about its regular performance and our lack of response. Since the dissatisfied draw in our first match with the Iceland football team and the unacceptable 3-0 with Croatia, We’re are trying to empathize with the pain that you may be going through and we hope to mend the team as long as God lend us a hand (or a leg. It’s all accepted).
We’re aware that many of you are disillusioned with us for leading you on victory that never existed. But please consider that we are under tremendous stress because of the impact a loss naturally causes .
We are reacting in , perhaps the best way possible, and we hope you can acknowledge the effort that… Ok, doesn’t matter …
Therefore, in order to come out of this quandary of today’s must-win clash with Nigeria, We resolved to ask the Technical Director to send some of the staff substitutes to encourage the Croatian squad to beat Iceland so to help us out.*
Very good ????
Thanks Ghydaa! I’m glad you liked it!
Hi James and E, I have to confess that I am delighted to learn English with you. These lessons have strongly impacted my english and from now on, I have resolved to speak with empathy in order to mend my relationships at work.
i have got 100%
James, why worm?
Hey James, I’ve got 9 of 10 thanks a lot sir.
you are a great teacher, i got 80 but i will get 100 on my next quiz.
Thank s
Thank you very much! So interesting!
I got 100. Thanks James for the wonderful lesson.
9/10. Thanks James for superb lesson!
Thanks,James. Have 8 of 10.
Thanks you Jame. I am proud to share with you and and classmate the score i got ( 10/10)
Hello, sir you are superb as usual.
Although you give us lot of knowledge about the English language, I regret to say that I am very careless in doing practice of them.
So, I’m confessing you my mistake which make me disillusioned in front of you. These mistakes impact my life widely
vocabs is difficult but good explanation
thanks
It was my disillusion that I will get 10 out of 10 but now I confess that I got 9 out of 10. I know you can empathize with me what I am feeling right now. I will resolve this and I will not forget the impact that makes me feel regret. Consider me as a beginner and normally beginners make mistakes.
Thanks James,with your unique teaching skills,
i personaly feel more confident during talking amongs the peers
I have to acknowledge that this lesson give me a significant impact on my journey of learning English.
It is very helpful to mend my vocabulary pyramid.Thank you James.
you are so handsome, so charming, you look so cut, so good…you’d better to be an actor… I know that i’m out of the line but I have an habit to say
that i thought.
James, thank you for helping us mending or English.
James,you are the best! Thank you so much for your help teaching us all these lessons!
I confess that you are a great teacher and you always have an impact on our English improvement which we will never have regrets about it also we will never be disillusioned by you.
Very good lesson and quiz.
Thanks!
Thanks
Thank you very much, James.
Excellent as usual.
Need to know vocabulary for an overseas interview, to look like a professional speaker about my job & experience.
10/10
mine date 7 Nov 2021
best regards, James
James, I regret I found this lesson at 2.7.22. I should have learned this before.