5 ways to say goodbye in English

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Hey guys, I'm Alex. Thanks for clicking and welcome to this lesson on 5 ways, 5 ways to
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say goodbye. Now, in English, you probably know if you're watching this video, the most
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common way to say goodbye or some of the more formal ways to say goodbye. Again, the most
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common one is goodbye, right? Or bye, or bye bye. So, if you're familiar with those ones,
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I have 5 more on the board that you can use, okay? One way to say goodbye is see ya. Now,
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what is ya? Ya is simply you. In spoken English, many native speakers, instead of saying you
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when they're saying goodbye, would not say see you. You can say see you, but it's also
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possible to say, all right, see ya. Now, this is much more informal among friends, co-workers,
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classmates, people you know well, okay? So, see ya just means see you, right? So, we'll
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put that here. Now, see you, you can follow this with a time as well. So, you can say,
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all right, see ya later. See ya on the weekend. See ya tomorrow, or see you tomorrow. Or you
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can say see you next week. See you after school. See you after work. See ya, all right? So,
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you can give a time when you will see the person again.
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The next expression is take it easy. Okay, so if I say, if you say, all right, goodbye,
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Alex. I say, all right, bye, take it easy. This means take it easy. It means relax, okay?
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This means don't stress yourself too much. Be relaxed, okay? Don't stress yourself too
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much. Now, if you have been working very hard and it's the end of the work day, I might
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say this to you, okay, take it easy. This means have an easy day. Have a relaxed day,
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okay?
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Now, the next expression, have a good one. What is one? Here you're talking about a day,
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right? Have a good day. So, if you tell someone, okay, have a good one, you're just saying
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have a good day. This is a nice wish for a person, right? You're just saying, all right,
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I hope you have a very nice day. Have a good one. That's it.
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Next one, take care. Take care. Now, I use this at the end of a lot of my videos, most
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of my videos, and to take care means to take good care of yourself. Be good to yourself,
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okay? So, take good care of yourself, okay? So, this means take good care of yourself.
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Be good to you.
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Now, the next one, the final one, is catch you later. Now, the verb catch means catch,
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okay? So, I caught the marker. So, if you say catch you later, you're not actually catching
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a person. This is similar to see you later. I'll catch you later. I will see you later.
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Catch you later. See you later.
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Okay. So, guys, these are five common ways to say goodbye in English if you are tired
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of just saying bye, goodbye, bye-bye. Practice some of these expressions. Very, very common.
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Okay, take it easy. Have a good one. Take care. Catch you later. See ya. Now, the most
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common one is probably see ya or see you. So, see you later. See you tomorrow. See you
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on the weekend, okay? See you after school. But you can use any one of these, and a native
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English speaker will be able to understand you if you use these expressions.
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Okay, guys, if you want to test your knowledge of these expressions and make sure that you
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understood them and remembered the structure of them clearly, you can check out the quiz
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on www.engvid.com. Until next time, good luck, and see you later.
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