Learn the Top 10 Ways to Ask for Help in English

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hi everybody and welcome back to top words my name is
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Alisha and today we're going to be talking about 10 ways to ask for help
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help me help me ask for help let's go can you can you bubble blah so can you
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give me that pen can you turn off the fan can you give me a sandwich for lunch
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I forgot mine in this sentence can you send me your email address so very
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simple requests you can use can't you blah blah blah with them could you give
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me a hand with the next expression is could you give me a hand with blah blah
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blah meaning I need you like I need physically I need your hands to help me
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maybe or I need something I need you to help me with something could you give me
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a hand with this computer could you give me a hand with this furniture it's you
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can use it to talk about like moving something heavy or you can also use it
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for like a task like could you give me a hand with this report I don't know this
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information so you can use it for your physical tasks or for mental tasks too
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could you give me a hand with something in this sentence could you give me a
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hand moving this sofa can you show me how to the next expression is can you
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show me how to can you show me how to bla bla bla this means please teach me
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something so can you please show me how to use this computer can you show me how
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to use this software can you show me how to book a ticket so these are all ways
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to ask for help with how to do something this is a very useful expression I think
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can you help me out with the next expression is can you help me out with
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can you help me out with so before we talked about can you give
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me a hand with this is very similar can you help me out with some tasks you can
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use it for physical activities or mental activities here so can you help me out
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with this project can you help me out with cleaning this house I don't know in
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this sentence can you help me out with my homework I
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need help the next expression is I need help
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blah blah blah so you can use the expression I need help that's fine but
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if you want to be specific which I recommend I need help bla bla bla I need
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help with my homework I need help doing the dishes I need help
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cleaning the yard I need help something something something very clear
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very direct it's a little bit casual I suppose but yeah you can use this in
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most situation where you need help this sentence I need help making dinner
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tonight could you the next expression is could
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you so the first expression we saw in this lesson was can you you can also use
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could you Timmy could you sounds a little bit more formal than can you so
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can you love wha is it's a good kind of neutral everyday way to ask for help
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could you sounds just a little bit more polite a little bit more formal so could
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you please send me that file could you please stop smoking here in this
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expression could you send me the project files will you so the next expression is
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will you so this is used kind of for light maybe you just thought of
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something you just thought of something you need help with so it's probably a
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small task or a small favor that you need so for example will you get some
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milk at the store on your way home it's like something you just thought of for
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the future so will you help me with my homework will you give me a moment of
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your time it's something very small very quick so in this sentence will you let
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me know when you're free how do I the next
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expression is how do i how do i this is somewhat similar to the earlier
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expression we talked about can you show me how to blah blah blah but this one is
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how do I and how do I get to the beach from here how do I get to the station
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how do I turn on this computer how do I make new friends how do I study English
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all of these are ways to ask for help or ask for advice ask for directions
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this is a very nice and easy to remember way to ask for help how do I something
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help the next expression is just help so I've here sometimes students say
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please help me or just help and I want to point out that these expressions are
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usually used in emergency situations for example there's an accident or there's a
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dangerous person near you or maybe you're injured or hurt some emergency so
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please help me alone sounds to a native speaker maybe like a
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serious situation or an emergency situation help is similar to so of
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course if you're an emergency situation absolutely you should use the words help
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and please help me or just help me as well - but be careful because they sound
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very serious I don't recommend using them for like light casual everyday
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situations where you need help instead please use one of the other expressions
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we talked about in this lesson so help is great for emergencies but maybe only
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for emergencies so yeah in a sentence maybe for example in the kitchen there's
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that you have a small accident in the kitchen you can shout to your roommate
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or your family member help me and they'll come running if something to
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check and see if you're okay I need your help with
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the next expression is I need your help with blah blah blah the expression I
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need your help with sounds like you are required for this task I need you maybe
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you have special knowledge or special experience with this thing or you are
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better equipped like you can do a better job than I can with this task so I need
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you for some reason so I need your help preparing this information I need your
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help reaching that tall glass like that's
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really what I like I'm short so if I need something up high I might say to a
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tall person I need your help reaching that glass up there you can use this yes
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someone is better at doing something than you are you can say I need your
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help with blah blah blah in this sentence I need your help with
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this project that's the end so those are ten words and 10 phrases really that you
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can use to ask for help if you have any other ways you'd like to ask for help or
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if you have any questions about this video or ways to ask for help please
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leave it in a comment and let us know about it if you liked this video please
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make sure to hit the thumbs up button and also subscribe to our channel if you
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haven't subscribed already thanks very much for watching this episode of top
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words and we will see you again soon bye
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