Invite Someone to Do Something in English—Speak Confident English

Hey,

it's Annemarie with Speak Confident English and I'm curious,

have you ever wanted to invite a coworker to get coffee after work or a drink?

Maybe you've wanted to ask your neighbor to a movie or to go to the museum with

you,

or maybe you met someone new and you just want to practice English with them.

How do you invite them to do that?

Maybe you don't because you get so nervous and you're not sure what to say and

in the end,

you never invite your friends,

your neighbors,

your colleagues to do something with you.

And today I want to help you change that.

In this lesson,

I want to give you the language that you can use to invite someone to do

something with you,

whether it's coming to your house for a dinner,

celebrating a birthday party,

or just going out for a coffee.

So get your calendar out because you're going to start making some plans.

The good news about today is this lesson is super simple.

I'm going to share with you the two ways that we do this in English and give you

a ton of examples.

The first one is simply asking a question.

This is the most direct way to invite someone to do something and it's best in

informal situations.

So people that you really know well or you know casually.

This could be your neighbors,

someone you've just met at your Yoga Studio,

a parent that you volunteer with,

or someone that you've gotten to know really well at work.

So let's look at some common questions that we use in English to make an

invitation.

Are you free to,

are you free to get a coffee Saturday after our yoga class?

Are you doing anything?

Are you doing anything this weekend?

Maybe we could catch a movie.

Would you like to,

would you like to come over for dinner sometime?

Do you wanna,

do you wanna go to a movie on Saturday?

Now?

Let me pause there for a moment.

Do you want to,

have you ever heard that word before,

wanna?

In that example,

I'm actually using connected speech.

I'm connecting the sounds between the words want and to...

do you want to,

but native speakers don't clearly say every word.

It sounds robotic.

Instead,

we blend or connect the sounds between the words so when we say do you want to,

it sounds like,

do you wanna do you want to catch a movie this weekend?

Now before we move on to the second way that we invite someone to do something,

if you want more examples of questions that we can use,

go to the online lesson after you've watched this video.

Now the second way to invite someone to do something with us is to let them know

what we would like this.

Now this strategy is more personal but it's also a little more formal so it's a

great one to use when you're just building a friendship or a relationship with

someone and here are some examples I wanted to invite you to.

I wanted to invite you to our holiday party next month.

I was wondering if,

I was wondering if you'd like to come to our house next week for dinner.

I'd love it if you can come or I'd love it if you can join me next week.

I'm having a big birthday party at my house.

I'd love it if you can come now.

Once again,

I've given you more examples in the online lesson and I've included a sample

dialogue of how we could put these different strategies together,

but now it's your turn to practice.

Before I give you the challenge questions,

if you found this lesson useful to you,

I would love to know,

and there are three really great ways that you can tell me that.

Number one,

be sure to give this video a thumbs up on YouTube and subscribe to this channel.

Number two,

share it with friends and colleagues on Facebook.

And finally,

if you know someone who would love to know how to invite someone to do something

in English,

be sure to email them this lesson.

Now here are two situations where you can use these strategies to practice

inviting someone to do something.

In situation.

number one,

imagine that you've started to get to know someone at your gym every time you

see him you have a great conversation,

you laugh a lot and you'd really loved to

get coffee sometime.

What could you say?

Then in situation number two,

you have a colleague at work that you've gotten to know and you would love to

invite your colleague and her family to your house for dinner.

What could you say?

As always,

be sure to share your comments and your questions with me in the comments just

below this video.

It's a great way to get immediate practice,

get feedback,

and learn from others in the Confident English community.

With that,

thank you so much for joining me this week and I look forward to seeing you next

time for your Confident English lesson.