ENGLISH QUESTIONS for Conversations with Native Speakers

This video provides useful questions and phrases for non-native English speakers to use when they have difficulty understanding or hearing native speakers. It covers polite ways to ask for repetition, clarification, and slower speech. It also explains how to inquire about meanings, translations, and spellings of words. The video is aimed at intermediate learners but is also beneficial for advanced students.

What is the main purpose of the video?

• To teach advanced grammar rules

• To help with understanding and communication in English

• To provide vocabulary lists

• To explain English literature

Which phrase is more polite when asking someone to repeat themselves?

• What did you say?

• Can you repeat?

• Could you please repeat that?

• Repeat that, please.

How can you make a request more polite in English?

• By using a different language

• By using slang

• By adding 'I'm sorry' before the request

• By shouting

What should you say if someone is speaking too quickly?

• What does that mean?

• Could you please speak more slowly?

• Could you repeat that?

• Can you talk faster?

How do you ask for the meaning of a word?

• What means X?

• What does X mean?

• How is X?

• What is X?

How do you ask for the English translation of a word?

• How is X in English?

• What is X in English?

• What means X in English?

• How do you say X in English?

What is a correct way to ask someone to spell a word?

• Can you write that?

• How do you spell that?

• Spell that for me.

• What is the spelling?