Learn English with Alex - EASY ENGLISH CONVERSATION: You’re Invited to Dinner!

Invited to dinner? Don’t know what to say or do? I’m here to help! In this real life English vocabulary lesson, you will learn language you can use to invite people to dinner, and to accept invitations. It doesn’t stop there! I’ll take you from the invitation, to the front door, to the kitchen, to the dinner table, and back to the front door again as you say goodbye to your hosts (or guests!). Are you hungry? Help yourself! If you’re not full after the lesson, you can do the quiz for dessert: https://www.engvid.com/speak-english-youre-invited-to-dinner/ Get even more English resources on my website: https://EnglishAlex.com More practical lessons about spoken English: English Speaking Practice for Work https://youtu.be/bPoUBSKHjjs 10 Ways to Say "Thank You" in English https://youtu.be/QfYq35_jBJE In this lesson: 0:00 You're invited to dinner... in English! 0:47 How to invite someone for dinner 2:37 How to offer to bring something 4:24 What to say at the door 7:39 How guests react 9:10 What to say at the table 12:54 How to thank the host 14:44 How to thank guests 15:51 Goodbye wishes Transcript: Hey, you made it. Come in. Make yourself at home. Hey, everyone. I'm Alex. Thanks for clicking, and welcome to this lesson on inviting people to your house or going to someone's house for dinner, for example. So in this lesson, you will learn some practical English sentences, phrases that are used when you invite someone somewhere to your home specifically, how to respond to, like, the smell of food, what to say at the dinner table, what to say when people leave your home if you invite them to your house, and we also have what to say at the door, for instance. I will cover that for now. So let's start with the invitation. So if you are inviting someone to your home, you are the host of, for example, a dinner party in this case, you can ask someone, you can ask your friends or your family, what are you doing on plus the date, right? So what are you doing on Saturday, on Sunday afternoon, for example? Another way to ask this a little more directly is, hey, are you free? Are you free for dinner on Saturday? Are you free for lunch on Saturday, for example? And one more example, you can just ask, do you want to come over? So come over means come to my home. Do you want to come over for dinner on Saturday? All right? So, repeat these after me, everyone. Number one, what are you doing on Saturday? Are you free for dinner on Saturday? Do you want to come over for dinner on Saturday? Okay. And I know I get this question in the comments sometimes. Some students say, Alex, I love your British accent. I don't have a British accent, everyone. So if you want to know what accent I have, I live in Canada, and the accent I have is typical of like standard Canadian English, which is more like Southern Ontario English is what you could say. Okay. Next, if you are a guest and someone invites you to their home, you can always offer to bring something, right? If they are inviting you for dinner, it's always polite to ask if you should bring something, if you can bring something. So, here we have, should I bring anything, right? Do you want me to bring dessert? Or do you want me to bring something to drink? How about, should I pick up some wine on the way, right? Like on the road to your house. Should I pick up some drinks, some wine, some dessert? Usually you offer like something to drink, or dessert, or maybe some snacks, right? And also, what can I bring? And sometimes you can also ask like, do you need anything, right? Are you missing anything? No, I have everything I need, it's okay. Or actually, could you grab some juice? Could you bring some juice with you, right? All right, so let's practice. I want you to speak. This is language that you will use in a real social situation. So, let's practice it now. Repeat after me. Should I bring anything? Do you want me to bring dessert? Should I pick up some wine on the way? What can I bring? Very good. All right, now we have the invitation, okay? We offered to bring something because we were invited to a party. We were, we have offered to bring something to the party, okay? And now, we are the host. The host, we open the door, we are at the door, we open the door, and at the beginning of this lesson, I said, "You made it!" That means you arrived successfully. And I said, "Oh, thanks for coming," or "Come in," right? So, you made it, it's like, "Oh, you're here. You are here." That's the meaning of you made it. Maybe the person was stuck in traffic for a long time, and you are just happy because oh, they were supposed to be here 30 minutes ago. So, when they, when you hear the knock on the door, you open the door, "Oh, I'm so glad you made it. You finally made it." You can say, "Thanks for coming." And then you can offer, you know, tell them, invite them to come into your home. You can say, "Come in?" […]