Sympathy, Illness and Bad News
What to say when someone is grieving or ill.
I'm so sorry to hear about your mum. How are you doing?
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Saying sorry4
Offering support3
Funerals4
Getting better3
Check yourself14 questions
Question 1 of 14
What is the safest thing to say?
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- Moments
- 2 of 14 phrases have a clip
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- Part of Talk's themed British life packs. Talk wrote each phrase with what it really means, when to say it, what not to say instead and one quiz question. A phrase gets a moment only if Talk's spoken videos say it with the same meaning. One review picked each moment, and a second tried to reject it. This pack holds 14 phrases.
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- Dictionary details
- From Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Princeton WordNet, used under the WordNet licence. WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
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