{"id":1909,"date":"2018-11-22T01:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T16:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2019-05-20T16:34:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T07:34:56","slug":"beth-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/beth-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorful ways to use the words “thank you” in the English language!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, guys!!\u00a0 Thanks for dropping in to read a bit!\u00a0 This is Beth – the English speaking \u304a\u3070\u3061\u3083\u3093 –\u00a0here, hoping\u00a0to\u00a0expand a little on \u00a0two VERY simple words:\u00a0 “thank you”!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For those of you studying English, you might think you know everything there is to know about these “beginner-level” words!\u00a0 I bet if you keep on reading, you’ll find something new!!\u00a0 IF you don’t, then WOW!!<\/p>\n

Ok!!\u00a0 Here we go!!<\/p>\n

Thanks a million!…..<\/strong><\/span>this is easy?<\/p>\n

Just in case I lost you there, “thanks a million” just means “thank you very much” in a more casual tone!\u00a0 A million (1,000,000) is a really big number, so you can easily see where this English came from!\u00a0 Some might say “thanks a bunch” instead (a bunch meaning a lot)!<\/p>\n

Ok!!\u00a0 So, next,\u00a0 how about we\u00a0 look at two FUN? ones!!<\/p>\n

Thanks to …..<\/span> \/\u00a0 No thanks to …..<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ok, so, let’s look at the first one!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We use these words when we want to say “thank you, …..was possible because of…!\u00a0 Let’ s try using it:<\/p>\n

\u201d I passed my test on the first try, thanks to<\/strong> <\/span>all of my teachers and study friends! \u201d<\/p>\n

\u201d We were able to finish painting the community center in one day, thanks\u00a0to <\/span><\/strong>all of the volunteers! \u201d<\/p>\n

\u300c…..\u306e\u304a\u304b\u3052\u3067\u3001\u300dis the Japanese I would use here.<\/p>\n

#Be careful!!\u00a0<\/span> If you say “thanks to…..” in an angry, irritated, ugly, etc. tone, the meaning TOTALLY CHANGES!!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

It becomes \u300c…..\u306e\u305b\u3044\u3067\u3001\u300d<\/p>\n

“Thanks to<\/strong> <\/span>my messy brother, we have to clean the room again!”<\/p>\n

Now, we’ll move on to the second one!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We use these words when we want to point out\u00a0people or things that\u00a0could have\/should have helped with something,\u00a0but didn’t!\u00a0 I’ll give you some examples:<\/p>\n

” We finished distributing the fliers, no thanks<\/strong> to<\/strong> <\/span>our lazy coworkers (who didn’t help)!\u00a0 ”<\/p>\n

“No thanks to<\/strong> <\/span>my sister(who messed with her phone the entire time), we finally finished getting dinner on the table!”<\/p>\n

*****When someone helps you out with something and you want to say a casual “thank you, \u52a9\u304b\u3063\u305f<\/strong><\/span>,”\u00a0\u00a0 here are two\u00a0extras:<\/p>\n

“You’re a lifesaver!”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“What would I do without you?”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I hope you picked up something new here!!\u00a0 Thanks<\/strong> <\/span>for reading!!<\/p>\n

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Hi, guys!!\u00a0 Thanks for dropping in to read a bit!\u00a0 This is Beth – the English speaking \u304a\u3070\u3061\u3083\u3093 –\u00a0here, hoping\u00a0to\u00a0expand a little on \u00a0two VERY simple words:\u00a0 “thank you”! For thos…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[276,5],"tags":[22],"class_list":{"0":"post-1909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-native","8":"category-learning","9":"tag-22","10":"article cf"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruitfulenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}