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These are words you learn when you're first learning English, but wouldn't it be better to use alternatives of these words, which help you sound more natural, more interesting and more cool?

Well, in this video, we're going to look at 20 different expressions in British English that you can use instead of saying thank you.

If you like this video, please give the video a thumbs up and click subscribe, and I would be eternally grateful.

There you go, what a wonderful expression, instead of just saying thank you.

This is quite extreme, um, which means obviously I would thank you, I would be grateful for the rest of my life.

Okay, so let's go with a couple of really, really common ones.

The most common way of saying thank you in British English is 'cheers'.

A lot of people know this word because it's what you say when you have a glass of wine or a beer, and you say to the other person, 'cheers', right?

But also, it's a very, very common way of saying thank you in English.

Probably the most common way is simply, 'thanks'.

Where I'm from in the north of England, we have an even shorter version of this, and it is 'ta'!

Thanks very much. It's nice, it's colloquial, it's northern; you probably won't hear it in the south of England.

You definitely won't hear it in the States, but I love it.

Okay, now let's take the word thanks, and now we can add some words after this to make a few different expressions.

If we want to make this stronger, we can say, 'thanks a lot.'

And if we want to make it even stronger, we can say 'thanks a million.'

One that I hear students using quite often is 'thank you so much'.

We do use that, but I think students often use it more than they should because 'thank you so much' is very, very extreme.

But you know, I've heard students say this when I give them a pencil.

And another one is 'thanks ever so much'.

You can use it for everything - It's not just for extreme things.

One is 'much appreciated'. 'Much appreciated.'

And another one is 'I really appreciate it'.

You know, thanks for the cookies you brought to my house yesterday.

At the beginning of this video, I used the word 'grateful'.

I said I would be eternally grateful if you subscribe to my channel and give this video a thumbs up.

So, 'I would be eternally grateful' is, yeah, it's a big deal.

If you want to be more normal and just use the word grateful, you could say 'I'm really grateful' or 'I'm so grateful'.

If you want to specify why you are grateful, use the preposition 'for' plus 'a noun'.

The next one is a very common expression we use when somebody gives us a present.

You receive a present and you say, 'you shouldn't have.'

Like, literally, you shouldn't have taken the time and effort to buy me a present.

And, obviously, we are not saying, 'Hey, don't buy me a present next year.'

It's just an expression, which means you've been really nice here.

I didn't expect it from you, so you shouldn't have.

Now, saying you are ... is also a very common way of saying thank you.

Like, you are excellent, you're so helpful, you're so kind, you're a star.

And if the thing that the person does that you want to say thank you for, if that really saves you from, like a bad situation; let's imagine you have lost your key and you can't get in your house, so a friend drives across the city to give you an extra key.

Not literally, but, come on, he saves you.

Right, we also have: 'I can't thank you enough.' Thank you.

Like, I want to thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, but there is no limit to my gratitude.

And the next one is 'if you do me a favour'.

'If you do me a favour', I could say, 'I owe you one.'

And this literally means 'I owe you a favour'.

So, next time, it's my turn to do you a favour.

All right, the most common mistake I hear is when people are speaking to me and they say 'many thanks'.

'Many thanks' is not really an expression we use in spoken English.

We do, however, use it in written English, and it's a very common way of ending an email.

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