Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 435
Speak Better English with Harry
How to Soften Your Criticism
We always want to soften our criticism and when we want to criticize people we can also back it up with some compliments as well. I appreciate your hard work but I would think we just need to put in a little bit more effort to get this account closed. Oh indeed if you talk to one of your kids say look I can see you've put a lot of effort into your studies but are you sure you're studying in the most effective way. We have to be careful here because sometimes they can be received or seen as backhanded compliments which is usually a compliment that comes with a criticism so we have to be a little bit careful.
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