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What to do when someone asks you a question and you don't understand

Confident Business English

CHAPTER

Can You Repeat?

If you don't feel comfortable saying, can you repeat? I think that probably paraphrasing in a formal setting might be the best option. You could also do the classic of pretending that the audio isn't very good. Sometimes it's appropriate to make light of something and sometimes it's not. But one thing that people really struggle with is saying all of these things correctly. In Spanish, it's a dafoe, which is just kind of mind-boggling because it's very, very different.

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