Being polite is very important. If you are polite to others, they will be polite to you. In English there are many words to show you are polite. Many visitors don’t know when to use “please”. When they go into a café and say “A coffee.” or “I want a coffee.” These might be OK for the English people. But they can be very impolite to an English ear if you are a visitor. So adding a simple “please” would make it better. “A coffee, please.” or “I would like a coffee, please.” will make you a polite visitor.
In fact, you can be even more polite: “Sorry, could you tell me the way to Oxford Street, please?” “Sorry, could you tell me your name again, please?” It’s very common to start a request (请求) with the word “sorry”.
If you ask for help, try “I’m sorry to bother you.” or “But could you possibly help me, please?” And you might say to a friend “Hey, John. Lend me $100, will you?” But you couldn’t say this to somebody you do not know well.
1．It’s OK for a visitor to say “I want a coffee.” when they are in a café.Table Manners
Good table manners are different from country to country.
In India, for example, people eat with their right hands. Eating with left hands is very rude (粗鲁的)!
In the West, people don’t usually share food. Everyone has his or her own plate of food. And you should not make noise when you are eating, even if the food is really good. Eating with noise is rude in the West. But in Japan it is good manners to make noise when you are eating, because that shows you are enjoying the food.
In China, it is OK to make a lot of noise in a restaurant. But in the West, the restaurant is a quiet place. Making much noise in a restaurant shows one’s bad manners.
Country | Good table manners | Bad table manners |
In India | People eat with | Eating with |
In the West | People eat his or her own | Eating with |
In Japan | People make | / |
In | It’s OK to make a lot of noise in a restaurant. | / |
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