React to Good News Like a Pro With These Easy English Phrases

Do you ever hear good news in English and you're not sure how to respond? Don't just say okay or nice. Instead, use one of the natural and expressive phrases from this video. When someone shares their good news, your response matters, and the right phrase shows that you're friendly, confident, and fluent. So, let's learn the best English phrases for reacting to good news in a natural way. You can download a free guide full of phrases for responding to both good and bad news by clicking on the link in the video description. Enter your email address and I'll send you that free PDF guide right away. We'll start with the word congratulations. Say congratulations when something good happens to a person like getting engaged or married, having a baby, having a wedding anniversary, being accepted into college or graduating from college, getting a job or promotion, receiving an award or a recognition like employee of the month for example, and having some success like opening a new business, buying a house, etc. The one time we do not say congratulations is on birthdays. then we would say happy birthday instead. You can also make a sentence using on congratulations on your promotion. Congratulations on getting into Harvard University. In English, note that we say congratulations on, not congratulations for. Our next phrase is good job. Say good job when a person did something good. So, the person did good work on a project or they played well in a game or sang or danced well in a performance or maybe the person got the answer to a question right in school. You can say good job or some variations great job and nice job. You can also make sentences with on. Good job on the sales report. It was accurate and well organized. The next expression is lucky you. Differently from good job which is for their work or their effort. We say lucky you when something good happened to the person by luck by chance when they received something nice or received a good opportunity like winning the lottery, receiving free tickets to a show or going on three months of vacation. We don't typically make sentences with lucky you. We just say it alone. Lucky you. But we can make sentences with you're so lucky that. For example, you're so lucky that you get the day off from work tomorrow. You're so lucky that the teacher didn't notice you were late to class. Our next phrase is that's great news. We can say this or one of the variations to respond to some information or a piece of news. For example, my son passed all his exams. That's great news. Our company grew 20% this year. That's wonderful news. A new community center is opening in the neighborhood. That's fantastic news. Next we have I'm so happy for you. Say I'm so happy for you when there is or will be a very positive change in someone's life, especially when their life will be very different as a result. So this could be getting engaged or married, having a baby, getting into college, or getting a job or promotion because they all start exciting new chapters in life. You can also use it together with congratulations. For example, we're going to have a baby. Congratulations. I'm so happy for you. You'll be great parents. Our next phrase is good for you. We say this when a person has done or is going to do something to make their life better. For example, I quit smoking last year. Good for you. I'm going to study abroad. Good for you. I'm sure it will be a great cultural experience. I signed up for a cooking class. Good for you. I bet you'll really enjoy it. Now you know how to respond to many types of good news confidently in English. Make sure to download your free guide to review today's phrases and learn how to reply to bad news as well. And if you want to learn how to speak English more fluently in lots more everyday situations, check out my everyday English speaking course. It will teach you exactly what to say when traveling, shopping, socializing, and lots more so you can live your life with confidence. Click on the link in the description or visit espressoenglish.net ET for the everyday English speaking