Starting, making offers and concessions, stating preferences, checking understanding, accepting and refusing offers and more useful language for negotiations.
Useful language
Starting
• Could we begin now please?
• I would like to begin by …
• OK, let’s get started …
• To begin, I’d like to present/comment on …
Making suggestions, recommendations & proposals
Neutral proposals:
• I’d like to suggest that …
• I recommend/suggest …
• I propose a …
• In my view, a good solution would be to …
• My proposal is that I/you/we …
• Would it be a good idea to …?
• I advise you to …
Strong proposals:
• I strongly recommend that …
• I advise you strongly to …
• In my/our view, it is extremely important that we …
• In my/our view, the only viable solution is to …
Asking for an opinion or a reaction
• What do you think of/about …?
• What’s your opinion on this?
• I’d like to hear your views on …
• What’s your position on …?
• How do you feel about the suggestion to …?
• Would you like to comment on this?
• Would you like to add anything to this?
Supporting a proposal
Neutral support:
• I’m in favour of that suggestion.
• I have no objection to that.
• I would give my backing to that.
• I would agree with that.
• Agreed!
Strong support:
• I totally/completely agree with …
• I’m with you all the way on this.
• This proposal/recommendation has my full support.
• I’m fully in favour of …
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