How to Give Compliments in English | Easy English Podcast | Noka Daily English

A coworker showed me a presentation she'd spent two weeks on. I said "this looks really good." Three words. And the compliment landed with no weight at all. Giving a compliment seems like the easy part of English. But "nice job" and "looks good" are forgettable — and the people who deserve a real compliment deserve more than three forgettable words. In this episode, Noka and Leo teach you how to say something kind in English that actually sounds like you mean it. 🎯 What you'll learn today: → The 3-part formula for a compliment people actually remember → How to compliment a person directly without it feeling awkward → How to receive a compliment gracefully (harder than it sounds) → How compliments shift across different relationships ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 12 KEY PHRASES FROM TODAY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✦ you really thought this through ✦ I can tell you put a lot of care into this ✦ that really means a lot ✦ I'll pass that along to them too ✦ I'm not great at taking compliments, but... ✦ the way you handled that was impressive ✦ you handled that way better than I would have ✦ that's going to serve you well ✦ one of the most [trait] people I know ✦ I picked up a few things I want to try myself ✦ I wasn't expecting that ✦ don't save your best [words] only for... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 JOIN THE CONVERSATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Comment ONE WORD below — what's a compliment you still remember, and how did it make you feel? Proud? Surprised? Seen? We read every single comment. 👇 Bonus: what's a compliment you've always wanted to give someone in English but never knew how to say? Tell us — we might build a whole episode around the best ones. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ ABOUT NOKA DAILY ENGLISH ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Daily English podcast for real life — not textbook English. New episode every day. Natural conversation. Real stories. Hosted by Noka 🔴 and Leo 🔵 Subscribe for a new episode every day → ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 MORE EPISODES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▶ Ep.3 — Talking About Your Feelings ▶ Ep.4 — First Day at a New Job ▶ Ep.5 — How to Apologize in English #EnglishPodcast #LearnEnglish #EnglishConversation #Compliments #DailyEnglish #NokaDailyEnglish #EnglishSocialSkills #SpeakEnglish #ESL #EnglishForWork