Hi everybody, my name is Alicia.

In this lesson, I'm going to talk about how to express humility in English.

Let's get started.

Okay, first, I want to define what is humility?

Humility, humility is a noun.

Humility is a state of not thinking you are better than other people.

So humility is, it's considered a good state, so we don't think like I'm better than that person,

or that person is below me or something like that. Humility is considered a positive state to be in.

So there are a couple of different situations where it's common

to express humility.

First, I'm going to talk about some expressions you can use

if you receive a special award of some kind or if you receive

kind of like an honorable recognition. These two are some cases at work or maybe in your studies

where it's important to express humility. So first let's take a look at these expressions. We would use

these when we receive awards. So the first expression is, I am honored to accept this award.

So a keyword here is honored. So honor is the root. So that means it's like respectable.

So it's something that's very special and I feel appreciative.

I want to say thank you and show that I respect this situation.

I am honored to accept.

So to accept means like it's okay. I will take it. I'm honored to accept. So to accept means like it's okay, I will take it.

I am honored to accept this award.

So this is how maybe lots of awards speeches begin.

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