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Hello and welcome to the English we speak with me, Fay Faye

and hello I'm Neil. Welcome back from your holiday, Fay Fay. Oh thanks. To be honest, I'm very glad to be back.

What do you mean? You did have a nice time, didn't you?

Yes and no? Yes and no? Well which one was it? Yes or no? No, Neil. I said yes and no. We use this

expression when we want to partly agree and partly disagree.

So what I meant was that I enjoyed my holiday a bit, but not completely.

There were some issues with it.

For one, I couldn't get any work done. Wait, you didn't enjoy it. For one I couldn't get any work done.

Wait, you didn't enjoy it because you couldn't work.

You do know that you're supposed to relax when you're on holiday.

Yes and no, there's always time to do some work. Do you think there's something wrong with that?

Yes and no. We can talk more about that right after these examples.

When I asked her if she was still angry with me, she just said yes and no.

Yes and no. What kind of answer is that? Just tell me if you want to go out tomorrow.

The cricket coach just said yes and no when she was asked if she was happy with the current team.

This is the English we speak from BBC Learning English. We're learning about the expression yes and no,

which we're used to answer questions and show that it's not completely yes or no.

So, Neil, you said that there's something wrong with working on holiday.

I said yes and no. I think it's fantastic how hard

you work. You're an amazing professional. But we need to relax sometimes. In fact

relaxing can actually boost some people's productivity.

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