English Lesson - 8 Ways to Say, "I'm busy."

In this English video lesson I'll look at 8 different ways that you can say, "I'm busy." in English. All of us have busy lives, and sometimes it is nice to know the English words and phrases to say a little more than just, "I'm busy." when we're talking to someone.

In this lesson I'll help you learn to be more expressive when speaking the English language by helping to expand your vocabulary and the phrases that you'll use while having awesome English conversations!

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✅ TRANSCRIPT:

Hi Bob the Canadian here. Are you ever busy? Do you ever have a day or a week and when you look at everything that you need to do you just think to yourself, I'm too busy? Well in this video I'll look at about 8 more ways that you can say, "I'm busy!", in English.

Hey, Bob the Canadian here welcome to this video. If this is your first time here don't forget to click the subscribe button below and give me a thumbs up if this video helps you learn some English.

Hey, so one of the first ways that you can say that you're busy in English is to say, "I have a lot to do." So maybe a friend of yours asks if you can come over and help him with a project, and you could say, "No, I don't think I'm going to be able to because I have a lot to do tonight." So you don't have to say what you have to do, but you just say, "I have a lot to do."

So a second way to say that you're busy in English is to say, "I have a lot on my plate." So you know what a plate is. When you sit down to eat food you put the food on your plate. So when you say to someone, "I have a lot on my plate." It means the same thing as saying that you're busy. So maybe your boss wants you to do an extra job at work and he says, "Here's this extra job I need you to do." You could say, "I don't think I'm going to have time. I'm busy. I already have a lot on plate." And hopefully he recognizes that and doesn't give you extra work. But when you say, "I have a lot on plate.", it's another way to say, "I'm busy."

A third way to say that you're busy is to say, "I have a lot on the go." So let's say you're looking at your week and you're trying to figure out a time when you can meet your sister to go see a movie or to go out for dinner, and you could say to your sister, "I'm not sure I can fit this in because I have a lot on the go." Which would mean that you already have a lot of other things planned for the week, you just have so many things on the go you're not sure you can create some spare time to do something that's more fun and enjoyable. So another way to say you're busy is to say you have a lot on the go.

So a fourth way to say you're busy and it's similar to the one we just looked at is to say, "I have a lot going on." So we just looked at, "I have a lot on the go.", you could also say, "I have a lot going on." So when you look at your day and you're trying to figure out if you have time in the day to have a nap you could decide that you can't have a nap because you have a lot going on that day. You have too many things to do to be able to take a nap. So you have a lot going on.

So a fifth way to communicate to someone that you're busy is to say, "I'm swamped." This is a little more English slang, but we do say this a lot. When you just have so many things to do you feel swamped. You feel like there's just too many and you're not going to get them all done. So if someone was to say, "Hey do you have time to pick me up from the airport?" If you're so busy that you can't you could just say, "Look, I'm swamped right now. I don't have a spare minute in my day. I don't have time to pick you up from the airport. I'm too busy." So, "I'm swamped.", another way to say that you're busy.

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