Transcript:

In this episode we are going to cover the phrasal verb to make up to someone.

I am Daniel. and you are listening to the Vocab Man.

0:14
What does to make up to someone mean?
It means to do something to show that you are sorry about the problems you have caused someone.

Let's listen to an example from a woman who forgot about their marriage anniversary.

0:26 example 1:
You're always forgetting what we have to do is your family coming to our anniversary? I am so, so, so sorry. I swear to God, I will make it up to you. I will take you to that place that you wanted to go to last week, the, um, which place, which restaurant you don't, you don't remember anything? Not one thing .There is too much in my head.


Let's listen to another one. Because in my opinion it sticks better when it comes from a real example.

0:56 Example 2:

The policies of a country do not necessarily always affect the tribal and rural communities. It was devastating like, oh, we can't actually do something about this. We found out there's a huge gap when it comes to official policies and the real truth on the ground. So this time we were like, we are going to do something different.

We are going to use strategy and we are going to go back and apologize. Yes apologize. We went back to the communities and we said, we are very ashamed of what we did we are here to apologize. And in fact, we are here to make it up to you. How do you do that? We are going to promote three of your main cultures.

We know that it's music, language and embroidery. Nobody believed us. Nobody wanted to work with us. It took a lot of convincing and discussions with these communities until they agreed that we are going to promote their language by making a booklet of their stories, fables and all tells in the tribe.


1:57 Outro
I must apologize. I have to be frank here. In this episode I did not use my own voice. Maybe you did notice it. Maybe not.


I'll make it up to you one day.
Your Daniel