12-情感生活ask someone out

When you are asking someone to go on a date with you, you need to be careful about which words to use. In today’s dialogue, our male speaker asks Liz “are you doing anything this weekend?”. He could have also said something like “are you free this weekend?” These are both good ways to ask someone on a date, because if you actually say the word date, it might be a little direct or awkward. But of course if you don’t say the word “date”, that could also lead to a misunderstanding. You really shouldn’t use the words"will you go out with me", because in many places, that actually means “will you be my girlfriend/boyfriend”. Wow! Love is so complicated!