Different Ways to Say Hello and Nice To Meet You in English
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over the weekend did you do anything
interesting over the weekend
anything on the weekend that’s our first
question to start what did you do Matt
Matt moved over the weekend all
congratulations new apartment moving is
exciting someone went shopping with her
mom
someone was in London oh I was in London
last week shopping shopping yep lots of
people went shopping I went shopping
also nothing special someone says Ali
says watching me thank you
that’s funny nothing much yeah nothing
much just relaxing okay
oh there’s Facebook now people join on
Facebook Eric from Brazil
Derwin from Indonesia Julio from Peru hi
thanks for joining so there’s Facebook
and YouTube watching right now that’s
amazing so yeah so we’re talking right
now just what did you do last weekend I
slept
okay so I think some people a lot of
people have joined right now so it’s the
it’s our first live broadcast so our
theme for this time is going to be
different ways to say hello and nice to
meet you
so it’s actually this is my first time
talking to you guys live so it’s good to
finally meet you
well from Ecuador studying English -
from Bangladesh
oh my gosh from Ethiopia from Vietnam hi
Eric yes who said your name yeah so it’s
good to meet you guys finally I am
talking slowly today there are a lot of
people watching right now live so from
Facebook Bruno says he started watching
videos this weekend and says they’re
awesome
thank you so much Bruno that’s really
nice okay so I inch and the topic just a
minute ago but do you guys know ways to
say hello and nice to meet you like how
do you usually introduce yourself
what’s your favorite food is that a
question or is that an introduction
question maybe you can ask that the
first time you meet someone ah this
person uh a PE op op it I don’t know
says I’ve never understood the meaning
of what is up as a greeting that’s a
really good question I think so what’s
up is just a casual hello
it means like what are you doing
Rhys or what have you been doing
recently what’s up with you your recent
activity so what’s up is really nice to
use in casual situations with friends
with your family
so and then this question from known lay
I’m sorry if I pronounced your name
wrong they asked hey what’s your name
that’s a really good one
the first time you meet someone - hey
what’s your name or hi what’s your name
so try to be energetic the first time
you meet someone ah there’s another good
one from Vinicius and it’s sorry I
missed it
what was it the comments are so fast oh
hey how is it going hey how’s it going
is a really good one
hey how’s it going my name is something
something great yeah that’s a really
good one and Homero
says what’s going on that’s good - hey
what’s going on it’s nice
Jermaine from Chu Lai hi
Leandro has a good one close it says
what are you up for use the phrase what
are you up to that’s good - greet
someone you know what are you up to
Sudan asks what’s wrong with replying
I’m fine - how are you doing hmm
I think it’s okay I I think it’s fine to
use I’m fine for that question
yeah so and if someone says to you like
how are you doing you can say I’m fine
just don’t say thank you like I’m fine
thank you
native speakers don’t really use that
expression just I’m fine it’s good Oh
Julio has one what have you been up to
what have you been up to is a really
good one to check in with someone you
haven’t seen in a while that’s really
good yeah nice one
okay so for today we have kind of some
extra information since it’s our first
live broadcast we have some kind of good
hints or good tips maybe that can be
helpful when you’re studying a new
language so I was looking at it before
actually yeah I think you can see it on
the screen now so these are actually
some pretty good ideas to help you learn
and to learn to study something new so
check it out I think you can download it
on the English class 101.com website so
maybe some of you already have an
account there so check it out if you are
interested there’s some good tips for
like learning a language but also just
studying in general so definitely check
it out
okay alright so there’s a good question
from idelle what what do we have to say
is someone is older than you do we have
to say how old are you or how young are
you actually don’t usually you should
not ask how old are you to the other
person don’t ask them how old you are
it’s usually kind of a sensitive
question Dennis says can you speak
another language is that a question for
me or question in general you can ask
this to a person the first time you meet
someone if you like that’s fine for me
yes I can
am i speaking slower than usual yes I’m
speaking much slower than usual today
ha week says pleased to meet you or glad
to meet you both are fine pleased to
meet you sounds a little bit more formal
glad to meet you is a little less formal
nice to meet you is the regular form
Claudio says are you married that’s
that’s maybe that’s too personal a
question for the first time you meet
someone so I don’t recommend that when
you meet someone from Facebook let’s see
min says hello I want to know about the
meaning of up to you ah the phrase up to
you means like you decide please so for
example if you’re making weekend plans
and you say
I don’t know what I want to eat it’s up
to you
that means you decide the listener
should decide nice one do you like
fishing is that a question for me
fishing is okay but as an introductory
question maybe if you’re asking about
hobbies you can that you can talk about
fishing nice one
Oh Jennifer has a good one what do you
do so what do you do is a question about
your job
so what is your job don’t ask what is
your job instead ask what do you do much
better nice one okay and then if you
want to add say hello to someone that
you haven’t seen for a long time you can
use a phrase like it’s nice to finally
meet you so maybe you meet like a
performer or an athlete or an actor
actress someone you really respect you
can say it’s nice to finally meet you
Naser assess what do you say when
someone says what’s up
usually if we say not much or nothing
much
gang says I binge doll your videos
thanks that’s a lot
okay and then I guess some other
greetings we can talk about our
greetings for like the time of day so
like when you meet someone in the
morning of course you can say good
morning but it’s better to make it short
so you can actually just drop good and
say morning that’s good or you can say
good morning that’s nice too if you meet
someone in the afternoon you can say
good afternoon but it’s usually just
hello in afternoons all before evenings
be careful with your evenings there’s
good evening and good night
remember these are really different so
good evening is your like greeting you
say hello with good evening but you say
goodbye or before you go to bed you use
good night so don’t say good night when
you greet someone it’s kind of strange
let’s see is there another way to say
have a nice day that’s from a Tongass
bull so sorry is there another way to
say I have a nice day
yes you can say have a good one I hope
you have a good one or have a nice
afternoon too so have a have a good one
so 1 means day in that case have a good
day have a nice day alright let’s see I
have lots of things I want to talk to
you about ok ah so if you meet someone
you really respect or like you’ve been
like watching their movies for a long
time like a famous person or something
you can say I’m really excited to meet
you I’m really excited to meet you is
good or maybe like you’ve read you meet
like your favorite author someone who
writes books you can say like I’ve read
all your books or maybe I’ve watched all
your movies say something like that it
shows you really respect them
yes someone said like they binge watch
videos so the phrase binge watch I
talked about it of in a video maybe once
I think but binge watch means to just
watch like non-stop for a long time
just some ones that they binge watched
the videos thanks guys from Facebook oh
hi from Thailand I’m really sorry I
can’t read Thai I can’t read your name
Louise says hello say hello to me on
Facebook wow so many comments ah Bruno
on Facebook says do you have tips about
how to practice a practice conversation
like how to meet someone to talk in
English yeah well it sort of depends on
where you live but going to places like
maybe local universities or colleges
sometimes have international school
events or maybe if you live in a big
city you can look up just international
meetup events those can be good places
to meet people who speak other languages
hi Christian from Mexico
Columbia to Oliver hi from Sudan hi okay
Shoval has another good greeting how are
you doing today how are you doing today
is okay it’s it’s good to use that if
you see that person a lot if you’re
meeting that person for the first time
it sounds a little strange
like maybe how are you doing today is a
sentence like staff in a restaurant or
like in the department store that’s a
question they would ask okay hi Brazil
Marcos from Brazil so say hello to
Brazil there are a lot of people from
Brazil watching from Dubai to East Side
sorry if I mispronounced your name okay
there’s another good one from Reed
Vaughn how is everything with you how
how’s everything with you that’s another
good greeting maybe use that after you
meet someone you haven’t seen for a long
time
all right so let’s see then maybe
somebody people are kind of mentioning
more formal greetings and things so
maybe we can talk about how you greet
like a colleague or someone you know
from work so if you are greeting like a
mutual friend someone your friend knows
you can say like hi I’m Alicia I’m a
friend of someone someone’s like I’m a
friend of Reese’s or hello I’m Alicia I
work with Risa or something like that
you can use those or if you want to
introduce yourself as of like a roommate
you can do that too so like hi I’m
Alicia Risa and I live together or Risa
and I have worked together for three
years something like that is good too hi
tommy’s from Mexico I see you on
Costa Rica Louise hi thanks for watching
more people from Brazil Wow
okay um so yeah if you like you can try
to use those like mutual friend
greetings but I think a lot of people
know how to use the weather as a
greeting so like it’s nice weather today
is it a good general greeting but if you
want to sort of level up your weather
greetings if it’s really cold you can
say it’s freezing today it’s raising
today or if it’s really hot you can say
it’s so hot today or you can use one
again like we talked about earlier so
like it’s a hot one out there so that
one means that day that one day so it’s
freezing or it’s hot out there you can
use that to to greet people
oh hi Davey hi JC CJ sorry watching as
well okay so I think we’re gonna
introduce really quickly the the PDF
that we showed earlier again so I was
looking through this before we started
this broadcast and I was looking at
let’s see it’s like number number 21 on
this so number 21 on this list talks
about doing things that are kind of
challenging or a little more difficult
for you so if you always try to do like
the easy thing or always try to do the
thing that’s comfortable for you to
study it’s really difficult to move
forward so I think number 21 is try yeah
try a harder lesson so if you feel like
maybe you’re not making progress in your
studies it’s maybe it’s a good idea it’s
a good time to try something that’s kind
of difficult for you so check that out
if you like so you can download that on
the on the website or you can download
that let’s see where else or else Nate
download that just the website I think
so check each class 101 dot-com yes the
link is in the description for that so
please check that out if you need some
extra tips for your studies
okay next one hi good night you’re from
Brazil
are you leaving good night from
Guatemala hi Pedro and from Syria a
couple people from Syria on Facebook
hello and from Thailand as well a
different question which is the correct
phrase from Newdow I missed the bus or I
lost the bus I missed the bus I missed
the bus
don’t say I lost the bus it’s probably
not correct in most cases it’s I missed
the bus Wow
okay another person says heavy traffic
isn’t it
yeah you can use heavy traffic like in
the in the morning if you like so when
you’re especially if you’re driving to
work or taking the bus to work something
like that you can say it’s heavy traffic
today heavy traffic means a lot of cars
or it’s like really stop and go and stop
and go
the time is it here right now it’s 11 23
oh my gosh
broadcast is going fast hello from Korea
and from Colombia on Facebook to Russia
- hi Russia okay
hey t hello Jamison from Haiti
have I ever been blonde no I’ve never
had blonde hair Oh Charles has a really
good question hi can I steal a minute of
your time
yes but use that with people that you
already know like use it with your
coworker if you need help with something
or maybe a family member or close friend
or something like that
don’t use that with the stranger it
sounds like you’re I don’t know maybe
you’re going to try to sell them
something so don’t use that with people
you don’t know can I steal a minute of
your time or can I have a minute of your
time that’s okay too
hello Sudan some 3a I say hi from
Dominican Republic Alfredo hello there
are so many people from Brazil Wow
thank you for watching from Honduras
Karen hello no I’m not from North Korea
let’s see hello from India - and Peru
and Indonesia ah there’s another good
one there from read Vaughn can I borrow
you for a second can I borrow you for a
second is similar to can I have a minute
it means you want to take that person
away from you from whatever they’re
doing and talk to them or do something
or you need their help so it means that
you want to take them from something
they’re doing now the Saudi Arabia hello
couple people from Saudi Arabia and my
sleepy no no let’s see from Egypt
Fatima how to pronounce quote quote it
has like a W sound quote Q the Q sound
makes a quoi it’s like a kW almost
okay
let’s see a PFA I’m not sure thanks for
watching he’s good luck with your cell
phone battery thanks for watching from
your phone that’s amazing
Brazil again there’s so many people from
Brazil hi again Brazil there are so many
people watching thanks very much
excuse me do you have a minute yes
that’s nice
do you have a minute just means you want
a moment a short period of someone’s
time some three egg and says how do you
do that’s okay but it sounds kind of
formal it’s still new hi from Japan and
hey first one from Japan I think
surprisingly well officially
let’s see Oh someone says are you gonna
continue this live series yes
so live series we’re gonna do this at
the same time actually every week from
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next live broadcast is going to be an
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