Useful English Greetings for Everyday Life Basic English Phrases

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this week’s weekly live lesson we’re

going to talk about English greetings

English greetings so I know this is a

topic a lot of you have practiced in so

today we’re going to review some

greetings

you probably already know and then I’m

going to talk about some casual

greetings you can use with friends and

with other people you’re close to

finally then I’m gonna talk about some

special use greeting so like when you

haven’t seen someone for a long time or

you’re really excited to meet someone

for example so today I have three parts

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we’re gonna talk about English greetings

so I want to begin with probably the

easiest types of greetings this is gonna

be our review our review stuff so review

means like the things you probably

already know but just to practice and

maybe you’ll find something new here so

let us begin first the most basic ones

are these greetings Hey hi and hello hey

hi and hello by the way today’s

greetings are all American English

greetings I’m going to introduce

American English style greetings

so hey is probably my favorite way to

greet someone and we can double this up

so like actually just this weekend for

example someone a friend greeted me said

hello to me saying hey hey that’s kind

of a more casual way an even more casual

way to use hey

so hey very nice very easy to use

friendly that’s probably my favorite the

next basic one is hi hi hi sounds a

little more stiff than hey hey is more

relaxed kind of cooler

I feel like hi is a little more like

stiff it’s not quite as relaxed it’s not

quite as cool you can extend this vowel

sound like hi to make it kind of funny

if you want but in general hi sounds a

little more stiff than hey okay finally

in this group of three hello hello hello

is the basic is the standard phone

greeting so standard phone greeting I

mean when you answer the phone when you

pick up the phone

the standard phone greeting you pick up

the phone you say hello in most cases if

you use hello when you actually meet a

friend it sounds a little

it weird because this is used kind of

only on the phone or it’s used like the

first time you meet someone like hello

my name is when you’re introducing

yourself after you’ve met the person a

couple of times it might be a little

strange to use hello because it sounds

not so familiar it sounds like maybe you

don’t know that person so well so hello

it’s okay it’s not a mistake to use but

I would recommend if you’ve met the

person a few times use hey

or maybe hi depending on how close you

are so I prefer hey in most cases if you

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righty let’s move on then to next point

next one more formal situations so if

you want to greet your co-workers your

colleagues your boss when you get to

work for example you can use good

morning good afternoon or good evening

good morning good afternoon good evening

more formal more polite than hey hi

hello so one thing you’ll hear native

speakers do is native speakers will drop

this good so we’ll just say morning or

afternoon or evening instead of good

morning or good afternoon or good

evening just morning afternoon evening

it sounds a little more familiar but

still kind of polite to make it even

more casual though we drop this G sound

or we make this n sound shorter so it

sounds like mornin like no G sound or

evening as well here afternoon like the

end sound gets a little shorter morning

afternoon evening so that sounds even

more like casual even more friendly we

use this style of speech with coworkers

we’re very close to of course you can

just say good morning like I said good

morning to control desk when I walked in

the room today I think I think I said

good morning yeah okay thanks I think so

okay so that’s fine to use in any

situation like it’s never incorrect to

use one of these expressions to greet

people it’s always nice so if you’re not

sure like ah is it too casual what

should I do

these are great to use good morning good

afternoon good evening okay ah one point

about this one good evening good evening

is used only when you greet someone I’ve

heard people use good evening when they

leave a situation to say goodbye we

don’t use it to say goodbye only for

greetings

I have heard some students use good

evening to say goodbye you can say have

a good evening that’s fine but not good

evening just have a good evening

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Thanks control desk greetings I have it

here because it’s kind of like a really

really cheerful somewhat old-fashioned

group greeting like when you come to the

office or you come to a meeting and

you’re surrounded by people you know

it’s like a it’s a cheerful way to say

hello to everybody like greetings but it

does sound a little old-fashioned it

does sound a little bit funny so I love

this one actually that’s just sort of my

style I suppose but I’ve heard for

example like talk-show hosts use this

kind of this kind of greeting to welcome

guests who are watching the show

greetings

so actually if you watch our YouTube

channel if you watch the English

class 101 YouTube channel you have

probably heard me use this to begin

videos quite a lot actually

greetings so usually it’s like a really

cheerful sounding greeting okay good um

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today’s topic is English greetings

greetings so greetings this means how to

say hello to somebody how to say hello

to somebody if you have questions please

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can find it raphaël on youtube says is

goodnight useful when the people I’m not

sure about the question but goodnight is

a way to say goodbye goodbye

so I mentioned good evening good evening

is the greeting good night

is how to say goodbye so hello good

evening goodbye good night don’t confuse

those two okay let’s go along I don’t

see other questions

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or casual I want to talk about some more

casual greetings so casual casual means

expressions of vocabulary words you can

use with people you are close to so

you’re close friends close

english-speaking family members may be

close colleagues so these are casual

relationships close relationships first

one very very commonly used what’s up

what’s up so the answer to this question

is not much not much what’s up not much

not much or nothing this is the standard

there are these two standard answers -

not much maybe some of you have seen the

English in three minutes video where we

talked about this it’s very old like six

years old

so I was explaining what’s up and how to

answer this question generally in most

cases we use not much not much what’s up

not much how about you what’s up nothing

those are the standard answers if you

say great or not so good or bad

something like that you should be

prepared to explain like why like what’s

so great or why are you not doing well

today

so if you don’t want to talk about

anything in particular use not much or

nothing here not much

nothing these are the standard answers

okay good then let’s go on I’ll come

back to what’s up in just a minute I

want to go to this one how you doing how

you doing so you can hear my

pronunciation this says how you doin

this is not like grammatically correct

in terms of grammar this is not correct

it’s missing parts how are you doing is

what this means how are you doing but we

drop the verb are it sounds kind of cool

kind of rough how you doin

and my pronunciation just now I used ya

instead of you how you doing

everything connects how are you doing

like I talked about here - with this

afternoon as well or evening or mornin

we see the same thing here there’s no G

here in doing how are you doing so this

sounds really casual how you doing the

proper answer to this good good I’m good

how are you doing that’s a great way to

respond to this how are you doing

sound it’s exactly the same thing as

what’s up or how are you how are you

doing

you might hear some people use this like

if you’re a fan of the TV show friends

you might have heard this expression how

you doing in that intonation how you

doing like to talk to someone you want

to ask on a date but I don’t recommend

it for that it sounds just ridiculous it

sounds so weird so I recommend using

this in a cheerful greeting not as a way

to introduce yourself to strangers so

please use this one with your friends

okay let’s go on then to the next one

yes sup sup so I talked about I talked

about this expression what’s up here

stuff you can see this part su P comes

from this part of what’s up what’s up so

what’s up what’s up we know is a casual

expression sup is even more casual so I

would use this I use this with my

brother my brother for example my

brother and I absolutely used this like

even if we haven’t seen each other for a

year so that’s how we that’s how we talk

so very casual people you’re close with

sup sudden and the answer to this to

respond to this is sup right would you

would you say anything else no right

yeah see sup is the answer - sup sup sup

that’s really the conversation so please

use sup to answer sup yeah no one’s easy

yeah I think that one’s easy

uh-oh somebody I saw I sorry I didn’t

catch your name someone asked what sin

apostrophe apostrophe is this mark this

mark right here is an apostrophe sorry

you can’t see oh can we zoom in that’s

okay if it’s a small extra point maybe

but uh apostrophe is this is this mark

right here this little mark we use it

for a few different things this is an

apostrophe okay let me see where was I

yes okay it’s catchable greeting so step

and step we’ve learned very easy one

very casual one to use

then let’s go along to another very

casual expression no yo also extremely

casual this tense this is most commonly

used by young people I would say

probably like college-age people most

likely young men I feel it’s okay for

women to use this too it sounds very

rough and cool yo yo so you can extend

this yo to sound more rough to sound

like cooler I like to use this like to

kind of be funny I suppose but you can

use it as well just as a really super

casual greeting someone on Facebook you

asked about the expression how do you do

this one how do you do

how do you do that’s that’s a nice

greeting but it’s very formal sounding

we do not use this greeting in American

English it’s correct we’ll understand

you but we do not use this greeting how

do you do it sounds quite fun but it’s

okay um okay

Kenya on YouTube says what about what’s

good yeah nice one okay what’s good sure

this so this person thanks Kenya on

YouTube suggested this expression what’s

good what is good so in other words what

is your good

News is kind of how we can understand

this it’s like how are you but cooler

it’s way cooler than how are you what’s

good so I’m not cool so I don’t use this

expression but what’s good what’s good

yeah very casual mostly young people

used by a lot of young people what’s

good the answer to this what’s good

I feel like there could be a lot of

things you could say here what’s good

what would you say what’s good I would

try because this is such a cool

expression like what’s good I would

probably reply with something like you

know same old it’s not this isn’t really

a question about like what is good in

your life now it’s not really asking for

you to share all your news it’s more

like hello but like what’s good with you

and you’re like ah you know it’s the

same old same old means like nothing has

changed everything is the same hey you

know same old same old

okay good let’s go on to the last casual

one for today I included this because

it’s funny but because people still use

this people use this word howdy just

sound sort of funny and it’s just it’s

still used even though it sounds like a

cowboy film sort of thing howdy howdy is

an american english expression and it’s

just it’s something that we use with our

friends when we just we just want to say

hello but we’re feeling like we have

like a lot of energy maybe or we have

kind of a sense of humor about the

situation i’ve used this expression on

the channel here and there

just when I feel kind of funny like when

I want to feel like say something funny

so how do you not as common as these

other expressions but you I think you

will hear it for sure

okay good uh I don’t see any questions

um so ah someone said come out on

Facebook says how are you feeling how

are you feeling the sentence is

grammatically correct yes but we would

not use that for a greeting that would

sound unnatural as it greeting how are

you feeling we would use if we meet

someone who is sick or we knew that

person was sick in the past how are you

feeling like are you better are you

feeling better okay

um Ronnie says sorry how with the

pronunciation of morning afternoon

evening in a more casual way ah if you

missed this you can check the video back

but it’s morning afternoon evening so

drop the G sound there alright I have to

continue let’s take another quick break

do you think yes yes okay great great

um let’s we’ll take another quick break

someone asked earlier about business

English materials so today’s topic

today’s topic is greetings in English

and I was sharing a couple of free

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vocabulary here it is but one of you

somebody asked about business English so

this we do have a business English

resource this is one of the free the

free PDFs we have on the website so this

is maybe the better page to look at for

today so this is some examples for

business English related to a meeting

but here there’s an example of the

greeting I used like right here is this

good morning everyone so in this case in

a meeting you would not use that morning

pronunciation I talked about good

morning everyone

you want to make sure to make it polite

so these are a couple of expressions you

can use for business meetings just to

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alright let’s finish we have a lot to

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about it so good planning okay let’s go

on to the last part of today’s lesson

I don’t see questions yet

Govinda no we cannot start again this

greeting lesson this lesson is being

recorded you can check the video on our

YouTube channel or Facebook page if you

missed the lesson okay

let’s go on to a special use greetings I

have a lot of these prepared so let’s

look at the first group the first group

of greetings here is right here

maybe this group these are greetings you

can use when you meet someone you have

not seen for a long time so friends

family members colleagues co-workers

whatever so if you have not met that

person you have not seen that person for

a long time you can greet them with this

expression I want to show some key

grammar points here too

first one I haven’t seen you in so long

so I have two variations here I haven’t

seen you in so long

or I haven’t seen you in ages ages means

a long long time an age is a very long

time I haven’t seen you in ages

plural I haven’t seen you in ages

so here are grammar I haven’t I have not

seen you in so long I have not had the

experience of meeting you for a long

time so you can use so long or ages both

of these are fairly casual fairly

friendly and use this with I would say

all of these use these with a cheerful

voice cheerful intonation to show you’re

excited about meeting that person okay

next one maybe I think lots of you know

this one long time no see one time

receive so try to really connect these

words together not long time no see but

make it long time no see

so this part in particular time no see

comes together really quickly long time

no see long time no see so this one is

perhaps the most popular way to greet

someone after a long period of time

another one it’s been a while it’s been

a while what does this mean it’s been a

while this really means it’s been a

while since we last met it’s been a

while since we last met or since the

last time we met this it’s also this

it’s is it has it has its apostrophe

again for the person who asked

apostrophe s is it has been a while a

while means a long time it has been a

long time since we last met is quite a

long expression so it’s been a while

it’s been a while

much better it’s been a while okay this

one is the next one nice to see you

again nice to see you again

you can include it’s it’s nice to see

you again this it is not it has just it

is it is it’s nice to see you again it’s

nice to see you again

I use an upward intonation right here

it’s nice to see you again

sounds nice nice to see you again so

this again sometimes sometimes we do

drop again nice to see you

it’s nice to see you or it’s nice to see

you again both are good both are

friendly very friendly and they’re

fairly polite you can use this at work

or with your friends nice to see you

again

okay good let’s go to the next group

really quickly we have to finish soon so

the next expression how have you been

how have you been this is like the the

next part when you see someone you

haven’t seen for a long time your next

question or your next statement can be

how have you been how have you been so

this means in the period before this

meeting were you good were you bad how

have you been over that period of time

to level this up most native speakers

don’t say how have you been we contract

this we reduce this so how and have come

together how love and then we make this

you into a yeah sound like I talked

about earlier with how you doing so this

becomes how have you been how have you

been much better how have you been the

answer to this question good or a lot of

people use busy or okay so you can think

of this how have you been how have you

been it’s kind of like how are you but

for a period of time for the period of

time before you met the other person

have you been is a really good one okay

good two more

these last two these last two

expressions I included because if you

meet someone you really respect or you

meet someone you really admire you’re a

fan of that person like maybe someone

famous in your field of work or like an

athlete or a movie star for example

whatever you meet someone and you’re

really excited to meet them you can use

these expressions first it’s great to

finally meet you it’s great to finally

meet you it’s great to finally meet you

means like I wanted to meet you I have

wanted to meet you and now I’m really

excited because it’s my opportunity it’s

great to finally meet you

so finally is in parenthesis here it’s

great to finally meet you

you can drop this it’s great to meet you

including finally if you use finally it

sounds like you really really wanted to

meet that person for a long time if you

remove finally this is just a polite

greeting so it’s great to meet you is it

just a nice greeting in general if you

use finally though it sounds like you

were super excited to meet this person

it’s great to finally meet you okay last

one for today last one for today I’ve

heard so much about you I’ve heard so

much about you so again be careful of

your grammar here I’ve I’ve I know this

is a pronunciation point for many of you

I’ve heard so much about you is I have

this I’ve is I have I have heard so much

so so much means so much information

this sentence has a very positive

feeling about it I’ve heard so much good

information about you so if you are

meeting a friend’s friend a mutual

friend your friend’s friend for the

first time and your friend has said this

person is really great they’re so

interesting they’re wonderful you can

say I’ve heard so much about you

heard so much about you sometimes this

has like a little pressure like on the

other person like cool why I wonder why

but I’ve heard so much about you is a

very positive way to say like other

people told me good things about you

alright so I have to finish I’m late I’m

four minutes late sorry

okay we’ll finish there for today but I

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goodbye for now so oh my gosh

coincidentally next week’s lesson next

week’s lesson we’ll be back we’ll be

back next week and we will be saying

goodbye in next week’s lesson so I kind

of a pair this week is greetings next

week we’ll talk about ways to say

goodbye ways to say goodbye so our next

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