How Are You Back to English Basics Series
hi i’m vanessa from speak english with
vanessa calm how’s it going let’s talk
about it
welcome to the second lesson in the back
to english basic series because this
month july 2017 is the month that my
baby will be born I thought that we
could use this concept going back to the
beginning back to the basics of English
and help you to build your foundation
even stronger we already talked about
greetings like hello hey so today let’s
go to the next part of a greeting which
is a follow-up greeting it’s something
that’s not release and fear it’s not
actually a question but we use this all
the time
what is it let’s talk about a couple
examples the first expression is how are
you how are you you probably learned
this a long time ago in elementary
school hello how are you
but do native speakers actually use how
are you well the truth is sometimes
sometimes we do use how are you but it’s
considered the most formal and the in
this situation it’s the most unlikely to
be used because most of our interactions
are with friends with neighbors with
family so how are you seems a little bit
too formal for most circumstances I
recommend using the next expressions
instead the next four expressions are
all equally the same level of casual
they’re not too casual not too formal we
can use them in a lot of situations
the first one is how’s it going how is
it going but we often shortened it to
how’s it go in go in when we want to be
casual the G at the end of a word with
ING often gets dropped so we might say
Hey how’s it going and someone might
respond or you might respond all pretty
good not too bad
how’s it going this is much more common
than how are you
the next follow-up greeting is how are
you doing how are you doing but we never
say how are you doing instead we say how
ya doing how are you doing I use this
all the time whenever I see one of my
neighbors I just say hey how you doing
and this means hey how are you hello how
are you but it’s much more casual and it
shows that you already have some kind of
friendship or relationship hey how are
you doing hey how’s it going the next
follow-up greeting is what’s up what’s
up we talked about this in the first
video in this series as a greeting by
itself you could say what’s up without
any hi any hello but we often use this
together hey what’s up so that’s why I
included it in both videos hey what’s up
hi what’s up and the way you can respond
to this is simply oh pretty good not too
bad
hey what’s up not much a really simple
question or you don’t have to answer it
at all if someone says to you hey what’s
up you can just say hey perfectly fine
no problem and really common the final
follow-up greeting is one that you can
ask if you really do want an answer
something that people often ask me when
I go to the grocery store the cashier
will ask me hey what are you up to today
what are you up to today
what are you up to today and that means
what are you doing today and we can use
this if we want someone to tell us where
they’re going something small about
their lives
so if I asked you hey what do you love
to today you could say I’m just going to
work or I’m going to see my mom today
you can tell me a little detail
something not too much but a little bit
more so this final question is going to
ask for some details instead of the
other questions the other questions you
don’t have to give any details at all
I’m fine
doing well no problem but the final
question I recommend giving a little bit
of an answer so now it’s your turn to
use these follow-up greetings in the
comments below this video use a
follow-up greeting that you want to use
when you have conversations with native
speakers or with other English learners
which greeting is the most comfortable
to you which one are you going to use
write it in the comments below let’s
greet each other and have a beautiful
day I’ll see you the next time bye
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