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
let’s go along then to maybe some new
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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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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
get you started some job titles
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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
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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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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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