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your requests somebody asked me how to
respond to how are you and they don't
just want to say i'm fine or I'm good
some more advanced interesting and
creative ways to answer how are you now
I've mentioned before that this question
how are you does not always mean what do
you think it means it's not always
necessary to reply to how are you with
how you are in this lesson I'm going to
tell you all about how to answer this
very common and important question and
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lesson firstly I want to discuss some
common mistakes that non-native speakers
often make and
native speakers as well and there's also
a perceived mistake natives will tell
you that you're wrong
but you're actually right and we'll go
through that many people will tell you
that it's incorrect to respond to how
are you with I'm good
they say it's wrong it's not wrong to
any natives who are listening and
thinking oh my word my mother told me it
was wrong my whole life your mother was
wrong I'm sorry even my own parents told
me that it was wrong to say I'm good I
should say I'm well however in this case
good can be used I think my parents
probably told me not say it because it
sounded too American and as a child I
had this terrible habit of picking up
phrases that I'd seen on American TV
shows and using them in a tiny little
British accent and they hated it saying
I'm good is grammatically correct if you
are not directly referring to your
health so if you're just saying in
general I am good it's fine just as if
you'd say in general I am bad I'm well
is also fine and it normally means that
you're referring to your health for
saying good or satisfactory however this
is where people get confused if you say
I'm doing well that's fine but be
careful when responding with I'm doing
good because if you say I am doing good
it means you are doing good things like
visiting homeless shelters and donating
toys to children's hospitals good things
you aren't talking about how you are now
let's take a look at some easy ways to
say I'm good or I'm fine I'm good
I'm fine I'm well are pretty overused
they're very very boring so if you want
to impress an examiner or impress a
native speaker or just your friends and
family take a look at these we can add
pretty
so we'd say I'm pretty good I'm pretty
well you could say pretty fine maybe not
as much in the UK but maybe more in
America pretty in this case means fairly
I'm fairly good I'm fairly well you can
also say quite I'm quite good I'm quite
well but that sounds much more formal
I'm quite well thank you very formal to
me if you want to emphasize how good you
are you can say really I'm really good
really well now those are still pretty
basic so what about some more
interesting ways to respond to how are
you well one I really like is I've never
been better
shorten - never been better this means
that you are feeling truly great
you could also say so far so good
this is also commonly used if you're
doing a task you're talking about the
progress until now it's been going well
your life has been going well
another one one that I'm seeing a lot
nowadays is can't complain and this can
be said in more than one way it depends
on the tone of voice if I say can't
complain it means my life is amazing but
I don't want to brag about it so I'm
just gonna say can't complain if I said
I can't complain I guess can't complain
it means could be worse the more common
use is the sort of self-deprecating not
wanting to show off kind of use and
another one is better than I deserve I
like this one it's quite funny this is
quite a tongue-in-cheek one okay I'm
gonna give you a couple of silly ones as
well if you want to make people laugh or
cringe if someone asks if you're a dog
lover and someone asks you how you are
you could say if I had a tail I would
wag it
and you can also have a couple of flirty
ones
if someone says how are you you could
reply with word on the street is and I'm
pretty good or I'm great but I'm totally
biased I love those ones I am I'm
standing on my own in my studio laughing
alone at how much I like these words now
what do you say if you're neither good
nor bad if you are okay I'm okay it's
really really boring though let's look
at some other more exciting ones like
I'm alright now I wanted to mention I'm
alright because it's a unique one in the
sense that it can be both a question and
an answer I might say to someone all
right
and they'll say all right so it's like
how are you yeah I'm okay
it's very very frequently used just be
careful on the pronunciation we don't
always pronounce the L we don't say all
right we say all right all right
another one is so so so so I could could
be better the next one not too bad is
again one that depends on tone of voice
if I say not too bad it means good but
in this case not too bad
it means like I mean I'm not great
another one could be better it could be
better but I could also be worse that's
something you can add on to the end if
everything's just really boring an
average you can say same-old same-old
really another couple which mean you're
just this close to being bad is I'm
alive or I'm surviving and the last good
enough good enough they used to be a
teacher at my school could mr. good
enough and I thought what a I don't want
it so his name but just who named him in
the past he's not great but he's good
enough let's go
mr. good enough a couple of funny ones
especially sarcastic ones they're quite
useful you could say I'm alright now but
there's still time for everything to go
horribly wrong or a flirty one better
now that I'm talking to you
that's quite a charming one now what
should you say if you are bad
if you feel terrible just you're not
having a good day for whatever reason
well quite a good way to start off a
complaint or a negative phrase is to
start with I'm not going to lie that is
a nice way to prepare someone for the
negativity that is about to escape your
mouth I'm not going to lie
I feel terrible you could also say I'm
not doing so well or I'm struggling a
bit these two imply that you're
struggling maybe a little bit mentally
or emotionally as well so it's important
to watch out for somebody who says these
to you because they might need a bit of
support the same way of I'm snowed under
to be snowed under means you've just got
too much work you're completely under
pressure or it's been a tough day week
or year it's been a bit of a tough week
another one I'm not having an easy time
at the moment watch out for people who
say those phrases because sometimes
they're reaching out a little bit and
might need support now what happens if
you feel bad but you don't necessarily
want to talk about it well I have some
phrases you can use to avoid the
question if someone asks how are you you
could say you don't want to know or
don't ask honestly just don't ask me
another one do I have to answer that
maybe if they know that you're not
having a good time and they've asked how
are you anyway which is a bit annoying
you could say do I really have to answer
that I think you already know or what
happens if somebody asks how are you
really early in the morning you could
say it's too early to tell and if you
are feeling ill a nice idiom we can use
is I'm a bit under the weather I'm
feeling a bit
under the weather I'm not feeling very
well and finally a couple of funny ones
you could say overworked and underpaid I
remember there was a teacher who would
always say that when I asked him how he
was how are you
overworked and underpaid but I'm doing
ok thank you you could also say slowly
but surely dying actually aren't we all
if you want to be really sarcastic you
could say somewhere between Blair and or
if you just need a hug you could say
just hug me and leave it at that
right that's it for today's lesson I
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今天和 lucy 一起回到英语，我正在做
你的一个请求，有人问我如何
回应你好吗，他们不
只是想说我很好或我
很好 更高级的有趣和
创造性的方法来回答你现在好吗
我之前提到过这个问题
你好吗并不总是意味着
你认为它意味着什么并不总是
有必要
在本课中回答你好吗 在开始之前，我将
告诉大家如何回答这个
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首先开始课程首先我想讨论
一些非母语人士经常犯的常见错误
以及
母语人士 好吧，还有
一个错误，当地人会
告诉你你错了，
但你实际上是对的，我们会
经历很多人会告诉你
这是不正确的 o 回应
你好吗 我很好
他们说这是错误的 这对
任何正在倾听和
思考的当地人来说都没有错 哦，我的妈妈告诉我这
是错的，我的一生都是
错的，你妈妈错了，即使是我自己也很抱歉 父母告诉
我说我很好是错误的我
应该说我很好但是在这种情况下
可以使用好我想我的父母
可能告诉我不要说因为这
听起来太美国化了而且我小时候
有这个 拿起
我在美国电视节目中看到的短语
并用一点点英国口音使用它们的糟糕习惯
，他们讨厌说
我很好，如果
你不直接提到你的
健康，那么在语法上是正确的，所以如果你是 只是说
总体上我很好，这很好，就像
你说总体上我很糟糕我很好
也很好，这通常意味着
你指的是你的健康，因为你
说的好或满意，但这
就是人们的地方 如果你说
我做得很好，那很好，但
在重新开始时要小心 回应我做得
很好，因为如果您说我做得很好，
这意味着您正在做一些好事，例如
参观无家可归者收容所和
向儿童医院捐赠玩具等好事
您不是在谈论您现在的状况
让我们来看看一些
说我很好或我很好 我很好
我很好 我很好 被过度使用
它们非常无聊 所以如果你想
给考官留下深刻印象 或者给母语人士留下深刻印象
或者只是你的 朋友和
家人看看这些我们可以添加
漂亮
所以我们会说我很好我
很好你可以说很好也许
在英国可能没有那么多但在美国可能更多
漂亮在这种情况下意味着相当
我很好 我很好 你
也可以说很好 我很好 我
很好 但听起来更正式
你能说真的吗我
真的很好很好现在这些还是很
基本的那么一些更
有趣的呢 回应
你身体状况的方法 我真正喜欢的一个是我从未像现在这样
缩短 - 从未像现在这样好 这
意味着你感觉真的很棒
你也可以说到目前为止很好
这也很常用如果你正在
做 您正在谈论的一项任务
到目前为止的进展情况进展顺利
您的生活一直进展顺利
另一项我现在经常看到的任务
是不能抱怨这
可以用不止一种方式说这
取决于 如果我说不能抱怨的语气，
这意味着我的生活很精彩，但
我不想吹嘘它，所以
我只想说不能抱怨，如果我说
我不能抱怨，我猜可以' 不抱怨
这意味着可能更糟糕更常见的
用途是那种自嘲
不想炫耀的用途，
另一个比我应得的更好我
喜欢这个很有趣这
很开玩笑 一个好吧
，
如果你想让别人发笑或
畏缩，我也会给你几个愚蠢的 问你是不是一个爱狗的人
，有人问你好吗，
你可以说如果我有尾巴，我会
摇它
，如果有人说你好吗，你也可以有几个轻浮
的 街道是，我
很好，或者我很棒，但我完全
有偏见
如果你还好，你既不好也不坏我很好，这
真的很无聊，尽管让我们
看看其他更令人兴奋的，比如
我很好，现在我想说我
很好，因为它在某种意义上是独一无二的
它既可以是一个问题，也可以是
一个答案，我可能会对某人说好吧
，他们会说好吧，就像
你好吗，是的，我很好，
它非常非常频繁地使用，只是
注意发音我们不
总是发 L 我们不说
好吧 我们说好吧好吧
另一个人是如此如此 所以我可以
变得更好 下一个还不错，
又是一个取决于语调的
人 但我也可能更糟
如果
一切都真的很无聊，那
你可以在最后添加
或者我还活着，
他们曾经在我学校当老师的最后一个足够好，
可以先生。
足够好，我想我不想要
它，所以他的名字，但只是
过去给他起名字的人，他不是很好，但他
足够好，让我们去
先生。 足够好，一些有趣的，
尤其是讽刺的，它们非常
有用，你可以说我现在还好，但
还有时间让一切都
变得糟糕透顶，或者
现在我正在和你说话，
这很迷人 现在
你应该说如果你很糟糕
如果你感觉很糟糕只是你
因为某种原因没有度过美好的一天
很好一个很好的开始
抱怨或负面短语的方法是
从我不会开始 撒谎是
一种很好的方式，可以让某人
为即将从你嘴里说出来的消极情绪
做好准备
你
可能在精神上
或情感上也有一点挣扎，所以
当心那些对你说这些话的人很重要，
因为他们可能需要一些
支持，就像我
被雪下雪一样意味着你 '
工作太多了，你完全没
力气 压力或这是艰难的一天
一周或一年 这一周有点艰难
现在可能需要支持 如果
您感觉不好但不一定
想好好谈论它会
怎样
不要诚实地问只是不要问我
另一个我是否必须回答，
也许如果他们知道你过得
不好，他们问
你怎么样，这有点烦人
你可以说做 我真的必须回答
，我想你已经知道了，或者
如果有人问你早上过得怎么样，
你可以
说现在说还为时过早，如果
你感觉不舒服，我们可以使用一个很好的成语
是 I'm a 有点不舒服 我
感觉
有点不舒服 我感觉不太
好 d 最后是几个有趣的，
你可以说工作过度和工资过低 我
记得有一位老师
总是说，当我问他
他怎么样时，你工作
过度，工资过低，但我做得
很好，谢谢你也可以慢慢说
但肯定会死，其实我们都不是，
如果你真的想讽刺你
可以说介于 Blair 之间，或者
如果你只是需要一个拥抱，你可以说
只是拥抱我，然后把它留在那个
地方，这就是今天的课程我
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