I'm Robin and welcome to Beginner 2.

Now, Beginner 2 is a little more difficult than Beginner 1, but that's ok because my

videos are very useful.

Very helpful.

They are real English.

So be sure to study them all.

Now, I'm going to give you a few tips or advice on how to study my videos.

The first thing I want to tell you to do…is to repeat.

Repeat after me.

Everything I say, you should try to follow me and say it the same speed and same style

as I do.

So, for example, if I say “How are you?”, you should repeat, “How are you?”.

If I say “What do you do?”, you should repeat “What do you do?”.

Repeating is very important to improving your English.

Also, most videos have example sentences, or example dialogues.

Ok…

These are also very important.

I'm going to teach you a lot of vocabulary and expressions and the example sentences

and example dialogues will help you understand how to use them in a sentence.

They'll also help you with the grammar.

Ok…

So be sure to focus and study, the example sentences, example dialogues.

Some videos will have a test.

A listening test.

Ok…

Be very serious.

These are important tests.

Ok…

So you should have paper and a pen and when the test starts, you should listen carefully

and write down the answer.

Now, if the test is going too fast, stop the video, ok… slow it down to your speed.

But the test is very important to helping your listening.

Alright…

Now, in the videos, I cannot teach you everything.

I did my best to teach you a lot of information, but it's not everything.

Ok…

You're still going to have a lot of questions…and you might be confused sometimes.

Ok…

So you have to do a lot of self-study.

After you watch the video, don't just rush to the next video.

You should do a little review.

Ok… and self-study.

Self-study is very important.

I can't do everything for you.

You can't learn English just by me.

You also have to self-study and practice it.

Alright, and the last thing I want to say is don't give up.

Ok…

Now, these videos can be a little difficult, but don't give up.

If you don't understand the video, watch it again…, but don't give up.

Keep going.

The only way to improve is if you keep going.

Alright….

And I know, I'm sure, after you watch my videos, re-watch them twice, your English

will get better.

This is real English, with real expressions.

Ok…

That's it and I hope you do well.

Good luck.

Hello everyone.

We are going to talk about basic greetings for when you meet someone you don't know.

Ok…

Someone you don't know is called a stranger.

So, when you meet the stranger, what do you say?

Ok..so these are basic greetings.

So, on the board here, I have the first basic greeting.

“Hi”.

Ok…this is a very casual greeting when you meet someone for the first time.

“Hi”.

Very simple.

The second one, “Hello”.

Oh, something wrong with the spelling here.

Be careful with the spelling of “hello”.

Many of my students put the 'W'.

There is never a 'w'.

It is only “hello”.

Ok…

Be careful with that.

So, of course, these are the most common greetings: “hi”, “hello”.

And here are three more greetings.

“Good morning”, “good afternoon”, and “good evening”.

Alright, so these are the most basic greetings when you meet the stranger.

And when you say “hi”, they will probably say the same thing.

“Hi”.

If you say “hello”, they will say the same thing.

“Hello”.

If you say “good morning”, they will say the same thing.

“Good morning”.

“Good afternoon”.

“Good evening”.

So, if they say “good evening” to you, you should answer, ”good evening”.

If they say “good morning” to you, you should answer “good morning”.

Alright…that's how we do our basic greetings with a stranger.

Alright, let's move on to some more greetings.

Ok…so we're going to look at two more greetings.

The next one is “how are you?”.

And this one…”how are you doing?.

Ok…both are very common.

You must know them.

“How are you?”.

“How are you doing?”.

“How are you?”.

“How are you doing?”.

So, someone asks you… these questions.

And you would answer, starting with “I'm”.

Ok…

I am…I'm.

I'm fine.

Ok…

So, I'm fine is the best answer.

It's the most common answer.

So, you should always try to say, “I'm fine”.

“How are you?”

“I'm fine.”

There are other answers.

“How are you?”

“I'm great.”

“I'm good.”

“I'm not bad.”

“I'm so so.”

Ok…but be careful with “so so”.

Many of my students say “so so” too much.

ok…

So, the best answer is “I'm fine.” and sometimes use these.

ok…

Maybe you're not fine.

So you want to express something bad.

So…

“How are you?”

“I'm bad.”

or…”How are you?”

“I'm not good.”

“How are you doing?”

“I'm not good.”

Alright…

So, someone asks the question, you answer and the polite thing to do is ask them the

same question.

So, “How are you?”

“I'm fine.”

And then we should use one of these.

Ok…”How are you?”

“I'm fine…..and you?”

ok..your asking them.

“How are you?”

“I'm fine….how about you?”

Ok, these mean the same thing.

So, you can use this one or this one.

Alright…let's take a look at a few examples…example dialogues, so we can understand this better.

Alright, let's look at example dialogue one.

“Good morning.”

“Good morning.”

Let's look at example dialogue two.

“How are you?”

“I'm good.

And you?”

“I'm fine.”

Let's look at example dialogue three.

“How are you doing?”

“Not bad.

What about you?”

“I'm pretty good.”

Let's look at example dialogue four.

“Good afternoon.

How are you?”

“Very well thank you.

And you?”

“I'm fine.”

Ok…I hope you have a good understanding of how to use basic greetings to someone you

don't know.

It's easy.

Alright…

Before we go, I want to talk about this expression.

“How are you?”

“I'm fine thank you, and you?”

Of course, every Korean knows this expression.

This is what you were taught in school.

But, of course, this is too common and too nice; too polite.

So, it's a little bit funny.