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  • Hi, hi

  • let's tell the greeting "hello"

  • Today, I'd like to talk about greetings

  • Hi equals hello

  • So how you doing?

  • How you doing is another way of saying "hello", but it also gets the information for how you feeling today

  • The most common way of this is to say: "How are you?"

  • So after you say "Hi" or "hello" you say "how are you?"

  • But in Canada and North America that tense to be formal

  • Most often we have other ways of saying "hello" to people we know

  • And depending on how close we are close to them we will use this way to say "hello"

  • So, If it friend you might say

  • How are you? - Hey man

  • The problem with his it is, you can't use it with girls and girls you can't use it at all

  • Ok?

  • But it does mean "How are you", ok?

  • That's one

  • How is it hangin?

  • Now remember how is it hangin it's not how it is hanging. How is it hangin, slang, we drop the "g"

  • what's up?

  • What information is it coming up?

  • and finally

  • Specially, feel like friends "How are you doing?"

  • That's enough how we say "hello"

  • why we won't moving to the responces to these

  • If someone else ask you "how are you?", which is formal

  • we'd like to say how are you feeling

  • Now be careful

  • In North America many times we say "how are you?"

  • We don't really wanna talk to you we just want you to say "fine" and "good" and move on

  • You learn this by how close you are, if you are real friends you stop and talk

  • but normally we just want a general response and then move on

  • there are two ways to respond

  • one is formal and one is informal, come on

  • can you guess which one is formal and which one is informal

  • I'll give you a clue

  • one is an adjective and one is adverb

  • figure it out

  • Ok, come on

  • Well, I'm good...I'm good boy, I'm good teacher, I'm good person. That's an adjective

  • So we don't wanna use that

  • I'm good

  • What we wanna say is a formal - I'n fine or I'm well, thank you

  • To be honest "I'm good" it's what we actually use most of time, alright?

  • We've talked enough

  • Personnally, I don't wanna see you anymore

  • Joking, come on

  • But I'm gonna teach you how to say goodbye

  • Now once again formally

  • goodbye

  • but a lot of time when you talking to your friends we say differently, for instance

  • "Later"

  • Or "see ya"

  • Ok?

  • Here are two other instances where we say "goodbye"

  • Well, come back next time, I'll teach you more, so please come back

  • You can check me out at www.engvid.com

  • See ya later

  • Chao

Hi, hi

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