Name: Learn English Greetings: How to Greet Someone in English When You Haven't Seen Them in a While
Uploaded: 2019-02-20T02:57:12.000Z
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It's been a while, but I'm back to make videos
to help you learn English once again.

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If you're wondering why I'm wearing sunglasses,
it's because it's sunny and it's quite snowy

out here in Canada and that makes it really
hard to see and to keep my eyes open.

So, nothing wrong with my eyes, but I'm gonna
wear sunglasses for this video.

Well since I've been gone for a while I thought
I great topic for a video would be some phrases

that you could use to greet someone when you
haven't seen them for a while.

And I did a video about this earlier, I think
I went over four, I'll put a link up here

for you, four things that you could say when
you haven't seen someone for while.

In that video I looked at the phrases, "Long
time no see."

"It's good to see you." and "How have you
been?"

So if you want to watch that video as a review
you could do that, but in this video I'm going

to look at five more phrases, five more things
that you can say when you haven't seen anybody

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English.

So we haven't seen each other for a while
and you might be wondering what kinds of things

can you say when you haven't seen someone
for a long time.

So in this video let's look at 5 phrases,
let's look at 5 English phrases that you can

use when you haven't seen someone for a long
time.

Let's start with the first one, it's really
simple.

Imagine that your mom or someone in your family
has been gone on a trip and you're picking

The very first thing that you would say to
them is, "Welcome back!"

You would just say, "Welcome back!" because
you want them to know that while they were

gone you were thinking about them and that
now that they have returned they are welcome

to be back in your country and to be back
in your city.

So the first phrase that you could use when
you see someone after they've been gone for

A second phrase that you could use if you
haven't seen someone for a long time is to

And if you're speaking on behalf of other
people maybe you're speaking on behalf of

your family or, or as a boss at a workplace
you could say, "We missed you!"

And in English when we say, "I missed you!'
it's from the bottom of your heart.

If you haven't seen someone for maybe three
or four months and then they finally come

back to visit or come back to your hometown
and you would just say, "I really missed you!"

And that just lets them know that while they
were gone you were thinking about them.

That while they were gone you were actually
spending time each day thinking, "I hope they're

I hope they're having a good time.", etc.

So excellent thing to say when someone comes
back is, "I missed you!" or "We missed you!"

if you're speaking on behalf of other people.

A third thing that you could say to someone
that you haven't seen for a while is just,

"I'm glad you're back!" or "We're glad you're
back!"

Just expressing to them that while they were
gone you were sad, but now that they're back

So you could say, "Oh, I'm so glad you're
back!

And that would just be another really warm
and friendly way to greet someone that you

A fourth thing that you could say to someone
who's been gone for a while is, "It wasn't

the same without you!" or "Things weren't
the same around here while you were gone!"

And this really communicates to someone that,
that it was noticeable that they were gone

for a while, that things just weren't the
same.

You missed them because they weren't there
at the supper table, or you missed them because

So to say to someone, "It wasn't the same
with you gone, or things weren't the same

really communicates to them, that they were
missed.

In the last video I looked at the phrase,
"It's good to see you!" and there's a variation

on this where you can say, "It's really nice
to see you!"

I'm not sure if it's really nice to see these
cats the cats are meowing because I think

they want food, it's almost their suppertime.

But another phrase that you can say, "It's
really nice to see you!" or "It's really nice

to see you again!" and that as well would
be communicating to people how you feel that

that inside you're feeling glad, you're feeling
happy to be able to see them.

And lastly we'll go over a phrase that I went
over in the other video.

In the other video I mentioned the phrase,
"How have you been?"

So when you see someone and you're just curious
about how their trip was, or you're just curious

about what they've been up to while they were
gone, you can say, "How have you been?"

But the variation on that is, is a really
quick way to say it.

So we actually skip a word, we don't even
say, "have" like we just say, "How ya been?"

So it's "How have you been?" but we actually
say, "How ya been?"

And some of you might be wondering why I pronounce
the word, "been" as "been" and not "been".

I think in the other video I over pronounce
that.

Often in Canadian English we actually say,
"been".

Anyways, that's five more ways to greet someone
that you haven't seen for a while.

I really missed all of you guys so leave a
comment below if you've, if you've done that

Give me a thumbs up, don't forget to subscribe
if you're new here.

You can learn English with Bob the Canadian.

I'm back for a number of months again and
let's just look forward to a new video every

Tuesday and I'll be doing a live stream Friday
morning again.

Look for some more information about that
towards the end of the week.

It's fun to be back, if you're wondering why
I was gone it's just a busy time at work.

The school where I teach is a semestered school.

That means the students learn from September
until the end of January, and then they write

their exams, and then their second semester
goes from February 1st until the end of June.

So as we move from the first semester to the
second semester it's a lot of work for teachers