Welcome to JForrest English, I'm Jennifer. And today,
you're going to learn how to say, how are you?
I'm fine naturally.
Like a native English speaker. Let's get started. First, let's talk about why you
should add alternatives to your speech. How are you? I'm fine is absolutely a
greeting in English and native speakers use this greeting, but we use it more.
As a pleasantry in situations where it's more obligated to interact. For example,
if you're waiting in line at the grocery store, or when you're being served at a restaurant,
the waiter or waitress will say, how are you, and you reply, I'm fine. It's just an expected
interaction but you don't actually tell the person how you are. So we only really use it in these.
Situations when we're interacting with our friends, our family,
our co-workers and more social situations, native speakers. Do not say, how are
you? I'm fine. The most common alternative is to
say. How are you doing? How are you doing? How are you doing? So
notice
I'm changing this into the present. Continuous,
how are you doing? It's a very small change but it will make you sound.
And so much more fluent and natural. How are you doing now to answer? You can
say, I'm doing plus adjectives,
doing, plus adjectives. I'm plus, adjectives or simply the adjectives. Now,
let's talk about the most common adjectives. You can use to answer
starting from the most positive to the most - I'm doing amazing.
I'm awesome doing fantastic. Are you kidding? I'm fantastic incredible. Wonderful. Super or Never
Better. You could also say I've never been better, but to shorten that never better Fiona. I've never
been better. And after you answer, you can say and you, what about you? How are you doing?
I created a free lesson PDF that summarizes all the expressions from this lesson so you
can look in the description or comments section for the link to download the PDF for more neutral
adjectives. That mean not amazing, but not terrible. You could say I'm doing pretty good
so far, so good doing okay. I'm all right, not too bad. Not bad, not shabby, I can't complain.
I have no complaints I'm hanging in there and sometimes you're just having
a bad day. So let's talk about some more negative adjectives. I've been
better not the best not great, I'm not too good. Hopefully you only need to use the
positive
adjectives. Now this lesson is to help you sound like a native
English speaker. I have an entire program called the finally fluent.
Academy. And in this program, you will study native English speakers to improve
your listening skills. A fast-paced English. And you'll add the most common phrasal verbs,
idioms and expressions to your speech. You can look in the description and
the comment section for the link to get started. Another, very common way to say
how are you and my personal favorite is how's it going? How's it going to reply?
You would say it's going plus adjectives going + adjective or simply adjectives,
and you can use this same adjectives. We've already discussed. How's it going? It's
going great. Thanks. And you, how's it going? Another comment alternative to. How are you,
is, what have you been up to lately? Or recently? What have you been up to lately? Not
Not too much, I've been busy at work. What about you? The most common way to answer? This is to say
not too much, not too much but then you can add on what you did. So the past simple or what you've
been doing. So the present perfect continuous. Not too much last week, I moved. So I've been busy.
A decorating, my new apartment, some more casual alternatives to this expression, are what's new,
what's new and exciting. What's happening? And a more slang expression is what shaking. So
what's new and exciting with you? Well, I started a new job a few weeks ago,
so I've been pretty busy settling in and there's one very common slang expression that
You can use as an alternative to this greeting. And that's what's up,
what's up? Or you can even shorten this and simply say sup sup if you want to
sound like a very cool young native English speaker. You can say so so
well what's up sup? Hey sup bro, sup but I don't say that I say what's up? So what's your favorite
NG and adjective from this list, share that in the comments below. And before you go,
make sure you download this free speaking guide where I share six tips on how to speak English,
fluently, and confidently, you can download it from my website right
here. And whenever you're ready, you can get started with your next lesson.