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