Speaking English - Saying Hello and Goodbye, formally and informally

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

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See ya later

Chao