Native English Speakers DON’T SAY this!

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.