Learn English Greetings: How to Greet Someone in English When You Haven't Seen Them in a While

Hi Bob the Canadian here.

It's been a while, but I'm back to make videos to help you learn English once again.

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 been a while."

"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

for a while.

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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

them up at the airport.

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 while is, "Welcome back!"

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

simply say, "I missed you!"

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!"

"I 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

ok.

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

you are happy or glad.

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

I'm so happy you're back!

We're so happy that you're back!"

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

haven't seen for a while.

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

they weren't working alongside you.

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

while you were gone."

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.

You can say, "How ya been?"

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".

We don't often in English say, "been".

How have you been?

I think in the other video I over pronounce that.

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

How, how have you been? or How ya 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

before or even if you haven't.

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I'm Bob the Canadian.

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I'm back.

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.

But I'm back.

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

so I just thought I would set aside making videos for a bit.

I hope you were able to keep learning while I was busy.

I'm sure you were, but it's really fun to be back and I look forward doing a lot more

of these.

Anyways.

Bob the Canadian here.

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