How English speakers really pronounce, "How are you doing?"

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Hi Bob the Canadian here.
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How are you doing?
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How are you doing?
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You'll hear this question quite regularly when native English speakers are greeting
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each other.
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It's a little more personal than, "Hi" or "Hello".
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How are you doing?
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It's really a question that's meant to inquire about how the person's day is going, and how
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they feel about it.
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Or, how they're feeling about themselves.
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How are you doing?
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Now with all regular conversation questions, there's two faster versions of this.
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The first fast version is to take "how" and "are" and contract them together.
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So you end up with, "How're".
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And then the "you" kind of turns into "ya".
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And "doing" we kind of drop the "g".
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So you end up with a sentence that sounds like this, "How're ya doin?"
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"How're ya doin?"
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"I'm doing great."
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"How're ya doin?"
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"I'm having a great day."
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"How're ya doin?"
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"Not so good."
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There's another version where we drop the verb out entirely and we just take the word,
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"are" and we just don't use it.
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And you say, "How ya doin?"
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"How ya doin?"
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"I'm doing great"
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"How ya doin?"
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"I'm doing fine"
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So you may hear a conversation that goes like this:
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"How ya doin?"
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"I'm doing pretty good, How're you doin?"
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"I'm doing pretty good too."
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Bob the Canadian here.
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That's the question, "How are you doing?"
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Don't forget to subscribe.
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Thanks for watching.
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"How're ya doing?"
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"I'm doing good."
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"How're ya doin?"
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"I'm doing fine."
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"How're ya doin?"
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"Not so good."
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"How're ya doin?"
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"I'm doing awesome."
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"How're ya doin?"
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"I'm having a great day."
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"How're you doing?"
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"I'm doing good, how're you doing?"
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"I'm doing fine, how're you doing?"
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"I'm doing great."
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Thanks for learning English with Bob the Canadian!
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