Real Talk #67 – How to answer the question ‘how are you?’
5/1/202627 min
How do you answer the question, “How are you?” It sounds simple, but native English speakers actually use a wide variety of answers. In this Real Talk episode, Andrew and Kassy share more than 30 common replies, including standard answers, sarcastic ones, and phrases people use on a busy or tough day. They explain what each phrase really means and the situations where you’ll hear it.
Listening to many natural responses is one of the best ways to build your everyday listening skills in English.
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First 90 secondsAndrew· Host0:00
Hello, how's it going? My name's Andrew, and you're listening to Real Talk by Culips. Real Talk is our series where we teach you the English that you need to know for everyday real-world situations, such as opening a bank account at the bank, such as ordering at a restaurant, such as interacting with a taxi driver or Uber driver, these kinds of real-life situations. Joining me in just a second to help me with this episode is my co-host, Kassy, and we're gonna teach you guys about something that on the surface seems extremely simple, but once you start to examine it and look at it a little bit more closely, you realize that it's pretty complex. It is how to answer the question, how are you? How are you? Well, I'm fine. How are you? Right? This is one of the most common, basic things that we learn in English. Maybe this is one of the first questions that you learned how to answer in English, and on the surface, yeah, it seems pretty simple, but it can be complex, and we're gonna break it down and teach you all about it in this lesson because, you know, when we're learning English, we can control what we say, right? When we speak any language, we can control what we say, but we can't control what other people say. And so maybe you have in your English repertoire