But there are so many other ways of saying that you're good or responding to.

How are you?

So in today's pronunciation, vocabulary and expressions lessen.

Our goal is to make you sound more like a native, more natural when somebody asks you How are you?

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Hello, everybody.

It's me, Elliot from E.

T.

J English.

How are you?

I hope you've been keeping well.

Yes.

Today we are talking about how to respond to.

How are you?

The reason why this is important is because it's something I've noticed.

You know, I talked to non natives all the time.

My job is to talk to non natives and help them with their pronunciation.

And when people join my course, sometimes I might ask on what's that voice message to one of my students?

How are you today or how's it going?

And they will simply respond with.

Yeah, I'm fine or yeah, I'm good.

Now, this is absolutely fine.

I don't have a problem with you using these very simple words, but sometimes we feel like they're a little bit overused.

And I know how it feels to to want to use more vocabulary and sound.

Maybe, like, you know, a bit more about the English language.

The problem is in school, Okay.

In school, for non natives, lots of you are just taught very, very simple vocabulary.

And you're not taught the things which we actually use out here on the streets, that sounded really bad.

Essentially, you're not really taught the vocabulary that we use in our daily lives.

And it's my job to help you learn those things, which really, you should be learning in school as well as that.

Of course, I'll be helping you with a little bit of pronunciation today.

So picture this.

You're walking down the street in London and one of your friends, one of your old friends spots you comes up to you and says, Oh, how are you?

So the immediate response most of the time, as I said, is, I'm good, Thanks.

How are you or I'm fine, thanks.

How are you?

But what else can we say?

Of course, I'm good is probably one of the most common, and I'm fine, but one of the most common.

That's not one of those two is not too bad or not bad.

Thanks.

So this basically just means I'm not bad.

There's nothing bad.

Everything is good.

I'm good.

Let's try this copy after me.

Not bad.

Thanks.

Listen to the stress.

I'm really stressing the word bad.

Not bad.

Thanks.

Make sure you're giving that word bad.

A bit of stress because it's the most important word here in our sentence and we want to make sure it's heard.

Not bad.

Thanks.

Now let's try it with the other word to include it.

Not too bad.

Thanks.

Not too bad.

Thanks.

Now you might be having problems with pronouncing all of these words, and this is a great opportunity to show you how I teach some of my students in my course.

So in this sentence, we have not or we have to do to, and we have bad.

These three vowels are very, very crucial to British English.

To make us sound British, we have to pronounce these correctly.

Remember, I teach Southern RP modern RP so people don't have to complain about the type of English I'm teaching.

That's the type of English and teaching, so Oh, not so what you need to do here is create a slightly round shape with your mouth.

Don't round it too much.

Oh, but And don't close it too much because the next sound Ooh, we're closing the mouth more up Not so really, really important Sounds of British English This one Now we're moving to do so Watch me Oh, oh ooh I'm now lifting the tongue slightly higher and I'm rounding the mouth even more It's becoming even smaller Ooh, the tongues curling back more into my mouth as well not to or Oh, and the next one Ah, bad.

Ah, so for this one, your tongue is down in the bottom of your mouth at the front.

Okay, so below your bottom teeth pushed forward Ah, oh ooh, ah Not too bad.

It's a great way to learn vowels by associating them with each other and seeing the difference is like where you have to move your tongue for each sound.

So hopefully you're at least pronouncing one or two of those three vows in a better way now than you were before.

If not, then you might need some actual personal training with me so that I can tell you if your tongue is too high or too low or in the wrong place, and then we can start improving it together.

If you need my personal help, you can join my course the Lincoln description below.

So going back to this Not too bad.

Thanks or not Bad.

Thanks.

This would be my number one alternative to I'm good.

Thanks.

Or I'm fine.

Another really common one is I'm all right.

But this is another thing I want you to know.

And this goes for not too bad as well before.

Add the word.

Yeah, but listen to how I say the word.

Yeah, yeah, But listen to how I say the word.

Yeah, but listen to how I say the word.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So this tone where we rise and fall Yeah, What it does is it shows emotion.

It shows friendliness.

It shows that we are human.

Too many of my students have a lack of intonation and we really need it in a situation like this, because someone is saying, how are you?

So you need to answer with emotion to show the emotion you're feeling, because that's what Internation really is for, so yeah, if you put that before?

Not too bad or before I'm all right.

What it does is it Adds effect.

So, for example, Elliot, how are you?

Yeah, not too bad.

Thanks or Yeah, I'm all right.

Thanks.

Another thing with I'm or right is we have some connected speech happening here.

I'm finishes with em, which is a continent now, because the next word, all right, begins with an awful sound.

We're going to join these two together.

I'm more right.

I'm all right.

Join the M to the beginning of the next word to connect your speech.

Yeah, I'm all right.

Thanks.

Lots of people, particularly in formal situations, will say I'm well, sometimes I hear people say can't complain.

So again.

How are you, Eddie?

It can't complain.

Meaning nothing is bad.

Nothing to complain about.

Right.

So again, with this sound, if you want to sound extra southern British are is really important here to pronounce this sound.

Remember that sound I mentioned earlier?

Where you slightly spread your lips and put your tongue down?

Ah, Now I want you to slide your tongue back and open your mouth even bigger.

But keep it down.

Ah ah, can't complain.

Yeah, can't complain.

The other thing I want to mention is about the word complain.

I have lots of students from places like Italy, Spain, Brazil, You know, lots of places where they would pronounce complain as complain complain now again, British English We need the sound which is the Schwab sound to replace the letter o So it becomes complain rather than complain So can't complain Complain Some people say I'm all good.

Yeah, I'm all good.

Remember Don't forget if you are feeling amazing Fantastic.

You are feeling so good Then tell people Don't just say I'm good Say I'm fantastic.

I'm amazing.

I'm really good.

I'm over the moon.

Remember that phrase I taught you a long time ago?

Maybe two years ago now.

God, that's an old video I taught you that over the moon means I'm really happy.

I'm ecstatic.

There are so many synonyms for saying that you are good.

Look them up in a thesaurus and add them.

You know, if you really are feeling that great, tell people if you want to use slang words, you could say I'm cool.

Yeah, I'm cool.

Which just means I'm good.

You could say I'm sound, which also means I'm good.

You could even say I'm sweet.

I'm sweet, which means I'm good.

These are more kind of slang terms.

I wouldn't use them myself very often.

Sometimes I say I'm cool, but that's about it.

And don't forget, if you're feeling bad, I've been better.

Have been better.

Meaning things aren't going that great.

Or you could say not the best.

Not the best.

Meaning I'm not feeling my best.

How are you, Elliot?

I'm not the best.

Now, what about when you turn the question around on someone?

I'm good, Thanks.

How about you?

You So, for example, I'm not bad.

Thanks.

You or yourself?

Yourself.

Yourself, yourself?

Yeah, I'm doing really well and yourself.

So, as I said, this lesson might have seemed quite simple for some of you.

Now you've taken into account some pronunciation, connected speech, intonation, vowels and also the meaning behind some of these things.

And what's more modern nowadays and more used my safest option, as I said would be Yeah, not too bad.

Thanks.

And you?

And if you're not feeling too good, I've been better.

So I really hope you enjoyed this lesson.

Now, what I'd like you to do is write in the comments.

Are there any other things which you feel like You say too much.

You know, you don't have enough vocabulary on, for example, different ways to say hello or different ways to say goodbye.

Things like that.

Anything I can make a video about for you because I'd love to help with these kinds of situations and again help you with the pronunciation along the way.

Now, if you need a pronunciation teacher, you want to work with me directly to reduce your accent and replace it with a beautiful British accent.

Then, of course, you can join my course at E t j english dot com or clicking the link in the description below.

And we can work together on improving your accent.

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If you enjoyed this lesson and I will see you next time and cheers, guys.

Bye.

Mm.