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Speaking skills now today we're going to look at how to greet people. This is not a beginners lesson

Okay, you might think greetings. So basic I learned that on day one of English class, but you know what?

You didn't learn the natural way. And so our teacher Marcos is going to lead you through

Seven greetings that will help you to sound more like a native

Natural English speaker because the fact is we and I mean English speakers who are fluent

native natural speakers

We do not always use the same old greeting that you learn in your textbook

Which is usually hello. How are you? I'm fine. Thank you and you this is

Definitely not used by North American English speakers, and it may be used by British English speakers

But we're going to present seven ways that you can greet people and sound more like a natural

More like the awesome English speaker that you were meant to be

Hey guys. How's going Marcos here? Welcome again to go natural. And today we're going to talk about

reduced forms of greetings

Now I'm pretty sure that you're familiar with the

Popular hi. Hello. How are you? The kind of greetings that you learned in the classrooms and in English textbooks

however

Not all natives ask. How are you? Actually actually there are a lot of ways that we greet. Okay, and

Trust me, it's not. Just how are you? There are a lot of ways that we greet someone okay?

So today I want to share with you seven

greetings that

That are used by natives that will help you to greet a lot more natural. Okay, and to sound a lot more natural as well

so the first one is

What's up? I'm pretty sure it's a very famous but a lot of people know about this. What's up?

And the reduced form is sup. Alright, so you have what's up and the compact version?

Sup, alright, so I'll give an example. Hey, buddy, what's up? So hey

This is a greeting that is

Generally used among teenagers and relatives and friends. Probably a brother or close friend, but

We don't use this greeting with someone that we're not really close to

Especially you're not in the workplace. Okay, you don't want to say this to maybe your boss or

maybe your coworker but

just you have to really

feel it out and to

pay attention to the context I have what kind of

Situation you're in. Okay. Now what's up? What's up? It's a kind of greeting that you don't expect an answer

Okay, so we're not actually asking what that person is doing. Okay, it's just an informal way of saying hi

Okay, so if I say to a friend of mine, hey, buddy, what's up?

He can also say sup Markel's and he can respond the same way

Alright doesn't have to say what's he's really doing at the moment. Okay?

The next one is what you're doing

What you're doing, so what you're doing is a reduced form of what are you doing?

we dropped the are we go directly to the pronoun you and

When we combine the T with the Y has a chuckle sound. Yeah, you use your throat. What shit doing what you're doing? Okay

It's a very direct question. And so

when you use this question actually

Expecting an answer. Okay. This is generally used with people that you see frequently on a regular basis. So

suppose that you go to a friend's house that you just saw yesterday and

And when you get to their house you say hey, so what you're doing alright?

So a common response will be on you know, nothing much or I'm studying or I'm watching Netflix or so forth

That person is actually gonna say what they're doing. Okay?

And the next point is how you doing how you're doing? Okay

Now how you doing is a reduced form of how are you doing again? We drop the are

All right we go directly to you

And we put it all together and we have a reduced

Greeting, how you doing?

All right, you have two ways of saying this you can say how ya doing or how you do it

All right, pretty sure that you heard this greeting before if you familiar with the TV show friends

All right, Joey. How you doing? Hey

You do

So

something that I wanted to mention I

noticed that a lot of people that are learning English they always

Respond to a greeting with I'm fine. Thanks

Now you don't usually respond with I'm fine. Okay, that's not a natural way for us to respond to a beating

So somebody says how you doing, we would generally say

I'm alright, I'm good

So that would be a natural common response to this kind of greeting. Okay. Now the next one is how's it going?

How's it going is a very informal way of saying how's your life going?

Okay, that's what the it represents. Yeah

How's it going?

You can just say Oh things are going well

Everything's okay. Alright, there's some common responses - how's it going notice how I pronounce that how's it going?

How's it going?

That the it is almost imperceptible. Right? It's very subtle. How is it? How is it? How is it going?

All right, and I also drop the G

at the with the word going

Okay, instead of saying going and we drop the G and generally we stop at the end

right, and that's for a lot of

Verbs that are on the I and G and we drop the G at the ends, right the next one is how are you Ted?

How are you?

How are you?

is

What you already know, how are you? All right. I just wanted to give you a heads up because there's a slight difference there

It's that you we give it a schwa sound

How are you? Okay

the next one is

What's going on?

What's going on is the greeting that I use when I start a video all right, so what's going on means

What is happening, all right or what's happening at the moment but it's not it's a greeting and also an inquiry

Okay, because usually I use this greeting with my brother my friends and I'm not really expecting them to answer that question

It's just a way of saying hey, what's up? How's it good? You know, how's it going? How are you? Okay

So it's just an informal way of saying hi as well. Don't care. I

Also wanted to mention something about hey, okay now hey is an informal way of saying hi. Hello

Okay, you're gonna notice this in

Series and TV shows where

The person stops by at a friend's house they hey, what's up? It's a hey, all right

You're gonna hear also need to say hey there

Or hate you. All, right

So these are some so hey is a sort of like another option of saying hi or hello, okay

now remember these are greetings that are

Informal you a formal way of speaking and you have an informal way of speaking. So there are two types of English

all right, you have to really

Understand what kind of situation that you're in

If you had the workplace

then you have to you have to choose your words that are appropriate to

the settings right to the situation if you would friends if you're with your

relatives

If you're with your family, then you can speak another way. Okay?

So what we're touching on today, what we're talking about is informal English

It's a kind of English that you can use with people that are that you're close to

People that you already have a close relationship with your friends your relatives and so forth. Okay

so that's it for today and

I'll see you next time. Bye. Bye

Marcos what's up? That was awesome. So thanks so much for teaching us

Those seven ways showing us examples for how we can speak English more naturally

Starting off with our greetings which are really our first impression. So let's get it, right

Let's speak like a native from the beginning guys. Thank you so much for watching naturals. You are the best

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