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Hi, everybody! Welcome back to Top Words!
My name is Alisha, and today we're going
to be talking about 10 different phrases
that you can use to respond to the
question "how are you?"
So let's go! I'm great. The first phrase
is "I'm great". if someone says "how are you?"
you can say "I'm great!" Try to say I'm
great with a kind of an upbeat voice, so
something like "how are you?" "I'm great."
Ii'm feeling bad.
If you say "I'm feeling bad", the other person is
probably, if they're friend of yours, or
co-worker, going to ask you "why? What
happened?"
So if you want to use "I'm feeling bad"
make sure you have an explanation ready.
Anyway, somebody says "how are you?" and you
go, I'm feeling bad,
maybe, I went out for drinks last night
with my coworkers.
Oops! I'm okay. I'm okay. I feel like this
is one of those intonation practice ones.
Ii'm okay, with that I'm okay, like, sort of
upward intonation, you're like cool, but
if someone says "how are you" "I'm okay..."
They'll be like "oh, no! What happened?"
So you can use your intonation with I'm
okay to make it a good thing, or a not so
good thing, but either way it's not like
a very super serious response.
Thank you for asking.
And yeah, I imagine this would be in a
more formal situation, if my friend
said to me "how are you?" and I was like
"thank you for asking," they'd be like "what?"
I would say "I'm fine" or "I'm doing well".
I'm doing great.
Plus "thank you for asking", so "how are you?"
"I'm doing very well, thank you."
That's how I would use it.
And you?
The next one is "and you?" like, the least
natural response to "how are you" is "I'm
fine, thank you, and you?" like, just get out
of, just take it out of your head.
Nobody says that, I always say "how about
you?" that's a much more natural thing.
"How are you?"
can be a response again after you have given
your answer to the question. "How are you?"
"I'm great. How are you?" "How are you? I'm
good, how are you?" "I'm great, how are you?"
"I'm okay, how are you?"
How have you been recently?
This is only useful if you haven't seen
the other person for a while.
I'm not bad.
"How are you? I'm not bad."
I'm not bad, things could be
worse. I would probably do this, "I'm not bad".
I'm sleepy.
The next expression is "I'm sleepy".
It's, like, so specific, someone said
"How are you?" I would probably say "I'm
okay, but i'm a little sleepy."
I don't know that I would just say "I'm
sleepy" unless it's a really good friend of mine.
It's a person close to you, you can say
"I'm so tired," I'm, I would say, "I'm super
tired" or "I'm really tired", and I feel
like that's a little bit more natural
than just "I'm sleepy".
I'm good. One that I use a lot, if someone
says "how are you?" I say "I'm good." That's
just probably my go-to response, yeah. I'm
good, I'm good, maybe I'll repeat it while
smiling.
I'm good, I'm good, yeah, thanks for asking.
That is the end!
Those are 10 phrases that you can use to
respond to the question "how are you?"
If there's one takeaway from this, and
from other things that we've done over
the last few years in this channel, just
get rid of that "I'm fine, thank you, and
you?" and pick one of these that we've
talked about today.
Of course, if there's another expression
that you use for a response to "how are you?"
I'd be very interested to learn about
that, but in general you're pretty safe
if you stick with these.
So thanks very much for watching this
episode of Top Words and we will see you
again soon. Bye!