WAYS OF SAYING "HOW ARE YOU?"

In this lesson, we are going to learn new more common ways to ask and answer the question: “How are you?” in English.

You’ve probably learned, “How are you?” and “I’m Fine” in the text books before when you start to learn English. Now, let’s review:

• When someone ask you “HOW ARE YOU?”, you can answer it, “I’M FINE”

• We also have “NOT BAD”, You can use this if you are feeling just okay or so so

“How are you?” is the most well-known way of asking how someone is. You could use this when you want to be polite. But now, let’s look at some different ways to ask how someone is. These ways are more casual and much more common.

“HEY, HOW IS IT GOING?”

You can answer this question in many ways.

Ø If you feeling good, you can say : GOOD, PRETTY GOOD, NOT BAD.

Even though these answer mean the same thing as “I’M FINE”, you can’t answer  “HOW IS IT GOING?” with “I’M FINE”. It will sound a bit strange.

Ø  If you’re not feeling good, you can say: NOT SO GOOD, NOT GREAT, NOT SO WELL.

Be careful, if you say one of these, the other person will usually ask, “WHY, WHAT’S WRONG?” to be polite, the you will have to explain!

“WHAT’S UP?”

Ø  To reply this, use a cheerful voice as you say: NOT MUCH or NOTHIG MUCH.

This means, you’re free enough and able to chat with that person

Ø  Since “WHAT’S UP?” is just another way of saying HELLO, you can also reply with HI or HEY

Note : a lot of time, when we ask question that mean “HOW ARE YOU?” in English, we’re not actually asking about the other person health. We’re only asking to be polite. You should think of these question as another way of saying “HELLO”, a way for the conversation to get started instead of actual literal questions. In fact, when someone ask you “What’s Up?”, you don’t even have to answer. Just say “WHAT’S UP?”, in reply.