I have been learning English since kindergarten. I moved to England a few months ago, and I found this video exceptionally useful. At my workplace, I'm the only one who looks different, but luckily, people are generally nice to me. Whenever colleagues ask me, "You alright?", I try to tell them as much as possible. One day, while I was in the toilet, a colleague asked me if I was alright. I replied, "I'm good. It's smooth. My prostate hasn't enlarged yet." Oh, sorry. I wrote too much. You probably didn't mean to know how I am, right? 😂😂😂
You're an amazing teacher :) This is not a grammar / lexical lesson, it's a more complete video, it goes inside the British mind and nobody does it, like a real class in a language school in England. When I lived in Dublin, I had a lot of cultural troubles of this sort, that's why I appreciate this lesson so much. Thank you very much from Italy.
Dude, you're killing me with your American accent (the baseball cap, etc.) As a greeting “hello” we also say “How’s it going” or “How are yah” but all we expect to hear is “okay”, “I’m good” etc., we are not expecting to start a conversation. When leaving the office at the end of the day 5:30 pm we say “goodnight” meaning “goodbye”. You are so awesome and so much fun 💙 love you Papa!
Dear Ali, I was lucky enough to have you as a teacher many years ago at Malvern, even then you were legendary and in a very short time I learned many things from your teaching. Ad Maiora! ❤Michela
In Germany all these conversations are: "Hallo! - Hallo." If you ask someone "how are you" we will always tell you how we REALLY feel - and that can be a long story😅.
I've realised that "How are you?" appeared during one of the plagues. People really wanted to know: "is it physically ok to come near you?". I found it out from a video on... history of coffee houses in the UK... That was the first phrase people greeted a newcomer... They were really interested whether they couldlet that person in
Feeling great after this video. Your creativity is a well that never runs dry! I hope that getting views/subscribers isn't the only acknowledgement you get for your amazing work.
Better, than I was before this video, since this simple question's used to puzzle me alright. And this is probably the best compilation of answers I've seen to date! Many thanks. ^-^
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Aly, you're the best. I really appreciate your excellent teaching techniques, superior drawing skills and amazing personality. In another words, you have my endless admiration.
How are you doing? Great stuff! Thank you so much😊 Honestly and naturally due to the cultural gap my answer would be "as usually" or "hard to tell" or simply "not the best" because there's always a fresh juicy reason to complain😅
Hello- I’m a native English speaker. Do you advise that I stop saying “I’m fine…Thank you… and you?” too? Or is that advice only for non-native English speakers?
This is what I wanted! I didn't know how I could respond to "How are you?" despite that I got bored with "I'm fine", thanks and you?" responding. I learned that and repeated until watching this video.
I really have to admit that in former days when I was going to school, I wasn't really good at English I'm not really interested in. In fact, I almost didn't get to the last test to finish my Diploma ( Or What is the right word for the German "Abitur???), And now I think the reason the language, it's out the way they were teaching us about nine years and was one of the worst and when I finished school, But then I had to speak English for almost a year while studying, and that was the time when I fell in love with this language, I've learned so much more in this one year than at school. Lucky me, that I found your channel, You're explaining it very well 👍 ( by the way, Is well in that case the correct word?)
(I'm introvert) The first example: To a person who I "Mate" I'd say anything. Be my day dreadful, dull, so-so, actually quite good or glorious - I'd tell'em. Then: I'm from a region whose dialect doesn't have a "How do you do?"-expression. That only exists in the standard language.
As a German I always tell people who are asking, how I really feel. In my opinion they wouldn't ask, if they didn't want to know, right?😂 Unfortunately this can last a few minutes up to half an hour. I am sorry, but you asked.😂 Thanks for this video, perhaps I'll change a bit at least when it comes to Brits.
I am from Poland and I hate if someone asks me „alright?”. Instantly I start to think ( or even worse ; be worried) that it’s something wrong with my face, I look tired or ill 😢
At the beginning of the video, a guy said Kishida Japan. I’m Japanese. Yes, almost Japanese students started learning English saying How are you? I’m fine.(even though really not fine). Thank you and you?
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😃😃😃😄😄 A nosotros, los teachers, nos obligaban a decirles a los alumnos HOW ARE YOU ? y ellos tenían que responder FINE, THANK YOU, AND YOU ?😃😃😃😄😄😄 Un abrazo, crack !🇦🇷🇬🇧🇦🇷🇬🇧🇦🇷🇬🇧🇦🇷🇬🇧
So far so good. Thanks, mate 🙂 Sometimes in tv shows I can hear "How's your day" instead of "What`s up" or another greetings. Is it common to use in real life?
Would you be so kind to tell why then all text books teach "I'm fine"? I've got a second question: why teaching grammatically uncorrect english should be sooo cool? I'm good is a grammar mistake for good is an adjective while in this case an adverb should be used....Am I correct?
Uuuuu... confusing me because I'll try to say, not bad !! or I'm fine. But unfortunately my word was I'm bad, or not fine !! Mixed 😅 It's chemistry😊Ta from a far east, japan or japon
Y'alright guys? 😅 It's so embarrassing that they don't teach this in schools. It really is, because greetings are literally the first thing to learn. Yet, we all end up with hello and good morning. Last month we went to the Lake District for two weeks. As per my previous experiences, hello was just fine for my daily interaction in London. But in the Lakes? A whole different world. I had no idea why everybody was asking me about my wellbeing. Also, many people there were chatty and expected an actual answer. 😂
In an English lesson on a videocall, should I reply to a "how are you? " or "how you doing?" from my teacher with a final "thank you"? I would feel awkward if I didn't say it. For instance: "I'm o'righ', thank you!", "I'm good, thank you!", "doing good, thank you!", "not bad, thank you". Edit: almost every lesson has a different teacher, so we rarely know each other from a previous one.
i. I can't be doing with studying for an exam at the moment. I just want to have fun! ii.I haven’t got the time to take a day off, let alone a whole week! iii. I wish I could take a day off, but needs must in my current situation. iv. If there is a bus, take that. Failing that, take a taxi. v. Where are you at with the holiday? Have you decided to go or not?
@@papateachme gar keine Ahnung. Ich habe dieses Wort noch nie gesehen. Ok I had a look on deepL and it has a few different translations depending on context, but none would be used to say hi
