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All Ears English Podcast

AEE 66: How NOT to Respond to an American Greeting in English

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Language Learning, Education, Business

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2014

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Taking IELTS? Get our free IELTS video training course now How should you answer the question “How are you?” Today you will find out how to answer this American greeting in English. Americans usually don’t expect an in-depth response or answer when we ask “how are you?” Of course, if you are close to the... Read More The post AEE 66: How NOT to Respond to an American Greeting in English appeared first on All Ears English Podcast | Real English Vocabulary | Conversation | American Culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is an All-Ears English podcast, episode 66.

0:04.0

How not to respond to an American greeting in English.

0:09.0

Welcome to the All-Ears English podcast where you'll finally get real native English

0:17.3

conversation and fluency for business and

0:23.0

connection not perfection when it comes to learning English.

0:27.0

Now here are your hosts,

0:29.0

Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, and Michelle Kaplan, the New York Radio Girl coming to you

0:36.9

from Boston and New York City, USA. Is the question how are you a greeting or an actual question in English in this, find out what you should not do when you greet an American

0:56.5

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1:11.0

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1:16.0

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1:18.2

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1:21.9

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1:24.0

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1:25.8

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1:29.8

Hey Lindsay, how's it going? Oh my gosh, do you want to know how I am?

1:35.0

Do you really want to know?

1:36.0

I'm not going to go into too much depth to answer your question.

1:38.0

I'm just going to say, I'm doing okay, how are you?

1:41.0

That's all I wanted.

1:42.0

I just want that. I'm doing all right. So guys, this is what we're talking

1:46.8

about today is what, you know, how should you respond or how should you not respond when an American person asks you that question, right, Aubrey?

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