What's Up
Effortless English Podcast | Learn English with AJ Hoge
AJ Hoge
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2007
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Effortless English. What's up? And what's up with my free newsletter? |
| 0:07.0 | Well, remember you can get my free Effortless English newsletter at |
| 0:13.0 | W.W Effortless English.org. |
| 0:19.4 | When you get my newsletter, I will send you tips and ideas for learning to speak English easily. |
| 0:27.0 | And I will also tell you when my Effortless English Club is open for new members. |
| 0:35.0 | Go to W.W. Effortless English.org |
| 0:40.0 | to subscribe to my free newsletter, just enter your email and click the blue square. |
| 0:47.0 | Okay, let's get started. |
| 0:49.0 | What's up is our slang for today? What's up? Now what's up in conversational American English? We can use it a couple |
| 0:59.7 | different ways. Now one way is just a greeting, which is what I just did. |
| 1:06.0 | What's up? Hey, what's up? You call someone on the phone and you say, hey, what's up? |
| 1:11.0 | Or you see somebody on the street, your friend, |
| 1:13.9 | and you say, hey, what's up? |
| 1:16.1 | What's up? |
| 1:17.3 | It just means, how are you? |
| 1:19.7 | What are you doing? |
| 1:21.4 | What is happening in your life it's just a greeting it's a way to say |
| 1:25.8 | hello what's up if somebody asks you what's up what should you say well you have a couple choices. You can you don't need to answer the question you can just say the same thing to them. They say what's up and you say hey what's up? |
| 1:41.4 | Right? You're not actually using it like a question, it's just a greeting like |
| 1:45.2 | hello. Or someone says hey what's up? You can also answer the question if you want. |
| 1:51.6 | It means you know what are you doing or what's happening in your life. |
| 1:55.7 | So you can say oh nothing nothing much right someone says AJ what's up and I say |
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