{"id":11004,"date":"2019-10-10T18:59:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T16:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=11004"},"modified":"2021-10-11T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T07:24:52","slug":"better-ways-to-answer-how-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2019\/10\/better-ways-to-answer-how-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Ways to Answer &#8220;How are you?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>B2 &#8211; Upper Intermediate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m fine. Thank you. And you?&#8221; is the standard, most used response to the question &#8220;How are you?&#8221;. It&#8217;s not incorrect, though native speakers do not or will never always answer with this. It&#8217;s high time this colloquial expression got a makeover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch this entertaining video and learn to speak as if English were your mother tongue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Stop Saying &quot;I&#039;m Fine&quot; - Ways to Respond to &quot;Hello, how are you?&quot;\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_53mo10_Mbk?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>What are some ways to answer &#8220;How are you?&#8221; the native speaker way?<\/li><li>In your language, how have your responses to this simple greeting question evolved or changed? Is it still essential to give a formal response?<\/li><li>How important is it to speak like a native English speaker?<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B2 &#8211; Upper Intermediate &#8220;I&#8217;m fine. Thank you. And you?&#8221; is the standard, most used response to the question &#8220;How are you?&#8221;. It&#8217;s not incorrect, though native speakers do not or will never always answer with this. It&#8217;s high time this colloquial expression got a makeover. 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