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AEE 253: Update Your English! 7 Ways to Sound More Natural When You Greet People in English

All Ears English Podcast

Are you looking for a new and fun way to learn American English? Come hang out with Lindsay and Michelle from Boston and New York City and have fun while you improve your English listening skills! We are an English as a Second Language (ESL) podcast for intermediate to advanced English learners around the world. We will show you how to use everyday English vocabulary and natural idioms, expressions, and phrasal verbs and how to make small talk in American English. We will also give you special tips on American culture, customs, etiquette, and how to speak with Americans as well as conversation and commentary on study tips, business English, life in America and Boston and New York, how to apply to university in the US, dating, travel, food and more. You'll get TOEFL, IELTS, and TOEIC help also from The Examiner of Excellence, Jessica Beck. This podcast is for adult students who are professionals and university students as well as ESL teachers. Join the community to learn to speak American English like a native! Connection NOT Perfection!

Does your English sound natural?
Or do you sound like a textbook when you speak?
Today, get 7 tricks to update your English and sound more natural by using real talk instead of textbook talk!
 
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Speaking natural-sounding English can be difficult when you only work with textbooks.  While what your textbook says may be technically correct, some of the phrases might sound outdated or odd to native ears.
 
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Here are 7 ways your textbook might tell you how to say something, as well as the ways a native English speaker would really say it.
 
<ul>
<li>Textbook: Hello.</li>
<li>Real: Hi!, Hey!, or What’s up?</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>Textbook: Are you having a good day?</li>
<li>Real: Having a good day?</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>Textbook: How are you?, How do you do?</li>
<li>Real: How’s it going?, How you doin’?, or How’ve you been?</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>Textbook: I’m fine, thanks.</li>
<li>Real: Doin’ well., or Not bad.</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>Textbook: What are your hobbies?</li>
<li>Real: What do you like to do?, What are you into?, or What do you do for fun?</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>Textbook: I wish to (do something).</li>
<li>Real: I wanna (do something), or I’d like to (do something).</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>Textbook: See you.</li>
<li>Real: See ya., Take care., or Bye.</li>
</ul>
 
Do you speak textbook English?
Do you know any other differences between what your textbook says and how native English-speakers speak?
Let us know in the comments section below!

Does your English sound natural?

Or do you sound like a textbook when you speak?

Today, get 7 tricks to update your English and sound more natural by using real talk instead of textbook talk!

 

Taking IELTS?

Get our free IELTS video training now

 

Speaking natural-sounding English can be difficult when you only work with textbooks.  While what your textbook says may be technically correct, some of the phrases might sound outdated or odd to native ears.

 

Can’t find native speakers to practice English with you?

Can’t get your English corrected by your native-speaking friends?

Get a professional, native English teacher in seconds at italki.

For a limited time, italki is offering 10 USD in free English lessons. Click here to get your 10USD in italki credits before this offer runs out!

 

Here are 7 ways your textbook might tell you how to say something, as well as the ways a native English speaker would really say it.

 

Textbook: Hello.

Real: Hi!, Hey!, or What’s up?

 

Textbook: Are you having a good day?

Real: Having a good day?

 

Textbook: How are you?, How do you do?

Real: How’s it going?, How you doin’?, or How’ve you been?

 

Textbook: I’m fine, thanks.

Real: Doin’ well., or Not bad.

 

Textbook: What are your hobbies?

Real: What do you like to do?, What are you into?, or What do you do for fun?

 

Textbook: I wish to (do something).

Real: I wanna (do something), or I’d like to (do something).

 

Textbook: See you.

Real: See ya., Take care., or Bye.

 

Do you speak textbook English?

Do you know any other differences between what your textbook says and how native English-speakers speak?

Let us know in the comments section below!
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