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  • In this American English pronunciation video,

  • were going to go over responses to the phraseHow are you?”

  • This is one of the most common questions youll get asked when meeting someone

  • or running into someone you know.

  • If English isn’t your first language, it can be hard to quickly come up with an answer.

  • In this video, well go over the various ways you can answer this question.

  • The most common response isgood’. Let’s look at some examples.

  • - Hey Rachel! How are you? - Good!

  • - Hey Aaron! - Hey! How are you doing?

  • - Good! How are you? - Good!

  • Good. If you just want a simple, quick answer, this is the best.

  • It’s positive and it moves you ahead in conversation.

  • If you want to remember just one response, let it begood’.

  • - How are you? - Good.

  • Where do you want to eat? Or whatever.

  • Ready to move on to the next topic after the exchange ofHow are you?”

  • Good.”

  • Goodmake the G consonant with the back of the tongue touching the soft palate. Goo-.

  • Then the UH as in PUSH vowel. The lips flare a bit for this, and the jaw drops some.

  • Guuhh... The tongue lifts in the back and the tip will pull back just a little bit so it’s not

  • quite all the way forward. Good.

  • What do you notice about the D? Good. I don't release it. Good, dd, dd.

  • But I stopped the air and I don't release it. Good. Good.

  • This is the most natural way to pronounce the final letter D.

  • You put your tongue up into position for the D. Good.

  • You voice your vocal cords. Dd-dd-dd. Good. Dd-dd.

  • And that’s it. Good.

  • You can also say, “I’m good,” but just plaingoodis more common.

  • You can also answerHow are you?” with the wordfine’.

  • This is less positive thangood’. It sort of meansaverage’.

  • Youre not great, youre not terrible.

  • Youre fine.

  • Begin with the F consonant, bottom lip to the bottom of the top front teeth.

  • Ff-fi- Next is the AI diphthong, do drop your jaw for the beginning, fi-

  • then relax your jaw back up as the top front of the tongue stretches towards the roof of the mouth.

  • Fiii-fine.

  • Now the tongue just has to flip up to the roof of the mouth. It should stay

  • really wide and flat so it can be relaxed in the back. Nn--

  • Fine, fine. Or, I’m fine.

  • - How are you? - Fine.

  • You can also say, “great!” or “I’m great!” This is, as you might have guessed,

  • a more positive answer, and you might follow it up with the reason that things are great.

  • I’m great! I just finished a big project that was stressing me out.

  • Great! It starts with the GR consonant cluster, grr. Your lips can start to circle in for the

  • R at the beginning of this word, it won’t affect the G sound, gr-.

  • For the G, the back of the tongue stretches up to the soft palate. Gg-

  • For the R sound, the front part of the tongue quickly pulls back and up as the back part releases.

  • Grr--. Grr--.

  • You can see the lips circle in. Gr-. Grea-.

  • Now we have the AY as in SAY diphthong. Make sure you drop your jaw.

  • Grea-. Great! Okay, what’s happening? What's happened to the T?

  • Great!

  • Like D, the T is a stop consonant.

  • We usually don’t say the ending, the release, when it’s at the end of a sentence.

  • Great, great. Just stop the air.

  • You can move your tongue into position for the T, but don’t release it.

  • Great! This stop makes the word abrupt and flatter.

  • Great. That makes it different fromgrey’, which has a rounder shape and no abrupt stop.

  • Great! Gray.

  • The abrupt stop makes the T. Great.

  • If youre not doing great and you don’t want to talk about it, you can sayfine’.

  • But if you do want to talk about it, then you can saynot goodornot so good’.

  • - Hey Rachel, how are you? - Not so good. I’m stressed about work.

  • Not good. Or, not so good. What do you notice about the T in NOT? It’s a Stop T, just likegreat!’.

  • Not good. Not good.

  • I just listened to about 10 video clips with this phrase on the web and they all have that stop T.

  • Not-, not-, not- good.

  • So you begin to saynot’, and you cut yourself off.

  • Cut off the air in your throat. Not-, not-. Not good. Not so good.

  • You don’t even need to move your tongue into position for the T. You can just stop the air.

  • Not good. Not good.

  • Why is the T pronounced this way? It’s not at the end of a sentence. No.

  • It’s pronounced that way because the next sound is a consonant.

  • [s] innot so goodand [g] innot good

  • Listen to Jen saynot goodin this example.

  • How are you guys doing today?

  • - Good. How are you? - Not good.

  • - Hey Rachel! How are you? - Not so good.

  • I'm kind of stressed about getting all these videos done.

  • It's Friday the 13th and everything is going wrong.

  • So there you have four different ways to answer the questionHow are you?”

  • Goodis the typical, positive answer. You don’t need to say more.

  • Fineis a little less positive, but again, that’s usually all you have to say.

  • You usually don’t elaborate.

  • Great!’ means youre better than normal, and you might want to say why.

  • Not goodornot so goodis of course negative, and youll want to elaborate and say why things are not so good.

  • Note: If someone asks you this, you usually give the answer and then return the question:

  • Good, how are you?

  • How am I pronouncingarein that sentence? I’m reducing it. Err. Howerr--

  • Check out the video on reducingare’.

  • Also, be sure to see this video on greeting Americans and how to pronounceHow are you’.

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In this American English pronunciation video,

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