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Beyond fine, thanks

Are you bored of answering how are you with the same answer every time? It's fine to say fine, thanks. But this video is for you if you want to take your English to the next lev...

Course: Natural questions and small talkSection: Asking and answering how are youSubtitles: en

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Are you bored of answering how are you

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with the same answer every time? It's

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fine to say fine, thanks. But this video

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is for you if you want to take your

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English to the next level. Today you are

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going to learn how to answer how are you

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in advanced English. And as always, I've

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created a free PDF to go with this

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lesson. You can review everything you

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learn in this video. And I've also added

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a section on answering how are you in

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emails as it's slightly different as

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well as regional British slang. There is

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also a quiz in the PDF and a link to

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some secret exercises. If you'd like to

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download that, just click on the link in

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the description box or scan that QR code

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there. Enter your name and your email

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address. The PDF will arrive directly in

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your inbox. The link is in the

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description box or you can scan that QR

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code there. Now, before we get into

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answering how are you, let's talk about

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some different ways to ask this

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question. There are a lot, and there's

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nothing wrong with how are you. It's

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appropriate in pretty much any

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situation. But if you're trying to reach

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a C1 level in English, you need to add

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some more variety. So, let's see more

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ways to ask this question. You could

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ask, "How's

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