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05-23-2008, 06:34 PM

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Originally Posted by loveskyliemole View Post
[font="Comic Sans MS"][color="SeaGreen"]Hiya!
Konnichiwa, minasan.
Hajimemashite.

I am interested in Australian English and British English.
Could anyone be my teacher??
In return, I will be happy to help you with Japanese!

I used to teach Japanese at secondary college in Melbourne
and I loved the students and had a great time there.



I have some questions:

The other day, I heard a few English teachers from USA were saying...


When people say "How are you?" , don't say(answer) "I'm fine",
because we don't say that. say "good" instead.



but is that true?

The other day an Australian teacher told me that "good" isn't right, say "fine" or "well".


I am kind of confused.


I used to say

How are you going?
How's it going?

"good" (90%)
"not bad" "not too bad" (10%)

When I was in Australia.


but
since I came back to Japan,
I don't meet many Aussies here so

I use more

How are you?
How are you doing?
What's up?

but, now I am confused,
How should I answer!?



Please feel free to leave your questions about Japanese too,
I will try to come visit this site often and answer them
as much as I can.

matane
that depends on where you are in the U.S. in alabama we usually answer with a "pretty good" or "fine"
it also depends on the teacher

Last edited by KikiBunny23 : 05-23-2008 at 06:37 PM.
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