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Originally Posted by chryuop
From beginner to beginners....but why dou??? The question in English is "how are you?", thus there is a how. But the phrase in Japanese is "genki desu ka" which means "are you feeling ok?" (roughly)...there is no how there. So probably the message should have been "genki desuyo. kimi wa?", more like "I ma feeling good, what about you?".
But of course I very seldom guess things right in Japanese hee hee.
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IMO,
"genki desu yo. kimi wa?" - I'm good(or ok,fine,etc). You?
"Genki desu yo. Kimi wa dou?" - I'm good(or ok,fine,etc). How about you?
roughly. So either way should be fine but you can always say the same stuff in alot of (more or less) different ways.