[Annaliza1228]

Originally Posted by loveskyliemole

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 a 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

I'm from America so I know English VERY well ... but when some one asks you the questions above you can say: good, very, well, fine... whatever...the thing is that the point gets across... when people ask me how I'm doing I always say " I'm good." but this is just a personal preference. You can say whichever one you are most comfortable with... unless you want to be alll "gramatically correct" the you would say fine ... but where I live every one says "good" ...