Speaker 1: How about this. Let's look at the word how and
see all the ways you can use how to make
your English sound more natural. How Come? I'm glad you
asked that because you depend on me to tell you
these things and how.
Speaker 2: Welcome to another Happy English podcast coming to you from
New York City. And here's your English teacher, Michael.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, John, and thanks everyone. It's Michael
here from Happy English and I help people speak English better.
And this is Happy English Podcast Episode seven ninety using how.
There are a whole bunch of conversational phrases with how
that we use in American English these days, and that's
what we're going to talk about in today's podcast. How
do you like them? Apples? One of the first how
phrases I like to teach my new students is how come?
How Come? Well, it's because how come is such a
common way to ask a question by itself. How Come
is like casual why. Like if you hear from a
friend of yours that they can't make it to your
party and you want to know the reason, you can
ask them how come? Short and sweet how come? And
it's a bit softer and more friendly sounding than just
asking why, and how come makes it really easy to
form a question in English. Just add a sentence after
how come, and the whole thing becomes question. How come
you don't like celery? How Come Jack didn't come to
the party last night? How come eggs are so expensive
these days? Using how come to make questions like these
will definitely make your English sound more natural. You can
use how about when you make a suggestion or an offer,
like when your friends come to your house, you can
say something like how about a cup of coffee? Or
if a friend of yours asks for a suggestion about
where to go for dinner, you can say something like, Hey,
how about that new tie restaurant on Broadway? So how
about using how about the next time you need to
make a suggestion or an offer. Next up is how
about you? We usually pronounce how about you as how
about you? And how about you? Is a great way
to keep a conversation going because you can use it
to ask someone what their opinion is, like I'm not
a big beer drinker, I prefer wine, how about you?
Or I haven't decided if I'm going to go to
Jack's party on Saturday? How about you? The next one
is and how and how is a casual phrase that
you can use to mean very much so, or I
agree with you. You can use it in a conversation
like this, I think this is the best pizza in
New York City? And how I'm so sorry I haven't
been in touch in a while, did you miss me?
And how? And how is kind of like saying you
can say that again? Or I think so too. And lastly,
way back in junior high school, you probably learned that
when you first meet someone, you can say to them,
how do you do? Which has the same meaning as
nice to meet you, But to be honest, these days,
greeting someone for the first time with how do you do?
Makes it feel like we're in some kind of nineteen
forties movie? How kind of like that? Keep in mind
the best way to remember vocabulary like this and any
other word or phrase in English is to take that
word or phrase, write it in a sentence that's true
for you and true in your world, and then memorize
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