435 – Slang Greetings in American English

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A friend of mine who I haven’t seen in a while came over my house today. When we sat down, he said, so what’s shaking. What’s shaking? That’s a great question, and it got me thinking that we have a lot of casual and informal Greetings in English. So, for today’s English lesson, let’s check them out!

Here are the example sentences. To get the details of this English lesson, you need to listen to the podcast or check the transcript for the details:

How are you? → Huh-ware-yuh?
How are you doing? → Hah-ya-do-win?
How is it going? → How-zit-go-win?

What’s new?
What’s up? → Wah-sup? → Sup?
What’s shaking? → What’s shakin’? → What’s shakin’, bacon?
What’s cooking? → What’s cookin’?
What’s cracking? → What’s crackin’?

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