Openings
Starting a conversation, a meeting, an email — the first thirty seconds.
Guide13 parts
What's up? / Sup?
The trickiest greeting in English: three expressions wearing the same clothes. The forms from what's up to sup, the linking and reduction, the three meanings and how to tell them apart, the reply for each, where it's safe and where it isn't, the WhatsApp and Budweiser anchors, the “I'm fine, thanks” trap, three dialogues, and a quiz.
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How's it going?
The safest informal greeting in English — warmer than “How are you?”, safer than “What's up?”. The forms, the compression to “how-zit-GO-in”, the dummy it, five distinct uses from greeting to genuine check-in, the reply for each, the regional versions, the «нормально» trap, four dialogues, and a quiz.
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GreetingsIntroducing yourselfSmall talkOpening a meetingOpening an email