Personal Practice

Greeting

How might you greet the individuals below? Consider time of day, gender of the person, and other contextual clues to choose an appropiate greeting. Speak your greeting aloud, and then click on the answer button to compare your greeting with a native's.

  1. a male child waking up in the morning
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  2. a person at the door
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  3. a veiled woman
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  4. a person leaving to get on a bus
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How would the following individuals greet those around them?

  1. a professor in front of a class
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  2. a person leaving the table at a coffee shop while the other stays seated
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  3. a woman greeting two visitors at her door
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  4. a man greeting another man at a mosque
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