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English Phrases Every Traveler Needs to Learn

Greetings (things that you say at the beginning of a conversation) seem straightforward and easy for English learners. However, they are essential to conversation. You need good greetings to be understood well while you are traveling an English-speaking country. Check out these most common ones.

Good morning. This phrase is used as a standard greeting for English speakers in the morning. It is not super formal, but speakers should definitely use it when communicating with others they do not know or people of authority (teachers, police, important people). Further, this phrase is only used until 12 p.m. (noon). If you try to use it in the afternoon, you might get a few funny looks.
Good afternoon. So, you made a mistake and tried using good morning after 12 p.m.? Good afternoon is the phrase you should use, and though the line between afternoon and evening is a little blurry, you can use this phrase until 5 p.m.
Good evening. Evening generally takes place between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m., some say evening goes right until the moment you fall asleep. In any case, this phrase is used for that period of time after dinner.
Hello / Hi / Hey. Don’t want to be confused about what time of day it is? You can use these phrases. Hello has the highest formality and should be used for people you don’t know or in formal situations. Hi is slightly less formality, but I wouldn’t use it for people in authority. Hey should only be used for friends and family.
How are you? / How is it going? This question normally comes after the greetings above, and it is used to ask someone how they are feeling. Though a speaker is asking, it’s normally bad etiquette to go into too much detail. Simply saying “good” or “not so good” as a response is generally enough.
The greetings above are the bare essentials. Check out this post for more. For ways to talk about how you are, check out these alternatives to the response “good.“