"Je suis bien, merci" would be the answer to a question like "es-tu bien assis ?" or "as-tu assez chaud ?".

That's what I put and it was accepted.

Same here but it's correct

Me too, marked correct

Apparently

751 days streak?... what a dedication

It wasn't for me! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

How are you taking so many courses?

I didn't have an option for bien so I got it wrong

Bien is the adverb well, and adverbs modify verbs. Va is a verb, so you can't say "It is going good" or "I'm good". You have to say "It's going well" or "I am well." Good is an adjective, so if you say "I am good," it implies you're a good person who does good and charitable things like feeding and clothing the homeless and fighting for the oppressed women in Iran. Someone who asks "How are you?" doesn't want to know that, they want to know how you are feeling at the current time.

Same here. Not sure why you were downvoted. Ça was even capitalised, which is always the giveaway that it's the first word of the answer

No, for "I am fine" by itself just means that you are in good health.

I also thought that would work but I learned "Je suis d'accord" means "I agree" rather than "I am fine".

"merci" does not tell who you are thanking.

You have to add the preposition "à" (= to) + a stressed pronoun to personalize your thanks:

• merci à toi, merci à lui, merci à elle, merci à vous, merci à eux, merci à elles

This is idiomatic: I am doing well/I am fine = je vais bien.

I just flagged it.

je fais bien quelque chose = I am doing/making something properly

Yes, this is the conjugation of verb "aller" in present:

je vais, tu vas, il/elle/on va, nous allons, vous allez, ils/elles vont

This side meaning was not intended. The sentence is only about my health: je vais bien = I am fine.

merci beaucoup = thank you very much

In French they usually ask 'Comment ça va?' or 'Ça va?', which can be literally translated as 'How goes it?', which you also hear in English. This might be because in French they have different ways to say 'you' so this is simpler and as such the answer would be 'Ça va bien, merci', which you could translate as 'It goes well, thank you'.

Please read the whole thread about these phrases that don't translate word for word in either way of translation.

"aller bien" is the phrasal verb used to mean "to be (doing) fine" - a matter of health.

"je suis bien" is the word for word translation for "I am fine", but it does not mean that I am doing well, but that I am comfortable - a matter of temperature or body position or other criteria.

So, "I am going to be fine" translates to "je vais aller bien".

I believe so. This discussion page seems to be a real backwater. It is so old, it is spooky!

"Bien" is an adverb.

The confusion is because we say 'I am fine' when what we should be saying is 'I am doing fine'. 'Doing' is a verb and so 'fine' is an adverb. Hopefully that makes sense to you.

Because the answer is 'I am well, thank you', you need 'bien' because this means 'well'. So the answer should be 'Ça va bien, merci', which you literally could translate as 'It goes well, thank you'.

'Ça va' actually means 'It goes', like in the English question 'How goes it?' which usually means 'How are you?'. 'Ça' means 'it, this or that' and 'va' is the third person singular form of the verb 'aller', to go.

This is not a literal translation. 'Ça va bien, merci', which you could translate as 'It goes well, thank you' is closer to a literal translation. In English we have the phrase 'How goes it?', which would be close to the French question that this would be the answer to 'Comment ça va?'. In English we would answer 'I am fine, thank you' but in French they would answer 'Ça va bien, merci', which you literally could translate as 'It goes well, thank you'.

"Comme ci comme ça" means "not so good" and not "fine". By the way, the French don't use it often.

"That" and "goes/is going", respectively.