"No, no estoy bien."
Translation:No, I'm not ok.
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Estoy is for something temporary e.g. estoy bien (i am well - but i could become unwell) vs Soy Pedro (i am Pedro)
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Estar is used for temporary things: feelings, location, and also used as an auxliary verb for progressive. Ser is used for more permanent characteristics: description (personality or physical appearance, but not emotion), career, origin, or time. An easy acronym to remember for ser is DOCTOR; feel free to look it up as it may help you with this.
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Bien is more like "fine" and bueno is more like "good". You would answer with bien to say how you are doing. Bueno is more with things.
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No (estar-form) bien translates as unwell in other questions, but not here.
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I know. The same happened to me. It's inconsistent and very discouraging! I hate Duo when it does that!
I wrote "no, no I'm good". I now understand the importance of punctuation marks.