welcome back to my channel on this channel learn academic english i teach intermediate and advanced
level lessons for english learners who want to be successful in school and work in today's video
i'm going to have a short lesson about how to introduce yourself in a few different situations
this may seem like something that is easy but it is sometimes tricky to introduce yourself
in a second language in english there are a few different things that you can say and sometimes
it might be hard for you to know which one is the best one to use in different situations
so let's talk about it before we get started i'd like to remind you to please give this video a
like and leave a comment if you find it helpful so first how to introduce yourself in person
if you are at a party or a club meeting or a work meeting and you need to introduce
yourself to a group of people or even to one person you can say my name is or i'm
in this situation we don't use i am we would use i'm so for example my name is jenna or i'm
jenna after you give your name you might want to add some additional information about yourself
for example i could say my name is jenna it's nice to meet you all i'm originally from china and i've
been living here for the past 10 years i currently work as the project manager for the it department
and i've been working here for the past eight years so you could say something like that to
tell where you're from how long you've been there and what you do that would especially be
appropriate in a work situation okay moving on to in writing or on the phone so in writing or on the
phone if you're talking to someone whom you don't know someone that you're introducing yourself to
for the first time you can also use my name is but usually in writing or on the phone we don't say
i'm so that one would be for in person but on the phone or in writing we usually don't use that
but we sometimes will use this is so how does this is work well first of all we can use this
is to tell who we are if the person already knows us and this would especially be true if you're um
emailing or calling your teacher your professor maybe your boss so we could say something like
this is jenna from your 9 a.m class this would be a common way to tell who you are if you write
a message or an email to your professor for example or if you are a person who is calling
from a business you can introduce yourself this way for example this is mike calling from abc bank
so in this situation maybe mike doesn't know you maybe you don't know each other you've never met
but he's calling and he can say my name is mike or this is mike calling from abc bank
okay so again you can use this is to tell who you are if you already know the person or
if you are calling from a business or something like that and you don't know the person you could
say my name is or you could say this is so what if you have a nickname or a name that you like to be
called what can you say in that situation well this is pretty common so we might say something
like my name is jennifer or i'm jennifer but you can call me jenna or you could say my name is
jennifer but i go by jenna so again if you have a nickname or an english name or another name
that you like to be called you can tell people to call you by saying you can call me or i go by
okay and finally what to do if you need to introduce to other people so if there are three
or more of you and you know both of the people but they don't know each other what can you do
so for example you're talking to your friend sophia at a party and mike comes up to you
and you know sofia you also know mike but mike and sophia don't know each other you can say mike this
is sophia sophia this is mike mike this is sophia sophia this is mike sometimes you can add some
additional information about them that they might have in common for example if you are talking to
people who you work with you might say something like sophia mike works in the i.t department just
down the hall from us and then they might say oh i think i've seen you before so i hope that this
information helps you to know how to introduce yourself in a few different situations let me
know if you have questions and check the comments and the description box below because i'm going
to leave an example and i would love for you to introduce yourself in the comments don't forget
to give this video a like if you found it helpful and i'll see you back here next time take care