hey there i'm drew badger the world's
world's number one english fluency
fluency guide and today I'm going
going to be in this video describing
describing myself so
so this is kind of an example of how
how you can give a good introduction
introduction or if you just want to
to describe yourself physically or
or maybe something about your personality
personality so
so as always in this series I will
will do it in basic intermediate and
and more advanced language so as a
a native speaker would let's
let's begin so hello my name is Drew
Drew and I am 35 years old as
as of this recording I am 35 years
years old I am six foot one or a hundred
hundred and eighty three centimeters
centimeters i believe and let's
see
see I
I like baseball and basketball and
and I am
and I am mmm
mmm i really like camping as well
well but i don't really camp so much
much here in Japan it's just kind
kind of hard to find a camping spot
spot anyway that was a basic thing
thing maybe when you're introducing
introducing yourself to someone you
you can just talk about your hobbies
hobbies or something that maybe is
is interesting about yourself that
that maybe other people don't know
know
know so
so now i will give a slightly more
more intermediate way of describing
describing yourself when you're introducing
introducing yourself hello
hello my name is drew it's nice to
to meet you I am six foot 180 three
three centimeters as I say in Japan
Japan because they use the metric
metric system out here but i really
really like baseball and I play basketball
basketball a lot actually have a local
local club that I play with sometimes
sometimes but now I've kind of hurt
hurt my knee a little bit because
because I played basketball and soccer
soccer and baseball when i was younger
younger i hurt my knees a lot so now
now i really can't play as well and
and I'm not really playing basketball
basketball as much as I used to so
so that was just an intermediate way
way of describing myself again I'm
I'm trying to you know pick up a particular
particular thing I would focus on
on and like everything else in this
this series you
you want to kind of focus on a particular
particular thing and then build out
out from that so
so in my case I'm talking like
like physically about my height I
I didn't really talk about my personality
personality because again is an intermediate
intermediate speaker maybe
maybe I can't describe you know a
a lot of things about me personally
personally or the way I feel about
about something or maybe when you're
you're just introducing yourself you
you don't really talk about those
those kinds of things but i'm just
just talking about some interesting
interesting things because a lot of
of people are specifically in Japan
Japan ask me will like your kind of
of tall do you play basketball or
or something now
now in America i'm not particularly
particularly tall i'm taller than
than average but 61 is not I
I guess not very tall certainly not
not for basketball i would be like
like a very very short point guard
guard if I was playing basketball
basketball but
but anyway this is just a way of expressing
expressing myself so
so now let's say i want to express
express myself in a native way I'm
I'm going to meet someone at a party
party or something and I'm just saying
saying hello for the first time so
so a native speaker like as a native
native speaker i would express myself
myself like this oh
oh wait how's it going so my name
name is Drew you have been like enjoying
enjoying this party hard it's actually
actually a nice group of people over
over here
over here the
the friend of mine that was the guy
guy that's having this party he
he introduced me to a few people and
and actually some other people here
here they also play baseball so that's
that's one of my interests one
one of the things i enjoy doing what
what I've got free time I'm actually
actually quite busy I have a business
business online where I help people
people learn English but you know
know I like to relax and so it's great
great to come here and meet other
other people like yourself it's
it's actually nice to meet you by
by the weight so while i'm sitting
sitting here and getting to have a
a nice chat with you hopefully i can
can learn a little bit about you as
as well just something may be interesting
interesting you might not know something
something something that actually
actually a lot of people don't know
know about me is I was on the TV show
show Oprah just an interesting fact
fact about me so
so pretty cool this is actually true
true i was on Oprah many years ago
ago
ago Oh
Oh pride doesn't remember it though
though because i was in a choir i
i was singing like Oh acquire of little
little kids many
many many years ago I was probably
probably over 24 / 25 years ago I
I guess well as a long time ago in
in The Oprah Show isn't even around
around anymore anyway so that's what
what I would do maybe
maybe as a more advanced speaker but
but this is a tricky topic to talk
talk about because typically you wouldn't
wouldn't sit and just like talked
talked a whole bunch about your life
life you really begin by asking the
the other person questions about themselves
themselves so
so what I'd like to do is like kind
kind of talk about that as well in
in a way that you can control the
the conversation and learn a whole
whole bunch of new words but getting
getting the other person to do a lot
lot of the talking so
so I like to do this just so I can
can listen to them and learn about
about them and the more you learn
learn about the other person the actually
actually better they enjoy the conversation
conversation because a lot of people
people just like to talk and be able
able to express themselves because
because most people don't feel like
like they really listen to so it's
it's one of those things that if you
you can provide that then people will
will really enjoy having you around
around and you'll never be looking
looking for people to speak with because
because everybody will be happy to
to speak with you so
so anyway I find in a conversation
conversation i'm spending more of
of my time like oh very quickly hey
hey my name is drew it's nice to meet
meet you like I'll tell me about yourself
yourself and then typically I'm just
just saying oh that's interesting
interesting tell me more so
so I'm trying to get involved in that
that person's life and learn more
more about that person then they know
know about me and I really wait until
until they're asking me any questions
questions that are may be connected
connected with something or we notice
notice there's a similar interest
interest and I say oh that's really
really interesting that you also enjoy
enjoy you know parasailing or badminton
badminton or you know rock collecting
collecting whatever you have that
that thing happens to be so when I
I noticed that when i say Oh immediately
immediately all that's really cool
cool i also interested in collecting
collecting rocks and then I can begin
begin kind of a story that maybe I
I don't go too much into my own topic
topic unless they're really interested
interested in it but the point is
is really to let the other person
person speak especially as a learner
learner
learner you're
you're getting the opportunity for
for other people to speak so you're
you're you're feeling kind of getting
getting them making them feel
feel more comfortable and getting
getting them also more excited to
to want to spend more time speaking
speaking with you so you can you develop
develop relationships like that spend
spend more time listening to the other
other person asking them simple questions
questions like tell me more about
about something if you just say tell
tell me more all that's really interesting
interesting tell me more about that
that particular thing or I didn't
didn't know that really interesting
interesting fact about rock collecting
collecting or something it
it doesn't really matter if you're
you're really interested in the topic
topic or not because you can always
always find something that you find
find interesting about something if
if you try to think and maybe connect
connect that to something else so
so i might not be interested in rock
rock collecting specifically but my
my little cousin collects pokemon
pokemon characters and he tells me
me all about stuff like that so
so anyway I'm just using connections
connections to make that conversation
conversation interesting and you don't
don't have to worry so much about
about what you're going to say about
about yourself if you focus on the
the other person so
so the secret really - number one
one being able to connect with other
other people but number two having
having to develop or being able to
to develop actual friendships with
with people you develop that much
much more if you're willing to listen
listen to them and this is you know
know even less than I had to learn
learn my own life because just like
like I'm speaking a lot now I tend
tend to like want to talk to people
people in teach things and do other
other things like that when really
really I should just shut up and listen
listen to people anyway
anyway I don't want to give you two
two in much too much information so
so i will shut up right now but for
for this video just remember like
like kind of a few things when you're
you're explaining things about yourself
yourself
yourself watch
watch the body language of the other
other person if they're interested
interested in what you're saying then
then you can continue to to go on
on or you can say you know maybe I'm
I'm talking too much and like all
all be quiet about that now on
on the other person maybe they'll
they'll say oh no go on go on tell
tell me more so
so I i typically wait for other people
people to ask me things like that
that just to make sure that they're
they're really interested anyway if
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reveal more about yourself and people
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do that
do that so
so it will be much better process
process for you again if you focus
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