Learn the Top 10 English Lines you Need for Introducing Yourself

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Hi everybody! My name is Alisha and welcome back to top words today's topic
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is 10 lines you need for introducing yourself. So let's go!
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Hello. It's nice to meet you.
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Hello. It's nice to meet you. You can only use this the first time that you meet
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someone if you say this to somebody after you have met them already, you're
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going to seem either A) like you've completely forgotten meeting them or B)
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like you are a very strange person for saying it's nice to meet you again. So
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when you use this the first time you can shake hands with someone and say Hello. It's nice to meet you.
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My name is... the next phrase is my name is blah blah blah.
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my case my name is Alisha. You can use this again when you're introducing
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yourself, or if you need to re-introduce yourself, you can use this pattern when
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you meet somebody at a party, for example, you can say my name is... My name is
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Barbara. My name is Stevens. You can shorten this you can say my name's.
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My name's blah blah blah.
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I'm from... after you said your name after you shaking
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hands you can say, I'm from US. I'm from Japan. I'm from Turkey. I'm from your mom's house.
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I'm from a cave in southern Europe. I'm from your country, or I'm from your
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city. I'm from the future!
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I live in...
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I live in blah, blah, blah.
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You can use your city, you can use your country, you can
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use even maybe if you live near a certain station you can use the name of
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the station, where you live. So for example, I live in America, it's fine.
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I live in Los Angeles, is fine. I live in New York, is fine. So your neighborhood is
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fine. If someone says where do you live and you say I live in an apartment... What?
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So please use your, the region or the location where you live, not the type of
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place where you live.
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I'm a...
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if you hear the question "what do you do?" It's asking
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about your job. In English people don't say "what is your job", that's not the
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question that we asked. Instead the question is "what do you do" and the
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correct response to that is I'm a...
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or I'm an... blah blah blah, followed by your job title. So if someone says what
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do you do? you can say, I'm a teacher. What do you do?
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I'm an engineer. What do you do?
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I'm a donut - shop - tester.
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I'm ... years old.
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When someone asks "how old are you?" You can say I'm blah blah blah years old. Don't forget the S
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at the end of this. If you like, you can shorten this phrase to just "I'm (plus your age)."
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So I'm 65. I'm 13. Whatever. I'm this many. Sometimes children will say that "how
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old are you?" I'm this many! Kind of cute. First time you meet someone who might
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not ask how old are you. If it's in a friendly case and a party after you've
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spoken to the person a little bit, it's ok, but just trying to be sensitive to
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the context, try to be sensitive to the people around you. And if you sense that
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maybe there's a very large age gap between you, might be better not to ask
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the question at all.
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I enjoy...
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Many of my students say "what is your hobby?" but
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that's not something that native speakers will say. No native speaker say
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"what is your hobby?" Instead, we ask "what do you like to do?" or "what do you do in
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your free time?" It's a much more natural question then "what's your hobby". The
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answer to this then is I enjoy or I like plus a noun phrase. so for example "what
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do you like to do?" I like listening to music, or I enjoy listening to music. "What
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do you do in your free time?" I like watching movies. "what do you do in your
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free time?" I like baking cakes. "What do you do in your free time?" I enjoy tap dancing.
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"What do you do in your free time?" I enjoy making new friends.
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One of my hobbies is...
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One of my hobbies is blah, blah, blah. With this one, it's probably better
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to use a short, easily, easy-to-understand hobby. If you're explaining a hobby
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people are going to expect that it's going to be something that they know
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about, like photography, or cooking, or dancing, or swimming, or whatever. So try
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to pick something that will allow you to continue the conversation. That's why
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movies, or cooking
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or books, or, you know, sports, are good thing to share. One of my hobbies is snowboarding.
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I've been learning English for...
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if you are learning English, if you're studying
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English, you can use this expression. If someone asks you "how long have you been
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studying English?" you can say, I've been studying English for amount of time, or
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I've been learning english, or I've been practicing English, or I've been speaking
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English for a certain amount of time. I've been studying English since
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elementary school is also OK to use. I've been studying English since I was in
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college just be careful "for" is used for a length of time, and "since" is used for a
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specific point in time at which you started something. So you can try and mix
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it up and use a few different expressions there. So, I've been learning
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English for a long time, I'm still learning English, you shouldn't do that too. Ok!
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I'm learning English at EnglishClass10 1.com
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This probably could be used in response to "where did you learn English?" or "where are you studying
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English?" or "how are you studying English?" You can respond with I'm learning
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English at EnglishClass101.com, or I'm learning English at my school, I'm
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learning English at my private teachers house, for example. So a little bit of
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grammar in this sentence, why do we use the progressive tense I'm learning
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English? If you say "I'm learning" it sounds like you're still continuing your
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studies; if you say "I learned English" at EnglishClass101.com it sounds
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like you're finished. I like you you're finished studying, there's nothing else
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for you to study, so you're done. So it's much much more natural to actually
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use the progressive "I'm learning" or "I'm studying" when you're talking about your
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studies when you're talking about your hobbies, that is to say I learned or I
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studied and and and and so those are 10 lines that you need to introduce
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yourself and they help give the other person a little bit of information and
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carry the conversation forward. So please try them, go crazy with them, make
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them your own. Thanks very much for joining us for this episode of Top Words
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We'll see you again soon. Bye! I'm from your neighbor's dog house-ish.
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Glub glub. Oh yes I like to go spelunking in North Africa every summer.
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