Name: How to introduce yourself in a natural, advanced way. (C1+ English)
Uploaded: 2025-05-12T03:25:27.000Z
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Hello, everyone, and welcome to English with Lucy.

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Have you ever felt awkward when it comes to introducing yourself?

Maybe you look online for a video on how to introduce yourself, but it's at a very basic level.

I mean, introducing yourself in another language is one of the first things they teach you.

But how do we introduce ourselves at an advanced level of English?

I'm going to train you to introduce yourself in English in a very natural, advanced way.

I'm going to give you lots of options so they will definitely apply to you in your situation.

To help you even further, I've also created a PDF introductions guide.

It covers everything we're going to talk about in this lesson, plus lots of extra information.

I've included some extra dialogues, a quiz, and a link to some secret exercises so that you can put what you've learnt into practise.

If you'd like to download that PDF, just click on the link in the description box or scan that QR code there, enter your name and email address, sign up to my mailing list, and the PDF will arrive directly in your inbox.

After that, you will automatically receive my free weekly PDFs, plus all of my other updates, offers, and course information.

But now, let's get started with the lesson.

So in this lesson, you're going to listen to two dialogues.

The first one is going to be fairly simple.

You'll hear two people introducing themselves at a cheese convention.

Later in the video, you'll hear a much more advanced version.

There is nothing wrong with that exchange.

In fact, I've had hundreds of conversations like that, but today we're focusing on C1 or advanced English.

So let's learn some more advanced phrases.

You could say, I don't think we've been introduced, or I'm not sure we've met before.

You can use these phrases if you're fairly sure that you haven't met the person before.

They're just polite introductory phrases.

If you want to introduce someone else, you might say, I'd like to introduce my colleague, Carlson Cheng.

A less formal way to do this would be, have you met Julie?

Okay, when you introduce yourself, you need to share your name.

That's probably the most important thing.

It's fine to just say, I'm Lucy, but you could expand a little, especially if you use a shortened version of your name or you have a nickname.

I'm Magdalena, but most people call me Magda.

Or, my name's Roberto, but I usually go by Beto.

Bartholomew's my given name, but only my grandmother calls me that.

I respond to William or Will, but never Bill.

Now, let's say you know you have a mutual connection with someone.

You could say, I'm a friend or colleague of Keiko's.

You might add, she speaks very highly of you.

This means that Keiko says very nice things about you.

And this is a very flattering thing to say when you first meet someone.

Another common phrase is, I've heard a lot about you.

And the most common responses are, all good, I hope.

You could also say, it's good to put a face to the name.

This means it's good to finally see the person whose name I've heard many times.

Now, let's say you might have met someone before, but don't remember clearly.

You can say, I think our paths have crossed before.

This phrase is perfect when you vaguely recognise someone, but aren't entirely sure where from.

When you cross paths with someone, or your paths cross, it means you've met by chance at some point.

If you're in a similar social or professional circle, you could say, we must move in the same circles.

And if you're surprised that you haven't met sooner, you might add, I can't believe we haven't crossed paths before.

So next, you might want to ask someone where they're from.

And some different ways to answer, yep, Portsmouth born and bred.

Or, yeah, I was born and raised just around the corner.

These phrases mean you were born and grew up in a place.

Or, I grew up here, but I've been living in Belfast for the past few years.

Or you could say, nope, just passing through.

To pass through means to stop in a place for a short time before going somewhere else.

Now, let's say you want to introduce yourself to someone at an event.

What brings you to this part of the world?

You might add, business or pleasure, for example.

What brings you to the World Coffee Championships today?

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