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  • Hi, I'm Rebecca from www.engvid.com.

  • In this lesson, you'll learn how to introduce yourself and also how to introduce people who don't know each other.

  • Now, sometimes, you learn a lot of English and you don't⏤

  • You still feel nervous; you don't feel confident doing simple things.

  • So, this is one of those simple but important things that you need to be able to do.

  • To be able to walk up to someone, to introduce yourself, and also to know how to respond when someone does that.

  • And that may be true whether you're at a business conference or at a party, okay?

  • So, let's get started.

  • So, herefirst, we'll talk about the formal situation.

  • So, let's saywe'll start over here, "Hello. I'm Bill White."

  • The response is, "Hi. I'm Susan Jones."

  • So, he says then, "It's a pleasure to meet you."

  • And she says, "It's a pleasure to meet you, too." Okay?

  • Pretty straightforward, pretty simple; why?

  • Because, especially at this part, you're just repeating what the other person says, except that you're adding the word "too", okay?

  • Let's try it again, "Hello. I'm Bill White."

  • Now, at that point, you probably want to also shake hands, so, let me mention that.

  • So, the things that you should do in addition to what you're going to say are these things:

  • You should try to maintain a straight posture because you look more professional that way, especially in a business situation.

  • In a North American context, also, we establish eye contact, all right?

  • That shows that we're not afraid, that shows we're not hiding anything, all right?

  • Shows confidence.

  • And you want to give a firm handshake, okay?

  • Don't keep your hand really weak.

  • Keep it firm, not hard.

  • Don't squeeze the other person's hand, but make a firm handshake.

  • And this is true whether you're a man or a woman.

  • And usually, we smile because it's a little bitit shows that you're a friendly person and you're happy to meet the other person, even in a business situation.

  • So, let's get started, and what I was saying is about the handshake, you could shake hands right here.

  • So, you could say, "Hello. I'm Bill White."

  • Or, you could say it at this point when you say, "It's a pleasure to meet you." Okay?

  • "Hello. I'm Bill White."

  • "Hi. I'm Susan Jones."

  • "It's a pleasure to meet you."

  • "It's a pleasure to meet you, too."

  • And if you want, one thing you can do is to mention the person's name when you're saying, "It's a pleasure to meet you," okay?

  • But sometimes, in a business context, you're not yet sure whether to say "Ms. Jones" or "Susan", so, you could try it.

  • And you could say, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Ms. Jones."

  • And she might say, "Oh, you can call me Susan. It's a pleasure to meet you, too," and... and so on, okay?

  • But (the) main thing is this part is just repeated.

  • Next, in an informal situation.

  • So, here, instead of saying "Hello", we're just gonna say "Hi".

  • "Hi! I'm George."

  • "Hi! I'm Maria."

  • "Nice to meet you."

  • "Nice to meet you, too."

  • Again, we're just repeating, so, what happened?

  • Here, it's a little more formal, so we said, "It's a pleasure to meet you."

  • And here, because it's informal, we just said, "Nice to meet you."

  • "Nice to meet you, too," okay?

  • So, just repeat that, and also, instead of, "Hello", we're just saying, "Hi", all right?

  • "Hi! I'm George."

  • "Hi! I'm Maria."

  • "Nice to meet you."

  • "Nice to meet you, too," okay?

  • So, try that.

  • Next, I'll show you how to introduce people who don't know each other.

  • So, let's see how to introduce people to each other.

  • First, we'll do this in a formal situation, okay?

  • So, let's pretend in this scenario that there are three people.

  • You are Carol Smith, and you know Scott Topper, and you know Steven Shaw, but they don't know each other.

  • But you don't know that, so you have to find out first, 'cause sometimes people do know each other.

  • So, Carol is gonna speak first, so Carol knows both of them, all right?

  • So she saysCarol Smith says, "Have you met each other?"

  • So, let's say she turns to one of them or to either of them, and she says.

  • So, Scott answers and he says, "No, we haven't."

  • Sometimes, this person will answer, sometimes, both of those people will answer kind of at the same time, say, "No, we haven't."

  • Doesn't matter.

  • And then, Carol says, if it's a formal situation, "Mr. Topper, this is Mr. Shaw. Mr. Shaw, this is Mr. Topper."

  • Now, sometimes, this part is not necessary, 'cause it's kind of obvious.

  • So, usually... usually, if you just say the first part, people will start introducing themselves, then, to each other or continue with the, "Pleasure to meet you."

  • But if you want to know the traditional way in which it's done, it's done like that, okay?

  • So, "Mr. Topper, this is Mr. Shaw. Mr. Shaw, this is Mr. Topper."

  • And, at that point, also, when you're deciding who towhose name to say first,

  • some of the rules of protocol are that if there is an older person and a younger person, you introduce the older person to the younger person, okay?

  • So, let's say in this consituation that Mr. Topper is older, then you would say Mr. Topper's name first.

  • If they're both about the same age, it doesn't matter, okay?

  • So, then, Mr. Topper, remember the earlier lessons we learned?

  • What we learned just now, the expression, "It's a pleasure to meet you."

  • And Mr. Shaw says, "Pleasure to meet you, too," okay?

  • You don't always have to repeat the entire expression "It's a pleasure to meet you."

  • Even in a formal situation, it's fine to say, "Pleasure to meet you, too," 'cause that's the critical part, all right?

  • So, now, that's the formal scenario.

  • Let's go to itthrough it one more time.

  • "Have you met each other?"

  • "No, we haven't."

  • "Mr.Topper, this is Mr. Shaw. Mr. Shaw, Mr. Topper."

  • "It's a pleasure to meet you."

  • "Pleasure to meet you, too."

  • And remember, at this point when... when Mr. Topper says, "It's a pleasure to meet you,"

  • that's when Mr. Topper will put out his hand for the handshake, and Shaw... Steven Shaw will take his hand and shake his hand.

  • Now, if it's an informal situation, it's pretty much the same way at the beginning.

  • "Have you met each other?"

  • "No, we haven't."

  • So, then, you can say, "Scott, this is Steven. Steven, this is Scott."

  • And then, they will use the informal expressions.

  • "Nice to meet you."

  • "Nice to meet you, too," okay?

  • So, these expressions, "Pleasure to meet you," "Nice to meet you,"

  • they can take you a long way in introducing yourself and introducing others.

  • Now, of course, there are many ways to introduce yourself, not only what I've said here, not only what I've taught you here.

  • But I always advise my students that it's better to learn one way properly than to learn three different ways and then get mixed up, okay?

  • So, make sure you have mastered one way to introduce yourself and to introduce other people,

  • and then, you can move on to other variations because you are definitely going to hear a variety of variations on this, okay?

  • So, if you'd like to practice this a little bit, go to our website www.engvid.com,

  • and you can do a quiz on how to introduce yourself and how to introduce other people.

  • Thanks very much for watching; bye for now.

Hi, I'm Rebecca from www.engvid.com.

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