Anticipated learning English.podcast for English -7, and with me. S. Bridget, I ripped out. I'm pleased you are back again. Last time we spoke about how to facilitate somebody how to welcome somebody and today I want to talk with two yourself to your friends or colleagues to 1/3 person. So if we meet for the first time. How would you introduce yourself to me as somebody who wants to have a chat with you on a party. For example, while that there's a formal way to introduce yourself. For example, in a corporate setting and there's informal wage gingers should introduce yourself by some as mentioned in the party, setting via introductions important. Firstly, desecrating a good first impression of yourself to give this this case a good image of yourself and find yourself present yourself in the best possible light. So you would start with hello my name is Richard. For example, then you would give your age what you do. For example, the occupation or what you study. For example, then you would also mention your interests. Why would you mention your interests. Why would you mention your occupation. Why would you mention your age. It allows the other person to be on more personal terms with you in the party, setting want to connect with other people how you connect with other people. If you have on the similar age group you have similar occupations or even bikes. I have similar interests, then that's how would the other person know if you don't don't express these three things. So in a party setting. I would also always expressed these three things in the beginning. At the beginning. Can we have a practical demonstration. For example, just imagine you're the party we meeting at the DeFeo something and and I would just contact you and say hello. My name is Nathan I am a friend of Michael and what do you do so in this case you could also then say because informal hi my name is Richard all nice to meet you all. The other friend of so-and-so, so you establishing a connection, a personal connection already and from then on I would I would go into and other personal interests and say oh I went with the so-and-so with to the football game last week you mentioned that you wanted also to attend white lie can you make it okay so after the introduction you take it. After that, say, dumping conjunctive opportunity to jump to the next point. I mentioned that I'm a friend of Michael and you tell me something about you and Michael that you have in common are that you have experienced together right exactly introduction is generally seen as a first step to two. Given first impression. Again, you have to we have to understand that the other person is not is not aware of yourself. You know you very well. So you have to create a good first impression. How'd you do that commonalities okay I understand. What if you are a lady or a girl on a party there somebody being quite drunk coming close to you approaching end introducing himself and you have absolutely no interest in getting into contact with a person. What would be a polite but clear reaction. So in this case, I would advise lady she say after the person. The men in this case introduce himself. I would just say nice to meet you and then I would just say oh there's my friend Sarah have to go to and talk to about last week's episode of SOI for this this reaction in many films. My wife loves to watch like desperate housewives and things like that. It's the typical apparently typical reaction. Do you think having these two situations in German. Do you think people would introduce themselves and to act differently from your experience, you know, I think if you look at as I said before, if you introduce yourself, with your name, your age, your occupation, and maybe undress. Also I think these are the third of the ways to introduce a seven any language. After that, then you have to look for cultural specifics. Things she'd do not say things you do say and so forth. But I think these four steps are the perfect way to introduce yourself in any kind of language. In Germany we have four tables if you talk to somebody no matter if it's a business situation or private situation, and it's not a close friend of yours, one is politics. The second religion. The third health and the fourth football. If you are not belong to the same team. What about your experience in English. Other early to boost things you should not talk about with the native speaker from the US, Australia, UK, etc. so I think with the do's and don'ts. You're always have to be careful with them when you can offend the other person but generally it's about the setting is the other person comfortable that say you are met an African-American person for the first time in the first topic that comes to mind because you're nervous is slavery. I wouldn't advise you to choose that topic as the first topics of his it's always to look for him to make the other person comfortable what you feel comfortable in that case, so that topics obviously connected to history connected to cultural differences. For example, in Japan likely touch other people by meeting them for the first time. Contrary to front to the French-speaking nations where you way a more more more open to the other person so I would only also look at regarded from the point of view that it's not due don't. It's is is the other person comfortable with the same problem if you need to determine business partner or if you meet somebody from Germany think that the general rule that fits to any any culture no matter if it's your culture or another culture. In the end we are all human beings and we all want to be treated with respect and we want to comfortable in the contact with other people. So let's jump to the business situation. If you move somebody on a conference workshop for maybe need somebody in a new company for the first time with starting your drop and now you're introduced to your colleagues will meet them at lunch about you. You introduce yourself, what you talk about your age and your personal interests as well on that case. In the former case, I would not talk about my age and my interests. Why in a corporate setting. People are not there to have fun on to see generally have a good time that there to network and networking find what work so it's working time. So what intends short so I would keep it short and same hello my name is Richard and then where would switch from H and interests is most important to the corporate fungicide is the company your company name. I'm with, for example, DHL, and I'm based in Frankfurt. However, our regional headquarters in London and then I would also mention how how long you've been with the company's I was say I've been with DHL for five years all I've been with DHL since 2015. I think these 444 ways to introduce yourself in a corporate setting is sufficient as if you would introduce with your with the four steps in an informal setting in Germany always to people talk very detailed about what they do. So for example I am head of marketing and sales director of management at BMW when I went to England. I only have people saying I work for BMW and have the impression that it's not important what what position you have it all here just identifying the serve this company but not that much with your position. What is your impression on that and I think it depends again and I think the as you mentioned before, we are all humans. The higher your status is in society, the more open you are about to see other people. It is true that in the English world speaking world. People do not people. People do not detail that industry or their worklife in the first conversations but after that they're quite open and as you have witness in Germany so I would say depends on the person and you really depends on the person. Some are more open and someone else yes thank you very much for these details about introducing yourself know our episode comes to an end. Richard next time I would like to go into detail how to introduce somebody else if it's the same for example, if I introduce my sister what I say what's her name what's your age but what are her hobbies, etc. or is there may be a different way a different introduce my boss or my colleague or my business partner to somebody other any other routes. 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