Okay, Good morning folks and this is our second lesson and
today we learn how to introduce yourself in Chinese we say.......
In Japanese ................... If you meet a new person
you need to introduce yourself. You say, "Hello, my name is John Smith. How do you
do?" "I am John Smith, what's your name?" "My name
is Trump, Mary Trump." Mary Trump, okay. How's that? I suppose
when you were first learning English that was pretty good except your voice
sounds really weird when you're doing it. Please don't teach them that that's how
you talk! Why are you talking like this? I don't understand, why? But that's how we
learned English through link phone or news concept English or any other you
know new concept English yes yes and the essential English or all the British
language courses. Okay I want to focus on very basic, very clear, ways of
introducing yourself. Alright? But not British.
Nice. These stripes make me look really fat I mean, I'm already fat I
think they look really fat. People say Boobs boobs. well thank you
oh okay sorry that's what you say too, anyway yes. Men, always okay.
All right, um, Self introduction. Self introduction
okay well you do have just standard greetings and there are just a few. This
is pretty easy because for business and for informal they're the same. Don't
listen to his pronunciation and the inflection in his tone he's over
exaggerating and I think a lot of the older English learning materials, tapes
they they didn't make it natural. I can understand how they were enunciating so
that you can hear what they're saying easier speaking slower but I'm going to
say and you're going to respond respond but what we're going to do is we're
going to do it once slowly with our words abnormally slow so
unusually slow we don't speak this slowly okay but I
want you to hear the words hear the sound and then we'll say it at a
conversation speed okay okay yes alright so walking down the street and you're
going to a meeting you're meeting someone in a cafe how's that know coffee
is always good always love coffee our first guest even brought me a gift
of some wonderful coffee so it was wonderful I love coffee thank you yes
thank you thank you very kind of her um so I'm already
sitting in the cafe you walk over. "Hey my name is Daniel." "Hi Daniel, I'm Mercedes."
Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. Would you like to have a seat?
I'm already sitting. And he's he's hoping, you're supposed to be standing you
walked over. You do not sit down next to a lady if you don't know her and act
like she's your friend you have to... Could I could I sit here?
Yes, or "Is this seat taken?" We still do use that. "Is this seat taken?"
"May I sit here?" May I sit here?" "Would you like some
company? We're not teaching you how to pick up ladies. Stop it! That too okay so
Hey it could be for the ladies who want to pick up guys. My name is who and who my name is I
or I am I'm Daniel I'm Daniel Chen, I'm Daniel Olsen, I'm John Smith. You have multiple
personality disorder mm-hmm Which one are you? yeah I'm just saying I
understand I have not studied with anyone famous and I'm not anyone's
student. Am i your student? No you're mine Am I your student? He doesn't teach me he
doesn't teach me. Okay, then you introduce your name and probably introduce
what you are doing okay. You say I am a teacher. This is after you or the person
will say, "Sure have a seat. Yes have a seat yeah, sit down. Okay what do you do
I'm a teacher, what do you do? What do you do? So I'm I'm a teacher as well.
Oh wow, actually I'm a violin teacher. Wow I teach English and research. Oh that's
wonderful it's very interesting. But actually I used to be engineer. You were
an engineer? Yes. What kind of engineering? Where did you work, what did you work on?
I lied actually I used to be a worker okay I would advise that you either
Don't make things up because it will make you more nervous and more
unable to think of the English the proper words so just be honest. If you
are a doctor say I am a doctor. I am a medical doctor. Well it's implied
when you say that you're a doctor most people automatically think a medical
doctor. So in American English when you say I am
a medical doctor it sounds strange oh wow Okay then you say, I am a teacher. I
am a soldier. I am an engineer. I am a factory worker. I am an office worker. I
am and then your position there we don't say office worker. We'll say, "I am a
secretary. I am an assistant advertising executive. Whatever your position. So most
people talk about their position or where they work they'll say oh I work at
Intel yeah okay I'm just a small job there a CEO of
Google sorry it's just a small position I understand that. No no we never
apologize. If you have a job that's good. You never apologize for any job because
if you're working that's a good thing. Okay how about your husband. My husband
Oh he's a policeman. oh my god My husband is a policeman. How's that?
Your husband is a policeman? No no my wife is a policeman, police woman.
Congresswoman, congresswoman congresswoman a person Congress person. How's that?
Congress a member of Congress. Yeah Okay you're getting off track, you're going to
detailed. Stop it. Okay. Stop it. Okay then you just say, My name is John Smith.
Yes. I work for Google as a engineer programmer. Don't forget to ask the other
person questions. Do not just keep going on about yourself. Oh you know I won
three years in the straight A and you know when I was kid, I at school you know
I played soccer I was the best you know I was so popular with the girls you know
but I work you know I was always the leader you can keep talking for 30
minutes and you found the ladies gone. Yeah as soon as you. Started boasting
yourself. Yeah it's very, it doesn't matter a lady or man people like to be
asked questions about them self in a social setting. There are some people who
don't but then they won't be in a social setting. At the beginning they would have
said "no" to you sitting down. Yeah. So people like to be asked questions in
American culture yeah And they like to ask you questions so
that's how we find out about each other. Another question that people would
ask initially and probably even before what you do is, "Where are you from?" Now
sometimes in American culture we feel awkward to ask this question because we
have such a mixed culture okay so where's from
and and sometimes we see also it's not just that someone's from everywhere okay
remember that in our culture as well something that is pretty unique is that
we have many anti-discrimination laws we have it that has have been put in to our
our minds our subconscious and our conscious and since we were small
children my generation especially because my generation was brought up
after the civil rights movement okay after equal rights for women for
and you know gays lesbians all this were fighting for this still but now they
have that and then also there are many international tensions between countries
but Americans we we don't deal with that on a daily basis because we're just
living our lives we're not politicians okay we are more concerned with our
local laws and how they affect us not international things because those
affect companies those don't affect us they will eventually but for the most
part that's what we're looking at so when we ask someone where they're from
that if it's a foreign person we may feel a little bit awkward because there
are different tensions going on and if you're aware of these things not all
people are aware. Where are you from? I'm from Iran. Actually I taught a class of
Iranians and they were all adults when I first got to Malaysia and the head of
aviation at the school was also Iranian became a very wonderful friend of mine I
I worked with him now he's at Qatar Airways I helped him with his CV and I
filled out all the applications helping him
gave me his old old old old car when he left Malaysia and so I I find Iranians
wonderful people yes I really do it's all government games but in addition
there's the government game because you don't know if that person is politically
sensitive yes so we're always doing this dance to be careful but normally we ask
where are you from if it's another American or I can tell that your English
is very good then I know that you have at least been in the United States or
another english-speaking country for long for a long time and I want to know
where you're from here. "Oh I'm from Minnesota where are you
from?" exactly "I'm from Philadelphia" oh that's nice yes and also sometimes you
ask you, "I know you are American but what's your origin?" Yes because don't want to assume that someone is not
an American citizen you can't tell by looking at someone it's impossible to
tell by looking at someone if they're an American citizen. So we will put a a
specific question more specific part of the question which is where you know
what ethnicity yeah are you yeah that so that means ethnically what are you yes
yes I'm German but my family has been in
America since 1890 yes so but I'm still genetically German German yes like
yesterday there is a very nice repairman came here to repair the central air
conditioning and he looks like Indian or Pakistani or somewhere from
that region. But his accent is very slight. yeah and he speaks almost like
100% American yeah so this is why I want to get close to
him so I just ask I know you're American but what's your origin? What's your family
you know very very softly lightly asked is there oh you make a guess, you guess.
my father's side from Fuji and my mothers sides from south India and this and that actually I was
brought up in Sri Lanka something like that conversation up then I said oh I love Sri Lanka the
people are so friendly you know I was there. The the conversation goes on when
he knows that you love his country his nation he's totally relaxed is oh yes of
course you tasted that food oh absolutely they. Slow down a bit
Then the money is no issue anymore and he did all the job for free yeah
he did unbelievable let's we're not trying to do no no it
was we were just trying to be friendly I mean I mean you actually what he did
was he just trouble he did a troubleshooting and our HVAC is dead and
he he only does repair he doesn't replace so now he's going to I don't
want anyone to think we're taking advantage of anybody he's he's going to
connect us with someone he works with who does this and then he will probably
work with them yes so he'll also get and also he's a handyman so he does plumbing
electrical so now we have a contact that we both like
we both know for all of these little things so he will that we needed a some
job as well and carpentry as well wonderful
oh that's wonderful from from Philadelphia. So what's your job Where do you work?
I'm a teacher How much do you make? No that's not a question that you ask
that's not a question that you ask. You don't ask that at any level even a
colleague especially a colleague someone you work with you do not ask how much
they make these are questions it's like saying to a woman how old are you? okay
is that your natural hair? how much do you weigh? how much do you weigh? okay
that's wrong you can ask that yeah I don't know he won't tell me okay suppose
he's I'm not he was 40 then on that is not a question you should ask don't ask
He's not even allowed to ask me these questions I don't want to know you're
not allowed okay okay you ask a questions more like a you ask a
questions more sociable the purpose asking a question is to carry the
conversation going on and to to get to know each other the point of it is to
find things you have in common mm-hmm so that you can see if you could
be friends mm-hmm or if you would work well together
yeah on a project yes so if you can find something in
common like oh you're a violin maker mm-hmm and a violinist I've been playing
violin since I was a little girl do you use Oh - just uh well actually mine mine
my old one I would say I have won the bow especially is absolutely beautiful
by Daniel Chen oh wow that's a big huge master after he dead that can be a heritage
but that won't be for a long time okay something like that you carry the
conversation going on about your violin so I got a violin from my
grandmother it's a Stradivarius is oh my god I wish I got my violin from my
great-aunt Rose who I'm named after Mercedes Rose mm-hmm so I did inherit
her violin and that's when I started hmm so is this Stradivarius?
that was my first violin then I got a Stradivarius okay good anyway we
don't want to bring the lesson too long and today teacher Benz has also bad voice
because someone someone I don't know if you've been watching his videos but when
someone came back to the u.s. from Japan he had his voice was gone and and do you
remember this yeah and now now mine is gone
how did that happen how did I get that people take turns they take turns
anyway today's lesson is you introduce yourself
my name is John Smith I'm I am actually but you say I am John Smith
what is your name okay ask other people now you always want to start it with a
greeting yes Hello hello like we did yesterday, How are you? Hello my name's
Mercedes. My name is Daniel, nice to meet you. Nice to meet you I'm from Japan Wow
what part of Japan I am from do you forget yeah okay you
just say I'm from Tokyo or from Osaka from Nagoya so but if you say something
no just say the region or the biggest city nearby
I'm from the largest city nearby and I'm from Philadelphia but I'm from a
specific part it's a big city but you only go into that detail if you meet
another person who grew up there or spent time there and understands which
has happened surprisingly oh yeah exactly so oh wow we the same street you
know yeah and it's it's happened people actually
know exactly where I grew up and I know exactly where they grew up I received a
letter actually yesterday from men wrote to me says I graduated from number 50
meter school which is my friend is teaching and my place my family lives at
this place is the exact the same campus that I worked for the TV station the
exact same place but he made one mistake he said I'm 52 years old I know that I'm
just a few years older than you are which is very happy thank you because
it's not true okay so but you don't look at
but honestly I don't feel that and you don't act it that's very good okay
okay let teacher Benz repeat again let's start. Hello how are you?
you didn't introduce yourself no I haven't said hello how are you okay. I'm
fine how are you? Oh good my name is John Smith. Hi John
my name is Mercedes. Mercedes is a car. It is but it's also my name.
Oh are you Spanish? No I'm not. Do I look Spanish? No you look like a
Scandinavian. Scandinavian? Have you been there? Yes I'm a Norwegian citizen actually.
Wow how interesting, I've never been but my family came over from Germany. Can I
sit here for a while? Of course have a seat. Okay what do you like to drink?
Oh I'll have a cup of coffee, please? Okay it's on me. Wow, nice. No problem. Are you single?
ooh too soon to ask a question yeah that is too personal how much do you make a
month it's always too soon to ask that how old are you yeah only ladies can ask
ladies and they have to be friends and it has to be in a compliment so it has
gotta weigh like 100 pounds yeah okay those kind of things
Hope you enjoyed today's lesson and we see you tomorrow yes we shall see you
tomorrow don't even know what we're going to do tomorrow yet yes you will
figure it out thank you thank you
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