LIVE Speaking English Introduce Yourself
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um okay what we’re gonna do today is
i pulled a lesson from the archive
and it is about introducing yourself so
a lot of you guys might already know
that
might already feel comfortable with that
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for today again it’s on
introducing yourself in american english
here we go in this american english
pronunciation
video you’re going to come with me to
the youtube space in la
where i don’t know anyone and we’re
going to go over
introducing yourself
introducing yourself to a crowd of
people or even just one person
can make anyone nervous doing it in a
foreign language
even more so so today we’re going to go
over a few phrases that you might say
when introducing yourself
the first thing of course is saying your
name usually
okay well why don’t i just stop there
and ask you guys the question
do you get nervous speaking in english
or
even in your own language do you get
nervous introducing to yourself
yourself to people maybe you’re a shy
person let me know in the comments i
know that
i’m not a very shy person so for me
introducing myself to somebody is not a
big deal now in another language that
would be very hard because
i’m not very confident in any of the
other languages that i sort of speak
i used to be more confident i’ve lived
in spanish-speaking countries
i’ve lived in german-speaking countries
but now i
those feel pretty rusty that means
not the the skill i’m not very good at
that skill anymore
so let me know do you how do you feel
when you’re speaking english with
somebody
especially a native speaker does that
make you feel nervous a lot of people
say yes
i feel kind of nervous sometimes someone
says no ahmed
great that’s that’s good someone says i
got shy so we don’t use i got shy we
would say i
am shy or we could say i get shy
i become shy young west
hey there you are young west with the
super chat you’ve been here three super
chats in a row
great to see you you know what young
west will you super chat me your actual
name so i know what to call you
or is that your name i mean right now
i’m just saying your username
but is there a better name that i can
use to
acknowledge you if so let me know
sarah says she’s comfortable introducing
herself in english that’s awesome
the other thing that i noticed about
this video that i have to say is i
really put on too much makeup didn’t i
sometimes i go back and look at my old
videos and i’m like oh
man sometimes they just don’t look good
you know
even now i’m still figuring out lighting
even now after like 12 years of making
videos
sometimes i feel like my videos are a
little bit blurry
so i don’t always get the best um
someone says i feel shy
someone says i don’t feel confident
enough super nervous
josh says i feel more nervous when i
speak with a mexican-american
i feel shy in my native language too
someone says someone says i always feel
nervous and ernesto says i feel fine
studio avid says i’m only shy in english
well that makes sense
well guys you know what we want to do is
we want to build our confidence so one
of the ways that we do that
is with practice and education so you
learn the phrases that you might want to
know and then you practice them as much
as you can
you can use something like a random
question generator to get yourself
speaking english
without knowing ahead of time what
you’re going to be saying then there are
lots of websites
like cambly that you can connect with
the teacher for
not a whole lot of money and practice
speaking english i have some students in
my academy that also use cambly
as a way to do that but anyway let’s
keep going let’s
learn some of those phrases that we can
to
help us feel more confident when it
comes to speaking
in english and introducing ourselves
people say
i’m or my name is or my name’s
contracting name and is some non-native
speakers don’t want to use contractions
because they don’t think it’s clear
enough but we really do want to use the
contraction
i’m and not i am because it can be much
quicker
i’m i’m i’m which puts the emphasis
on the name the most important part this
will also help smooth out your speech
i’m rachel uh all connected
here are some people introducing
themselves using i’m
hi i’m beth aviau hey guys i’m olga k
i’m stacy perry uh hey guys i’m todd
bieber
hi everyone i’m veronica hill hey i’m
rachel hi i’m hilah
hi i’m rachel hi i’m christopher i’m
brian
okay we’re gonna take a second let me
just
make myself big again thank you so much
for the super chat maurice
so i want to answer your question
maurice super chatted me
supporting this channel really
appreciate that really appreciate you
rachel how can i say hi without sounding
too formal
well one thing that i noticed in the
lesson just now is a lot of people give
a greeting first hey guys what’s up
someone said or hi everyone so there are
different ways there
that you can start your introduction
english forever
thank you for your super chat i see you
how are you
um so you could start by hey that’s uh
that’s pretty casual hey hey
i’m and i really think that’s the best
casual way to do it hey
a greeting and then i’m just i’m i’m
rachel
i’m maurice
however you want to say your name i’m
doing sort of an american english
pronunciation there maurice
hi i’m maurice i’m maurice and you know
that m that
ending m from the i’m contraction will
link right into your name
and that’s good english that’s nice
connected english that’s very casual but
that’s what i would say
hi i’m maurice how are you or nice to
meet you or it depends on the situation
if you’re addressing a group of people
then you might pose a question that you
don’t actually expect anyone to answer
hi i’m maurice how’s everybody doing
today and then maybe you know you’ll
hear a few mumbles or something like
that
if you’re meeting just a single person
in that kind of situation hey
hey i’m maurice how are you nice to meet
you that kind of thing
um hey hi and then i’m
and your name simple that’s what i would
say keep it simple
uh honestly often the the
simplest uh way to express something is
sometimes the best way in american
english and i know that’s different from
other languages it feels like with other
languages sometimes the more you can
build on it the better the english
or the better it comes across but really
in english we go
we we go by simplification a lot
especially in spoken english we tend to
speak in shorter sentences
more breaks okay also young west would
rather go by this name while online okay
young west i will continue to call you
young west then
thank you for letting me know um so
that’s what i would say that’s
a nice casual way to introduce yourself
let’s everyone practice that right now
hi i’m rachel hey i’m rachel how are you
hey i’m rachel good to see you that kind
of thing all right let’s continue back
on
so we just saw a bunch of examples of
people saying i’m i’m i’m
i’m hey i’m what was his name
the one guy that we just saw i can’t
remember his name man
it’s not been that long since i was in
that program actually it has oh todd his
name was todd hey i’m todd
also in the video description to this
video i’ll put that original video if
you want to go
just watch that a couple times you can
see all the different introductions
and you can imitate practice example of
someone saying
my name is without contracting name and
is hi everyone my name is hetel janu
notice that the stress of the sentence
is still making her name the most
important part
my name is hettel my name is rachel
da da da da da it’s longer
louder and higher in pitch than the
unstressed syllables
my name is rachel ray my name is rachel
that’s how we know it’s the most
important part so in the phrase
my name is mai and is are both
unstressed and so they need to be really
unimportant really quick
my my my is is is
my name is my name is if every syllable
is the same length
the same volume and the same pitch then
we lose the character of american
english
which is based on stressed versus
unstressed syllables
we can also say my name’s rachel with
the contraction
the rhythm there is da da da da da
da da name is stressed because it’s a
noun
but my actual name rachel will be more
stressed
and i should say it’s only the stressed
syllable rey
of my name that’s going to be longer and
higher in pitch
the unstressed syllable
is just like any other unstressed
syllable even though it’s in a stressed
word
my name is aaron uh what’s up guys my
name is todd
hi my name’s sarah
okay guys so there we saw people saying
my names
my name is my name’s definitely going to
be more
common than my name is we use
contractions a lot in spoken english
oh i did the wrong background didn’t i
there we go
i’ll get rid of that white background so
i don’t use it again
i want to be in this office this is not
an actual
this is a green screen image behind me
so i’m not actually in that room i’m
actually
in my office with a big green screen but
i like this feature because it lets me
shrink myself and put myself on top of
the video in a way that i think is kind
of cool what do you think
kind of cool um okay so
hi i’m or my name’s or my name is
but probably the most common is just hey
i’m
and then whatever what you insert what
makes sense
okay so we are about to meet some other
cool people here
so let us go
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let’s go
meet these awesome people these were
people that i got to know
by doing this program in you for youtube
in
la and um
yeah they were just all really cool
people all different youtubers doing all
sorts of different things
a knitting channel a skateboarding
channel
someone who did rap songs off of video
games
so it was fun to meet all these people
often what comes next in an introduction
is saying where you’re from
this can either be a job if you’re in a
work context
or a place your hometown or where you’re
currently living
from that’s never going to be as
important as the name of the place
you’re from
it’s a function word so we want it to be
unstressed
shorter than the stressed syllables in a
sentence from
from listen to these people introducing
the places they’re from
they’re using the contraction i’m and
from
and then the name these two words are
quicker and less important
i’m from i’m from i’m from i’m from
florida
i’m from new york i’m from kapolei
hawaii
from seattle originally i’m from new
york you’re from texas
you’re from oregon i’m from delaware
here’s one last example of someone
saying i’m from
but he’s giving his business the company
he works for
not a city uh i’m from upright citizens
brigade uh
channel ucb comedy
okay so my name is rachel i’m from
philadelphia
i saw some questions here in the chat
about where do i live
am i in los angeles no i’m not in la
right now
um at the beginning of the video i said
i was in la that was when i was making
this
original video back in 2013 i think
at that time i lived in new york which
you just saw me in that introduction i
said
i’m from new york and you’re from texas
and now i would have to say i’m from
philadelphia because i moved about six
years ago when i met my husband
also someone in the chat asked is tom my
partner so partner can mean a couple
different things in american english it
can be in your business partner
it can mean you’re you’re married to
that person or you’re in a committed
relationship
um tom has worked with me at rachel’s
english for
probably at least eight years i mean not
all at once he went and did different
things but no i am married to someone
named david
actually if you follow me on instagram
he was in my story
yesterday that i posted on instagram my
husband david and he
used an idiom we went out to eat
outdoors
at a restaurant and he said
we ordered some wine and he had a taste
of it he said that’s off the chain and i
made him
say that again for my camera because i
was wondering did you guys know this
idiom if not i said i was going to teach
you today in the live class and i’m
going to do that right now
the idiom off the chain means
exceptional really really good
um so actually i might even say it’s
slang it’s a little informal that is off
the chain
so you can say that if you ever taste
something that you think is amazing or
you see a movie that just blows you away
a production a live
theater thing that was off the chain off
the chain try it out
yl give me a super chat thank you so
much for your support hi teacher
could you help me pronounce my name in
english okay well
here’s the thing about english it’s not
phonetic so
the way i pronounce it is my guess yl
is what i said now another american
might look at that and might
might do it differently but i would say
yl
but i would then probably say is that
how you say it i would ask you
so that’s the thing about when we have
words including names
that are from a foreign language or that
are un unknown to us
we never know how to pronounce them just
by looking at them
because the same letter can be
pronounced lots of different ways in
american english it’s pretty frustrating
but that’s what i would say when i see
your name i would say
yl i would guess that would be my guess
um
also someone asked about how to
pronounce her name carmen so in american
english that’s what we would say
carmen carmen uh
yeah okay i think i answered those
questions that i saw come through
amir from iran has learned a lot thank
you i’m so glad you guys are all here
i’m definitely starting to recognize
some of your usernames from having done
these live feeds a few times in a row
english forever says my wife’s food is
off the chain
that’s awesome can anyone else use off
the chain
in a sentence there what is something
that you would say is off the chain
what is something that you think is
exceptional absolutely
so good another phrase you could use for
that as mind-blowing
so good mind-blowing
um all right let’s keep going
so now everyone knows what the idiom off
the chain means
you know what would be interesting would
be to
go to um uglish do you guys know this
resource youglish
go to youglish and type in off the chain
and see if it comes up in any of those
videos results it might be too casual
i’m not sure but it’d be interesting to
try
oh someone says abdo says your lessons
are off the chain
thank you someone says have you ever
been to gettysburg rachel no i never
have
you know i’ve traveled traveled quite a
bit in the u.s but i’ve never been there
have you what did you think of it okay
let’s keep going with this lesson
one fun moment i noticed is when todd
introduced himself and brian said
what’s up todd what’s up what’s up
nice to meet you what’s up todd hey
what’s up todd what’s up todd
what’s up todd what’s what is that word
that’s actually what’s up i made a video
a while ago
on sup how will sometimes produce what’s
its that’s or let’s
just simply s up
now i know you’re probably not hearing
the p but maybe you do notice that my
lips are going into the position for it
what do you guys think of that sup sup
have you ever noticed that
what’s up how you doing it’s for what’s
it’s that’s let’s like if i wanted to
say let’s go i could say
let’s go let’s go i’m ready let’s
becoming just
ts so while made another super chat
thank you again this time with a comment
yes that’s how i say it but a lot of
people say it differently
i’m not surprised by that as i said
all of these vowel letters can be
pronounced many different ways
so you probably hear several different
pronunciations and none of them are
right the one that’s right is the one
that you use and you can always correct
people
if you could say oh i actually pronounce
it
yl and then you know they may remember
that or they may not but
it’s worth saying if it’s especially if
it’s someone that you’re going to be
seeing regularly that you’re going to
try to build some sort of friendship or
work relationship with you could say
oh i pronounce it yl that’s totally
appropriate um
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wow nolan gaming b is really trolling my
chat that’s okay
it happens all right i’m gonna go back
and we’re gonna continue this lesson so
we’ve just learned about
what’s up being pronounced up and that’s
a very casual but common way to greet
somebody
oh what’s up or right after you say
hello hey what’s up how’s it going
and that can be pronounced instead of
what’s up it can be pronounced simply
zap like we just learned all right let
me shrink myself down again and we can
continue
the lesson
p is a stop consonant that means it’s
made up of two parts
the stop where the lips come together
tsa
and the release where the lips part
sometimes native speakers leave out the
release
sup stop nope
you can too just make sure you don’t
leave out the stop part of the consonant
where the lips come together and the air
is stopped sup
and finally a phrase we often exchange
when making an introduction
is nice to meet you nice to meet you
nice to meet you too
well it’s good to meet you hilah nice to
meet you too nice to meet you nice to
meet you
most people say nice to meet you and
probably you noticed that once i said
it’s good to meet you nice or
good or whatever adjective you’re using
and
meet should be the two stressed
syllables of that sentence
that will contrast nicely with two which
will have a schwa
instead of the uezumbu vowel to to
you since it’s at the end of a sentence
will probably sound something like
you you you low in pitch
quick flat and with a lot of the energy
of the voice
taken out you you
nice to meet you we heard two different
ways of pronouncing the t
in meat one is a stop t because the next
word begins with a consonant sound
hey guys nice to meet you okay so yeah
i’m about to teach the different way
we do that tea so we’ll get to that in a
second um i wanted to say hi to bertha
who’s in my academy who i saw here
thanks for being here and then someone
asked further about thomas tom my friend
yeah
tom is my friend and he’s been here on
the channel you know at rachel’s english
academy
there’s me and then i have three other
teachers that work with me tom
and a teacher another teacher named
rachel who i call ms stokes so it
doesn’t confuse people and another
teacher named laura
and they’re all awesome i really enjoy
them all tom is the only one that i knew
beforehand that was a friend beforehand
but they’re all
great people so i’m lucky to have such
cool people to work with
while you’re very welcome thank you for
the super chat sticker i appreciate
your support i saw someone asking about
how can i give them feedback on their
accent so
what we do in the academy is we do offer
feedback to each student who wants it
through one of our
we have a private community group
and i actually i do a little bit of that
but also the teachers i just mentioned
do a lot of that um someone says i want
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that’s where you can go to sign up you
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ooh my green screen’s starting to change
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i see a little bit of a fuzz there
um okay that distracted me
yes just talking about how to get
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but right now that’s only available to
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i actually just talked with tom
yesterday we’re thinking about trying
to hire another couple teachers to be in
the academy this fall so that we can
help more students
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um okay great new char says tom is a
great teacher i agree
he’s been on my channel several times
and he is
a very just such a positive happy person
armando
herrera i love what you do thank you
very much keep it up thank you
for the super chat i so appreciate your
support of this channel
appreciate you thank you for being here
okay guys we’re going gonna get back to
the lesson so i’m talking oops i’m
talking about how to pronounce the t
in meat and there are a couple different
pronunciations because it’s followed by
the word you
and that can change the t let’s find out
meet you
me you i cut off the airflow in my
throat
to stop the sound to signify the t i
don’t actually bring my tongue into
position for the t
i just stopped the air here meet
you the other way of making the t is to
make it a ch sound
this can happen to an ending t if the
next word is you
meet you meet you so first
let’s hear it again with the stop nice
to meet you
nice to meet you nice to meet you nice
to meet you
and now with the ch sound nice to meet
you
nice to meet you nice to meet you nice
to meet you meet
you meet you both are okay
in closing here’s one more introduction
conversation
i had with a great guy okay so meet you
meet you
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i appreciate everyone for being here
um oh we got
wait was that yes we got a couple more
super chats maurice again with the super
chat thank you so much
when people need my name they write
maurice
how is my pronunciation okay
yeah so it’s true that the maurice is
how
most people would pronounce that and if
it’s a name that someone doesn’t know
i can totally see how they would write
that name with an o even though it
should be a u
and again this just goes back to that
frustrating truth
that american english is not phonetic so
a lot of people have to spell their
names
my name is rachel r-a-c-h-e-l because
there are two different ways to spell my
name and they have the exact same
pronunciation
so if it’s over the phone it’s something
important someone needs the right
spelling of my name i have to spell it
for them so maurice you could say my
name is maurice if they’re writing it
down you could say my name is maurice
m-a-u-r-i-c-e just spell it out for them
like i said i have to spell mine too
because they’re two different
pronunciations
even though my name is really common uh
that’s
what i would say you can just practice
saying
my name is maurice m-a-u-r-i-c-e
you know what else is funny is
well my last name most common last name
in the u.s
smith and even though it’s the most
common last name in the u.s over the
phone it’s sort of hard to understand
because it has
the first sound is unvoiced and the
second
sound is unvoi the last sound is
unvoiced
and unvoiced sounds are a little bit
harder to hear and
differentiate on the phone so i often
have to spell my last name too
and then when i spell it and they see
what it is they’re like oh my gosh
smith how did i not get that but
sometimes on the phone it’s tricky
so i often just spell my whole name when
i’m on the phone giving someone my name
and they need the exact spelling
studio avid how to describe my
profession
well thank you so much for the super
chat i appreciate that
that’s a good question um so
one of the things that we usually say is
the question is what do you do
and that’s how we talk about what people
do for work and then
if you can come up with the noun oh i’m
a teacher
but maybe you can’t like i could say i’m
a youtuber
or i teach english online if you can’t
come up with a good noun for it i’m an
architect then come up with a
like one sentence descriptor i design
interiors or something
you know with your verb i make videos i
teach english online
this kind of thing i would say if you
can come up with a one sentence
pretty short thing to say about it and
then if there are follow-up questions
you can elaborate
but most of the time people are looking
for that short answer
unfortunately i would say so that they
can categorize you and box you
because in america anyway
what someone does for work really like
matters to how people understand and
perceive you
i was actually really interested when i
learned that in other cultures it’s not
that way
because it’s so that way in american
english
okay just scrolling through the chat
here um
someone asked about in this video we’re
learning about the phrase
my name is i’m introducing ourself
someone says the word
is now is that s an s or a z
it’s actually a z weak is z z
z z z so it’s not is it’s not strong
it’s not that
unvoiced s sound it is a weak z is is
is which means the contraction my name’s
is also a weak ending z sound my name’s
my names okay someone says tom is hot
i’m sure he’ll like knowing that i’ll
let him know that
zobe de i’m not saying your name right i
apologize
it’s just so hard to know by looking at
the letters
okay now we’re about to finish up this
video let me just wrap it up and then i
can come back named
zachary i forgot to make myself small
first
and i can come back and answer a few
more questions here in chat
hi oh hey i’m rachel
i’m zach hi zach nice to meet you nice
to meet you
so we’re here at the youtube space so
you must be a youtuber
yeah make videos for kids yeah what’s
your channel
pancake manor oh wow yeah what’s yours
mine’s rachel’s english so i teach
english on my channel
wow you must have a lot of subscribers
i do i do but actually let’s let’s talk
about that word it’s subscribers with an
r oh subscribers
yeah subscr hold out the r
squirt yeah
scribers yeah subscribers perfect
yeah i’m gonna tell all my users about
your channel
so they can go see you cool thank you
yeah it was great to meet you nice to
meet you
okay have a great day you too all right
take care bye
subscribers yeah
thanks so much to all the wonderful
people okay
that’s where i wrapped up that video you
know those people who have that video
pancake manor
that channel that puppet go check it out
they’re awesome
if you have kids play their videos for
your kids they make really fun music
videos
um armando herrera again thank you
comes from is it a z sound or an s sound
due to the f okay that’s a good question
so the word comes officially would have
that weak ending z
but definitely sometimes when we link
those sounds into
an unvoiced sound like the f and from
comes from
then we make it unvoiced so then
the z would become an s and for some
people this is getting a little bit
detailed so for some people if you have
no idea what i’m talking about don’t
worry about it
but yes i would say comes from comes i
would probably make that
s not like comes not a big full
s comes from comes from comes from
comes but i would say i would probably
make that an s like that
and if you guys notice i didn’t say from
i did reduce it
comes from comes from he comes from the
u.s
comes from the u.s knowing these things
practicing them
can really help once you’re actually in
the situation
especially reductions if you were going
to just know and practice
one thing about american english
pronunciation i would probably say it
should be reductions and how they link
to other words so that’s what i would
say about that
okay guys thank you for being here for
this lesson on introducing yourself
you know it’s one of the very first
things you probably learn when you’re
learning english but
it’s still important and there you can
always learn more about it
like reductions like the way we might
change pronunciation based on the
other sounds around it so
not bad not a bad idea to review that
kind of thing
also in this video we had talked about
what’s up becoming sup
and someone said how common is that i
would say it’s pretty common
what’s up becoming tough
does not sound strange at all definitely
something you would hear
especially if you’re talking to younger
people hey what’s up
what’s up answer the phone what’s up if
you know the person
you know with the cell phones when i was
growing up you never knew who was
calling but now you know immediately
who’s calling so if it’s like
your best friend someone you know really
well you can answer the phone instead of
saying hello you can say what’s up
what’s going on okay guys that’s the
lesson for today
thank you so much for being here you
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read quite a bit i read as much as i
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i’m the only one in my office however
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the next two fridays i’m planning on
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not sure if i’m going to continue it in
august
we’ll see i’m going to do a little bit
of vacation in august and then
we’ll see if we continue with the live
videos but i will definitely be doing
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