这是我自己英语怎么说

tell me about yourself how do you feel when i ask you this question this isn't just the most common question on job interviews it's also one of the most important things you need to be able to do when learning english presenting yourself and in this video i'm going to teach you how to do that let's go now， whether you want to apply for a great job apply for a visa to live abroad or just in general build great relationships with a native english speakers you need to be able to present yourself properly and in this class i promise you after you have watched it you're going to be able to present yourself both properly and appropriately whatever the setting may be now the first thing we have to think about when we present ourselves is the the context because depending on the context your presentation will be quite different if you're presenting yourself to an interviewer at a job interview or you're presenting yourself to a girl at a party your presentation is going to be quite different so in this class i'm going to teach you several very common and useful phrases that you can use in all different context now let's start with the most basic thing the first thing we typically say and that is our name we can say i am calle i'm calle we typically contract or we can say my name is calle but it's way more common to just say i'm and then your name if you have a complicated name or maybe if you have a name that is quite particular from your country that foreign people struggle to pronounce can use this strategy i'm buddy say that but it can be quite hard for people to pronounce so feel free to just call me bree if i know that my name is hard for a lot of people to pronounce i will introduce myself like that explaining to them what my friends or my family typically call me making it easier for them to interact with me after we've said our name we typically move on to talk about where we are from or make some sort of reference to the place we are in typically because if you're learning english and you speak to a native english speaker if you're in your home country or you are abroad meeting a native speaker who is from there it's always going to be relevant to talk about where you are from you can say i'm from country sweden， colombia， mexico you can also say i am and your nationality so you can say i am swedish or i am colombian or i am mexican you cannot say i am in mexico or i'm from colombian so it's always i'm colombian or i'm from colombia now you can also refer to a city so you can say i'm from bogutan but in english actually in my opinion native speakers use this wrong they can actually say i come from melbourne even though they actually don't come from melbourne they might have moved there when they were seven eight nine ten years old but they are not originally from there but they will still say i'm from this place that's okay but here are a couple of other options that you can use as well i come from mornington close to melbourne or i was raised in mornington or i grew up in mornington for example that makes it a little bit more clear that you were actually born there and live there throughout some period of your life i would say i'm calais i'm from sweden and i grew up in a small town in the south of the country i can also say i'm originally from sweden but now i live in medijin colombia if you want to talk about how long you've been living in a certain place that's a perfect opportunity to use the present perfect and i can say i have lived in colombia since 2019 or i have been living in colombia since 2019 or i've lived in colombia for the past two years and i can also say i move moved to colombia two years ago now what typically comes after we have percented ourselves with our names and had a little chat about you know the plays were in or where we're from now it depends on context so if i'm in a job interview for example， i'm probably not going to start talking about my family or my interests or hobbies but more about my job related experiences for example if i'm at a party， i'm probably not going to start talking about my job that would be a bit boring but more likely my interest or my passion if i meet someone who lives in the same building as i do maybe i will start talking about family for example so it all depends on the context but i'm going to go through different themes here and you get to decide which theme you want to talk about and you can use some of the phrases in these themes let's start with families family is a fantastic topic to talk about and it works in many different contexts if you want to say you are in a relationship you can say this me and my husband have been married since two thousand and fifteen we've been married since two thousand and fifteen we've been married for seven years if you're not married， but you're still in a relationship you can say we've been together for two years or we've been together since 2019， now obviously if you're married you refer to your partner as your husband or your wife， but if you're not married， but you have been in a relationship for a long time it can sound quite unseerious to say boyfriend or girlfriend it might sound more temporal than if you say for for example partner so if you've been with your partner for a long period of time and you have a stable relationship it is more common to refer to your boyfriend or your girlfriend as your partner now， when describing your family and typically when talking about how many you are in your family here are a couple of options i grew up in a family of five this means that there are five people in total in your family and your family is typically your parents and your siblings your direct family however， it's still quite loose you don't necessarily know if you grew up only with your mom or with both your parents and how many our brothers or sisters it's quite unclear so if you want to be more clear you can say it like this i grew up with my mother， my sister and two brothers now we use the word siblings to refer to both sisters and brothers so i can say i have three siblings two brothers and one sister however， if you say that you have three siblings that does not include you then you can say i am one of four siblings if you don't have any siblings we say i'm an only child i'm an only child that's how we refer to that now typically in the us or england， the uk or australia or even sweden for example we don't necessarily refer to our cousins and aunts and uncles as our family but more so our extended family so you could say i live in bogota but most of my extended family lives in medillion so you don't have to mention all of them now let's talk about children let's talk about kids if you have a child you can say i have a five year old daughter i have a seven year old son or i have twins or i have a newborn baby or just i have a newborn if you are single but you have kids you say i'm a single parent i'm a single parent i'm a single dad or i'm a single mom anyhow here's a good tip when you talk about your family try to be as descriptive and in emotional as possible it's your closest family you love them a lot so there's obviously a lot of emotions there so instead of saying just i'm a single mother i have a daughter you can say i'm a single mother i have a 9 year old daughter and she just started learning english like me we're learning together and it's super exciting so you add some emotion you're trying to be more descripted if someone asks you about your family in your own language you don't typically just give them one short reply you start talking about your family and how your family makes you feel do the same in english also when you are descriptive it doesn't matter if your english is not that good yet try to be as descriptive as possible even though your english is quite limited because when you describe more it is way easier for that other person to make follow up questions and ask relevant questions that are easy for you to respond for example if you say that you have a nine year old daughter who just started learning learning english it's easy for the other person to ask oh what school does she go to what interest does she have and it's also easier for them to make some sort of comment like oh you must feel so motivated when you're both learning together right now let's start talking about work your job because inevitably you're going to need to talk about your job and there's a couple of ways we can do that for example if you are an engineer if you work as an engineer that's how we say it i am an engineer i am a doctor or i work as an engineer or i work as a doctor if you are an entrepreneur you can use the words own or run so you can say i own a clothing line for example or you can say i run an education business it is also very common when you present your work to just mention in which industry your work so you could say for example i work in marketing， i work in design， i work in construction rather than saying i work at a construction company i work at a marketing agency or i work at a clinic you can also say that you work for someone and this typically applies when you work at a very big well known company or maybe for the government i work for the government or i work for google you can also say i work for myself i work for myself i'm self employed let's say you're a graphical designer and people pay you you to design things for them then you are self employed i work for myself or maybe you can say i'm a freelancer or i work as a freelancer okay let's move on to talk about more of the fun stuff your interests and passions in english native speakers love to use the word enjoy i enjoy cooking i enjoy swimming i enjoy going to the gym it sounds a little bit more native like to say i enjoy cooking than i enjoy to cook native speakers also love the word love and they use it all the time even for the smallest of things i love playing football i love spending time with my family you see there how i use i love playing football and i love spending time rather than i love to play or i love to spend time it's just a more normal and more native like way to speak you can also say i'm into i'm into which basically means i am interested in or i like for example you can say i'm into fitness or i'm really into fitness if you are really interested in fitness now when you talk about interests and your passions and hobbies it can be quite monotonous and it's very common that we are in situations at parties for example where people ask us what we do what we like doing on our free time and we typically give the most common answer no i like to spend time with my family i like to watch movies i like to go to the gym surprise them do something interesting one thing you can do is you can say this for one thing most people don't know about me is and then finish that sentence that makes the conversation a whole lot more interesting than just listing typical interests that we all have for example i can say one thing that most people don't know about me is that i love throwing pre parties in my apartment we get food we have drinks on the balcony and maybe play a drinking game or two please try to finish this sentence yourself one thing you may not know about me is now let's move on to education one of the most important or most common things to talk about with new people that you meet is your education whether that be at a job interview or in casual settings if you are currently studying we typically say i'm studying engineering or i'm studying to become an engineer i'm studying medicine or i'm studying to become a doctor we can also be more specific for example if you talk to someone， who may have studied something similar you can say for example in this case i'm studying industrial engineering if you think that's going to make sense to that person if you're done studying if you are finished studying you can say i've finished my law degree or i have a degree in economics i have a degree in engineering for example now you're also going to hear a lot of people especially native speakers adding one word when they're talking about their title and that is qualified so you're going to hear people say i'm a qualified psychologist i'm a qualified engineer， i'm a qualified doctor and that is in no way because they want to brag and show off， but just to explain to you that they have already finished their degree however， do not say this at parties it can't come off as a bit rude maybe or as if you're bragging but in a professional setting on a job interview you can definitely say i'm a qualified engineer for example now nowadays， it's very normal with non formal education i am a huge believer in non formal education and actually educating yourself on your own on the internet， right and so if you are someone who is educating yourself on your own you can say for example， i am taking an english course on the internet and so here you have it a bunch of very useful phrases in a bunch of different contexts that you can now use and you can put it together into a nice flowing introduction practice that a little bit until you can get a nice flowing introduction out my introduction for example， would be hi my name is kali， i'm from sweden， but i've lived in colombia since 2019， i run my own education business， i'm the founder of one of the fastest growing english courses and communities in the world， i love to watch and play football as well as going to the gym and one thing you may not know about me is i occasionally love going to dinners with my friends and have one too many shots of tequila and sing along with reggiton and broncheta songs what about you please tell me about yourself in the comments below。