What is your name?
Literally, how do you call yourself? Use this when addressing one person informally.
FREE BEGINNER LESSON 3 · SPANISH
Spanish: Nice to meet you
Learn to use nice to meet you in a practical conversation and understand a natural reply.
Informal · introductions. Learn the meaning, listen to the pronunciation, then practise in the interactive lesson.
Practise this lessonOpening vocabulary referenceUseful Spanish phrases and their meanings
My name is Ana.
Put your own name after me llamo. The ll sound varies by region and commonly sounds like y.
I am Pablo.
Soy is the I form of ser. Here it introduces a name and identity.
Nice to meet you.
This short friendly expression can be used by any speaker without changing its ending.
How the sentence works
Me llamo literally means I call myself and is the everyday way to give your name. Soy introduces identity. Mucho gusto avoids the gender change in encantado or encantada. ¿Cómo te llamas? uses informal singular te.
A short conversation in Spanish
Hi! My name is Ana. What is your name?
I am Pablo. Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Words to recognise
name
I
you (informal singular)
pleasure
Listen to the whole phrase before focusing on each word. You can replay as often as you like, and the interactive lesson uses pictures and a short exchange to put the meaning in context.
Open the interactive lessonThe opening six teaching lessons are free, including the mini-tests after lessons three and six. A test accepts any answer and shows the score and corrections at the end. No typing or speaking aloud is required.
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The pronunciation uses prepared synthetic voices. Credits and licences explain the free voice models. Independent native-speaker certification is not claimed.