What is your name?
This is a natural spoken question to someone you address as tu. Comment means how.
FREE BEGINNER LESSON 3 · FRENCH
French: 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 French phrases and their meanings
My name is Camille.
Replace Camille with your own name. The apostrophe joins me to appelle.
I am Alex.
Literally, me, it is Alex. This is a common conversational introduction.
It is lovely to meet you.
Te rencontrer means to meet you. Te addresses one person informally.
How the sentence works
Je m’appelle introduces your name: literally I call myself. In everyday speech a question can keep statement order, with the question word at the end: tu t’appelles comment ? Moi, c’est Camille is another natural introduction. Je suis gives identity.
A short conversation in French
Hi! My name is Camille. What is your name?
I am Alex.
It is lovely to meet you.
Words to recognise
first name
I
you (stressed informal)
how
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.