How to effectively introduce yourself in a Spanish meeting

To effectively introduce yourself in a Spanish meeting, it is important to use polite and clear language while briefly sharing relevant personal and professional information. Typically, a good self-introduction includes a greeting, your name, your role or position, the company or department you represent, and a short mention of your background or what you will contribute to the meeting.

A common and polite structure would be:

1. Start with a greeting, such as “Buenos días” (Good morning) or “Buenas tardes” (Good afternoon).
2. State your full name. For example, “Me llamo Juan Pérez” (My name is Juan Pérez).
3. Mention your position or role: “Soy el gerente de ventas” (I am the sales manager).
4. Say the company or department name: “de la empresa XYZ” (from XYZ company).
5. Optionally, add a brief sentence about your experience or goals for the meeting, such as “Estoy aquí para colaborar y aportar en el proyecto” (I am here to collaborate and contribute to the project).
6. Finish with a polite phrase like “Encantado de conocerles” (Nice to meet you all).

Using formal address such as “usted” and polite expressions helps show respect and professionalism in meetings, which is valued in Spanish-speaking business culture. ^{1, 2}

References

• Después de usted: Variation and Change in a Spanish Tripartite Politeness System

• Applied Linguistic-Tú and Usted Spanish Personal Subject Pronouns

• Forms of address in the south-western Sprachbund of the Iberian Peninsula

• Corpus analysis of engagement discourse strategies in academic presentations

• Mexican Politeness: an Empirical Study on the Reasons Underlying/Motivating Practices to Construct Local Interpersonal Relationships

• Dialogical and monological functions of the discourse marker bueno in spoken and written Spanish

• ¡Hola! Nice to Meet You: Language Mixing and Biographical Information Processing