Well, hello there, it’s very nice to meet you again, I am Rima by the way. Have you
introduced yourself like this to people? I am sure you have. I think the most common
way of introducing yourself to people is giving your name and then very politely saying, it’s nice to meet you.
So welcome to today’s lesson, like I said - I am Rima and I am going
to take you through different ways to say ' Nice to meet you' because while this sentence
is nice, it's become old and it's become boring and over used. So I have for you different
ways of saying the same thing, so instead of using , Hi, it's nice to meet you, each
time you meet somebody, i am gonna give you different ways of saying it in different settings,
formal and informal. So let's begin with the formal setting, so when I say the word formal,
I actually mean a work setting or business setting, a setting wherein you are meeting
people for you know for some sort of work or business interaction, you are definitely
not meeting your childhood buddies in this setting. So formal means like a work setting
and this could probably be a setting wherein you are meeting people for the very first
time, so you haven't met them before and that's very important because if you meet people
a lot of times you don't keep saying - It's been a pleasure or it's nice to meet you because
that's not appropriate when you are seeing the person for the very first time. So the
first statement that I have for you is - 'Pleased to meet you' now imagine you are going for
a business meeting and you meet your client for the first time and the client says “Hi.
I am Mr. John" and your reply could be “Hello Mr. John, I am pleased to meet you" which
means I am happy to meet you, I am happy you make your acquaintance and I am happy to be
here. So it’s a very pleasant and positive of greeting somebody when you are meeting
for the first time. So make sure you remember this “Pleased to meet you" simple and effective.
Now the next one on my list is ' It's a pleasure to meet you’ so very similar to pleased
to meet you, the only difference is that in this sentence we are using the noun form.
So pleased is actually like a verb form and pleasure is the noun form. So to please, which
means to make happy and pleasure means happiness. So, it's a pleasure to meet you, which can
be translated as , it's making me happy to meet you or it's my happiness to meet you,
now that's wrong sentence construction, you cannot us it's my happiness to meet you, which
means you could use something like, It's a pleasure to meet you, I am sure not confusing
you, these are very very simple and effective statements and I think you know, I like to
use them because I think they strike an instant friendship, if not a friendship an instant
positivity is brought to the situation, moving on there is 'It's a pleasure meeting you',
which means, now that you had your business discussion and you made acquaintance with
each other and got into kind of , you know understand the requirements of your client
then the meeting's over and you are on your way out, you could say something pleasant
like ' It's been a pleasure meeting you', which means you want to meet the client again,
you want to work with him further and you want to show that this whole experience has
been very positive for you. So make sure you don't forget this one because people always
remember how things end. So at the end you add ' It's been a pleasure meeting you, it
will be nice and you will remain as a positive memory or a positive experience in your clients
mind. So that's all about the formal or the work setting and now I am gonna go to an informal
setting, now an informal setting is basically a situation wherein you are meeting friends,
family you know people outside of work, now these people you could you know have known
them from before or you are making new friends, either ways it's an informal setting. So the
first statement that I have for you is ' It's lovely to meet you' now boys make sure you
keep this statement handy, if you see a lovely lady and you see her for the first time, what
you gonna do? You gonna make sure that you shake hands and look deep into her eyes and
say ' Hi, Sheena is it? It's lovely to meet you' she's gonna feel flattered without the
fact that you gave her a compliment, so it’s almost like a compliment without actually
directly complimenting the lady in front of you, so remember this one, It’s lovely to
meet you. Now the next one is 'Glad to meet you' So if you are meeting you friend after
a long time, maybe 10 years, 15 years, you can just express your happiness by saying
' I am so glad to meet you.' It's been such a long time ', so you are expressing your
joy, excitement, your happiness all with one word, which is ' Glad to meet you' I would
keep this one handy too. And the next one was 'It was lovely meeting you' so after you
had like a nice date or a nice chat on your way out, you could just say 'It was lovely
meeting you, we should do this again' simple, subtle yet effective. so make sure your remember
this one ' It was lovely to meet you' or ' It was lovely meeting you' and you could also
say something like ' It was nice to have met you' now in case you find the lady in front
of you not so lovely and you don't want to flatter her or if it's a person of the same
gender, someone whom you are not really attracted to, someone who like a very simple cordial
relationship or friendship or an acquaintance, like if you go to a social party then you
meet so many people whom you get introduced to for the first time, you can't go around
saying 'It's been lovely meeting you' to each person you meet. You got to maintain a little
bit of you know balance, so you could say something like 'It's was nice to have met
you, we should catch up again' so that's casual, simple and it doesn't show you being too interested
in meeting the person again, sometime this is very very necessary. So make sure you always
remember this one, it was nice to have met you'
Well we looked at some formal ways of saying nice to meet you and some informal ways of
saying nice to meet you and now I have for you ways in which you can say nice to meet
you in formal setting and in an informal setting. So these statements can be used in both the
settings. So the first statement that I have for you is ' How wonderful to meet you' so
this one is a very formal at the same time a very animated way of saying nice to meet
you. now because it's animated you can say it to someone you know, someone you like or
someone you are meeting as a friend and because it's a very formal like wonderful is a word
is formal, you could also use this in a formal setting, like for example in a formal setting
you could say - ' Oh Mr. John, It's always wonderful to meet you.' which means you enjoy
interacting with him and it's been a good meeting and if you wanna say this to somebody
who's not working with you, you could just change your expression and say something like
' How wonderful to meet you' Now the way you say it , the tone that you use makes all the
difference and this statement can work in both the settings, formal and informal. Well
the next on I have for you is very nice, very short, very simple ' It was great seeing you’
so you could say this in a work setting you know at the end of a meeting and say 'It was
great seeing you, great talking to you, let's touch base once again and it sounds formal
enough and if you are meeting your buddy, you could just say something like 'Hey it
was great seeing you' yaa.. We should just catching up more often' and that sounds friendly
enough. So this one's a very effective one, make sure you don't forget this because the
word great adds a lot of positivity to the sentence.... statement, it just shows how
great you are feeling after meeting the person. So great seeing you can be work in formal
and in an informal setting. The next on that I have for you is 'Great interacting with
you' This could be, you know when you are meeting somebody for the first time either
at work or outside, so if you are meeting somebody for the first time, at work you could
say ' Wow! I am just surprised that we have never worked together before, it was great
interacting with you' and it becomes formal and if you are saying this to somebody who's
just going to become a friend in future 'It was great interacting with you, we are so
likeminded, let's meet up again for drinks' and it sounds friendly enough. So make sure
you keep this very very handy. It's great interacting with you. Now the word interacting
means, having conversation, talking, sharing ideas now this can happen at work or outside,
so you definitely share your ideas with people you meet for work and all of the people you
meet socially. Moving on I have last one for today 'I had a great time' OR ' I had a great
meeting’ so when you say I had a great time, now this can be used in an informal setting
with friends, with family, Wow, today I had a great time, what lovely drinks, what great
food, I just had the best time ever, I had a great time. It sounds like you really did
have a great time, and this can be used in an informal setting with family, friends,
buddies and of course if you just replace the word time with the word meeting, this
can go at work as well, so you could tell somebody that you just met and finished your
meeting with 'It was great meeting, what a wonderful productive meeting, we should do
this again, we should meet again' so using the word great makes an otherwise really stark
statement, very approachable, very positive and very friendly. You could also say something
like ' It was a productive meeting’ and leave it that, but before that you just you
know add something like ' what a great meeting, how productive' that just you know brings
on more friendliness, more positivity and I think going ahead that could be very good
for interaction with your client or with the person that you are meeting with. So these
are some interesting ways of saying nice to meet you because face it 'nice to meet you'
is kind of over used is boring and mundane. So I hope that you would be able to use all
of these at the right places, at the right setting, be it formal or informal or sometimes
formal and informal and actually have some fun with it. Well I hope you enjoyed today’s
lesson and if you have make sure you subscribe to our channel, needless to say and if you
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out and it was really nice to have met you. I had a great time. What a great meeting.
It's always so lovely to interact with you.