You never get a second chance to make a first impression, so how are you at making a good first impression in English?

你永远也不会得到第二个机会来制造第一印象，所以如何能用英文流利的给对方留下良好印象呢?

Being able to make a FLUENT first impression doesn’t have to be as hard as you think. The beauty of first impressions is that we already know 3 things that are going to happen in the conversation, a greeting/hello, an introduction, and a goodbye/farewell. If you can memorize and even script these 3 situations, then you bound to make a fluent first impression every time.

给对方留下一个流利的第一印象并非像你想象的那么难。第一印象在对话中的魅力之处无非包含3件事情，这个已经广为人知。那就是问好，介绍和告别。如果你能记下甚至像写电影脚本一样写下这三个场景，那么你肯定每次都能给别人留下流利的印象。

For me, learning to speak Portuguese has been a difficult journey, and very intimidating when meeting new people. At the beginning I always worried about making a mistake during an introduction, offending someone, or making a bad first impression in general.About 4 months into my learning experience, I decided to learn and memorize every possible greeting, introduction and goodbye I could think of. Suddenly, I felt invincible and a lot more natural when meeting new people. My Portuguese didn’t sound so robotic, and surprisingly enough I was just saying the same words in the same situations over and over again. From my fluent first impressions, people were complimenting me on how natural my Portuguese was, even though I had only greeted them, introduced myself and used a few ice breaking techniques.

对于我个人而言，学说葡萄牙语曾经是件痛苦艰难的旅程，每当见到生人我就变得很胆怯。刚开始时，我老是担心我在做自我介绍时说错话，冒犯了别人或是给对方留下不好印象。经过4个月的学习过程，我决定学习并尽可能背下来我所能想到的所有问候，介绍和告别的方式。突然间，我感到再见到生人后自己无敌了而且放松自然多了。我的葡萄牙语听上去并不那么生硬，而且令人惊奇的是我几乎不停地在每个场合用同样的话来应酬。从我给人们留下流利的第一印象可以看出，虽然我只是用了几个简单的问好，自我介绍和打破尴尬气氛的技巧，人们还是恭维我，说我的葡萄牙语好。

Using these techniques of having a fluent first impression, made me feel more confident and relaxed when speaking and it pushed me to work harder on improving my fluency in all areas of the language.

使用这些让我拥有良好第一印象的技巧让我感到讲话时更自信放松，而且它促使我积极改进语言各个领域的流利度。

In this article you are going to learn how to make a FLUENT first impression in English based on these 3 most important aspects you’re going to be faced with every time, greetings/hellos, introductions/ ice breakers and goodbyes.