Introducing yourself, describing your family, home and studies, and telling the longer story — from a first exchange of names to a full account of what you have done.
Almost every conversation in a new language opens with the same handful of questions about you, and being able to answer them well outruns your grammar by years. The sequence here runs from the shortest version to the longest: your name and where you come from, then the people and the place you live with, what you look like and how you describe other people, what you studied, what you have done, and finally telling a story about it that holds together over several minutes. The last two articles are where this stops being vocabulary and becomes fluency — the point where you are no longer reciting a prepared answer but building one as you speak.
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