I get so many Japanese students of English that want to practice their 自己紹介 (jikoshoukai) “Self-Introductions.” Actually, one of the most popular posts on my website EigoBoost.com is 英語での自己紹介の例文や自然な言い方 / “How to Give a Natural Self-Introduction in English, with Example Sentences.”

When I first went to a Japanese language school in Tokyo, they went around the class and made everyone give them as well. They do it in companies, too. I don't know about the rest of the English-speaking world, but I'm pretty sure that this would be self-introduction overkill in America, especially because a standard self-introduction could include all of this information:

I don't know why, but I really don't like making self-introductions. Usually, if someone (a Japanese teacher, for example) asks me to give one, I'll give an even shorter one than what I've written above. I think that's great advice for an absolute beginner, too, because you don't have to worry about not being able to give a full self-introduction. Just say your name, and that should be no problem:

If your teacher presses you for more, then you can just get him or her to teach you more. That's his/her job, after all, right?

If you want a nice, detailed Japanese lesson, I think that this YouTube lesson by KemushiChanis pretty solid.