juntos"Me llamo es…" has one verb too many
The first sentence most people learn, and the first one they double up.
Me llamo is a verb, from llamarse, to call oneself. It already carries the "is" of "my name is", so adding es produces two verbs in a row. The slip comes from mapping the English structure (my name + is + Sarah) onto a Spanish sentence that doesn't have a noun in it at all.
You have three good options. Me llamo Sarah is the standard. Soy Sarah is the relaxed one, what you'd say joining a table. Mi nombre es Sarah is the one that does use es, because there nombre is a noun, and it's the most formal of the three, closer to filling in a form than meeting someone.
To ask back: ¿cómo te llamas? (tú) or ¿cómo se llama? (usted). Not ¿qué es tu nombre?, which is understood but sounds like a translation. Then mucho gusto, and you're in.
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| Spanish | English |
|---|---|
| ¿Cómo te llamas? | What's your name? |
| Soy Sarah, mucho gusto. | I'm Sarah, nice to meet you. |
| Mi nombre es Sarah Jones. | My name is Sarah Jones. (formal) |
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