Tschüss, meine Name ist Andre und ich lebe in Barrow in Furness Cumbria und ich bin 15 Jahre alt.

Funny enough, I'm Czech. I've done this only to brush up my secondary-school German.

Have fun,
David

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Note added at 2002-05-17 14:19:54 (GMT)
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Sorry, \"Mein Name\" is right; it is masculine in German grammar. Declination has always been my problem in German...

"Hallo, ich heiße Andre, bin fünfzehn, und komme / stamme aus Barrow in Furness Cumbria"

Hi Andrew! Some of the guys are making fun of you a bit, because:

1) we have had some pretty sill questions here lately, and
2) you are calling yourself Bob Marley.

But your question is not at all silly, and there is no reason why you shouldn´t call yourself Bob Marley here. He was a great guy.

"Guten Tag! Mein Name ist Andrew. Ich komme aus Barrow in Furness, Cumbria, und ich bin fünfzehn Jahre alt."

There´s a couple of alternatives to this. First, "Guten Tag" is fairly formal. To be informal you can just say "Hallo!". Then you can say "Ich heisse Andrew" instead of "mein Name ist Andrew", it´s like I am called Andrew, but both versions are quite normal.

I got my wife to check this because she´s German. Otherwise I wouldn´t have got it right, but it is now. :-)

Cécile says Hi!, she´s a big fan of Bob Marley, too, and take no notice of the others.

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Note added at 2002-05-17 19:24:09 (GMT)
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By the way, Bob Marley actually died in 1981, though it´s true that he has been dead 21 years. As Andrew probably knows.

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Note added at 2002-05-18 04:31:28 (GMT)
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I discussed the \"Hello\" question with Cécile at some length.

In German \"Hallo\" is used for people you can be informal with - friends, young people, people you work with. But even when you go to a local shop where you know the people quite well, you still say \"Guten Tag\" in most cases, and in a formal situation, such as making a sales call, you say at least \"Guten Tag\", if not \"Schönen guten Tag\" (or \"Grüss Gott\").

But in English, I would say \"Hello\" in all these situations. Sometimes \"Good morning/afternoon\" but often just \"hello\", even for the sales call. I would also say \"Hello\" if introducing myself politely - as Andrew is doing. But in German, I would say \"Guten Tag\".