I have struggled with this quite a bit, even as someone pretty advanced in English. It’s been explained to me many times, but nothing is making sense.
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As the object of the verb (ie, at the end of the sentence), _[person] and me_ is correct, and _[person] and I_ is not. As the subject, they’re the same. However, _[person] and me_ will usually sound more natural in contemporary English. You may prefer to use _[person] and I_ but outside of formal settings it might be perceived as fussy and old fashioned.
Some people will claim _[person] and me_ is incorrect, based on grammatical rules of verb conjugations, but this is a misunderstanding of how language operates. We don’t set the rules and then conform our speech to them. We speak as comes naturally from observing and imitating each other, then look for rules that describe what we already do. If the way we speak changes over time or in different settings, then those rules are no longer correct.
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