 little bit slow today. All right, looks like it's okay. I think we're all connected. I hope you can hear me and see me. Welcome to today's live stream. I'm Robin Shaw teaching here from Korea. And today's a special live stream. I'm going to do a year in review and what that means is just going to talk about the channel and what happened this year and talk about the good students and maybe some bad students. Anyway, before we get started, let's see who is in the chat. Layla's here. Will it be the last live in 2021? Is this the last last live stream in 2021? Probably not. I'll probably do one next week. The reason I'm doing this live stream is because as some of you have noticed, I have two channels. I have the learning English live channel and I have the Shaw English channel. The Shaw English channel is a little bit bigger. So I am also going to you do a year in review for that channel in about an hour. So because that channel is very big, I decided to do two years in review because this year in review helps me practice for that year in review. Okay, because they're very similar styles. Okay, so I just decided I'll do both channels in one day. The learning English lives learn English live first. So I get a little practice. And then the Shaw English, you know, the Shaw English is a big channel. So I'm very comfortable with this channel. But when I do a live stream on Shaw English, I'm very, very nervous. So I hope this helps me prepare. But no, it probably won't be the last live stream this year sleepwalkers here. Will there be two lives in a row? Yes, this channel and then the other channel. Pallavi, hello, huda, huda. This is love ya. Okay, love you back. I hope you're talking to me. And you guys are talking. Farida, Aya, Ferry, hello, welcome back. And Madhushan, hello. Okay. There's not too many people. But let's get started. Learning English live year in review 2021. So year in review means we look back at the year a little bit and see, I'm going to talk about the this is what I'm going to talk about. I'm going to talk about the top videos, the top channel members, the top students, top country, and we can have a Q&A time. And let's see. Don't be nervous, Robin, you can do it very well. Well, it doesn't matter if I can do it very well because you know, anyway, let's continue on. All right. So very interesting for 2021. These are the top videos. You can see Esther's videos, live streams that she did in 2019 are still the top videos. I cannot beat Esther. I cannot beat Esther. There's something magical about Esther. She's such a wonderful person, such a wonderful teacher. And students just love her and I'm jealous. I just cannot beat Esther. So in 2021, you know, I made a lot of live streams. Still, Esther has the top videos that she made in 2019. I do have a video at number nine, March 27. But nothing I've made since March 27 can get into the top 10 of my own channel. Esther, very interesting. The power of Esther, she's so powerful. Pallavi, you, yes, you're an amazing teacher. Thank you, Pallavi. I'm going to talk about you later. So keep watching. All right, let's move on. These are channel members. And I don't see everyone here. So if you can join, if you see that join button and subscribe, please, if you haven't subscribed, at least subscribe. Thank you. And like the video. But if you join, you become a channel member. And I'm very thankful for these channel members. And we can see the top channel member for 18 months is Michel. And he's not even, he's not even here right now. Where are you, Michel? And Andre is not here. Madi, no, Jonathan's not here. No, no, Laila's here. You got one year. Thank you very much, Laila. So much. These other people are members are supporting me and my coffee. Thank you very much. This helps. This helps me continue. So those are the top members. And there's another list. Dewey is up there. And nobody's must be a tough night because most of these members are not here. And there's a there's a lot of people I don't know, they're supporting the channel, but I don't even know them. So, hey, if you're supporting the channel, if your name is on this list, let me know who you are in the comments or send me an email, something like that. Farida says, Will, well, I think it's because she's so kind to her students and she's cute as well. Esther's cute. I am not cute. Said, Café, hi, welcome. Esther, Esther has, or Laila, Esther has a charming personality. All right. So thank you top members and in addition to the top members, I decided to make top students now not not every student is a member I understand. So I tried to choose top students and I'm sure I missed a few people if I missed your name. I'm very, very sorry. I just quickly made a list of names I thought people who participate a lot. You guys did a good job. Thank you very much for participating. If I missed your name, well, actually the tops, the top students, if you're watching right now, you're a top student. And then these are for other days. Let's see the comments, Marianne Abdi, hello. Madhu Shan, Madhu Shan. So, and Michelle, you came in, I was saying, thank you, Michelle, because you've been a channel member for 18 months. Thank you very much. And let's see the top students, Michelle, Sleepwalk, we love Kumar's. I haven't seen him today. Tika Dinesh. And I just, you know, when I was making this list, I tried to think of who comes regularly. I'm sure I must have missed someone. If I missed someone, I'm very sorry. But anyway, thank you. Thanks again for being supporting me. It's very nice. Did I miss anyone? Sleepwalker, you're always active in Sleepwalker. I was asking good questions. And challenging me to be a better teacher. Certainly, you make me a better teacher, Sleepwalker. Huda Huda says, love you again. Who are you saying love you to? Pallavi, I love Esther, ma'am. She's an amazing teacher. Yeah. She used to do, Esther used to do live streams here, but it's very difficult for Esther to use the technology, right? I don't live in the same city as Esther. She's got to use the live stream equipment and the mic in the camera. And it's very difficult for her. So she stopped doing the live streams. Syed Afalik, hello. These are the top countries. So for this channel this year, 8.3% come from India, 4.4% from the US, 1% from the UK, South Korea, where I am, 0.5, Saudi Arabia, that's Leila, you're number five, Indonesia, Canada. I wonder who's watching from Canada. Philippines, Brazil, Sudan, so a lot of countries come here, but certainly 8.3% from India. And Sleepwalker, you're from Russia, right? How come Russia is not in the top 10? I guess I'm not Russian style. Wynn is here. Oh, I forgot Wynn. There we go. Welcome, Wynn. Thanks for coming, Sleepwalker. So there are not many Russians. No, I think there's only you. Well, Palavi, I really can't believe that I'm in the list of top, why not? Palavi, you're always active these days, both channels. Yeah. I'll do a quick check of where, how many Russians come here. I can go beyond 10. Where does Russia come in? Because Russia is a big country, but I don't know why Russians don't, Russians don't study English by YouTube or Russia. I'm just checking Russia. Oh, no. Russia doesn't show up on my list of, oh, there it is. Russia is 0.1%. It says, it says in one year, in 2021, 38 Russians, you know, that's 38 different IP, IP addresses from Russia. So you should be one of them, Sleepwalker, and there was 37 other Russians or Andres from Russia. Isn't Andrey from Russia? That's two. Saudi Arabia, there was a few, 120 people from Saudi Arabia viewed my channel in one year. Witz, hello from India. There we go. Win. If you were more active, maybe you would have got an A plus win. You only get a B plus. All right. So thank you. Thank you, students, for supporting the channel. Hopefully it'll grow more in 2022. I'm always looking for new teachers. And I think I might have a few new teachers in 2022. Hopefully, you know, it's as difficult to get teachers because the technology is, they don't, they're not very good with technology, but hopefully I can get some new teachers in 2022. All right, I'll just check out the comments. Relatives from Canada, I don't think any of my relatives from Canada say anything or visit. If they do, they never tell me. Some people watch from Canada. Do you think they're all Canadians? No. From America and Canada. So we'll go back there. You can see English speaking countries. You can see USA, UK and Canada. And those are not Americans. Those are not Canadians. Those are ESL students. Those are students in USA, UK, Canada. They're working. They're working students. They don't have time to go to an English class because they're working. So in their free time or on the bus, yeah, they're trying to study English. So if you are in the USA or UK or Canada, now would be a good time to leave a comment. Say hello so we know who you are. Oh, you guys, there you go. Are these correct? I found this on the internet. Any problems? There's your thank you. Oh, Vensi. Vensi is just, we're talking about you're in the review. Vensi, welcome to the channel. Palavi. Oh, you're saying your thank you. Spasibo. Okay. So, Dania Vaat. I guess I cannot pronounce that. Farida. Oh, Farida Aya Ferry. Thank you. You're a pretty good student from Afghanistan. You know, I've had a few Afghanistan students over the years, but they're not sure. I don't see Afghanistan on my list. You know, you might be the only one these. Oh, no. You know, Afghanistan, IP might go through, you know, I get a few, there's not many. There's not many students from Afghanistan. But all are welcome. All are welcome. Dwi, you didn't see your score. Where? Where's Dwi? Well, Dwi, I thank you because you're six months support and then you got a score. Did I put Dwi there? No, I didn't put Dwi. Dwi, you didn't get A plus. Oh, you got A plus there. Dwi or Nawadi. That's your last name. Vensi, where are you from? I don't think I've seen your name before. So, before I go here, in about 10 minutes, I got to leave because I'm going to do a live, I'm going to do a similar live stream on the show English channel. What kind of videos would you like to see in 2022? I'm starting to plan my 2022 videos. Let me know what kind of videos, excuse me, you would like to see. Thank you, Farida. Saudi people who are from Saudi Arabia, not many compared to India. Yeah, although your channel is a great channel for development. Yeah, Dwi, you got A plus. What kind of videos would you like to see in 2022? Well, as I said, I'm trying to get new teachers. So hopefully, hopefully I can get some good teachers teaching different kind of content. You guys must be bored of me. I'm always trying to get Esther back. Every month I send an email to Esther, Hey, Esther, why don't you try some live streams again? And Esther, I don't know. Oh, Fancy's from Bulgaria. Layla's writing again. You want the writing workshop? The writing workshop, the writing workshop are probably my most popular videos. Let's see, let's see, I'm gonna check that content about my writing workshop. No, my vocabulary, vocabulary and writing, my vocabulary and writing videos did very well. Sleepwalker, I would like to see videos explaining difficult grammar. Yeah, difficult grammar. What is difficult grammar? Madhashan, videos to understand English songs well. Sorry, Madhashan, I cannot play songs because YouTube will copyright strike my video. If I play any song on YouTube, they will, it'll hurt my channel. So I can't really teach songs. But good suggestion. Do you prefer to answer English questions to teach specific topics? I don't have a preference. Fancy, I'm preparing myself for IELTS exam, I need 7.5. 7.5 is very high, Fancy. Like most places like universities or jobs require an IELTS 7. Why do you need 7.5? That's very high. What do you, I hope there will be some lessons. I am making an IELTS channel, Fancy. I'm making a different channel for IELTS. So I'll update in the future about my IELTS channel. Sleepwalker, I like 20 questions game and quizzes too. The problem with games is everyone is at a different delay, right? When I played the games before people in Korea would always answer very quickly because their internet is very fast and there's no delay. So it's sleepwalker. I'll try again, but it's very frustrating because some people have a 5 second delay watching me and some people have a 10 second delay. Some people have a 30 second delay. Some people have a 1 minute delay. So I'll see what I can do. And when interviewed with students, how they study and approve English, I would love to bring students on. But because of COVID can't really interview students, but I am trying to interview, I mean, I can't interview my students, but I am trying to interview you students through Zoom. That's what I'm testing these days. Sleepwalker, passive voice for all tenses. That's difficult for me, sleepwalker. Passive, you don't need the passive voice for all tenses. Why, why are students obsessed with the passive voice? Sir, is it good thing to use emojis in an email? No. No, don't use emojis in an email. Email is formal writing, unless it's your best friend. But if it's not your best friend, don't use emojis. And Faridia, I'd love to see videos about confusing words like laying and lying. Yeah, I might do that. Sleepwalker knows the sleepwalker. You know there's a problem with delay. And you use that to your advantage, right? Because you're you're you have you have no delay. So you know you can win the games easy. That's why you want to play games. But sleepwalker, it'd be nice to chat with you in WhatsApp. I think I asked you before sleepwalker, do you have WhatsApp? Come come talk to us in WhatsApp. What chat app do you use, sleepwalker? Layla, what about teach some common usages for phrasal verbs? phrasal verbs are just too complicated Layla. But I'll see what I can do. Benzi, thank you for being so polite teacher. I need 7.5 because my family recently moved to Scotland. And to work there, I need that level. Meanwhile, I'm a doctor, it will be difficult, won't it? Well, Benzi, you know, I don't I don't know your level, because I can't talk to you. But yeah, 7.5 is not easy. Do you know your level now, Benzi? Have you taken the test before? What is your level? And sleepwalker, of course, I have WhatsApp, but sleepwalker just doesn't sleepwalker doesn't want to socialize with us. Sleepwalker is okay to learn with us. But after class, sleepwalker doesn't want to talk with us. Pallavi, I want to know that what is IELTS writing? Why everyone is crazy about it in IELTS? I think IELTS writing is easy. IELTS, the writing part, I think is the easiest part of IELTS writing. That's the easiest part. That doesn't mean it's easy. It's the easiest part of IELTS. You might disagree. I don't know, but I think IELTS speaking, that's the difficult part. IELTS speaking and listening, those are difficult. Not true. Well, sleepwalker, I've known you for years, but I don't know what you look like. I've never done a Zoom with you, sleepwalker. Let's do a Zoom one day. All right, Benzi says my level has been estimated to be 66.5. So you need to go up about one or 1.5. Yeah, you can do it. It takes a lot of practice, Benzi. Keep studying. Keep practice every day. If you're doing IELTS, it's every day. Every day you're practicing. Do your best, Benzi. I'm not sure what I can do from here. For it, I got 10 out of 10 in English quizzes many times. I'm so happy about that. Dwi, what is the difference between IELTS and TOEFL? TOEFL is the American test. IELTS is the British test. Now, usually universities in America or England or Canada or Australia or New Zealand, they accept either TOEFL or IELTS. They accept both tests, but the TOEFL test is the American style test and the IELTS is the British style test. I think IELTS is more famous and popular in the world. Some people think IELTS is easier than TOEFL. I would say they're similar, but Dwi doesn't like games. It seems like it's very difficult. What do you think, sir? IELTS test is difficult. IELTS is that that is not a joke. That is a difficult test. If you're planning on IELTS, first of all, only study IELTS if you need it. If you don't need IELTS, don't study it. Study general English, but if you need IELTS because you've got to work or go to university, it's going to take about a year to properly prepare for an IELTS test. Do you think we need to take IELTS? No, Leila, you should not waste any time with IELTS. Don't waste your time with IELTS, Leila. Not even one second. Okay. All right. I'm sorry. I'm going to end this live stream early. Just I wanted to say thank you guys and practice before the live stream on the big channel. So in about 30 minutes, I'm going to do the live stream over on the big channel, Shaw English Online. It's going to be similar, similar slides. Maybe you can join me over there too, but there'll be probably over 100 people. I don't know how many people go there. A lot, a lot more than here. And they might be angrier because they because I'm not Esther. Whereas Esther will probably be the most common question. So I'll just finish up in the comments here. Do we? Oh, my country, Tophels. Okay. Nazir, how are you? Okay, thank you. Thank you for your comments, Mohammed Nazir. Thank you for your support. Leila, what is your greatest achievement for 2021? I don't think I had an achievement in 2021. Fridja, how are you feeling today? You seem stressed. Yeah, I'm very nervous because I got to go on the Shaw English channel to talk to that crowd. Vansi, I'm constantly searching for appropriate podcasts for improving my listening. Yeah, improve your listening, listening, speaking, all four of those every day. Sir, you also take this IELTS writing. Yeah, I've done the IELTS test. I've taught the IELTS test. I know I know all parts of the IELTS test. So, but Palavi, if you don't need IELTS, don't study IELTS. Thank you. Merry Christmas. All right. See you soon. Thank you. Dewey, Sleepwalker, Leila. Yeah, get nervous about the Shaw English. How can I get IELTS from Sri Lanka? I don't know. They probably have a testing center in Sri Lanka. How can I start learning British pronunciation from zero? Do you need British pronunciation or are you planning to move to the UK? Thank you, Fridja. Thank you, Wayne. All right. I'm going to end it. So sorry about the quick live stream. I'll see you guys again probably next week. So take care.