 If you can please let me know Let me know if you can hear me and see me. That would be great This is a brand new experience for me So if you could let know that you can hear me and see me that would be great So Gertrude is is that yes, you can hear me and see me Yes, this is the place to come Michelle Okay, so let me explain what has happened We had a storm come through my house recently within the last couple of hours and The internet is down There were a lot. There's some damage that's happened as well. And so I Don't have internet and I have a hot spot, but the hot spot is not Strong enough to run the software that is needed to live stream. So I Hope that you guys can go ahead and give me thumbs up. Let me know if you can still hear me and see me Because I'm going to try and do this lesson. Anyway, I'm ready. I'm prepared so I would love to continue to give this lesson to you and We'll see how it goes. So let me know I'm watching I See who is here today who's say Hey from okay, Diya, great. Nice to see you. Hello Anna. Thank you for supporting the channel. Hi, do we have a shooter? Hey, Michelle, the image is a little blurred. Okay, um Is my image still blurry, let me know If my image is still blurry, I hope not Jonathan's giving me some thumbs up. That's great. So this has been an interesting experience guys Okay, but I'm going to soldier on so today Our lesson is supposed to be about Long vows, okay loud and clear great Hello, Diya. Hello. Welcome guys. So I am teaching to you from my phone and So we are going to try and give this a go. Okay. Thanks so much for showing up Jonathan or Vashuda or anyone else If you could please go into the what's app. I shared the link But if you guys can make sure that the link is shared as well, that would be fantastic Thanks so much and Robin if you're watching, I'm sorry. This is me troubleshooting. I'm trying to Still meet with the students here. So let's talk about long vowels guys so we talked about the short vowels in English last week and We learned that the short vowels in English are Very difficult for a lot of non-native speakers the short vowels are difficult to pronounce and They just cause a lot of difficulties and so we reviewed those In our lesson last week and I know that for many of you you said this is hard and I appreciated how diligently you worked to try and learn the lesson and It was something that with the short vowels You're going to have to work with over time for some of you You do not have some of the short vowels in your native language And so you have to train your ear to really hear them and that is very difficult It's very similar for myself. I am trying to improve my Spanish and There are certain sounds in Spanish that I cannot hear the difference between How a native Spanish speaker is saying it and how I am saying it and so it can be rather frustrating for me I'm not seeing anybody Mention anything in the chat right now. So can somebody please type something for me so I can see Again, this is a new format for me. So I want to make sure that You guys are asking questions as we go. So I'm gonna go ahead and pull up the lesson and we will see ah You can titles while I hear you I understand that so I'm gonna see if I can go ahead and and Shut down all of this information and I'm gonna give you guys the lesson. Hello, Nuria. Hello, everyone Yeah, you know what actually I have a great Spanish teacher and Hello, Diego. I am hoping to get out to Ecuador sometime in the next year Okay, so we're going to talk about the long Val sounds tonight and the beauty with the long vowel sounds is that you Know them from looking at a e I owe and you so the long vowel sounds say their name a That's the long a vowel sound e. That's the long e vowel sound. I is the long I oh and You so how do you pronounce these sounds? All right, hang hang tight with me. So let me know guys. How is your day going? I am Struggling with getting my computer. So I'm gonna restart it quit OBS So Who knew that there would be so much difficulty here. I Got a force quit everything on my computer. I love my computer, but right now. I'm not liking my computer very much So so let's talk about the long a the long a vowel sound Says its name a but of course when we look at words, they're not always spelled the same Yes, Anna, I think today's lesson is going to be much easier for you because the long a sounds are always I shouldn't say always the long a vowel sounds are typically much easier for non-native speakers to pick up Yes, I understand what you're saying Alex Alex it when there are so many different Accents and I am from the Midwest in the United States So I have what's considered by most American English speakers to be a neutral accent meaning that I don't have a lot of accents that I'm using and My kids are here in the kitchen. They are getting dinner. I made dinner tonight guys I have made goulash and if you If if you would like I can show you the goulash you might enjoy it Pasha. Oh No, no, no, don't take my phone go get the goulash and bring it here I'll show you my dinner while I'm bringing up my Yes, I'm glad you could start your day at the smell on the inside guys I'm freaking out like totally freaking out because I'm not able to do for you what I prepared and I Really want to give you guys a great lesson, but I can't bring up my slides right now. Everything is gone Okay, so we might just do a Q&A, okay, so this is my dinner that I made for my family tonight So it's goulash I'm gonna like it. It's tomatoes and pasta sauce and Hamburger and ground beef and noodles. So that is dinner tonight And the garlic bread. Oh, yes, we have garlic bread, too I forgot about that garlic bread So I digress The long a vowel sounds. Oh, okay. Pasha want me to show you the garlic bread as well How does it taste so Diego Diego wants to know how does it taste Cali? I'm live, okay So goulash goulash is a pasta noodle with ground beef Bang some superman with ground beef and I says hello hi and pasta sauce And my daughter Cali says that it's really good at tomato basil oregano Those would be the kinds of things that are in The Google suite is not even working on my computer right now. This is crazy. I feel like I'm in the twilight zone So crazy. So you know what guys? We're just gonna have to have a Q&A and we will have to postpone the lesson for the long vowel sounds Raina I should offer because I like it. Yes, so we're gonna have to let's do a Q&A. So guys Ask me Ask me questions. What would you like to know? Because right now? Things aren't working for me at this point in time. Yes, Pasha is So I would you like would you like to hear something about my family? Questions hello Ahmed. This is not a typical lesson. Usually I have a great lesson. Yes No, James the weather does not typically affect my internet. This is We had a really significant storm blow through today. There was actually tornadoes in my area So I I'll use my visual for you I have I have cards here that I use with my students and I have a picture of a Hurricane so this is Hurricane so it was a tornado not a hurricane Every day and every day Good question. Here's a tornado. This is what happened today tornado tornado, so If I were to say Every Day two separate words every day I work So your messages they disappear right away. So let me just see if I can all messages are visible Let me see here. I switched my messages. So now I can see everybody Usually what time do you take dinner in the United States? Okay, I can answer that question It varies I would say most families who have younger children eat dinner between the time of 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. I have always been In somewhat of a non traditional type of parent with dinner time and the dinner time fluctuates With our family and sometimes we'll eat at five. Sometimes we'll eat at six. Sometimes we'll eat at seven Sometimes I may even eat eat at eight or nine the older my kids get the more our dinner time tends to move around and I Would say that's not necessarily typical of a lot of families but Things have changed a lot over the last five years And so more and more families are having a variety of times that they eat because Everyone's so busy and has crazy schedules. So it's kind of common that we might eat in a car going somewhere Pick up drive-thru carry out those kinds of things So let me just look and see what other questions. So every day. I meant two separated words So let me get out my whiteboard and we'll do some old school here with my whiteboard Thanks guys for hanging in there. Keep the questions coming running mate the same as runner up No, it is not. I'm gonna write down that question time right now is 7 16 p.m. Michelle you showed us a beautiful sunrise of the red sky. Yes, that was this morning and I feel like that was the anticipation of the weather that we had today. So running mate No, a running mate is The term that is used when you are talking about politics and you have a running mate So you have your president and your running mate is your vice president? Runner up is the person who finishes Behind first place the runner up is second place runner up you're welcome Alex and Jonathan I I Saw your question and that's a little bit longer of an answer. So I'll have to respond to you On WhatsApp or Instagram if you can send me that on Instagram and I'll answer that question pronunciation of basically so basically basically logically and practically basically logically and practically My name is sherry. I am a speech therapist, which means I specialize in pronunciation and I am also an online ESL teacher and Guys your your messages that you're leaving me on the phone app They are there for 10 seconds and then they disappear. So if a bunch come so if I don't respond type your question again I am apologized for that So running mates running mate is typically used in politics. They're my running mate I would have to double check the definition, but I've never heard it used in other Instances running mate is usually used in politics Any other questions? So thanks so much guys for coming. Michelle is good to see you here Vashuda, I haven't seen Leila yet. Maybe she's still sleeping. Yes runner champion The champion is the first place winner so That's how I would refer to that. So the topic typically Karu I was going to be talking about the long vowel sounds in English But I'm having technical difficulties. So we're doing a Q&A Okay, that means long journey so two-year-old boy Again, I'm sorry. It it disappeared really fast. I'm trying to write down as you guys say yes, Anna Yes, typically in politics you felt in other offices as well So you could have the chairman of the board my running mate is my vice president Is he's the a has no sound psychic and psycho is how You say psychic and psycho and I missed the one before that guys. This is crazy It comes up. I see it and then it disappears. So type again. Okay. I Promise I will get to it You have my undivided attention right now and I'm so appreciative of all of you So this is what happened to me this week. I Started a tic-tac about a month ago Schools operating normally in your area. I'm gonna write that down Michelle cuz I'm gonna answer that. Let me finish this thought I Started to tic-tac about a month ago One of my dear dear friends suggested that I do that because he had used tic-tac to help with his English and I Did so I have an Instagram. I like Instagram a lot I'm not recommended for you to drive long is that means a long journey you drive long with two-year-old boy. Okay. Thank you 4g yes James 5g is coming Not long so your sentence I think it was Anna You would say it's not recommended to take a long journey world And yeah, I think a two-year-old drive a two-hour drive would be considered a journey Anyway, so my Instagram I have around 300 people now and I've had my Instagram for quite some time And it's been a pretty slow and steady process and many of you are there on my Instagram If you have not joined it. It is learn English live on Instagram. Please join I post things very very regularly difference between trip and journey Right. So I get on Tic-Tac and I've been doing some short lessons and I'm over a thousand followers on tic-tac It's been it's been phenomenal in a really short period of time. So I that's what I've been doing this week I'm really excited about that. So schools Michelle the schools in my area. Ah I'm Ed. That's fine. Um, I Haven't started a Facebook. I Mean maybe I will there's so many social media schools The last logically and practically the last a has no sound. Yes, logically and practically Logically, you're correct. It goes from the K to the L the a the a logically now if you say log logically But again in running speech, which I posted on Instagram and tic-tac We've done gonna wanna coulda shoulda. It's the same kind of thing logically it all runs together The schools in my area Michelle hybrid. So students will come into my school I see them there They come two days a week half the students come two days a week the other half come the other two days a week So students are in the building two out of the five days the other three days they Have remote lessons on the computer So we have half the students in the building on Monday and Tuesday Wednesday, everyone is learning virtually and Thursday Friday half to mad about and mad at I'm writing that down bashoota Alphabet I'm writing all these things down. Okay, so Mad about and mad at I'm mad about the current state of affairs and I'm mad at my husband So mad about and mad at remote learning hybrid learning. Hello, Louis. It's great to see you. Hello, so hybrid learning is where the students are learning both in person and Online that is what hybrid learning is remote learning is where all they're doing is they're learning from home Yeah Typically, yes, most the time when you're talking about mad at it's directed towards something at the preposition is In the direction of something so your emotion is in the direction of that person. I Hope that answers that question alphabet bashoota Singing is super important using Music and rhythm when you're teaching the alphabet You don't necessarily have to do a B CD. Although I have that behind me There are so many other songs I highly encourage using music and rhythm when you are talking about the alphabet also Move your body. So when you're talking about a form an A You want them to use movements with their body that will help them retain What that letter looks like along with what the name is the sounds come later Tell Mariana. Hello, Louise. It's great to Great to know that we have young ones here Hello, if you guys can hear me, let me know It looks like I lost connection for a moment. So let me know if you can hear me It looks like I can see you and hear you again Keep the questions coming Yes, Louise greetings from miscitas del Colegio Colegio Great. So what other questions do you guys have for me? No, so Andre, are you telling me a sim? I need a sim card for my phone guys. Keep coming with the questions. I'm writing them down Okay, so already and already Are you talking? Let me show this so we have all Already already two words. Are you all ready to go? I'll tell her. Thank you and This is what my children are always saying. I already cleaned my room. Oh Thank you. I already cleaned my room Already two separate words I'm prepared to go somewhere Already means it's been completed. You've already done something. All right guys, keep the questions coming. Don't feel guilty at all This is a Q&A for you guys and I'm trying something new being on my phone on YouTube. Hello, DeVilo. DeNilo. Hello No, no Anna. I'm saying different. So I cleaned my room already I'm on tiktok Louise. Find me learning English with Sherry already. You've completed something Already means I'm prepared. I'm going to do something It's an it's it's is a contraction ITS this is a contraction which means it is and I need to get a better whiteboard My other whiteboards are hang on a minute. I have another whiteboard right here Brand new for you guys So I would call this lesson a hot mess Let's talk about some idioms. I love teaching idioms. This lesson is a hot mess Let me know. Have you guys heard of the idiom hot mess? Ah Yes talking about phrasing. I like that. That's a great idea. Go treat us guys I'm breaking out a brand new whiteboard for you. I Took away. Hmm. I took away I took away the remote control from my from my child Hot mess not ad hoc hot mess So let's talk about the Idiom hot mess icing on the cake. Yes, Anna. I taught that lesson. I am a hot mess what this means is things are not going well things are kind of falling apart and It's it's not a good situation. I'm a hot mess So that is a fun one to say Or you could talk about a situation being a hot mess James good question. So it could be both You can say I'm going on a trip a Journey a journey can be more than just actually physically doing something So with a journey you could talk about my journey to learning English Which is a process right a journey is a process So it could be an actual physical movement or it could be where you don't actually ever go anywhere You just you make you process from one step to another being being an Non-fluent speaker of English to a fluent speaker of English that would be a journey Shall we try some other idioms? I have some other ones that I would love to share with you guys Or we could try some other fun homonyms. How about this one? Let's try a fun homonym. I've been thinking about this one today thinking about doing a lesson with it and Who likes to eat pears? Does anyone like to eat pears? I was thinking about this idiom. So we have and pair they sound the same But they're spelled different Pear is in a fruit that you eat and Pear as in a set of two things. So here we have a pair of sandals pair and That is an awesome idiom cool as a cucumber and idiom is a saying that is used that can describe a Situation it is very It's very expressive its idioms are used by native speakers in their languages, it's not just not just for English and It can really set people apart if you can speak and use idioms effectively it it really you sound like a native speaker and idioms add a lot of color to language That's why I love idioms and until I started teaching English online, I did not realize the prevalence of idioms in language And so now I'm always thinking about ooh, there's another idiom There's another idiom and idioms change and grow over time as well There are idioms that my daughter uses which I actually did a video about That I I don't know what they mean and She so we did a video about it that language is so Amazing how it transforms and changes over time. I Love that part. So slang isn't necessarily and again I would have to look up the definition because Robin is going to be saying We need these definitions slang is not always as generally accepted and Slang tends to be something that is newer evolving Yes Yes, Anna native speakers use idioms All the time all the time for sure So anyway, so here are two words pair and pair. They sound the same But they have different meanings and different spellings So this is why it's important for you to be able to use the context of the sentence So that you know which word we're talking about and if you want to get really crazy I could say I bought a pair of pairs at the store Now would I typically say a pair of pairs? No, I would say I bought two pairs because a pair Are two things that go together like a pair of shoes a pair of a pair of earrings a pair of Glasses a pair of pants all of those things have glasses have two lenses pants have two legs Shoes have two Till 10 and from that she gets a big Okay, yes, and I will tell you Louise It is extremely common for young children to get Confused in those teens those teens and then once they get to the 20 and then 21 22 then they're able to do that but the teen numbers are Challenging and that is something that children about the ages between Three and five are able to count with those teens and by the time they're five years old They should be able to count to 100 if you are a native English speaker and a public school So keep the questions coming Your phone for your son is out of the question Yes, that is a great and actually my youngest son. He has a phone, but he does not have a phone that has internet Um, it's out of the question saying something's out of the question. That means it's not going to happen It's As I would say don't even go there Don't even go there I'll say that to my children if they come up and they open their mouth and I know what they're going to say and they're going to Ask something or they're going to say something that's going to make me irritated. I'll miss a don't even go there See how quickly that goes together. Don't even don't even go there Everything gets pushed together. Don't even go there Ah, that's great. Vishuda Once they start counting then you can start working on addition too Um, by you know having them count and adding to Does people do Michelle do people save for a rainy day in the United States? Um, that's a great idiom as well save something for a rainy day. So I will share with you I think that in general I see at least in my country a lot of people don't Save for a rainy day. We are a society that You get something and you got to have it right away. We are a very um I don't know. I mean tiktok, right tiktok is so popular In the united states because it's a minute, right? Because nobody wants to spend a bunch of time watching watching something They want to get their information get it quickly and in a minute Um, it's the same thing goes with saving like once you get something You want to you want to use it right away? I think that that's kind of What I've seen over the years But there are still quite a few people who will save things for a rainy day. So for example Right here This is right. This is a Reese's a tiny little Reese's peanut butter cup It came in this little thing, right? And I love Reese's peanut butter cups And I'm saving this one Michelle for a rainy day. I only ate about half of it So I'm saving it for a rainy day. I'm a person that I will save things For a rainy day both if I want to save money for a rainy day for something special I want to buy or I love chocolate and so I will savor it. That's an awesome word. Let's talk about that word savor It's also a flavor savory But if you want to savor something you want to You want to keep it and really enjoy it Louise that sounds like my son pasha, uh, jonathan chocolate So guys I am Exercising I just started exercising again. I was an athlete in college. So I played volleyball and basketball Yeah, my son has a bunch of followers too And I was always very active very physically fit Um a taller thinner type of person Well middle age has hit me Covid has hit me and so I haven't gained a bunch of weight per se, but I've just gotten kind of Laby So, um, I need to change my lifestyle. I started exercising again Not last night, but the night before I'm going to exercise again too Yeah, Gertrudis. That's a great idiom Put the world in a tight spot Also, you could say if you're in a difficult situation you could say I'm in between a rock and a hard place I'm between a rock and a hard place So Anna you you spelled it the British way. So, um, savory You can talk about something is savory usually something like meat might be savory But American English would spell it like this The vowel sounds short and long. Yes, I can definitely do that Okay, so Since tonight's lesson was supposed to be long vowel sounds I'll start with that And thanks again for your patience guys. I doubt this playback will be available because I don't think this is up to the standards, but um, so So with the long vowel sounds they actually Say their name That's actually a good song called say my name. It's kind of fun. Um So they say their name a e Yes, Anna, I'm so sorry you broke your foot I And you that's the long Short would be ah And this is I don't know if this is backwards for you guys I hope it's not ah And then e is eh Eh can somebody let me know is this backwards for you guys or is it mirrored? Let me know short long short a ah e eh I Eh Eh Oh and ah can be like this or it can be like this ah ooh Long you you and then we have the ah the infamous schwa The schwa doesn't get enough respect. Okay, so you can see it correctly So the schwa is the unstressed Unstressed short u vowel sound schwa If it's the stressed then it would be the carrot which looks like this ah Ah, so if we were to say cup that's one syllable And so it would be the stress syllable. So it would be the Ah, so you guys this isn't backwards for you guys you can see it Okay All right, I hope that answered your question anything else guys Let me know Oh, yes, you're more than welcome and like I said so next week I will teach the lesson With the long vowel sounds so we'll actually have the full lesson so you guys can go through that And don't forget ah, sure Hello, Antonio Antonio bandas. I think I saw you on tiktok or or thanks for showing up Greetings to you. So this is a q&a for those of you who are later to the party and um normally I would be doing a lesson where you would be seeing um Slides and I would go over that or your kids also hooked with just dance videos. So louise Yes, and no my son has a tiktok that's all about baseball He talks about the st. Louis Cardinals baseball team, which I have my hat right here baseball vibes So it's called baseball vibes. I am a baseball fan too And I love the st. Louis Cardinals hooked How to use it hooked if you can let me know louise that would be awesome I wasn't quite sure if I understood your message And then my son pasha has a tiktok He is tiktok. He does dance, but his is mostly ramen noodle reviews Ramen noodle reviews It's crazy He tries a bunch of different ramen noodles And He reviews them and people love them. Hello D. Hello everyone. Hello Yes, Gertrude. I don't think Antonio is the actor. I think I think he has the same name or maybe he uses that name, but I don't know So welcome to learn English live. My name is sherry. I am an online esl teacher and speech therapist Alyssa great to see you glare and glower Food reviews. Yes, Anna. He does ramen noodle reviews and I'm gonna have to get back to you that on on that. Alyssa Andre, um, I love helping other people I love helping other people. Alyssa. I I apologize I'm not sure on glower. I want to make sure that I get it correct And I don't have internet right now except for on my phone So I would have to look it up and I think it would break the live But I will confirm that with you. So you said glow and glower or glare and glower Yeah, and then my daughter My almost 15 year old daughter. She doesn't post dance videos, but she does do dances. She just never posts them She keeps them all private Yes, he loves ramen noodles. He's been having acid reflux heartburn So that's when heartburn when acid from your stomach comes up into your throat It's called acid reflux or heartburn And he's been having that a lot lately and I told him it's the ramen noodles that you're eating They're not good for you and he figured out he'd been putting too much spice in his ramen noodles He likes food that's really spicy and now it's been giving him some acid reflux, which isn't good Um, so shall we try another idiom or I'll answer a question? I'm I'm good to be here about another 10 minutes I and again, I apologize for not being able to do our regular lesson Oh, he's okay. It's it's nothing major. He just needs to stop eating so much ramen because It's not a very healthy food for you. It has a lot of sodium So what are your guys's exercise routines? What do you like to do for exercise? I like to do cardiovascular I like to do cardio work That that is exercise that gets your heart pumping. Um, I really like that Hindsight, ooh Okay, there's a great saying hindsight is 2020 Hindsight is the ability to See behind you literally if you were to interpret that Jonathan bicycles, that's a great. That's a great sporting activity um, but When you look in the past At choices that you've made It's easy to be. Oh, I shouldn't have done that because You you've been through the experience and you can see where you made the mistakes hindsight is 2020 It's like being an armchair quarterback Uh, and that means that you're sitting watching a sporting event and you're watching things unfold and then you're you're yelling at the tv Why are you doing that? He's open. He's open. Pass it to this guy But you know You see things unfold and you know what's going to happen Somebody posted something and I totally missed it Hindsight 2020 that's a really popular thing to say when Someone is regretting something that they did and So, um hindsight is 2020 Ah Yes resistance bands are amazing So dia Totally is totally 2020. Okay. I'm gonna answer that. I'm gonna write that down 2020. So dia. Hello sajad. Nice to see you so dia I'm going to share with you something my my good friend has told me He Lives in a country that doesn't have a lot of of english speaking People visit or people who live there who speak english but There there were a couple of cities that were more touristy and he would purposefully Go to those cities So that he could seek people out to talk to them now. I know that sounds a little weird But if you frequent a cafe or something Um and you hear someone speaking english Oftentimes you can at least have small talk with them. Say hello Ask them how they're doing so that you can at least and sometimes people will be willing to speak to you as well when I was When I was in russia I often hello kishore. Great to see you. I often would have people come up to me and um They would want to talk to me They would just like they would I would I would be walking down the streets And I would see a person across the street see me And they would cross the street to come and talk to me I think I lived in the this city for Several weeks and so people kind of knew that I was the american ah kirtruthis Great three times a week Bio energetics, I'm not sure what bio energetics is andre advice You're gonna have to clarify on that Unveil unravel. So we talked about we had the lesson about prefixes and so unmeaning not Okay, and You asked if unravel and unveil. No, they're not the same things So unravel is when you have something that's wound up And it unravels it comes undone um That would be what that would mean Yes, you can use chip to break a bone. You can also use you chip a mug that is correct Yeah, it was a pretty decent sized town, but I think just the novelty of having an american there Oh to become so andre yoga and cardio. Ooh kirtruthis. Uh, I might need to get some links on that So becoming fluent, uh, I I hate to say this because It's so crucial to Improving your fluency and it's difficult If you oh Diego, that's cool running and jumping rope jumping rubs also great cardiovascular It's difficult if you don't have a lot of people around but what you can do Of course, there's always the the the standby of listening Watching movies and then stopping the movie and repeating when I taught myself some russian That's what I did. I just listened and I also want to encourage you to think about Sometimes remove the video just listen with headphones Close your eyes. This is what I would do when I was really trying to get something in spanish or in russian Close my eyes because then you're very much focused on what you're doing what you're hearing And alissa can probably attest to this because with her eyesight Not being able to see clearly. She really is able to focus and hone in on what she's hearing Oh, goodness dragon time. I work with young children who have disabilities all the time I've worked with young children who've had strokes. I helped them learn how to eat and learn how to speak Uh, louise, I know this is boring to her. She's lost focus So that's one thing that I would suggest, you know, listening repeating and then comparing What you hear yourself say and what they are saying so, um Record yourself Yes, I agree. Dia is talking about, um Phrasal verbs, that's just there are certain things that you just have to memorize Uh for myself with spanish, I just have to go through and remember memorize the conjugation. I'm still working on that Astos, estoy, estamos Well, you know priorities, right? What other questions do you guys have? So, uh, learn other tips for learning like I said watch movies you can turn on the subtitles to help you reading Reading is very helpful read out loud That is extremely helpful Good. Yes, Antonio. Those are great things. I think asking other other students who are learning english what they do is Key because if someone else has had success with it Then it could possibly be successful for you I also I was just talking to my good friend the other day and we were and I was saying have you thought about writing things down in a journal? Uh, that is really helpful writing things down. So if you look at child development with language This is where my professor is going to Come out in me. Okay. I used to teach at a university how to write sas da go Um, I'll get to that With child development, they first come They're born they are wired to hear and to hear every single language And then as they get closer to one year of age Their brain starts to prune away the neurons that are not being stimulated in their languages. So Um Yes, I'm on instagram kishore. That's the other place i'm at And so then they're kind of tuned in more into the language that they're hearing So then they babble they get individual speech sounds the sounds that come out in english are pbm td The very first sounds that come out are at the beginning the front of the mouth and I I think that other languages are probably the same way that The earliest developing sounds are the easiest to produce and they start at the front of the mouth and work their way back So vowel sounds all they have to do is open their mouth sound comes out and then they add the So mama, that's why you get mama, dadda, papa Because those sounds are very easy to produce at the front of your mouth Then they get words and then they get sentences And then they're able to actually have the fine motor skills to hold something to color and then they're able to Read but writing is the last thing that is to develop in a language typically typically writing is the highest skill and because it requires that you are synchronizing Your receptive language your expressive language that you're also bringing in the phonetics of things as well It is a multi step process to write Now in some countries Students can write english extremely well Because in the schools, that's what they really worked on they worked on the grammar they worked on the english But their conversational skills are not there A scoff sound That's to scoff at someone scoff um, that's something people would do if they don't want to really entertain what you had to say or they think what you said was ridiculous And usually like an eye rule will happen with that too So for those of you who are later to the party again, I'm sherry. I'm on instagram. I'm on tiktok because I know some Airband but instagram learn english with sherry. I'm also here on learn english live every tuesday night or wednesday morning Depending on where you are. I live in the united states. I am in the midwest So I am in the central standard time zone, which louis and I um, so my friends who are in south america And in mexico, we are often very similar Um snickered snickered is a type of laugh It's I don't know if I can quite do That's kind of a snicker a snicker isn't a really loud laugh. It's kind of a kind of a quieter laugh Um, ana I wouldn't necessarily consider it rude in all contexts, but but it often is Okay, I missed that last post some So sometimes when I speak in english if I miss that you'll have to post again So louis, where have you been man? I haven't seen you It's good to see you here, but and I enjoyed Meeting with your friends from brazil You guys are quite the interesting group. You guys know how to have a good time That's nice Uh, also for those of you who are asking for tips on how to improve your english There are also groups on whatsapp. There are chat groups that you can participate in There are also there's some really amazing groups on youtube and People who have zoom meetings every week at a certain time and you can go in and they will match you with fellow Speakers they'll have you know a beginning english group and an intermediate english group and Those are great and often those are free. It's a great way to just practice your english So I would encourage you to seek out those as well So I think we're gonna kind of wrap things up here a little bit Please please come back on Tuesday a week from today same time And I will give you the lesson that I prepared for you that you deserve which is on the long vowel sounds in english I'll give you a few more minutes if anyone else has any questions. Thanks for hanging in there guys. I really appreciate it I am a perfectionist and so tonight was really difficult for me not to be able to provide to you What my lesson typically is Mmm, sure Ah, yeah, well great. I'm so I'm glad. Thank you for joining. Thank you. Sure. Thank you I really appreciate it. Anna. Thanks for for participating and for supporting learn english live. Robin has Great things in store for all of us. Thank you so much guys. I hope you all are healthy and well And remember to be patient with yourself Thank you. Alyssa. Thank you. Diego. Thanks, james. You're welcome dwee. Thanks, michelle Thanks, james Thanks d and guys Be kind to one another. Okay I know you always are but that's always what I end my lessons with See you later Bye everyone