 Hello everyone welcome to the Sunday English show it is a very special show because I'm gonna interview a lot of great teachers In this video in this Show tonight, it's gonna be very busy first It's coming on We're gonna have James the best IELTS teacher in the world He's gonna be here in just a minute and then after James We're gonna have the a to z English podcast gang All three teachers will be here so they will come in in about 20 minutes But for the first part we'll have James and before we get to James Remember, please consider being a channel member you can join in the link below and of course join our WhatsApp group The link is below too. So let's get to James here. Let's bring him in Hello, hello James Welcome to this is the Sunday English show and I'm very happy that you are here to talk about IELTS So very quickly. Can you just introduce yourself? Yeah, my name is James. I run a YouTube channel called IELTS insider We also have a website and basically the premise of IELTS insider is to provide high quality lessons high quality material to not only people that are wanting to take the IELTS test but generally people who have an interest in English and improving academically and generally just providing as much material as we can And what what is the IELTS test like what who what kind of English student needs to take the IELTS test? There's there's a lot of different reasons people take the test So it started in 1980 so it's quite an old test It's accepted by Governments all around the world. So if you're looking for a visa It it can be used in the requirements for visas for the UK US Canada New Zealand Also, if you would like to study abroad in English speaking countries and some non-English speaking countries IELTS is a requirement. So you cannot enter a course unless you have the required IELTS score I mean, it's also useful for people who just want to improve their general English Yeah, a lot of different reasons why people would take the IELTS test. All right, and how long have you been teaching IELTS? On and off Six seven years I think so along with other test procedures. I've taught other Similar tests as well. I've taught the TOEFL test and TOEIC speaking But yeah About six or seven years. Yeah. All right. So the website and YouTube channel IELTS insider I'm gonna I'm checking the chat here a lot of people will say hello James We're not gonna look at every every message for for the hellos But I will focus on a few questions here Pallavi's asking teacher if I want to learn IELTS, what should I start first? Well, um, that's a good question Pallavi. Um, I suppose If if you're brand new to IELTS think about what you are strongest at in English I think that's always a good place to start So if you're reading is strong have a look at some IELTS materials on reading and see where your level is at with that but it's a four-discipline Sub a test Pallavi So You're going to have to look at at everything But I suppose a good place to start would be maybe to look at some mock tests That would give you some examples of the types of questions that you would expect and the types of texts that were being used So yeah, I think that's always a good starting point Learn about the test and look at some sample tests that are out there. Yeah It's it's not just about knowing English, but you also have to know how to take that test and practice that with the mock tests Layla is asking James in case I decided to take an IELTS exam. How long should I study before the exam? well, that's another very good question Layla and There's not an easy answer to this so it depends on a lot of things first of all What is your English ability your English proficiency now? secondly What is the target score you have on IELTS and how far away do you think you are from that score? so it I Would say it's never a short time People I know that I know they're studying IELTS some people have been going for years Some people maybe don't need as much as that they're six months to a year But it's certainly not a short-term thing Layla You're going to have to study for Quite a lot of time before you do it the amount of time really depends on your current ability and the ability that you need to reach To get the score that you want. So yeah, no easy answer, but I hope hope that has given you some insight Yes, and sleep walker is asking James Is it possible to take all four parts of the IELTS test on the same day? Well? Hmm, I I've never heard of this happening The the main reason for this being that the speaking test on IELTS is a face-to-face You have to physically be with the other person So I think It's maybe possible. I've just never heard of it Usually you would do the three sections writing reading and listening on one day and then either within I think it's usually within 10 days before or 10 days after you would have the speaking part So yeah, I'm not going to say it's impossible to take all four parts in one day But I think it would be very difficult I think it's safe to say that most most test centers do split that into days Yeah, they would they would have to this it would be too difficult to schedule. I think yeah Laila has another question here. What types of articles should I read for studying the IELTS exam? That's another very good question and I think the big thing here Laila is variety so there are Developing your everyday reading skills is great for IELTS because it increases your your speed of reading So websites like BBC websites CNN anything that covers a wide variety of topics is always a good starting point for reading But also it's important to look at maybe specific topics as well So the IELTS Reading exam will focus on more academic topics So whereas it's good to get a rounded knowledge of many subjects It's also good to try and read more specific articles Maybe scientific articles or political articles Again, you can find a lot of these types of articles on places like CNN BBC You can also look at kind of specialist websites for Those specific topics so yeah The big thing for me is Although it does depend on what you read is the amount the more that you can read The more your reading skills will be sharpened the more vocabulary you will you will learn as well okay, and By a yes, Sue Sam. Hello, Robin and James. Can how can I sound like a native speaker? Well, I would first ask the question. Why do you want to sound like a native speaker? but yeah, I Suppose if you really want to sound like a native speaker listening Try to mimic what you're what you're hearing. There's a lot of great TV shows or streaming online podcasts Listen to the intonation that people use Listen to their pronunciation of specific words and see if you can mimic that But as I said, I don't I don't think speaking like a native speaker is the most important thing I think speaking in your natural voice can be good as long as you're clear and your pronunciation is Easy to understand. I would agree with that 100% Okay, and Let's see We have a lot of questions here. We'll try to get to most of the questions Naz Naz mean deep some quick tips for writing Okay And they improve their writing James right every day. That's that's it keep a diary. It's a great way I always find keeping a diary is a great way to practice your past tense and When you're writing The the simple past tense is used so often So write a diary every day is a great tip Another good thing is when you learn new vocabulary Write it down write some sentences make a paragraph Using that that new vocabulary That can be a great way to practice writing But like with most things in language learning and Naz mean it's all about practice If you can get into a routine of writing every day You will notice you will improve Over time. It's a it'll be a gradual improvement, but there will be a big difference I would add to that as Cell phones are everywhere or mobile phones. A lot more people are just writing with their thumbs That's not enough for IELTS. You've got to either be typing on a keyboard or writing with a pen. Yeah Yeah, I agree with that. Yeah Type typing on a keyboard and typing on a phone are two different experiences But I have seen people writing essays with their thumbs Okay Here we go which channel is best for IELTS preparation Which channel is best? Well, there's only one channel you should be going to Sandeep and that is IELTS insider IELTS insider That's on YouTube and that's also the website IELTS insider calm. Yeah, so you teach there How often do you have a? Livestream yourself there It varies So over the summer we were doing about three live streams a week Just now we're doing one to two live streams a week on the channel But there is a lot of other content that is going to be coming up in the next few months So yeah, we will continue with the live streams there But the other content that comes on to the YouTube channel is going to be really useful for Preparing for the IELTS test and of course you can find a link to the channel in the description of this video Yeah, we have King Fazin Mo. Hello James. Could you please tell me how to improve speaking skill? so it's quite a it's quite a general question here because Without knowing which parts of speaking You're wanting to improve most but Like I said with writing One way to improve is practice as much as you can now that could be practicing face-to-face with other people It can be practicing online Maybe you've got some online groups where you can chat to people and if those options are not available to you try recording your own voice and Speaking looking back at what you've said try to identify any problem sounds Try to work on your fluency over time as well So yeah, I think with speaking is probably the most difficult thing to practice because you Either need a partner or you need the ability to record your your voice But again, try to get into some good habits. Try to speak every day if you can Also, try to analyze what you have said afterwards try to identify any problem areas that you may have I think that's a great starting point for improving your speaking skills All right. Thank you James from IELTS insider if you want to see more of James Please visit his YouTube channel IELTS insider the link is below Again, thank you very much James for your time. Thank you very much Robin, and I hope you have a great stream Okay, thank you. All right, so that was James. Thanks. I'm sorry if you had a lot of questions for James Go to IELTS insider ask him there. I am going to bring on the a to z English podcast group Let's start maybe they are waiting to come in I think I'll I'll just add Kevin here and so chill. Hello. I should we add Jack? Wait, he's okay. Make a wait. Well, let's bring him in All right, I'm the least from StreamYard prison. Thank you All right, if if you have any questions for this podcast team Start type of them and Who's gonna introduce who you are and what you do? Kev, you're the intro guy. I Guess that is that is what I do. So Jack down down below me so chill down down here and I Okay, your name is Okay down, what's your name? So chill, okay, we got everyone's name so chill Kevin and Jack Jack there we go We are the a to z English podcast hosts and I was just watching you talk to James not too long ago And he's working on IELTS test which is fantastic because we're a podcast we primarily focus on Listening and speaking skills not so much testing skills Everything is important of course, but we're a podcast so you can listen to us on your commute on the subway or driving or doing your laundry Or any time that you want Very quickly. Can you explain what a podcast is and why? English students should listen. Can you explain that a little more detail do that Jack? You're the yeah, sure I'm the I'm the I'm crazy about podcasts. I love them are So a podcast is very similar to a radio program Except the difference is that a podcast is something that you can that you can listen to it online So you can stream it or you can download the file and you can just listen to it anytime But it's it's basically the same as a radio program. It's just that you can listen to it anytime 24-7 anytime you want to From any place that you have an internet connection And if you don't have an internet connection just download the file and you then you can listen to it without internet Yeah, okay, and I I should say there is a link to the a to z English podcast Below this video in the description. You can go there after I Listen to their podcast multiple times a week. How many times a week do you? Release a new episode. So we try to release. Yeah, three a week Monday Wednesday Friday very early Monday morning Wednesday morning and Friday morning so that we can catch our listeners on their their morning commute to the office Or wherever they're going And what kind of podcasts are like what what is the topic you're doing these days? Or you're focusing on or is each episode different during the week? Yeah, I'll kick this over to social. Maybe you could talk about the two episodes that we just recorded today Yeah, we did one on idioms and we also did a quick chat. So usually I would say We usually do like a grammar based one Which Kev and Jack take care of because they have more experience teaching English than I do We've been idioms one which is kind of a toss up between who and and as you said Robin idioms are like the Would you say infinity something about the Avengers anyway? Yeah, it's just infinite It's nice like be able to balance Because a lot of us have like different understanding or multiple understandings of an idiom, right? So those are really fun And then we also do quick chats which are just about any topic that we come up with and it's a good way to help Listeners build their vocabulary and kind of listen to a natural English-speaking environment All right, and we do have a question from Layla. What are the difficulties that you are still encountering with the podcast? Episodes are are you having difficulties making these? I don't know. Yeah, maybe I Don't know. Maybe Layla's got some inside information No, I think we're I think we're doing we're it's going pretty well a kev. What do you think is are there any? problems that we've encountered in In terms of just making the episodes I think the hardest thing is is getting them to people and and always thinking of topics Of course and with the quick chats and grammar and we do our best to think of topics that people would be interested in listening to or common grammar mistakes that that listeners or learners would have and so as always For everyone out there if you're ever if there's something that you want us to talk about let us know We're happy to talk about anything, but that's always the the difficult thing. What should we talk about today? Once we have a topic. We're very good at talking How can they tell you how can they give you feedback and can they is there any way for them to talk to you directly? Oh 100% so you can go to our WhatsApp group the A to Z English podcast in this link below The link is below You can also we have a facebook page so you can leave a message in facebook You can leave a comment right on our website So if you find an episode that you enjoy you can leave a comment there you can leave a comment on youtube And we even have a telegram as well. So and we have an instagram which i'm a chart Yes, instagram all the social media Collaborate teachers. Why do you think that podcast will help us to learn english? Well, I don't think sorry go ahead social I was just gonna say I think it's a really great way for listeners to Get in on a natural english speaking conversation I've noticed in our whatsapp group that a lot of um a lot of our listeners have talked about how Different english sounds to them when it's a bunch of native speakers speaking together So I do think that it's a lot of practice and they can pick up natural forms of speech like the idioms and grammar and Just natural speaking patterns. So I think that that's really helpful on top of that Jack always tries to make transcripts and things so they can pick up vocabulary and other resources jack Do you want to talk more about that maybe? Sure. So if you go to our website, there's always a a transcript with uh some some kind of Not assignment, but a little bit of of something that you can do so for our idioms episodes We ask our students to use the three idioms from the episode In sentences and then you can put those sentences into the whatsapp group And we'll read them and give you some feedback on those sentences For our quick chat episodes that are just about Random topics that we think are interesting We will ask some more open-ended questions where students can just share their experiences with that topic And some vocabulary as well that they can learn that would that's from that episode So yeah lots of ways to kind of interact with our podcast that goes beyond just listening to it Um Kevin There is a question on the screen there I want you to answer this. Who is the most active of you and who's the most lazy about doing podcast episodes? So till seems to be volunteering for the lazy jack is definitely the the most active And and yeah, I won't I won't point to anyone specifically as being the most lazy But I will say that jack is is the the driving force behind everything that we do I would say It's not that i'm lazy, but that my life is a little chaotic They have to be kind of patient with me. Sorry. I I guess this is part of hiring someone who's like a lot younger maybe Every every the whole team showed up tonight. That's right that counts that counts That's a good point Michelle keva jack it's so chill. I listened to you on youtube because they still need subtitles to understand you So who speaks the fastest? Kevin you lost that you lost that title If we I think if we had a competition it might be interesting But I do my best to to stay slow because I know Having taught english for a very long time. I know that that It can be difficult for people to understand very fast Spoken english, so well as as teacher sorry to cut you off as teachers. We use the teacher talk Yeah, which is very different than how native speakers would talk to each other What do you think about teacher talk? Do you think that's uh overused and not Properly preparing students for actual native speaker conversation speeds and That's interesting. I I would say for me it's really hard when we're doing this right now because My teacher talk can't change When I'm in the classroom my teacher talk changes depending on the people the students that I have some some students need more teacher talk Some less and so I'm able to adjust um But on a podcast You don't know you don't know who's listening. Well, you know every level is listening potentially I like what you said. Oh, sorry. Okay. I like what you said before the robin about kind of giving students letting students experience what a real English conversation is going to feel like because Podcasting is a lot about like we have three three hosts, but you are the fourth host You know, you're kind of like a fly on the wall Observing this English conversation. That's the what I love what I like about listening to podcasts personally Is that I feel like I'm part of the conversation even though I'm not physically there It feels like I am and so I I don't teach or talk but Apparently my natural speaking voice is really slow because I I haven't slowed myself down at all For any of the podcasts, but I never get a complaint about speaking too fast. So It's very interesting. I'm not sure but social. What do you think about that? I think jack has a really great natural like speaking pattern and good diction and then Kevin is really conscious of this too and does a good job I'm definitely the one who has to work on speaking slowly Because like right now I'm trying to speak slowly It's like really hard I'm sure my audience appreciates There's like a direct shoot between my brain and my mouth and it goes like fast So it's really hard for me to slow down. Um, I grew up bilingual as well And spanish speakers speak really quickly. So I think that's one thing that kind of Is a detriment to me, but um, I'm I'm trying to speak more slowly But I think what jack said is true I actually never used to use teacher talk in the classroom because I taught younger students And I noticed that they were able to Pick up on a native pace quickly So I just spoke at a native pace and they could understand me just fine But with adults who sometimes they need a little more I think also their mind just like you get confused or overwhelmed as an adult more In a way kids are just used to being constantly stimulated so It just takes practice to slow down Yeah alissa How is a podcast different from educational videos like on youtube is a podcast more on audio than visual? Uh, there's no visual to a podcast. Do you put your podcasts on youtube? We do I do upload them, but uh, there's just like a Basically a photograph on the back screen We we've been trying to transition to maybe a video version of the podcast, but it really is a You know a a platform for listening like that's what a podcast is and in its essence So we haven't put a lot of our effort into the the visual So we do put it on youtube because some people like to listen to it there But that's not really how it's supposed to be consumed. It's more of a of a listening thing But that also is why we have those pdfs to to help as well so If you want you can just listen, but if you want something a little bit more Then on our web page linked on all of our episodes, of course there's a pdf that has some questions and A computer-generated transcript and things that can be the visual if you need it if you want it, but you don't need it true That's right And pilavi asked teachers. Do you all like listening to the podcast every day? Well, they make their podcast. I will say do you listen to other podcasts? Don't don't promote them. Just I have a I have a pretty steady diet of like maybe 10 or 15 podcasts that I listen to regularly And so it's I do a lot of podcast listening for sure I do some not quite as much as jack, but I listen to a few I it takes me about one hour to go from home to the university where I teach And so that's a great time to listen to podcasts I'm just sitting on the bus or sitting on the subway And I could just be looking at my phone looking at memes on the internet But instead I like to listen to educational podcasts. And so that's that's when I do my podcasting I listen through a couple of podcasts, but um, I think that with my generation we tend to like visual like Visual podcasts like we watch them live recorded on youtube and everyone's kind of sitting around and there's a visual component to the podcast That they like pull up videos and things like that So Yeah, but I do listen to a couple podcasts All right, so all of you listen do listen to podcasts and you're not learning English. You're just enjoy that medium Yeah, but my favorite is still the a to z english podcast Of course Multiple times a week Alyssa is asking are your podcasts live or pre-recorded? Pre-recorded Yeah, we don't do we did do a live a couple live streams In the beginning we've taken a step back to offer Just another podcast episode per week instead of a live stream But it's it's pre-recorded and edited and Music is added and things like that. Oh, I will add that even though it's pre-recorded. It's a very Live style of speaking. We don't have a script that we just follow exactly so Right now us speaking is not much different from the podcast itself. Just you can listen anytime you want I think Both, uh, we got a couple comments saying both I and kevin are speaking quickly. We need to learn from jack Mine's just genetically. Yeah, there was no they're not doing anything genetically superior. I'm just a turtle apparently Yeah, I was born in new york and new yorkers speak speak quickly. Oh, I was born in the midwest. So there you go That's it. I was born in the midwest too, but uh, and I also grew up in kentucky So I should have like a slow accent but What happened to the southern drawl? And I'm from canada Whatever that means Yeah, whatever that means All right, I'm Oh, so layla's asking and do you Do you listen to your podcast? Do you ever go back and listen again to your podcast? I listen to some of the to the podcast from before I joined the the group I used to really enjoy their podcast the soul patch And uh, it's just nice to listen to them chitchat about different things I feel like uh, kevin and jack are really interesting They have a lot of life experience and a lot of experience teaching a lot of experience living abroad Um, so for me it was always really interesting to get some insight and before I moved to korea I really enjoyed listening to their podcast because their take on the culture was was interesting to me I felt like it was a lot more diverse than the typical superficial kind of k-pop type things that you might usually see so Yeah, I enjoyed that Oh, thank you. That's very nice. All right. Let's let's wrap it up here. So what's the name of your podcast? guys podcast Beginning to the end You gotta rehearse that a little more Yeah, the the a to z english podcast And uh, there's links below this video to check them out. It is Certainly an excellent excellent way to improve uh, your english listening and learn all kinds of different things about The english language and of course we have three wonderful hosts There you go that confirms it you have two wonderful hosts Who's who's making noise Sorry Okay Thank you for coming on the live stream today and thanks for having us. Yeah, thanks for having us. It's good to see you anytime I I think a lot of my audience is going to be in shock. There's four native speakers chatting here With different accents at levels, but thanks a lot. So, um Again links below check them out and uh Enjoy the whatsapp group and you can talk to them directly. Yeah comment. I'm not with us anytime All right guys, I'm gonna get I'm gonna kick you out. All right. Have a good night. Thanks. Thank you. Bye everybody All right, everyone. Wow, we had a lot of interviews today I'm gonna go back To the aisles questions. If anyone has any aisles questions, I can answer the aisles questions here if harry's here Is there any certain point that says we are ready to take an aisles test? We know that the aisles test is not cheap. So we definitely don't want to spend money for nothing. Thank you so much Well harry the aisles test is Is checking your level so if you You know, there is no pass or fail on the test. It's just checking your level So if you need the test for something Then probably you might need, you know, whatever you need it for immigration a job or going to university The aisles test, uh Usually you might need a aisles 6 6.5 7 7.5 in that range the top score is band nine Uh If you do not need the aisles test you should you could still study the aisles it helps your english great But you if you are trying to get a score you will kind of know Your level through a practice test things like that, but Don't think of it as a pass or fail test because if you get aisles four That's great. That doesn't mean Fail Uh Tadashi, can I get a scholarship for my study by giving aisles exam? There are scholarship opportunities around the world. I don't have the details now, but of course The better your aisles score Uh, the better opportunities you'll have Puna I'm sure how can I correct my pronunciation skills? A lot of people think they have terrible pronunciation. They self Diagnose themselves as having terrible pronunciation But actually I find that a lot of people's pronunciation is Fine. It's great. I can understand every word they say So If you do have a serious pronunciation problem, then there's things like shadowing or you know Mimicking watching a movie and mimicking, uh, your favorite actors speaking, but the most part Rarely do I meet someone who has a really severe pronunciation problem? A lot of people just don't have confidence. So I would say to you punam I don't I'm pretty sure your pronunciation is better Then you think all right. I'm going down here if you got any questions The grammar detective, uh, can you can you come on? Can you come on to the live stream? Let me know grammar detective Robin this interview is too short. Can I know why? Well, you know, we can't always have one-hour interviews with uh, james Tail and be I want to know how to improve my english skills Study every day get active. We have a whatsapp group. We have many channels. We're always here. We're always around to help students But students, um Don't take advantage of all the opportunities. We are giving them for free. We are giving a lot of great Opportunities in the whatsapp group and other youtube videos to help Students And they don't take that they don't take that. I don't know why They just keep jumping around the internet looking for the easy way You're never going to learn english. You got to focus There's a lot of great teachers in our whatsapp group A cash whatever they talk at just 20 minutes might it take two days for me. They're so fast speakers. Yes, they were That's that's that's the level you need to get to if you're going to america or the uk or another english speaking country What is the best way to get rid of spelling mistakes when we write by hand not typing on the keyboard? That's a tough one sleepwalker because you know everyone even native speakers have Terrible spelling these days even me. Uh, it's it's just practice Writing, you know, if we have an electronic device that they have autocorrect or You know, they'll show us a mistake. But if you're writing by hand, yeah, you you need to keep writing by hand Keep a diary and keep writing by hand So you learn the proper spelling experience I'm wondering who is the grammar detective. I will bring on the grammar detective. Maybe next week or today if he's around the grammar detective is Uh Another teacher in the whatsapp groups. He's not in the same group as you may but he is in the other group They rarely Penna Ramirez. I know a lot of things english, but I'm afraid to speak. I don't know why are you afraid? I'm always sad because Students are shy or scared to speak Don't be scared Is not necessary to read different types of topics even if I don't enjoy some of them Well, if you're going to take the ads test, you got to be exposed to all kinds of topics if you're just learning english Focus on the topics that you love Teachers a good idea to think how do I sound more like an english native speaker? What do you think? Uh, again, you don't need to sound like a native english speaker Like if you're not going to america and you're not going to uk you can become fluent in english But you don't sound like me. You can have your regional pronunciation or accent. That's fine Uh You don't have to sound like the people in your favorite hollywood movie So uh palavi. I think you know everyone wants to sound exactly like an american And understand american culture and like no, you don't need to do that. You don't need to do that Robert, do you have beautiful handwriting? print printing How can I describe printing no, but my cursive when i'm connecting the letters looks okay Have you taught aisles for students 101? Yes. I have extensive experience teaching aisles one to one extensive experience teaching TOEFL one to one alt opic One to one TOEIC one to one. I have taught every test one to one I used to do a lot of tutoring to business people students Lots of experience Uh, can we use a list is that just asking a general english question? Can we use the phrase having said that or that being said in essays? No, those are speaking expressions Uh, no those are informal. You cannot use those in essays Yeah, I will hey folks mike. Can you come on if you join the uh If you join the uh stream yard, I'll bring you on if you have time I'm just checking the Question the older questions. I might have missed Teachers if possible learn english in three months. No if you're starting from zero And you want to be fluent? No, uh, but palava you already know english. So, uh, you know English is It depends, you know, if you're if you're living in an english speaking country Yeah, you can improve very fast and of course age matters. So If you're teaching children english for three months They will have a lot of gains If you're teaching someone over 40 in three months, they might not have as many, uh Improve as much improvement as a kid For you palavi, you're still young palavi. You can learn a lot in three months. You can learn a lot in three months Teacher you're not seeing I just answered your question palavi palavi You have to realize that I skipped over many people's questions not just yours Please do an interview with mike soon. Well, I I offered him I'll do that maybe with mike maybe next week. I'll do mike and the Grammar detective if he's available We'll bring them on All right, I'll end this stream in two minutes. So get any last final comments in and uh There's quite a quick active stream with james coming in and then The a to z podcast team the english podcast Do you think if a person is old it is easier to study ills? Well, you know, is this an english question? Mike you can just join All right, let's bring in mike You can just join the streamer and mike you don't have the uh, I'll send mike a link Mike you better be entertainment entertaining I sent you a link mike We'll give them a couple minutes to see if mike comes in Robin are your students often dissatisfied with marks what you gave them? Not often. Of course. There are some students that Don't like the mike or don't don't like the mike don't like the marks. I gave them All right, mark mike's not coming Boo Mike teased us All right, I can't imagine how can interview four teachers from less than an hour. Hello teacher. Hello A cash next time with mike. All right, we'll end it if mike's not coming Three Two one Thank you everyone for watching today If you're not a member, please join And at least the whatsapp group below come say hello to all the teachers. We're doing we're working every day to help you uh We'd like to see you there and uh I will uh be back next week on my other channel. Uh Mike's oh geez You showed up Hey, I didn't even get chance to clean up my desk area anything. I just I just It's whatever right now. What's up The live stream is over. This is casual. We're still live, but this is casual chat They're still watching uh Yeah, we had a few interviews Today and now you're the bonus highlight Of the uh live stream How you do it just who are who are you introduce yourself in case someone doesn't know Uh I am an an english teacher online as well a youtuber I am robin's friend. I don't say I have a friend I'll say robin's friend and uh, my name is mike And uh, my best friend What's uh So good to see you because i'm good to see hope everybody's having a good night. Hope you're having a good night robin I hope all of you are having a good night. Yeah, mike and I both live in korea And you are a teacher with mike's english lab That's right And but how long have you been an english teacher? um I've been in education now for or education I would say because i've taught so much i would say in teaching 12 years 12 years now 12 years okay, and uh How long had how long have you been teaching just english out of that 12 years? Out of that 12 years just english i would say Maybe four months Just english so you've always been teaching some content in english Right to students that are not Uh, maybe their first language is not english Right, so i've always yeah, so i've taught students Who were learning english for a while? Uh, but just in particular english only a couple months Layla asked how long have you met each other and how well i i knew about mike longer Uh, because mike had another youtube channel And he used to do live streams there where he would talk about many topics And i would visit him sometimes, but he didn't know who i was. I was just some random guy I had no idea And then uh, I was filming at a studio in soul and the studio boss Xander he recommended mike as a teacher. I thought yeah, mike would make a great teacher or mike is a great teacher So i brought him in to Make some videos for me and Uh, you look young. Who are you talking about? I I'll take that one. Yeah talking about you talking about you Tell me about you robin Mike what was your hardest hardest thing about your first year as a teacher in korea? My hardest thing uh about my first year in korea was getting used to um Actually, no, this is probably one of the best things was parents were very um eager for their kids to learn versus back in the u.s Like education is not as important Um, but I would say maybe the hardest thing was the language probably language barrier because I teach in korea So a lot of my parents are korean and so it's hard to communicate sometimes with parents Uh, also with some of the students they have language. We have language barrier as well That was probably the hardest thing for me I uh, it's it's just a place to hold my the hold my pencil Uh, yes, he is uh an architect in the daytime I'm building my english teacher I'm building your english architect elissa mike robin said you kind of look like eddie murphy I Sorry I don't did I say that ever? I'm sure if I do this if you do that's pretty fun I'm gonna start saying eddie murphy lines now What are the pros and cons of being in korea so far? Oh Uh, con I'll say cons first cons about you're on the record. You're on the record Cons being far away from from family Being far away from family also, um differences in the law I'm saying the law just some things that like I don't agree with in korea versus things back in the states Um as well as sometimes language barrier good things. I feel safe It's pretty safe here. No guns Uh, a little crime rate. Um, at least, um, I don't know about white collar crime, but anyway, I digress Um, what else is good? I like the food. That's a pro And korea is a good place to travel to places in east asia And now that covet or now that a lot of places are opening up for travel It's easy to go May says I love mike's videos with funny sound effect Do you have funny sound effects in your videos? I do I do in my videos. I always use nintendo sound effects I always use nintendo I love it Thank you mayfong Mike's english lab. That's his youtube channel Where you can listen to uh funny sound effects all the time As as you learn english Are you married? I am not married I am Uh, mike, I notice you keep a very late schedule Uh, you are a night owl. Is that correct? I am and now that I switch to doing content all the time I stay up much later so Doesn't that disrupt your wife's? Sleeping habits if you're busy in the other room Make not one bit not one bit or perhaps that's preferred Yeah, I mean if anything late at night, I'm always editing and during the day I shoot because at late at night. I don't have the energy to shoot a video So I like even I've tried it before I don't have the energy Late at night and you can see it on camera So that's why I'll shoot during the day when I have the energy And then edit at night. Do you do you have a lot of outside noise leaking to your studio? Yeah Like neighbors or motorcycles. I don't you're at a quiet place Yeah, I think it's also because I'm in the center of my apartment complex And so we're further away from the road. So not as much dealing with cars Uh, but then also I guess with the microphones I use as well. They're pretty solid Mike and what what floor do you live on? 21st 21st floor. Mm-hmm. And what's your address? It's uh is Have you ever felt like an eight Well, I'm gonna be honest we Well, I'm gonna speak for Mike too. We are aliens. We are aliens here and we are Not fully Assimilated or We do stick out in crowds and people do still Stare or treat us differently So, um Koreans are you know, there's still not so much so many foreigners here Right That is correct. That is correct. So yeah, we still stick out all the time Mike do all your students love you so much? Uh, I think they kind of like me Sort of kind of Sort of kind of But uh, why would they not like you? It's really funny whenever I have to become strict. They're very surprised But most of the time just very like Just however. I am with you all. That's how I am in the classroom too Like the same way. Can you turn on strict Mike right now? I don't Uh, let me see if I can let's try this. Let's see what's a trigger for you to When kids talk at the same time as me That's my trigger when I when the You know when the People are talking Talk Wait, let's think And what are you shut up you little It it is a lot of time. Hey, sometimes you guys say look, I need you to shut up and then it gets like Oh, he's serious. Yeah, I'm pretty serious. It's not talking Hmm. What is the best job? Yes? Yes, please donkey. That is nice. That's a nice boulder I guess because Eddie Murphy played donkey and shrek That's sorry to talk like donkey Uh, I hate to do it because I have to go all in all in if I talk like donkey Oh, I can't imagine Mike is straight. Oh wait I can't do it. I can't do shrek. So it's not a good team here. Don't don't don't I can do it. It takes a second Don't get donkey. Oh, it's a really bad like sky Shrek Do you know about the meg halea india weather? That's quite a Odd question. Uh, we don't know about the weather is something happening there No, I have no idea You know, why would it just just all right, we'll finish up mike. Thanks for coming Yeah, you're welcome. Thank you for squeezing me in you save the live stream. It was so dull until you came Why don't you invite me on your live streams? You come anyway You know, that's a good idea. We should play a game on your live stream that we should some sort of challenge maybe the students could Do something to figure out who's who's the uh Who's the coolest guy We can do some kind of quiz or some time some kind of like mini game show with us After this live stream, what are you gonna do? Uh, well, I was gonna make probably one or two more videos about countries Countries that I left out and then uh, how to say them in english And then uh, and I think probably I'm gonna try and shoot maybe one or two more shorts I'm gonna try and do before I sleep. I want to do two to four more shorts And then tomorrow I want to do film some longer videos And then I have to plan for the live stream tomorrow because I'm trying to go back to doing live streams Do you have a live stream tomorrow? You're doing it twice a week I'm trying to do it twice a week. It's easier Wednesdays. Just do one, but I'm trying to stay consistent with two So because I was doing Yeah Wait, do you have one tomorrow? I I for my daily English homework. I do a random one But if you're doing one usually I do the if you're doing one, I won't do one Just let me know Yeah, I'll let you know. I'll let you know But you can plan on doing one because Wednesday Wednesday is my posted day that I always do live streams on Wednesday So but we can talk. I'll message you. I'll message you. I try to be consistent, but Doing two times a week when I'm also doing videos daily is It's punishment. Uh, it's hard. It's you know, everyone youtube is hard It is it is this daily daily struggle. It's very frustrating and uh We do feel your love. It's not enough. You got to give us more love See palavi one smiley face one heart. That's not enough palavi. That's not enough at least At least two smiley faces and a heart That'll be good. What's up harry sleepwalker three heads or not even to us Do a spelling bee They're talking to each other. All right. Thanks a lot Mike, I'm gonna kick you out now. Thanks for coming Thank you everyone. I'm gonna end the live stream. Thanks for watching. We had a lot of people here. Wow That's the busiest live stream I've ever done. Anyway, thanks to everyone who uh came on today Okay, and everyone who's watching so bye