 Hello everyone, welcome to today's live stream. It is a very special live stream because I'm going to interview the hosts from the A to Z English podcast and here they are are the two hosts Jack and Kevin welcome Thanks for having us. Yeah. Thanks Robin. Good evening. It's nice to have you here We're gonna talk about your podcast tonight before we get into the podcast stuff Why don't you to introduce yourselves? I'm sure I'll I'll go first. Go for it. My name is Jack and I am from the United States I was born in Minnesota. Some of you might already know that if you've listened to the podcast already. I have been an English teacher for about 20 years now and I've been at the same university here in South Korea for about 17 years and so that's that's what I do. Yeah Okay, Kevin. Yeah, and I'm Kevin, of course I'm also American and Jack and I are long-term friends because we work at the same university here in South Korea. I'm also American, but I'm from the desert the South Southwest, Arizona so if you've ever seen a cowboy movie, that's that's Arizona and Yeah, I've been doing English teaching in Korea and just traveling around the world when I can meeting cool people Now I'm Canadian. I've never been to Minnesota, but I have been to Arizona and I really loved Arizona Yeah, one of my favorite states Anyway, welcome to the live stream. We're gonna talk about podcasts and Chat anyone in the chat if you have any questions for Jack or Kevin, please let me know Send type the question and I'll be sure to ask them So I'm ready to see some names that I recognize from our we chat Very cool Lollie Lollie and Salome All right France and this is very exciting Absolutely. Gilner. Hi. Lots of people are joining How are you how are you friend we are we're all fine Absolutely And sleepwalkers here All right, lots of Harry 300 Nice, all right. Oh, there's a lot of comments. So I can't really oh wow. There's a really a lot of comments I can't really get through them all And I had a question but we can get back to that maybe after we introduce what all right, so guys, what's what's a podcast? All right, I can handle this a podcast is very simple. It's it's very similar to a radio program The only difference is that it's it's you it's put on the internet So unlike the radio where you have to listen to it at a certain time You can download a podcast or stream a podcast Anytime you want and it's always available You can go back and listen to an older program or the newest episodes It's just a very very convenient way to listen to audio And so I would yeah, I don't know Kevin do you uh, would you agree with that definition? It's it's talk radio I listen to a lot of podcasts myself just because it's a way to Learn about anything. There's so many cool podcasts Yeah Is is this a podcast right now? Like what's the difference? This could be a podcast if you if you recorded the audio of our live stream And then uploaded it to a website and made it available for people to listen Uh, then it would be a podcast That's essentially right now the live aspect is not a podcast So podcasts are things that you can check at any time That you want once we upload it. It's just there And what's the name of your podcast? We are the a to z English podcasts because we are hoping to help everyone out there with their With learning and practicing English and everything English from a to z everything from the alphabet to to Not xylophones because that's an x but any apples to zebras, you know something like that Anything anything out there and we've just started but we will have everything eventually. That's right. That's right All right. I'll remind my chat if you have any questions for jack or kevin, please Please ask in the chat and I'll be sure to ask them Uh our our podcast good for learning English I I think that uh, they absolutely are are fantastic for learning English. Um The reason I say that is because You know, a lot of times when you're studying English, you need to be in front of a computer or in a classroom um a podcast is something that you can listen to And improve your English while you're on the bus Going to school going to class cleaning your house washing the dishes Um, it's just a very you just pop in your headphones and you hit play on your phone your smartphone And uh, yeah, it's it's uh, it's so convenient. I think that's that's why It's a it's a great way to learn because it's just it lets you learn in those times when you're doing things that you might Be just, you know wasted time. So I don't know Kevin. Would you agree with that? Yeah? That's why I love podcasts as well because I like to listen to them when I'm like riding my bicycle for example And when you're riding a bike or if you're driving a car or walking even it's hard to watch a video It's hard to read a book But just putting in your earphones then a podcast is great and you can Just listen while you're doing so many other things Of course. So that's why podcasts I think are are cool Yeah, I agree. Yeah. All right. I have a question here from Anna Maria. How much time Have you been working with podcasts or maybe how long have you been working with podcasts? um, well For me, I've been a fan of podcasts for a long time like 10 years So I listened to a lot of podcasts um But uh about a year a little over a year ago already. Yeah, I've been a bit over Yeah, I came to kevin with an idea and another friend of ours and we started a podcast called the soul patch podcast which was Kind of related to korean topics um and things about korea Which is where we live um, but uh, we did that for for over a year and then uh With the uh, kind of encouragement of robin we have branched out to uh, english language education So, uh, we just wanted, you know, we're really appreciative to you robin for giving us that little push to uh, to do that I just saw two professional podcasters and I thought they would be great at Teaching english Yeah, we have been teaching english longer than we've been podcasting, of course But podcasting already for over a year sure And uh, leila kevin and jack why did you move to korea as well? Oh, that's a big question I just want to mention we are all in korea Yes, is the podcast about korea? No, the podcast is not about korea the podcast is for everybody all over the planet For anyone interested in learning english this podcast is for you all right So the podcast is not about korea, but uh, so why why why are you guys in korea? Well, that's a good question. I mean for me it was uh It started with uh one year of teaching english in thailand and uh, which turned into three years My my original plan was just one year And uh, I jumped over to korea and started teaching here And I just never looked back. I just I just stayed it was kind of in uh A happy accident you could say that I ended up here, but uh, but I love it, you know, it's uh, I love teaching english Yeah, mine's pretty similar as well I was a teacher before I came to korea actually I was teaching at my university back in the states And I loved teaching. It's just it's fun being in front of students And I love traveling as well. So I realized at the time that being a native english speaker I could go anywhere in the world and Travel and teach at the same time two things that I loved to to do already And I came to korea. I was thinking I might do korea and then maybe japan or thailand or indonesia or anywhere But I just love korean food So I just I just stayed here All right, uh, where can we find your podcast? Um, yeah, no, that's a that's a great question. We actually Yeah, it's a very important question. We we have a website And it is uh a to z english podcast dot com All right. That's a to z english podcast dot com Okay, I'm just posting it in the chat. Oh, that's great. Thank you robin So if you go there, uh, you can find everything It's a one-stop shop for the whole podcast if you click you can click that whatsapp button And join our whatsapp group from the homepage. You can visit all of our social media Accounts and you can see us on instagram and twitter telegram Um and facebook, of course and youtube, of course But also if you click the episodes button On the homepage that'll take you to all of the episodes and then you just have to click the episode you want to listen to and there's a player On that page and you just click play and you can listen to it and also We provide a free study guide that in a pdf form. So there's a study guide with some questions It has a vocabulary And uh, there's even a fill in the blanks section So you can do a little listening practice And you have to listen carefully to to fill in those those uh those blanks a little bit of homework for those who want it Yeah, a little bit of homework and it gives you a little more purpose for listening to the podcast if you're really interested in learning english, so Is the podcast available in itunes Absolutely, we are on apple uh in apple podcast So you can find us in itunes if you type in The a to z english podcast all right And salami on the website, of course you can click the website that will link to itunes Uh, do you choose the podcast topics randomly? That's a question from salami Yeah, um, one of the ways that we've been Choosing topics lately is by going into our whatsapp group and uh, the students are active in the whatsapp group And so we've been saying like what topics would you like us to talk about? What do you want us to discuss and we've gotten some really good ideas? And so basically we talk about we'll talk about anything Um, we're interested in like I said, it's the a to z english podcast so we we'll cover any topic and You know kevin and i know each other well, so we're we're very comfortable Just discussing any topic and sharing ideas and telling stories about our past And we love to share that with you the listeners out there too All right, and I will say that although right now some of the topics seem a little random Like we're just talking about travel or or pets or things like that As we continue to make more and more episodes then we'll start to have really specific focus on different things as well But we've just started and that's why we're so excited to to bring what we have to everybody here That's right. We're still and we're still uh adding different kinds of of episodes as well. We released an episode called Stories like uh You can just listen to it Listen to me read a short story And uh, there's even a transcript that goes along with that So if you're if you're into reading or into just listening to stories. We have uh, something like that available So yeah, there's there's a lot of uh different ideas that we have right now And uh, may feng chi ask the question. Do the podcasts come with transcriptions or transcripts? Um, right now they don't uh kev, do you yeah We're working on that. Um, a full transcript is a little bit difficult to to do But we have some plans to hopefully get a full transcript up in the future right now We've just got the simple vocabulary And some fill in the blanks and things like that. So not yet But it is something we have talked about and hopefully we'll be able to get that for you later Absolutely Layla says I would like to say Podcast is one of the best and fruitful materials to learn english by a fun way Thanks. All right. Thank you. Layla. Yeah What's the uh tone of your podcast? Uh, is it uh fun or funny? Time with you guys We think it's funny. Yeah, it's funny to us. Uh Yeah We try to keep it light, you know, like I don't think that uh students want necessarily something that's too heavy Um, but uh, like I said, we're still experimenting with different styles So if students that want if students want something more academic, uh, we can always Do an episode like that where we talk about grammar talk about uh parts of speech and things like that But I think right now, uh, students are enjoying the conversational Nature of the podcast. I think that's a big part of it is conversational, right? A big part for me I saw someone in the chat earlier asked if I speak korean living in korea and I do speak some korean here But there it is and For me a big part of learning a language learning korean or or any language is simple communication My korean is not perfect. It's not it's really not But I can communicate with korean people around me. I can order things at the store I can buy what I want. I can do basic things at the doctor Uh, and I think that's what's most important for Beginning to learn a language, you know, if you travel or if you meet a foreigner if you meet someone in your country That you're not going to talk about politics to start maybe maybe later, but it's just conversation And you know, just basic. How are you? How are you doing? You know, what are your hobbies? And that's what we're focused on to begin with is Conversation can you communicate in english and later we can get into some really tougher topics But we're starting with the more more conversational comfortable things Uh Yes, so you do speak korean I do I do I do speak korean. Jack jack. Do you speak? No comment. I uh, yeah I think uh, you know, we don't really want to talk about that but a lot of expats, you know, Especially english teachers do not pick up korean while they're here We do I think we have basic survival korean, but uh for the most part Uh, I don't know. Are you actively studying korean jack? Well, uh actively I'm not so if that helps I I feel better than I'm currently not actively. I need to I need to get studying again I I have studied in the past. I can read the the you know, like I can read the alphabet and and I can order food and I can take a taxi and I can do a lot of things but um having like a meaningful conversation Is one of my future goals We'll say I will say for that though because I've been quite busy I don't have time to go to a korean school these days. I have in the past these days. I don't So my korean studying is all on my phone. I have a vocabulary app and a podcast Korean podcast every everyone watching or listening. We are three veteran teachers, uh, we spend our days thinking of ways to Help our students Learn english, so we're spending our days making new content and thinking of ways to Help you guys so and the thing that students should remember is that uh, if you have a smartphone That's just as you is useful for listening to a podcast as a computer So, you know, you can find podcasts and play them on a smartphone very easily So yeah, that's all you need headphones and uh a phone All right, how long does it take you to make an episode? Oh, that's a good question. Um So Yeah, I mean like the recording aspect of it is actually The shorter part of it, you know when kevin and I sit down and we decide on a topic And then we uh, we talk we record the whole the whole thing the whole conversation And then really the podcast comes out of that conversation after we're done talking Because I'll put it into an editing editing. I'll use editing software To kind of cut all the little pauses and and things that we don't really that were maybe not clear Whatever and try to make it into a nice Uh, something that is nice to listen to and we'll add some music and stuff like that. So I would say probably if we talk for Uh 15 minutes or 20 minutes It takes me another hour to you know edit the podcast And I always listen to it one time after i'm done to make sure I didn't miss anything. That's a lot of work That's a lot of work. Yeah. Yeah But it's fun. I like the editing aspect Oh, here's a good question. Sorry. Here's a good question for kevin Why did you leave the usa many of us dreaming about going there? Um, well like I said, I wanted to travel uh around the world and the one thing though, so my great grandparents Moved to the usa To for the same reason that you and maria. Maybe we're dreaming about going there to to find a better life and I think america is A unique country and it still does provide a good life for many people But there are many good countries around the world that can provide good lives and me leaving korea Leaving america coming to korea was for the same reason that my grandparents went to america in the first place to to find something new And america is not always the best for everything. It's the best for some things But not for everything and not for everyone everyone wants different things And I was just happy to to be somewhere else Yeah, I would agree with that. I would say korea was my land of opportunity Um, I there was opportunity here for me to work and so yeah very much like uh going to america America is called the land of opportunity, right? It's one of one of the names I felt the same way about korea. Um, and so yeah, I think the the american dream. I found it Uh, I found it in korea. That's uh an interesting aspect of my life there. Yeah All right, uh, leila, what are the difficulties that you still encounter while Making or doing your podcasts? Hmm kev. What uh, what kind of Over each other Talking over talking over each other. What does that mean talking over each other? We talk at the same time And so it one thing that's very strange about doing a podcast via zoom or other programs like this is It's we're not together It would be much nicer if jack and I could be sitting next to each other And and talking and doing it over the internet is a bit strange sometimes Other problems that we have are topics That's why we're always asking for topics ideas because we're thinking of them all day every day But we want to so you encourage you encourage your whatsapp members to give you topics Oh, absolutely. Yeah talk about we are happy to to talk about because it's it's It's fun for me to talk about other topics as well like jack and I We've talked many years about many different topics and so we're having the same conversation sometimes again and again But sometimes if someone asks us a question, maybe it's something I've never talked to jack about and so yeah It's more fun for me too. If it's a if it's a new topic and the transcription problem Uh You you don't transcribe or you don't make a script yet Is that is that something students could help you with? Um, absolutely. I mean it's uh, yeah, I mean if it's difficult for you Uh, perhaps you can get Give some tasks uh to your students to help you transcribe a script that would help your listening Well, I would throw that out there right now if you uh, if any of you out there are interested in uh, doing A listening exercise like that where you listen and and type it into a transcript Please contact us. You know get let us know in in the whatsapp group or or send us an email Um, our email is I think that would be really good for students to help out with that Students listening and chance to you have a chance to you know, listen and transcribe their podcasts Yeah, uh, the the cool thing about our whatsapp group is that once you join and and you participate You're it's you're part of the our podcast family and uh, and that is a really uh cool aspect of this podcast A lot of podcasts are are not like that. It's very much uh separated between the hosts and the and the listeners But you can choose to be active in our whatsapp group and we we're on there every day talking with students and We want to interact with you and and we we want you to become part of our our podcast family. So yeah Yeah That's great. I don't mean to rush you guys along. Oh, no, a lot of questions. Okay. Okay from a facebook user I says it seems Korea is the is a popular destination for american citizens Uh for who have been he says I know More people who have been there for years That is the thing that lead you there. I think you guys already talked about why you came your modus Uh, yeah, I mean for me are a lot of popular. I mean Korea does seem and I'm I'm Canadian Canadians come here too You know, you know, I think I mean north americans. Maybe yeah, well, there's south africans australian. Oh, that's true. Yeah right Australians uh Robin introduced us many teachers who work in Korea. You are in a good company of friends there. Thank you Okay, uh, how often do you release a new episode? Oh Now that's uh, that's interesting because uh, our original plan was to release uh, two episodes a week on mondays and thursdays um, but because our Library is a little bit small at the moment. Uh, kevin. I are trying to record extra episodes So we're right now. We're releasing three in a row in three three days We're we're releasing three episodes. So we've just released one about travel Your style of traveling Another one's coming out in a few hours about uh phobias And then tomorrow we will release another one, uh about pets. So yeah, sorry. What's tomorrow's topic? Oh, uh tomorrow's topic is uh pets. Yeah, okay pets. All right. Yeah, so phobias and then that's Yeah, how often do we release at least twice a week? It will be at least twice a week at least these days There might be maybe extra for a little while but at least at least that Eunice, uh, who supports everything I do you do? He says he's in the sahara desert in morocco. It's hot here. I think it's like arizona's weather Who's from arizona? That's that's me a morocco. I would love to travel to morocco It's very high on my list of countries to visit and yeah, arizona is is proper hot in Southern arizona in the summer. It's 40 to 50 degrees like 40 45 degrees every day very dry Though it feels like an oven. It's just hot and dry And I know Eunice if you're in the desert, it's crazy because it's hot in the day But it's quite cold at night, right? Deserts are a very big change in temperature from From day to night Harry 300, why do you guys teach english in another country? Do people in the u.s. Canada not really need an english teacher? This question is for you to robin Um, why are you here? Yeah, why am I I should go back? I actually my uh, my high school teacher my high school and basketball coach Asked me the same question when I went back to america He's like you we need teachers in america. Why aren't you here? the truth is is that While I was here, I I met my wife and got married. My wife is korean We have a daughter And my daughter's in middle school. So my we I've made uh, you know, I have deep roots here in korea And so it's very difficult for me to just leave and and to go back and and teach there And uh, yeah, there is a need for teachers in uh in america, but I think uh, the need is stronger Here in korea. So I'm that's why I stay here. I'm just gonna quickly point out that we're all working at universities here in korea. So, uh We are very professional in our jobs here. We do have careers here And of course, uh, some of us have families I do not have a family here, but I I enjoy my career here Gavin anything you want to add? Well, the one thing I have a friend of mine is an english teacher back in america in arizona actually But that's a different style of english teaching All right, like he's teaching english the same way that all of the people watching the same way that you learned Your native language in school The english that jack robin and I teach is Second language english, so it's helping people to communicate with people around the world And that's different from learning your own language. And so I mean communication is something I think is so important And that's one reason I like teaching english as a second language Instead of english as a first language. So that's why doing it abroad is different than doing it in america Uh, Anna maria says it's great watching you while you speak. It makes conversation warm. I'm smiling watching you Okay, thank you. Anna. Thank you very much. Anna maria. I do have to say hi to kevin out there. I've seen him posting or kevinu I'm not sure Yeah, he's because I've talked to him. He's my he's my name cousin and there he is I realize that I've never seen kevin before. There's your chance Nice So there's no confusion kevin, can you raise your hand? Jack can you raise your hand? Okay, rock jack. So everyone knows who's who? uh They're asked there's some people are asking about other podcasts, but we're not going to talk about other podcasts We're the only podcast in the world. Thank you tikka for being a member Nice and kevinu guys. Can you say one sentence very fast in english? This is my request I guess kevin, it really depends on what you want me to talk about because i'm quite capable of speaking very quickly But it's tough to know what you want me to say if I want to talk about pets I can talk about my dog is sleeping right next to me on the bed Of course, my wife is right next to him and there's a lot of things that I can talk about But this might be a bit too fast for you. So that's why on the podcast I try and slow down Can you say that again? I can't yeah, say that exactly word for word that I can't do uh, I've been in korea for uh, 23 years My my english speed has certainly dropped. I'm I can't speak fast at all I of course when I first arrived I was speaking very fast, but you know Not everyone's understanding what you say so you kind of slow down a bit and I've kind of got stuck in that slow mode until now How about you guys? How has being in in korea affected your english ability? That's interesting I find that I mean one I do speak more slowly in general But it's also changed my vocabulary a lot, which I think is interesting for example for americans Maybe canadians as well. I would guess we usually say like where did you go to college? All right, like if I was going to talk about that, I'd never say college anymore because it's more International to use the word university And so some words have just changed when I go back home to my american friends And I talk about remember when we were in university and they're like what in university It's like no when we were in college And so along with speed some vocabulary has become more international, I guess in some ways Agreed, yeah There's my one word answer Agreed Leilask, are you going to make the next episodes to be almost one hour? Are you gonna what is the average time of an episode right now? The average time right now is probably around 15 minutes. I would say longer long ones probably go about 20 Uh, the shortest one is is probably 10 So it's we do interviews those might be about 30 minutes or so. Yeah, so we did like 45 minutes with the last interview. I think Uh, would you ever would you ever do a one hour podcast? I mean, we would do a one hour podcast The reason we haven't is we went and looked at We did like a little bit of research Just in so far as like what are what's the average length of language learning podcasts? And we found Some that were as short as like five minutes like just really quick Vocabulary lessons and the longest ones were around 20 to 25 minutes We it wasn't much like longer than that. I think just when it when you're learning a language um You're like our ability to just focus and to Stay focused on something that's a little bit difficult like listening in a second language It's better to do it in small pieces Then to do it in like a big large chunk And so we try to break it up instead of listening for one hour Maybe just stack like two or three episodes in a row You know listen to three episodes that will be about an hour And uh, they they can control the the chunks and the content. Yeah So that's our that was our theory they can binge. Yeah, it sounds sounds like a good idea to uh At least keep the core at about 15 to 20 minutes and absolutely interviews Sound great at 30 minutes Mm-hmm. Yes. We'll see how it goes in the future. Uh, we have Antonio Banderis. Howdy from the Sonaran Derz desert Nice. He also says I love the states same same desert Victoria Rosero. Hello Hello, good evening. Good morning. Good afternoon Anna Maria. Would you like to move to another country? I would I I'm eager to move out of korea. I don't know about you guys Um, my my wife is right now looking at zillow. So, uh, yeah, we're we're always, uh We're always what is what is zillow? Zillow is a uh, is a real estate app I will if we're in america. So if you're buying a house or an apartment or condo In the united states, uh, you can jump on zillow. Um, so there's a free Uh commercial for zillow. Um, but yeah, it's uh, it's searching for you can search for houses and things like that So yeah, real estate okay And uh layla says i'm eager to transcript the podcast, but I might be a little slow. I don't know if that's okay Oh, uh That's fine. I think they're they're not gonna they're not gonna We're not gonna we're not gonna say anything. Yeah Any any little bit of help that we we get is uh is welcome and will always be met with Open arms and a big smile So, yeah What do you think about the culture in korea? Especially at working kev, you're you're more tuned into uh korea maybe than than I you know, I I gave notes before this podcast or before this live stream Not to talk about korea too much, but uh, we get a lot of questions about korea. There are three of us here Yeah, I know No, k no k-pop questions though, please I don't know anything about bts. I don't think my audience I think I'll just keep this simple for for the Culture question And I think I think you guys would probably agree with me on this although you said you might be looking for You know to move abroad If you didn't enjoy korean culture, you probably would not have been here for 22 or 17 or 15 years Right, like it's not perfect, but no country is perfect And so overall korean culture's got a lot of good things sure for me, I would like I kind of differentiate between Culture and society if that makes sense. I love korean society Uh, you know the infrastructure, uh the the rules the policies Uh, but yeah, when you when you deal with the cultural stuff, I do clash with that from time to time So I for me I The way I did survive a long time is trying to avoid Getting too close to the culture Not that I'm isolated and alone I do interact but I I kind of choose who I interact with and what kind of cultural events I go to Because it can be overwhelming As a newbie coming to korea, you know korea is very eager to teach about their culture and their history and they want You know, they want you to they throw everything at you and even Even after I've been here a long time and if I if I joined a group a social group And there's a lot of koreans. They're still eager to teach me so much can be overwhelming at times, but uh for me The the culture is great But the society is one of the best in the world Uh, I really think korea is so safe. Wow. It's such a safe place. Mm-hmm. Great Um, what is the difference in the mentality of america? It's about korea america It's from our uh, yeah, is that from our our study guide. I think mentality. Good. Good job. Yeah, what my okay Did you have any culture shock when you first arrived? Um, there are a lot of rules for eating and drinking in korea That's uh, that's something that will kind of shock you when you come here or if you come here Um, and a lot of it went to all of it, but age, of course I think that's a big mentality is age and rank are very important. So Um, I think I know jack you're older than me Robin, I think you're you're older than me as well if you've been to cur if you've been here 22 years So in korean culture, both of you being older than me are above me And that's kind of a hard thing to get used to is you know people being above or below just based on age In america and english. I don't care if you're 20 40 or 80 We're all basically equal Uh, yeah, that's a age is so important in korea and that's a difference between me and korea because if If someone tells me their age I i'm probably going to forget 10 minutes later I'm not good with remembering age. I don't care. I just don't care But you tell a korean they they want to know within 10 minutes and they'll remember forever. They will They will especially if they're older than you. Yeah Uh Anything else surprising when you first arrived The humidity, I mean we've been talking a lot about the weather in the whatsapp group And I know some of you are some of the numbers there were ridiculously hot that I saw in the chat group But in korea in the summer it gets really humid it's like very kind of swampy and and sticky and and wet and muggy And uh, that was that was shocking to me my first summer in korea lots of mosquitoes lots of rain. Yeah, it's just uh It's a kind of miserable time in korea At least for me that this part of the season this season All right, we have a gwee. Hello guys. Nice to see you. Nice to see you too Grace I am late Welcome better late than ever. Uh, there you are. There are some other questions. Sorry. I'm gonna pass I ask a question just to everyone out there because this is the first time I've ever done like this kind of live stream to people all over the world If you can can you just type your country? I just I think it's really cool that I'm talking to people from all over the world At the same time. This is kind of kind of fun. I just want to know where is everyone from I saw Safa somba, why do not you go to Egypt? So I imagine also Egypt is I'm one of my hobbies is diving freediving and the Dahab is is famous for diving and so it's also I really want to go to to Dahab I know a lot of friends who have been there and they just loved it for that Columbia Saudi Arabia amazing very cool. You like Sri Lanka. I've been to Sri Lanka Kavino I talked to you about that Sri Lanka was amazing I I've been there too Nice, that's a fun. It was a cool country. Oh, yeah, it's a gem. It's it's Yeah, maybe it made me not these days Right, unfortunately Russia Malaysia I've been to Malaysia. I haven't been down to Columbia. I used to speak Spanish Anna Maria Indiendo mas que hablo. I I studied Spanish in in University, but I've pretty much forgotten most of it unfortunately Indonesia India nice You guys love traveling a lot. So could I know Your plans, you know, are you going to travel? Do you have any plans to travel? anywhere Yeah, actually that's so funny that you somebody mentioned Malaysia because Malaysia is one of the countries that's On our list. So we really want to my family and I really my family We really want to go to Malaysia. So I've never been there before and I heard the feud is the food is amazing. I mean, uh, Panay. Yeah, the it's it's so so good. So I would love to go there I think you can try to visit Indonesia because Indonesian people still need English teachers Well, that's the beauty of these live streams. We can teach Indonesians from korea right now. There you go. Yeah Just an internet connection and a computer. Yeah I love Korean BBQ barbecue. Yes. We all do Yes, yes teachers. Are you homesick sometimes? Oh sometimes Yeah but but Korea has become Home I all three of us have been in korea for A very big part of our lives now So when I go to america I feel homesick for korea Sometimes yeah reverse homesickness. Yeah, I get that too. Yeah as as they say a good english expression Home is where the heart is Right and not where you're from i'm i live in korea I've been in korea for a long time And this is this is home now Costa rica here. Have you guys been to Costa Rica? Oh, I haven't but I had a friend who lived there for a while and said it was amazing Yeah, I went there a few years ago. It was great nice And a maria, uh, you said wife who said wife Uh, we both did I think yeah Not not me Two out of three. Yeah All right I'm about 14 minutes behind in the questions. So I'm gonna have to get you I'm kind of following along as well. I saw Jack is your daughter fluent in the korean language? Absolutely. She her korean is spot on perfect And uh her you know It took her a while to she was actually the korean was a little bit Uh better than english for a while because She's watching korean television all her friends are korean. And so she's very much Surrounded by korean. So I always speak english to my daughter no matter what I mean my korean is not very good, but Even if I could speak korean, I wouldn't with her. I just speak English with her and uh, so now her english is is catching up and and it's much better. Yeah Tika asks what methods of teaching english would be better to teach non english speakers students? Uh, that's a wide question It's quite big. It's a big question Start where you with things that you enjoy, you know, like and start with things that are You know, um not out of your ability range, you know, so start with podcasts Exactly start with like short stories and and uh introductions. Yeah We have some some That's a very wide question. We could talk uh an hour on that Mm-hmm easily Uh, john denise fredrick. Thank you. Thanks to you. I'm beginning your beginning to understand english Good for you. Great to hear. It's great. Fantastic. Yeah Um For kan apiam, where should I start learning english first grammar or listening or learning words? Hmm, I would say Vocab at the very beginning at the very beginning of a language um vocabulary so learning words is more important than grammar and I mean listening comes along with it but words I think is more important because If you're traveling in another country, if you don't know how to say, where is the bathroom right like a full sentence If you just say like bathroom and you look around Someone will understand you and you can start communicating with that and so just the vocabulary will start communication And then the grammar is really important because then it'll make your communication easier But if you don't have you can't communicate It looks like for kan You know every student says i'm a beginner, but it looks like for kan here is not a beginner. Yeah Well It looks like you're doing very well. Whatever you're doing. Yeah, uh, listen listen to our podcast. It'll help you Both voices are soft Is that good good soft? I don't Is that good? I mean, I guess it's better than harsh, right? You wouldn't want to listen to somebody that's Is my voice not soft Is my voice different both? Yeah, sorry robin Uh, if you don't mind could I Why do you usually jack who is the one who responds to most comments in the whatsapp group? So kevin, you're not pulling your weight in the whatsapp group Busted. Yeah, I'll you have fans that want to talk to you not jack clearly clearly I'll I'll work on it later. I'll try I'll try and check in more more regularly I'm from columbia Nice columbia, Saudi Arabia. I'm from russia Mayfong chi from Malaysia Iran salami very cool pronounce that name and Dika D putri the very indonesian name Lavanya's from india. Yeah, of course, Safa's humble is egypt Do you have any plans to visit Saudi Arabia? Um Be personally, I do not um I wonder I used to know I knew someone who was uh teaching Uh there I believe I did as well. Yeah, I knew somebody who was there for for a while I was planning to go to, uh, Saudi Arabia and meet Layla In the summer of 2020 Ah Those plants got changed quickly. Oh, yeah at the beginning of 2020 Yeah, so uh, when I when I start traveling again, uh, Saudi Arabia will be on my list Nice very cool Anna Maria, don't forget your Spanish I miss I miss Spanish. I I'm from arizona's near mexico. So I spanished and I practiced and I've been to spain It's a beautiful language. Um, I just I study korean because I live in korea. So spanish has Unfortunately disappeared from from my head. It's going I studied it for many years For a couple years in college and high school. What's your spanish name, kevin? I don't remember if I had a spanish name because kevin does come on Kevin's that mine is uh, elfonso Elfonso, so uh, I might have used michael just because michael is my family name like there you go miguel Yeah, yeah, I might have used miguel, but I don't remember off Miguel in elfonso a to z english podcast. There you go Do you like indian food? It's amazing. Indian food's fantastic. I love it. I just had indian Week ago Where where where did you in uh in pyeong tec in my hometown? They're my town that I live. There's a military base and near there there's a lot of international Restaurants and they have there's just a great indian restaurant near there. So I love non and non is the best bread ever made In the world. I don't disagree That's pretty awesome Grace is from malaysia Any grace? Lolly Lolly says thank you very much for your answer. I we don't remember the exact question, but we appreciate The reply lolly lolly Lolly lolly has been visiting my live stream for years Oh, wow, but she refuses to join my whatsapp group for unknown reasons But I do encourage everyone here Uh Be active. Uh, you have a great opportunity to interact with native speakers join their podcast whatsapp group and you can You know participate chat Learn can I just think you send a message really quickly robin to our listeners? You know do the study guide and then feel free to uh post your answers in the whatsapp chat group and then we'll we'll look at those answers and we'll We might even we've shared a couple in the podcast so coming up here We have listeners comments where we read your Your comments and your answers to the discussion questions And uh, yeah, don't be shy. You know if you you need help with the study guide Ask us and ask the other people other students in the chat group as well There's a lot of really good english speakers in there. So So even if i'm too busy to to chat everyone else can help as well Oh I live in usa. Which state are you living in? I feel the same way about usa as you feel about korea Yeah, i'm home for you. It's interesting how that works. Yeah Do your wives speak english fluently? Oh, and now they're starting to get comfortable Let's start asking asking the personal questions My wife is an english teacher. So, uh, yeah She uh, she is That doesn't mean fluently Fluently, um, yeah, I I I would say yes, uh, but uh I don't know if that does that include like accent and intonation and um I don't know. I'm not sure what your uh, your scale is like how you're how you're rating uh fluent, but uh, Layla, i'm not even sure if jack here speaks fluently I'm quite sure No, i'm joking There's there are times during the podcast where you come in and ask jack if you want to listen to it it'll it'll help during Thank you. Would you like to learn another language? Hmm Like I said, I want to get my Spanish back first and then figure it out from there But I think learning I think learning more languages is cool. It helps you Think differently. So it's really good for your brain It really is. Yeah Yeah, I would love to learn Spanish I've traveled a lot and I can get by in most countries with English But when I travel through I traveled through central america Nice, oh, I really needed Spanish and I had I had to start learning, you know picking up words right away to just to survive So, you know, there's a lot of other Spanish speaking countries out there that I would like to visit So Spanish is on my list of for language to learn so Uh, I will ask Kevin and anna maria to help me out Nice I'm not when tika asked robin needs time to answer my question Yeah, I got the bot. There was a bot in the chat I saw it So you can notify me if you see that in the future, uh, you know, there's always people coming in to spam I'm not always but time to time Edward Fiendo on Nice, well, have you been there? South america central america is one that I haven't traveled because I've done most of my traveling once I came to korea And so I've done a lot of asia southeast asia countries more You know, you know living in korea is so busy and stressful So, uh, you know, there's the opposite countries like thailand You know, and so anywhere anywhere central america, and I imagine south america too Would just be the opposite of korea just laid back relaxed I'd love to to get to down to south america. I really would love to see chile Chile looks amazing and I love the wine Morocco's still I also want to try maracos on my list as well It's great having you in the whatsapp group. We could have very nice conversations. Thank you. Yeah. Alfonzo. Alfonzo. Thank you I mean soft to hear them that make podcasts enjoyable your voice too. Okay, so I guess she uh, she says your voices were soft and that's a good thing makes them more enjoyable Absolutely I think we answer that Oh, I am shy lolly lolly please Everyone loves you lolly lolly Join the join our whatsapp groups participate We have a good time. We chat about everything in the whatsapp groups. We we share things We share photos Really is a lot of cool. Yeah a lot of a lot of like just fun talk in those I've been surprised Yeah, and lolly lolly, you know when you join a group, you're not always talking you can just Come into the group when you feel like it As I do i'm not always there and jack and kevin. We don't live in these groups. We we visit these groups when we have time Uh, what is your favorite club? Uh like football club Yes Ah, okay I don't I don't need no like uh liverpool and Uh, that's it. I'll say liverpool I have no idea what that means. You're asking every americans and canadiens about football club Uh sports Uh, yes, and I swim Yeah, I I I'm into real sports. Uh, no, I'm just kidding kevin. Sorry. Um, I uh, I played I played basketball When I was young and uh, so I I do it like basketball baseball is a little bit slow for me It's a little bit hard to watch Um, but I also like to watch tennis. So tennis and basketball. Those are my two go-tos for for sports And I think robin's a hockey hockey person I mean Wayne Gretzky's uh your hometown hero. So yeah, uh growing growing up You know still when I when I last time I went back to canada 2013 I was surprised Everyone is just talking hockey and it was summer Every conversation is still hockey and I was like Was that what it was like when I was here and yeah, we just talked hockey all the time and uh Coming to korea, I You know, I was broken away from hockey and so I look at the stats, but I don't watch a game Yeah, I mean, I'm the same way too. I I uh, I don't watch. I'm not fanatical about it Um, but I do enjoy those two sports. Yeah And speaking pretty fun too. Yeah speaking of Wayne Gretzky when he was uh, because I have an older brother And when he was just a rookie my brother would take me to the coliseum the hockey stadium To get his autograph and Almost every game We wouldn't even go to the games because sometimes we had tickets But sometimes we just you can't go we would wait outside and then wait at the door where the hockey players come out Great, Wayne Gretzky would come out Nobody around Just my brother. Hey, can you sign this sign this? So how many Wayne Gretzky autographs do you have then? my brother has He's about six Wayne Gretzky rookie cards Wow, he can go on ebay and uh, pretty much retire on two of them signed Two of them signed, uh, your brother's a genius. Yeah, well We had hundreds of Wayne Gretzky cards on the dartboard, too Yeah And you're yeah Playlist says I feel happy when I listen to you when you mentioned to my answers of the questions that you give In our yeah after after the episode That's because you're so active So we yeah, you're so active in the in the whatsapp group. It's great. Uh, thank you I've seen you everywhere on youtube livestream lolly lolly and you said you're shy Yeah, lolly lolly is uh, every you know, if you Go to another english teacher's livestream and look at the chat. You will see lolly lolly there. She's just She's a butterfly. She folds around to other she cheats on me with other english teachers We'll try try a podcast Amud Hassan, thanks to everyone All right, we're gonna wrap up in the next couple minutes. So get any any last questions or goodbyes comments anything I saw a couple people say goodnight already tika and Zionin Oh, I have a special guest if anyone likes it. Hold on. Okay It is That's our mascot the podcast mascot now everyone just lost interest in what I have to say This is my little girl How old is your little girl she is 18 she's An old old dog What's what's her name? She's our our love Her name is uh, dom dom b. Yeah, dom b. Dom b is our our old girl All right If you don't mind, could you please let me know how have Met each other and robin at first. How did we meet? All right, well, I'll tell my my my My story first of how I knew about you. I think I knew about you before you knew about me so They they did their podcast those soul patch And I was interested in doing a podcast long long ago So I I listened to an episode of two Or two of them and then we I saw that we joined a youtube group for korean youtubers and I think you might have put up an ad That said you're accepting interviews or something in a facebook group. Yeah, and I I just I think I just sent off an email. Hey, I'd like to be on your podcast And then I was on their podcast Um I don't think you knew about me before that I think you know what though? I think I think I have I I'm sure I'm I'm a hundred percent certain That I was familiar with your channel that I've seen that I had seen your channel before Um, but uh, yeah when you contacted me. I never made the connection. Uh, at that time so Yeah, yeah, because uh, you guys are not learning english That's true. That's true, but I I'm sure I pointed students towards your channel. I had to so so basically We met on a youtube facebook youtube group And then I was interviewed for their podcast and now I'm interviewing them We we've never met offline well Virtual friends only And robin there's another spammer now and now and forever Now and for oh No, I want to see you guys offline as soon as possible. It'll have to happen one of these days all right Jack somebody who was uh, oh unis just said some scientific topics could be interesting to talk about And I know you and I talked about science stuff There's the the james Webb space telescope could be a fun topic to discuss those pictures these days are amazing That's a hard one to talk about pictures, but it is but we can talk about the telescope because the telescope is amazing I would say I could tell you everything I know about science in probably 10 to 15 minutes So that will be about perfect Uh Sir can anyone live in korea without no iam korean language? Oh, yeah, you can get by Speaking English right, but I think maybe he's he's asking about study or work purposes I would say if you any anyone here who's thinking about coming to korea or want to Wants to come to korea to study or work You're gonna have to learn korean. I suggest before you come and certainly when you arrive here You're gonna have to learn korean. I think english teachers. We're the only group that can get away with Uh, not learning korean Everyone else basically has to learn korean more spam Annoying Oh really geez How's it getting in here? I think there's more spam because Because I did a lot on promotion Okay, nice dog lots of cutes for your dog. You only have one pet I do only have one pet Yeah, just just don't be She takes all of our time I'm kind of skipping a lot of comments everyone. So I'm sorry I'm just about to wrap we're gonna wrap this up. Uh I'm so glad to talk to you and having you here kevin and jack. Thanks for being here. Thank you leila. Oh, we're happy to be here Yeah, all right. Thanks guys. Um Thank you So you're gonna Let's wrap up quickly. You're on the a to z A to z english podcast.com. I'll put the link back here in the group And you also you're active in your whatsapp group Absolutely. So if you go to our homepage and you hit that uh, what's that button? I already uh, or that Or just a link. Yeah, and when is your next? podcast coming out It's coming out in about Three hours. Yeah two or two or three hours. It'll be out Yeah, oh, maybe more like an hour. Yeah, sorry one hour. Yeah one hour later It's already 11 36 p.m. In korea. So yeah, so it comes out about 12 30 a.m On the eve's getting tired Um, oh man, we also have a we have an instagram and a twitter handle It is a to z english 22 And so you can always Talk to us on instagram. I'll be uploading more photos and making posts and instagram stories there As time goes by so uh, yeah, we we plan on being active on instagram and twitter as well as our whatsapp group So give to give you a few other places to interact with us and uh Kevin why should they listen to your podcast? Because we are here all the time because we're we're here. We're happy to help you and And we'll do everything we can to interact and and make it a fun experience for you Hopefully learning and exciting and interesting and fun Jack you have anything to add to why we should learn students should listen to your podcast Because our podcast is like kevin said we're we're interacting with you and we're you you can influence This podcast, you know, we're listening to you and so this podcast can become whatever you want it to be And in a way, so uh, we're we're trying to Meet your needs and uh, and you have a a clear channel to communicate with us And uh, that's a little different than some other podcasts where they just do what they want We're listening to you. We're talking to you And uh, we we would love we love your feedback. So uh, yeah, please join that whatsapp group Get active communicate with us talk with the other students And uh, we'll make the best possible product we can for you and to help you learn english That's we're here for okay. Thank you very much and thank you everyone for watching and uh Check out their podcast. Good night. Thanks everybody. Bye. Bye