 Hello everyone There's nobody here Yet, I think while Kerry's here, maybe a couple other people This live stream is at a irregular time I know Layla's gonna be very angry because I didn't tell her I didn't know until About 30 minutes ago. I decided I'm gonna do a live stream Here it's Sunday About 12 30 p.m. I Don't think I've ever done a live stream this early I'm doing the live stream because probably tonight. I cannot do the live stream at 10 30 p.m. My time I will be in Seoul and I will probably be late Coming back from Seoul, so I just decided I'll do a quick live stream now So if you guys have any things to talk about or questions, I'm gonna be here Live streams not that important if you got anything to talk about or want to talk about or you got any questions Just let me know. Let's see. Who's here? Kerry asks Why do you look like a beekeeper on the cover photo? Well, that was I have to teach in that mask When I met my college Jonathan. Hey Jonathan To deed to hey Tika. Oh Tika. Hello and money costa. Hello. Do you guys get any questions? It's a great time to ask English questions because nobody is here. Nobody expected this live stream Again Layla's gonna be angry Who have Rahman news a news a hello, sorry if I miss pronounce Your name Jonathan asks, where's your Shimino Shimino or Shimano? How do you pronounce that? I don't even know I? Try to use a hat with no brand name So this is neutral no brand name Because no no companies give me money. I'm not gonna support those companies in a live stream Yeah today's Sunday That's right Sunday I'm confused with the days Yeah, sherry not even me. What are you? What are you? What are you saying? Are you gonna do a live stream later? sherry Are you gonna take my time slot sherry? Let me know if you can Let's get confirmation that sherry will be at my time slot tonight create time Yeah, it's 1234 p.m. In Korea Sunday 1234 p.m. Let's take a look Yeah, 12 1234 p.m Lex Lex man Poli ready. Sorry if I mispronounced that welcome Let's see if I can bring in a few more people Not many people are on on WhatsApp at this time. I usually get people from WhatsApp Do-do-do-do-do Here with my green tea my head is from Afghanistan. Welcome, buddy Lucio, I don't have any questions. You can ask any Question, but I know that I have to improve my English because I have I Had a call with my with people from India. It was really hard to understand them. So Lucio. Yeah, you got a Practice or improve your listening skills Listening skill. It is a skill. So it needs practice. I Suggest daily practice To improve your listening But don't just improve your listening. You also have to practice reading and writing and speaking every day So Lucio If you are very serious about improving your English you need to put in time and effort And so we'll be live teacher Monies this is not normal schedule money. Usually I am here Sunday This is my time just today. I might not wipe. I won't be here tonight at that time So I'm doing a live stream now, but maybe Sherry takes that time tonight So There might be another live stream Tonight tonight for me D2, my name is Levin Indonesia is one hour behind Korea. Yeah, I live in the future Lux Lux man. How have you been? I've been fine Armanj. Hello 905 a.m. In India. So this is morning. I'm gonna send out a few notes two different Different groups get more people here if you got any English questions guys Let me know or any questions about me put out the message D2 you need to shave. Yeah Yeah, I need a haircut too. I just took a shower. It's still a little wet long hair All right. Oh, let's see Tika Wow many percentage of Korean people who are interested in learning English. Oh You put wow Yeah, a lot of Koreans learn English are they interested in English I would say not many Are actually interested in learning English they all learn it doesn't mean they really care about it or get good at it but some do but I don't have many Korean fans here. Although I live in Korea the Korean audience Don't really like Learning from native speakers. It's I know it sounds strange Koreans like to learn from other Koreans I gotta be careful what I say, I don't want to be in trouble Hi from New York Alysio Cruz hello I'd like I'd like to hear your story if you're in New York Jonathan some advice to the ED sound like walked well the ED sound You know I could have three sounds the ED sound it could have ED sound it could have a D sound and it can have a T sound and here I have I'll do it quickly. I don't want to waste too much. This is not quickly. I know All right, so here. Let's let's see what I can do. I can go here I'm trying to navigate three monitors In a way that will be helpful. Okay, so let's let's put that up there For your guys's questions, this should help. All right, let's look at this word Let's look at this word and Let's look at this word So you can see with these three words we have three different ED sounds and how can I express this so Copy paste is faster. So that's going to be The ED sound that's going to be the to sound and that's going to be the to sound So yeah, a lot of students make mistake make mistakes with the ED sounds and There are some simple rules to help you but most of the time it just takes practice of saying these words So let's just I can't go through hundreds of words today It would be a good lesson. I might have taught it before But very quickly everyone repeat after me. This is gonna have the id sound wanted everyone wanted and Then this is we'll have the t sound hoped hoped and This will have a D sound played Played that's the three sounds of ED wanted hoped played There you go. So that's all I can say for that right now and Tika ask, how do you say or Magnus here? Sorry, man. Hello, Magna Tika, how do you say very very? Hmm? Very very is that you know, I'm gonna check Oxford sounds the same to me, but I'm gonna check Oxford on very very very very Very very I'm just setting that up here So we understand what's the IPA. All right. Where are we? This is confusing. All right very and very Now I checked Oxford here. So We can see that yes In American English, let's see if it's British English, too Okay British and American can be a little different but in American English very and very Do have can have can have the same sound but over here There is a slight difference. Some people do have a slight difference. So I'll play I'll play this version first I don't know if you can hear it very very it's gonna sound the same very very and This second version very very Almost the same So quick answer Yes, they sound the same but some regional differences Might affect the sound, but it's almost the same Korea. No, I like to learn from native speakers. Well grace. That's why you speak English well Lakshman, I want to know Robin. What's your favorite here? I think I'll just stick here Move this over here Get your Get your statement up here. I want to know well I don't like people writing wanna. We should always write want to wanna is a sound not a word. I Want to know what's Robin, what's your favorite place in the world because I crave to know about it? So if you don't mind telling me about your favorite place with Probably reasons we could just say reasons My favorite place in the world is Mountain Bektu Mountain This is a mountain that borders China and North Korea so I went to Bektu Mountain in 2014 because I I did a trip in North Korea for three weeks and Yeah, I went to Bektu Mountain and that was an amazing place. There was no people very peaceful Very wonderful place Bektu Mountain, so it's shares shares the border with North Korea and South or North North Korea in China. That's my favorite place. We're one of them I hope to go back there soon one day, but It's very expensive to go there. So Probably not but I have pictures Yeah, I don't have a picture I can get right now All right, let's move on T do Why do you? Let's take a look at his question T. Do why? Why do you think about stream learning? I think this should be what? What do you think about? learning Through live streams or something like that Depends on the live stream. I'm here to answer questions and help people If you value it, hey, it's useful I'm not here to waste your time Samira hello And money let's get money's question up here Money I have a question is a good for is a good to improve grammar exercise also study each time structure like past perfect All the possible sense and times Well, I am a reading teacher So I'm not a grammar teacher. I'm a reading teacher, which means I think You can become fluent through reading You can improve your vocabulary and you can improve your grammar not by studying Grammar and vocabulary directly But by reading them in books comic books Twitter posts Facebook posts just reading English a lot so That is the secret to becoming fluent extensive reading for fun All right, if you read a lot and you enjoy what you're reading You will improve your grammar. You will improve your vocabulary Now if you want to practice some exercises some worksheets of the Tenses, yeah, that's okay, but don't spend too much time doing that, you know, you can you can spend 50 years mastering The tenses on worksheets, but that's never gonna make you fluent So reading after reading listening This will help you Tika, let's see what she's saying here. What do you think to make cultures as your topic on the next life? Tika I used a long time ago. I used to do about a year ago or two years ago I used to do I think it was Friday nights. I would do a topic where we would discuss things like culture It was not popular. So I stopped that Brian I want your chair. This is just a cheap chair Mono hello Samira, there's no such thing as late Samirapita. Hello Brian so this is the live you normally plan to do on Sundays. It's Saturday here. No, I do not do this is Irregular this is my usual time This only today I am here in the afternoon just to say hello So probably Sherry will be tonight during my live stream typos Let's leave that there That's Tika's face forever wits Which is the best book on grammar? That is a question wits. So every question we need a question mark How to write a novel, please tell in detail The best again, I don't recommend grammar books If if you are watching my live stream now and you understand what I say You do not need to waste your time on grammar books Please do not buy a grammar book I'm Start reading reading and writing and listening and speaking get away from those books guys You can spare you can waste 10 20 years in books I Have a I have an older student He's over 60 He insists that we use a grammar book. It's like you're over 60 You know, you don't need a grammar book didn't work for for you when you studied English for 50 years But still he thinks he needs grammar no Don't buy a grammar book. So I'm not even gonna recommend a grammar book. How to write a novel. Well, I didn't write a novel. I don't have I never wrote a novel so I don't know write every day Write every day if you want to write a novel sounds like a good challenge Well, I love talking about cultures. How could people do that? this is Well, I think because the live stream is just a one-way conversation So it's difficult to have a conversation by a live stream because you guys can listen to me But I can't really listen to you. I can read what you're Thinking So maybe people didn't like that. Who knows maybe I'll try it again in the future And you love talking about cultures Tika, I I don't like talking about cultures, you know, I've traveled a lot of places and I've talked to international students and You know every every time I talk to students about their country they're so proud of their country and they want to tell me all the history and food and everything and I'm really not interested in that You know, I'm interested in history In a more general sense. I don't need to know The details, you know, there's so many countries in the world But each country thinks they're the best a little bit frustrating Shilpa hello Zalita also says I love about all cultures. So I agree if the next live streaming will discuss about it. Well Maybe I could do a Vocabulary or grammar lesson about cultures To make it more educational Tika they're showing off You got our twice Let's fix that they're Showing off good expression showing off about their cultures, you know, but every every people are so proud of their culture I'm Canadian and I'm not so proud like, you know, that's my country But I don't need to always say Canada is the best you should learn about Canadian history You should learn about Canadian politics. You should Learn about Canadian food. I've never done that Ever in any of my videos or live streams or conversations Thomas Clark Biden won. Well, that's probably the biggest issue in America Tom my friend Tom here says Biden won. Was there any doubt? Yeah, so if you follow American politics America will have a new president in February is that the inauguration? Good for America Muddy, hello. All right, you guys got any questions or comments? Let me know I'm gonna go back to the full screen so you can see my beauty Brian Biden 2020 while he will start 2021 Tom I doubt it. What a relief. I Didn't I didn't doubt it. I was pretty confident Biden would win But I was very surprised that Trump still had a lot of support Muddy, what is the sudden live stream? Well, I probably won't be here tonight. Sherry will probably take that time Tonight so It's just I'm here in the afternoon answering any questions Said Shazad Let's see what you said Said said Biden is good president of United States. Let's put it the United States of America Well is let's say will be Let's use future will be a Good president of the United States something like that So keep is this just a random stream? Yeah, maybe I should write that right here random live Stream. Oh Sajad can welcome Sayed fellak you look too nice in black cap. Where did you buy it? I bought this at the subway station probably like for five dollars Laksh my lack. I'm not sure how to say your name Laksh Laksh, man What'd you let's put what you put up here? Robin most of Indian most Most Indian people say Grammar is not essential in English, but I'm totally against those people's words. So what's your conviction about grammar in English? I'm not a you know, I you know Grammar is Important, but it's not essential. You know You know the word if you have really bad grammar you have broken English and broken English is better than nothing You know if you want to be fluent, of course, you need the perfect grammar But if you if you want to communicate in English, you don't need perfect grammar and again, I'm not a grammar teacher I do want my I never recommend my students to study grammar books to me. That is a complete waste of time Kamala Harris 2020 Well, she'll start 20 21 Tika Remember for four months Thank You Tika How to become a good translator? Hmm my English Isn't good enough what I'm trying my best to master my English skills Well here I'm going to the dictionary. All right. So what do you want to be interpreter is? The focus is on the speech someone speaks your another language and you You translate you interpret that into English or translator is just more writing you see the language and you change the writing now you want to do both the the Interpreter the oral the speaking or the translating the writing So you say how to become a good translator? Well, I'm not a translator. So I didn't really research that I don't know the skills involved But I'm going to tell you right away. It takes time and effort Because that's really hard My English isn't good enough. Well again right right right there I would say that your biggest obstacle is confidence problem. You can become good enough That is you got to get rid of this style thinking. All right, so Keep doing it takes a lot of time a lot of hard work These things are not easy time and effort. There's no easy way. You got to sit down and spend the time and do it Whatever we want everyone's always looking for an easy way. Well It's a lot easier if you have more confidence And my de asks, what is the idiomy? What? does This idiom mean don't play chicken with me. Hmm Well Play chicken Don't play chicken with me play chicken can have a Few meanings, let me check. Well, well chicken usually play chicken usually means a Is a is a game to Decide who is the bravest? So if if I'm in a car and another person is in a car And we're going we're playing chicken. We're driving toward each other Who is going to move first? So the person who moves first Is chicken he's scared So i'm not sure where you got that but If you say don't play chicken with someone or you don't play chicken with me You could be telling someone, you know, don't play this game Of to see who's the bravest? Um, yeah, that doesn't really help Uh That's all I have right now. Sorry, matty You found it in a movie Which movie that would be very helpful It's like we all need to listen more Put that back Love stream. Yeah, let's keep that My love stream because I give love to the students All right guys any any other questions or comments because uh, if no one's talking I'm gonna leave Matty, which movie did you see that? Marigaz Thank you. I guess I'll log out here Thank you for watching this random live stream. I will not be here Tonight or my time tonight. I don't know where you I will not be here at this time Probably sherry will do a live stream at this time. Look for that I'll see you guys next week or in the whatsapp groups So, uh, let's move there so take care guys and uh I'm just looking at sakebe's question having a mentor is better than having a sponsor in life or vice versa I think a mentor is better than a