 Hello everyone, I am Robin Shaw. Welcome to today's live stream As you can see it's just a English Q&A so if you have any English questions, please let me know Start typing your questions. I'll try to help out tonight Let's take a look at the chat here Layla's here. Layla asks. Hi, Robin. How are you doing? Well Layla? To tell you the truth, I am still sick from my My vaccination I'm still a little sick. That was over a week ago, and I'm still recovering from getting the shot and Layla says I thought you would teach us a specific topic today That's getting more impossible each day Layla because as you know my other Channel Shaw English online is very big these days It's growing about 50,000 Subscribers a month. So Layla that's really hard to manage that alone Sleepwalkers here. Hello Michelle. Hello, Michelle. Let's do a Skype soon Michelle Justina's here. Hello Palavi welcome nice to see Palavi here Fennie oh Fennie Welcome. So if you have any questions, let me know I'm here to help Use me. I am a tool You can ask me a question or as it says on the side Ask questions. You can ask me for life advice. You can tell me about yourself Tell me a story or just say hi. You can do all that Let me know you're here. Let me know you're watching Congratulations you Robin. So you have a big fish to fry these days Well, you're using an idiom there, but I don't think you're using it correctly. Let me take a look Big fish to fry Don't use that idiom I've heard it. Okay. Yeah, I guess you're using it correctly Big fish to fry means I have more important interesting and profitable things to do Yes, so I guess you use that Layla. You just taught me how to use an idiom. Thank you Layla. You're the teacher today Three one two three four is why is Consonant or Val in these words cry fly Please explain. All right, that's a good question three one two three four And let's see if we can help three one two three four with that question. So let's see. Let's I'm gonna go to my white board Nothing is easy with technology. Let's see. Let's Increase that's paste Fix that last one here Is why the letter y a constant is is you know, let's fix up your question is The we're being specific to what the letter y a Consonant or vowel in these words And let's list the words with a colon here cry fly play Please explain Well as Esther's grammar taught us here. I'm gonna get rid of my taskbar and I learned a here a Commits a II You So when we're learning Depends on your school, but when we're learning the vowels and consonants these are the the real vowels the main vowels a e i o u five and We also say and sometimes why Because why is One of those consonants that sometimes can act is usually acts as a consonant, but sometimes it is a vowel It makes a vowel sound it the letter is the letter y is not a vowel But sometimes the letter y makes a vowel sound Now the rule in English is every word must have a vowel Every English word must have a vowel. So when we look at the word cry we see There is no vowel a e i o u. There's no vowel the main vowels, but there is a y That makes a vowel sound Cry so that's I cry that is a vowel sound So in this case a y is acting as a vowel not as a consonant So that's why we say a e i o u and sometimes why in this case This is the vowel the vowel sound okay If you have a word like yes Why is not a vowel here? Yeah. Yeah, that you sound is a consonant sound. Yes All right, I hope that helps Khaled stated verbs What's the question? Pilavi see sir, please give me some Yeah, let's see if I can get that The comments right in front of me Please give me some English tips for beginners Pilavi you're not a beginner because you can write an English sentence You are Probably lower intermediate to my guess some English tips study every day Reading writing listening speaking Layla I heard an American guy. Oh, let's fix your grammar on that question. Let's put that up here. All right I heard an American guy say this should be say I I have made it in Jeddah But I think that means I have arrived. I made it. No Well, I I think I made it I have success This could be what he's saying I Made it in Jeddah. It means I made it. I have success. I I'm very successful in Jeddah I made it to Jeddah that would mean arrive But I made it in Jeddah. I went to Jeddah. I had success in my business or something. That's how I Interpret that I'm not sure. Hello, May And just Tina asks a question What do you usually do to reduce stress Robin? What is your hobby? Well to reduce stress good expression here. What do you good question? What do you do? What do you usually do to reduce stress Robin? We should put a comment there There's two questions split that up To reduce stress. I usually watch a movie or go for a walk Those are the two main ways. I don't have much stress I can handle stress very well, but I usually watch a movie go for a walk And my hobby these days I have no hobby these days except YouTube. I'm just doing YouTube every day Takes up a lot of my time, but I do like to watch movies or dramas And I like to walk so same How do how I reduce stress in my hobbies the same? What about you? All right, and Leila what is difference if I say all right? He is being nice and He is nice. What's the difference? Nothing. He's being is is is You know I the grammar ing ing is present continuous, you know, which means right now So He is being nice his action right now is being nice right now That's his action right now, and he is nice is just a general statement Yesterday today now tomorrow. He is nice. Okay, so you can you know, I think you know that grammar Sleepwalker, let's see what a sleepwalker has to say Wonder if that's big maybe I can make that a little bigger for you students All right, Robin. Have you ever needed to use a Korean language on your lessons for beginners to explain some rules or things? Have you ever needed to use? We're not gonna use ah. We're gonna cut out that ah Just have you ever have you ever needed to use Korean language on your lessons? And usually we're gonna express in your lessons In a lesson in a lesson plan in your lessons for beginners to explain some rules or things Yes, uh If if I'm teaching Koreans Uh There's I use a metal meta language. What is meta language? Meta language So if I'm teaching a sentence, I love English. I love English now. I'm never gonna use Korean. I love English I'm never gonna say that in Korean But I might say, you know, what is the verb? So a verb is how you explain English So a verb I might say the Korean word of verb and noun and adjective So the actual English sentences I never translate but the meta language how to explain the grammar in the sentences I will sometimes use Korean And I know ver I'm not gonna speak Korean now. Sorry, but I know the verb noun adjective and adverb Past tense present tense Future tense This is the meta language I use When teaching I might use the translation In Korean so I know all this in Korean and sometimes I use that interesting question. No one's ever asked me that Do I need? Sometimes very low-level students or did you get out of this situation? No, I do that said hello and Pallavi let's see what Pallavi sir. Can you explain the silent words? What is it a silent word I I haven't heard of silent word. It'll just let me do a quick check Silent words No, I don't I can't find silent words. You might be thinking of silent letters so, you know in In a in a word like this word Debt debt that's pronounced debt that B is silent We don't say that B. That's gonna sound like Debt so that's a silent letter, but I'm not sure what you mean by silent words and See the 1 2 3 4 how to overcome fear for speaking in English Well, we have a fear of I like your question how to overcome and Let's be more specific the fear of speaking in English Well, that's a big fear How to overcome that well practice exposure keep doing it You know, it's really hard You know, if you talk to a native speaker usually native speakers don't care About your English level too much, but I know when you when you're in your country For example, I'll talk about Koreans, you know, if a Korean speaks to another Korean in English That other Korean is gonna judge them. You know, oh, that's terrible and you know really destroy They destroy if you talk to your own country's people you destroy each other's confidence So I understand why there's a fear because if you speak English in front of your country's people They're gonna judge you and say nasty things All I can say is foreigners if you talk to native English speakers, they're not like that We're not judging you if someone speaks to me with a low-level English I I never care or judge them or laugh or make fun of them So I know it can be difficult if you're speaking in front of your own country's people But try to speak to people who don't judge you and you will gain confidence Hello win Tika, do you like history? Yep. My in university. I had a major which was English Literature I Read books in university and in university. We have a minor So the main course I studied English literature and my minor was history. So I Don't care too much about history these days, but yeah, I studied a lot of history Tika, are you familiar with the M? BTI that is the might what is Myers Briggs? test Myers Briggs What is the I Myers Briggs type indicator. Yes, I'm familiar with that. That's I'll put it up here on the classroom board So if I know this but if you guys don't know That's checking personality Personality test, I don't believe in those personality tests. So I'm not I know of it I've heard of it. I might have taken it long ago, but I'm not a fan of these personality tests I'm not a fan Good Robin. I like watching movie two So let's fix up Justina's grammar. I said my hobby is Watching movie now we can see that Justina is a Korean because she uses these symbols Which is not English. This is definitely from Korea. So good Robin. I like watching movie two Now this is a general Statement so we should use movies and that too. We should have a comma Good Robin. I like movies too. So let's cut out those little wiggly lines Sleepwalker, why should we miss an article before Korean language in Korean? You mean ah and the a lot of languages Do not use Articles or they use different types of articles I'm not smart enough to give you a smart answer on this. Just that's Some languages developed in a different way. I don't even know about Russian. I asked you about technically How can he is a prop in a sentence before but I say still can't know it's mean insertion the internet screwed you help me Well, if I said Technically Rob in here technically Here's Technically Robin is a Canadian so this Technically will mean it's a fact It's a fact we cannot argue that fact But Robin is a Canadian so Technically I was born in Canada. I am Canadian 100% That is a fact. So when people say technically they're also meaning but So technically Let's get the let's get the sentence in blue here Technically Robin is a Canadian. This is a fact, but he is not really Canadian. What do I mean is I Haven't lived in Canada For over 22 years, right? So technically I'm a Canadian, but am I still in a sense? Am I still Canadian? Maybe I've changed a lot, right? Maybe I'm not like other Canadians anymore So whenever you hear someone says technically technically this is true But There can be something that doesn't match. Let's see if we can get another example Technically See you got to bring me the examples Let's see if I can oh here technically Technically a tomato is a fruit All right, this is really good. So technically a tomato is a fruit. So Tomato is a fruit. That's a fact You can check that on the internet tomato Or tomato, however you pronounce it is a fruit Again, so this is the fact So we're saying technically But there's a but but we treat it like vegetable Now I'm not saying this, you know, technically a tomato is a fruit But we treat it like a vegetable. It's more like a vegetable, right? Some of some of you might argue me argue on this, but I'm just using this as an example Technically a tomato is a fruit But we treat it like a vegetable something like that. Okay, I got to move on Hamza, thank you. Palavi. Yes, sir. Khalid is silent a vowel There could be silent letters silent vowels three one two three four in these we're let's get back to black in these words love Success are nouns or verbs Love can be a noun or a verb I Love you He's in love noun or verb depends on the sentence success is a noun. He has success Okay, let's We got a lot of questions here. All right I didn't think that I made it in somewhere in this different from I made it to summer Yeah, okay said, how are you? I'm fine Thank you so much for answering me Palavi. Okay was see ma'am ma'am. I am not ma'am ma'am is Surprised me was he ma'am is for women and Sir is for men Give me any best site. I do not recommend any Sites except dictionaries. I recommend Oxford dictionary. Oh You correct yourself. Okay. Sorry, sir. All right. I see that was seem you corrected Wits. Hey wits. Wits has a good question here. Dear sir. How to make great mastery in English grammar a Great mastery. No, I don't think anyone has great mastery in English grammar. I Definitely do not have great mastery And we would probably use of English Grammar C right I fixed grammar and You know English grammar I would say Do not study any Grammar book If you're watching me live right now, don't watch don't study any grammar book. It's important to to Read read a lot wits, I would recommend reading a lot Don't read grammar books read story books read articles wits that will improve your grammar Justina Sorry if I move on quickly, but we got to give chances to everyone Which do you think is more important practical skills? practical skills such as social skills or Economic skills Well social skills are probably more important Of course, we need balance Good balance of skills, but you know social skills are probably more important because We have to deal with people Wherever we are and academic skills. We don't have to use those wherever we are Nowadays, I notice some videos about some American people visit Saudi Arabia and most people try to speak with them with confidence Although they only know survival words What do you think? Yeah, you know, there's Broken English We're broken any language. There's survival English English is English You can communicate you don't nobody has to be fluent to communicate in English Me hungry me eat food The grammar is terrible, but you can understand that me like pizza Grammar is terrible, but you can understand like the point of a language is I have information that I want to give to you If I don't give perfect grammar, who cares? I certainly don't care You know, we want to speak well as best as we can, but if it's broken or whatever, it's fine I'm not sure what the question was Leila What tactics do you choose in your lessons? Correct every mistake when a student speaking English or allow Them to speak further with mistakes and feel comfortable Well sleepwalker what tactics was my strategy? I Do not correct every mistake Sleepwalker if I'm speaking to students what I do is I check for common mistakes, so if I Talk to a student a lot and you know, I can identify Common mistakes and then you know after a few times talking to them. I will say oh you always make this mistake When they are speaking and they you know they make a lot of mistakes, I'm not gonna fix every mistake I will fix critical mistakes if I don't understand something. I will say hey, I don't understand I'll fix that immediately, but for the most part You know, I'm not gonna fix every mistake. I'm gonna fix some Marine Chimizhi, right. Hi Robin. How is your health? I'm all well a little bit sick though three What is the difference between Indian? Let's capitalize that Indian language is there an Indian language you mean native American language? We don't say Indian from India Hindu, I'm not sure what you mean by Indian Because there is no Indian language There's Hindu I'm not sure the questions three This is this word is the problem. Don't understand what you're talking about India But in there's no there's no language called Indian Hope you're good. Thanks Marine win. Oh, let's see what wins talking about up here In Myanmar, most people judge our pronunciation. Yeah, that's why I felt so shy to speak loudly and chat with foreigners in English Yeah, I understand now. I feel confidence in speaking because of you. Thanks a million only a million I want to I want to hear thanks a billion or thanks a trillion only a million. I Could for you Win I think you're not shy. Thank you You're very comfortable speaking with Foreigners Now a day or this is from Tika nowadays Koreans interested in this person types It's like a trend to know about your partner's character my Korean told me so ah, I haven't heard about it here Basically, everyone is getting that's been around for a while Maybe in your group of friends that test, but I'm not interested in that so much wits So a fruit is not countable. So don't use it use before is it? Well fruit is mainly uncountable, but we can sometimes There there's different kind Fruit, let's get us. Let's get some example. Yeah, this is from Fruit is usually uncountable. I love fruit. Don't say I love fruits Fruit is used as accountable now when talking about particular types of fruit. They grow mainly citrus fruits So usually it's uncountable, but certainly fruit can be countable in some situations Sorry, all right Palavi. Let's see what you got Sir I study in a school. So my question is which English books will be good for children. I'm not a child teacher Just read at their level Sorry, I don't teach children. So I don't know I can't recommend any books All I can say is read books made for their level. So if they're young, maybe there's more pictures Sorry Palavi, I cannot help you there and from sleepwalker Robin I wondered in my previous question about why did you put away an article in my sentence? Have you ever needed to use? Oh the Korean the Korean language You have to be specific. I don't remember what I did earlier, but Depends on the grammar. Have you ever needed to use the Korean language? There's only one Korean language So we need to use the Don't remember what I put earlier But it cannot be ah Korean language ah Korean language would mean there's many kinds or many Korean languages There's only one the Korean language Frida hello Layla, what does she say it? I won't stare so you can eat at ease could at ease have the same meaning of easily at ease Means comfortably like that Let's check it dictionary says Free from worry awkwardness or problems relaxed so Comfortable at ease very comfortable Hindi is spoken in Indian mainly from Delhi. Yeah, how can I improve my intonation? intonation can only Only be improved by mimic a Native speaker You have to hear the intonation and then you have to copy the intonation the intonation cannot be learned By yourself or self-study you have to hear How a native speaker speaks and you copy their intonation that has to be so listen and copy You mimic copy them Frida What is the difference between I choose a over b and I choose a to be Point is the difference between over and to Yeah, I Don't think there would be a difference. I choose a to be yeah, they just Your you can use over or to in this case, which means you choose a We have two ways to express that they both mean the same thing Grammar is the backbone of language or not how much importance to grammar grammar spelling You got a fur right the first time of learning English grammar is the backbone of the language. Yes Do you need to study it directly? No, you can acquire grammar naturally Without a textbook if you study grammar textbooks, you will never speak English, right anyone you could spend 20 years Mastering grammar textbooks. That's not going to help you with actual usage of English to acquire The keyword is acquire Grammar, let's get rid of this How do you acquire grammar you read and you listen and You practice writing the grammar and you practice speaking the grammar so Do not study grammar directly Such a waste of time the the millions of people around the world Studying grammar directly. I am not a I am not a grammar teacher. I do not support that mode of learning unfortunately in a lot of countries the teachers focus on strict grammar to the students What a waste of time doesn't help your country improve the English Get away from grammar books get away from the classroom start acquiring grammar Without direct study of grammar your your brain is smart Human brains detect patterns very well Yeah, exactly what I mean if they people speak wings people can't speak well confidence is king the word queen if if I spar if I speak to someone and they are confident about What they're saying even if they're speaking broken English. I love that person with the confidence There's a lot of people that might speak English very well not confident I I don't have time for them. I like confident people even if they have broken English What do you usually recommend for students to feel that they stop progressing in English? Well, the problem with English and any language is graduate graduate card jewel. No, it's gradual. So What does gradual mean gradual means is slow improvement? Like it's I mentioned before a tree will grow You are not going to watch the tree grow. You're not going to sit down and Sit down and Just stare at the tree and watch it grow It's too gradual. It's too grouchy and England learning acquiring or learning English is similar. It's gradual. So you cannot See the change You know, it doesn't quickly move. It's like a tree. It's so slow unnoticeable the change so Both teachers and students Because it's so gradual. We don't really detect the change as it's happening, but it's happening. It is gradual. It is happening so When a student feels that they stop progressing I the student if the student is still studying they did not stop progressing They might not have noticed But they are still Moving forward at different speeds. It might be slowly really gradual But they are progressing and I would say If they are studying and they're listening they're still progressing And if they if they stop studying English, I would say, you know, there's There's three things that can happen. Uh, you know, there's when you study English you can progress or you can Lose it But there is a middle category of Keep it Keep your level So ideally we want to progress. We want to get better. But if you're not studying so much, it's very important to At least keep your level. You don't want to lose it. You don't want to reduce your knowledge of English. So If a student really stopped progressing I would say hey, hey at least Keep your level. Don't don't start losing it. You know, if you don't study for six months You're gonna lose a lot if you don't study for one or two years Uh, that's criminal Criminal, uh, sorry. I could talk more but I gotta move on What time is it you guys are asking a lot of questions Robin, what do you usually recommend for students who feel they stuck on that's I already did that That was oh, that was Layla What? Oh, no Here's Layla I got it had a little bit of confusion I guess the first one is correct. What do you think about it? Was it the first time you meet him you met him? Face to face. Was it the first time you have met? Well You're going different grammar forms that can mean the same thing. I'm not going to go into details of div about the the past perfect in the past Simple They can mean the same thing, but anyway, both of them You could even you You had met him There's different grammar forms. Layla's you're trying this You get into that trap of students Who can express Different actions using different grammar forms And there's they mean the same thing basically they mean the same thing, but technically There are differences And students will come to me. What is the difference when I'm expressing it with this grammar form? And I'm expressing this grammar form and basically Nobody cares. It's the same thing But technically there will be a slight difference and I'm not going into that Layla So I'm I don't answer those questions anymore of I would say don't even worry If any is good singular plural goods are ready goods is ready. Yeah goods can be Plural here the goods which would mean the items The products so these would all be synonyms Now you can say An item one Uh, you can say our product one And can you say our good? Uh, no, I don't think we can I would say no, we can't use this as a good. So it should always be plural. I think Yeah So the items plural means the same as the goods that we can say one item The products the same as the goods we can say our product, but the goods I don't think we can say our good. We always have to use it plural Pallavi Is English taught differently in all countries? Yes English has taught many ways different ways around the world Many different ways everyone's learning English a different way Robert I want to tell currently I tend a class of drawing in all those classes of English But I understand 95 percent. I feel my English is progressing well 95 percent is a good Good place. Yeah, you yeah keep going Leila. You're going to the next level We blessings mr. Shaw and the people there. Thank you Frida Do you think there's a difference? Do you think there's any difference between American accents and Canadian accents? That's making this the issue too simple like If I was to Talk about the difference in accents We're gonna look at my map here We're traveling We go over to North America So Canada USA is the accents accent difference Well This part of America is different than this part of America and this part of America the accent is different than this part of America So in America each region has different accents or dialects Canada the same this part of Canada is going to sound different than this part of Canada. So in this region You know, it's going to sound different And especially eastern Canada sounds very different than any part of north america So is there one canadian accent? No, there's not there's so many different types of canadian accent Is there one american accent? No, there's so many types and same with the uk australia new zealand Now I think students get confused with hollywood english Because and down here in la there's hollywood, you know the movies the movies tend to use one kind of standard accent Is hollywood english the american accent? Not at all. That is just hollywood english So I would say this area Speaks very similar. So it's Canada up here and northwestern united states. This would share one accent So I think all these people in this area Uh, it would be difficult to find the difference. I don't know. I'm not an expert But I would say it'd be difficult to find the difference Mixing the canadians here and the americans here. You might not be able to tell the difference in accents For some of them, I don't know So is there any difference between american accent and canadian accent? Yes and no Sometimes canadians sound exactly the same as americans depending on the region Different videos. Hello Thank you witz. Hi, zekira Let's see what leila is asking here The more I spend time and effort for studying this the better result I get in my In my progress The better result you need a result that you need a noun. Is that a correct sentence? Yeah In your progress I want to reduce. I want to improve every day. Good for you Yes, I think so too that you must not lose. We have different videos that I wanted Oh Different videos Different videos is interesting in finding girls This move when I listen to that song that reminds me of my child What is the correct prepositions I choose with a remind verb with When I listen to that song I would put an it reminds me of My childhood So when I listen to that song it reminds me of my childhood. This is what you want to use it reminds me of See what's happening here. If I say my head is hurt instead of I have a headache No, no, I want to hit it. I have a headache if I spell it right I have a headache if you said my head hurts This would be more, you know a headache is a common sickness. I have a headache But if you said my head hurts, yeah, you can Can't say my head is hurt my head hurts Uh that can express a headache, but you know, you might have another injury like I Hit my head on the wall or the ground. Oh my head hurts That means something that is more serious than a headache a headache is a common thing This can mean the same thing, but I think we should say my head hurts for something more serious Sleepwalker we'll stop after sleepwalkers I'm going to finish up the live stream in a few minutes Robin, have you ever taught as a personal tutor or always for a group of students sleepwalker? I used to tutor a lot in korea These days I don't tutor one to one. No I don't need to Sleepwalker, I'm not rich, but I'm not poor I don't need to tutor one to one for that extra money. I'd rather just help people for free You know and I do sometimes I Skype Or zoom with a student if they have some Some they're preparing for some test or something and I'll just help them out So I'll tutor for free if I tutor these days. I tutor for free online To not everyone so, uh, please don't ask me. Hey Robin. I want you to teach me one to one. I tutor people Who really need it or deserve it? I'm very picky A lot of you might be hobby English learners, which means you're not going to use it for a job or education. You're just using it to I Probably wouldn't tutor hobby English users. I tutor people who need it for a test or immigration or something like that But uh, yeah, so I used to do it a long long ago, but not anymore Now let's just look at Layla and Frida Layla. I learned new information about English today I I hope everyone learned today. That's I don't want to waste everyone's time And what does Frida say? I honestly don't have much time to study English. There's always a little time every day I just do what I can with my time and might sounds good Nowadays I learn new and nuanced expressions good and vocabulary and phrases. I also advise the grammar. Okay looks good Keep doing there, uh frida I'm exhausted. You guys had a lot of good questions today. Thank you for participating We saw a few new members today. Good. Welcome. I hope to see you next week I'll be back sunday Sorry, Layla. I probably won't have a lesson Prepared at that time. Uh, it's just too busy for me nowadays Thanks, Gwee Justina Frida. Thanks everyone who's still here Uh, talk to you in the future, uh, marine. You're a good teacher. Thank you marine I think you're a kind person too