hello everyone welcome back to english
with Lucy I’m with Emma from English yes
you are
yes I am today we’re going to have a
conversation so we’re going to have a
chat and hopefully it will help you with
your English listening skills I’d like
to ask Emma a few questions about how
she became a teacher her experiences I
think it’s going to be really
interesting because I’m genuinely
interested in how you got started on
YouTube and how you started teaching I
recommend that you listen to this video
once without subtitles and then you
watch it again with subtitles to see how
much you understood we also filmed
another video about introductions which
is on Emma’s channel so make sure you
watch that as well the link will be in
the description box alright let’s get
started okay so Emma what do you do
well there’s the other teacher I teach
you you know I teach English online um
so I do that through YouTube or through
my website and Facebook groups and that
kind of thing so I have lots of students
online and how did you get into teaching
because you originally did something
different yes I did I’ve been teaching
for about five years now okay but before
that I was a landscape architect a
landscape architect
yeah so it was a design degree that I
did at university but you know of course
I wanted to travel when I wanted to live
in other countries and experience other
cultures and things like that so I
decided to train to be a teacher and so
did you teach in an Academy or did you
do private lessons I taught in an
Academy there okay yeah I’ve never had
any Vietnamese students I mainly teach
Spanish students okay in person but I
have a whole rainbow of students on my
own line and for moment oh that’s the
great thing about teacher and run what
do you think is the biggest challenge
for Vietnamese students when learning
English for the Yemenis students yeah
well I think a lot of it is to do with
pronunciation because we have a lot of
very different sounds in English that
are not really present in their
pronunciation when there’s a lot of the
enemies so a lot of consonant sounds
especially when they’re at the end of
words the teenage down I get a lot of
comments about the the TA yeah you know
Spaniards actually for Spanish speakers
and the biggest problem is the
pronunciation of the vowels mm-hmm
because we’re in English we have 12
vowel sounds and seven diphthongs and
they just have five about sounds that I
probably difficult as well and I think
it’s even even more difficult because
actually the script that alphabet is the
same so the confusion between the
letters and then the pronunciation is
it’s crazy and of course with English
being not being phonetic is in Spanish
it is exactly you can yeah I remember
meeting and as it is yeah I remember
seen children read really really long
words in Spanish and I thought oh my god
you guys I was really cheesy and then I
realize that actually no you just read
it section by section of the letters and
the accents tell you exactly how to
pronounce it but in English it just
isn’t like that yeah how it’s written is
absolutely not
how it’s pronounced yeah and even if
it’s written like that it can be in
different words it can be pronounced
completely differently
even if it’s the same so what do you
think is that is the best way for
students to learn how to how to
pronounce words and again I think I’m a
really big fan of imitating other native
speakers in Italy and I think that’s
great for pronunciation practice but
also for you know learning the
intonation and the rhythm of English
because you’ll you know students will
listen to us when we speak and hear that
our voices are kind of going up and down
and up and down and that’s so important
yeah there’s so much meaning in that for
English you know the same sentence in a
couple of different ways with different
tones or and it means something
completely different your chance it yeah
and I can really be confusing for
students well it can be confusing when
you’re trying to speak and get your
message across but when you’re listening
you know you miss so much information if
you don’t understand that so it’s really
important another thing for me is the
set phrases like the the expressions but
this is the same for learning any
language I remember when I was learning
Spanish hearing really weird phrases and
you either know that we don’t you know
you can’t just guess yeah so you mean
like idioms or you know with radiators
and yeah yeah you very words a huge it’s
like insider knowledge yeah you really
have to work on it so what about Spanish
learners what you’ve talked about some
of the pronunciation problems they have
but what other kinds of problems do they
have with English one of the big ones
in my opinion is word order you can’t
just translate sentences literally
because we really change things around
yeah so one sentence in Spanish you
can’t directly translate it into English
it’s we’re not going to understand you
or we’re going to have a tough time not
having you that’s a big one also they
really struggle with phrasal verbs and I
think the confusing thing in English is
some phrasal verbs have multiple
meanings or yes
and some can be separable other than
that yeah really
hmm before and so what about your
teaching experience what how did you get
into teaching when I was by accident
really that was the best accident I ever
had and I was working in marketing in
Madrid in like I was doing a sandwich
course at university which is where you
do two years University one year in
industry and then one last year at
university okay normally courses in
England are three years if you do a
sandwich course therefore so I was going
to do my year in industry in Madrid and
then the company closed so I found
myself chocolates so I did my teaching
qualification just to fill that year in
Madrid I did it in Seville actually I
moved back really my ex-boyfriend and
fell in love teaching I worked an
academy for a while and then I was I was
finishing my degree I ran a couple of
English groups and yes then I started
YouTube and everything change yes yeah
because it’s a game changer for sure so
what is it that you really love at that
teaching I love that you can really make
a difference and you can see it and I
like building people’s confidence so I
know that after a one-hour session with
someone I will be able to see a real
marked difference in their and the
quality of their work yeah what are you
that’s a good question
it’s um it’s definitely like if I think
about what I was doing before and I was
working in an office in a team that was
great but what I love about teaching is
how instantly you can help people and
you know really help them to change what
they’re doing understand something and
start using the language differently so
I think that that’s one of the really
lovely things about teaching is you can
really help people and make a difference
yeah and you can open so many you can
help them to open so many doors because
having an extra language can completely
change your life yeah if I didn’t know
Spanish I wouldn’t be it missing it a
lot from English so thank you so much
for answering my questions not very low
in to talk video is lovely chatting and
lovely catching up with you here in
London yes in Great Neck see you again
ah come and visit me no but so if you
enjoyed this video make sure you head
over to Emma’s channel the link to her
video another video we did together just
having a chat what about introductions
yeah introductions and small talk with
our first video yeah that’s in the
description box so click on that and go
and see what we spoke about on Emma’s
channel don’t forget to connect with me
on all of my social media which is all
over
Emma’s face right here it is hope you
don’t mind I will see you again for
another English lesson very very soon
not really off okay so I got you again
it’s you since you’re in London I’d love
to show you my area okay did I oh yeah
that’s what you said I said everyone
your life
with Lucy I’m with Emma from English yes
you are
yes I am today we’re going to have a
conversation so we’re going to have a
chat and hopefully it will help you with
your English listening skills I’d like
to ask Emma a few questions about how
she became a teacher her experiences I
think it’s going to be really
interesting because I’m genuinely
interested in how you got started on
YouTube and how you started teaching I
recommend that you listen to this video
once without subtitles and then you
watch it again with subtitles to see how
much you understood we also filmed
another video about introductions which
is on Emma’s channel so make sure you
watch that as well the link will be in
the description box alright let’s get
started okay so Emma what do you do
well there’s the other teacher I teach
you you know I teach English online um
so I do that through YouTube or through
my website and Facebook groups and that
kind of thing so I have lots of students
online and how did you get into teaching
because you originally did something
different yes I did I’ve been teaching
for about five years now okay but before
that I was a landscape architect a
landscape architect
yeah so it was a design degree that I
did at university but you know of course
I wanted to travel when I wanted to live
in other countries and experience other
cultures and things like that so I
decided to train to be a teacher and so
did you teach in an Academy or did you
do private lessons I taught in an
Academy there okay yeah I’ve never had
any Vietnamese students I mainly teach
Spanish students okay in person but I
have a whole rainbow of students on my
own line and for moment oh that’s the
great thing about teacher and run what
do you think is the biggest challenge
for Vietnamese students when learning
English for the Yemenis students yeah
well I think a lot of it is to do with
pronunciation because we have a lot of
very different sounds in English that
are not really present in their
pronunciation when there’s a lot of the
enemies so a lot of consonant sounds
especially when they’re at the end of
words the teenage down I get a lot of
comments about the the TA yeah you know
Spaniards actually for Spanish speakers
and the biggest problem is the
pronunciation of the vowels mm-hmm
because we’re in English we have 12
vowel sounds and seven diphthongs and
they just have five about sounds that I
probably difficult as well and I think
it’s even even more difficult because
actually the script that alphabet is the
same so the confusion between the
letters and then the pronunciation is
it’s crazy and of course with English
being not being phonetic is in Spanish
it is exactly you can yeah I remember
meeting and as it is yeah I remember
seen children read really really long
words in Spanish and I thought oh my god
you guys I was really cheesy and then I
realize that actually no you just read
it section by section of the letters and
the accents tell you exactly how to
pronounce it but in English it just
isn’t like that yeah how it’s written is
absolutely not
how it’s pronounced yeah and even if
it’s written like that it can be in
different words it can be pronounced
completely differently
even if it’s the same so what do you
think is that is the best way for
students to learn how to how to
pronounce words and again I think I’m a
really big fan of imitating other native
speakers in Italy and I think that’s
great for pronunciation practice but
also for you know learning the
intonation and the rhythm of English
because you’ll you know students will
listen to us when we speak and hear that
our voices are kind of going up and down
and up and down and that’s so important
yeah there’s so much meaning in that for
English you know the same sentence in a
couple of different ways with different
tones or and it means something
completely different your chance it yeah
and I can really be confusing for
students well it can be confusing when
you’re trying to speak and get your
message across but when you’re listening
you know you miss so much information if
you don’t understand that so it’s really
important another thing for me is the
set phrases like the the expressions but
this is the same for learning any
language I remember when I was learning
Spanish hearing really weird phrases and
you either know that we don’t you know
you can’t just guess yeah so you mean
like idioms or you know with radiators
and yeah yeah you very words a huge it’s
like insider knowledge yeah you really
have to work on it so what about Spanish
learners what you’ve talked about some
of the pronunciation problems they have
but what other kinds of problems do they
have with English one of the big ones
in my opinion is word order you can’t
just translate sentences literally
because we really change things around
yeah so one sentence in Spanish you
can’t directly translate it into English
it’s we’re not going to understand you
or we’re going to have a tough time not
having you that’s a big one also they
really struggle with phrasal verbs and I
think the confusing thing in English is
some phrasal verbs have multiple
meanings or yes
and some can be separable other than
that yeah really
hmm before and so what about your
teaching experience what how did you get
into teaching when I was by accident
really that was the best accident I ever
had and I was working in marketing in
Madrid in like I was doing a sandwich
course at university which is where you
do two years University one year in
industry and then one last year at
university okay normally courses in
England are three years if you do a
sandwich course therefore so I was going
to do my year in industry in Madrid and
then the company closed so I found
myself chocolates so I did my teaching
qualification just to fill that year in
Madrid I did it in Seville actually I
moved back really my ex-boyfriend and
fell in love teaching I worked an
academy for a while and then I was I was
finishing my degree I ran a couple of
English groups and yes then I started
YouTube and everything change yes yeah
because it’s a game changer for sure so
what is it that you really love at that
teaching I love that you can really make
a difference and you can see it and I
like building people’s confidence so I
know that after a one-hour session with
someone I will be able to see a real
marked difference in their and the
quality of their work yeah what are you
that’s a good question
it’s um it’s definitely like if I think
about what I was doing before and I was
working in an office in a team that was
great but what I love about teaching is
how instantly you can help people and
you know really help them to change what
they’re doing understand something and
start using the language differently so
I think that that’s one of the really
lovely things about teaching is you can
really help people and make a difference
yeah and you can open so many you can
help them to open so many doors because
having an extra language can completely
change your life yeah if I didn’t know
Spanish I wouldn’t be it missing it a
lot from English so thank you so much
for answering my questions not very low
in to talk video is lovely chatting and
lovely catching up with you here in
London yes in Great Neck see you again
ah come and visit me no but so if you
enjoyed this video make sure you head
over to Emma’s channel the link to her
video another video we did together just
having a chat what about introductions
yeah introductions and small talk with
our first video yeah that’s in the
description box so click on that and go
and see what we spoke about on Emma’s
channel don’t forget to connect with me
on all of my social media which is all
over
Emma’s face right here it is hope you
don’t mind I will see you again for
another English lesson very very soon
not really off okay so I got you again
it’s you since you’re in London I’d love
to show you my area okay did I oh yeah
that’s what you said I said everyone
your life
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