British English Listening Practice Why did I become a teacher

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lucy today i’m going to be answering all

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underscore Ross asks can you talk about

the myths and the realities of the

English character okay let’s talk about

a couple of the English stereotypes then

firstly we like tea well we do like tea

if there’s ever a problem the answer the

number one answer is let’s have a cup of

tea if you need an important discussion

let’s have a cup of tea it’s a is a big

part of British culture another one that

we say sorry a lot this is true anyone

who lives in England or the UK will

realize that we say sorry a lot when

it’s not necessary and when I moved to

Spain I was saying sorry and please and

thank you all the time until one of my

friends was saying like Lucy sound

desperate stop apologizing but yeah a

myth we’re very closed a lot of the

students that I teach in London say Oh

God English people are just so

unfriendly and I don’t think that London

is a good representation of the UK as a

whole so I would say that we’re very

friendly maybe not as friendly as some

other nationalities but if you think

that English people are unfriendly

you’ve been meeting the wrong kind of

English people okay so

balus valise GTL said imagine there are

Spanish valise glz says in terms of

culture what is the best and worst thing

of living in Spain and the UK of live

about living in the same and living in

the UK and what your plans for the

future okay the best thing about Spain

Wow it’s got to be the Spaniards

I love Spanish people they are so

friendly so fun and just they know how

to have a really good time and that’s

basically why I want to live in Spain in

the future the worst thing about living

in Spain was definitely the political

corruption and also the amount of

paperwork that you have to do for

everything just to apply for a simple

license or a National Insurance number

or something like that you have to spend

hours waiting in a queue you have to

fill in a hundred forms and really in

this n age it should just be available

online so that was very frustrating okay

so hi mate G patina so how does a

marketer go from ads and pitching to

teaching ESL when were you aware that

unites teaching as a professional career

ESL is English a second language and

this is because I used to work in

marketing and my degree was in marching

I found out that I like teaching by

mistake I was doing a placement year

that went wrong and I suddenly had no

job I’ve done a little bit of teaching

before when I was living in Madrid I

moved to Seville I did my teaching

qualification at Temple international

Seville which was great and all wants to

do it and definitely do it there because

I mean it was fabulous they offered me a

job there I continued on fell in love

with teaching and obviously because I

did marketing and advertising I wanted

to create my own thing so here I am

doing it

Alessio your own e says hi do you have

natural blonde hair yes I do actually

I’ve never dyed my hair before so

this is my hair I’ve always had blonde

hair actually I was born ginger but then

it changed blonde and it’s always been

more or less the same color so yeah the

bad thing about grabbing blonde hair is

that this happens can you see that

sunburn that was 20 minutes in the Sun

so yes I like my hair color but my my

skin is very sensitive what can you do

okay so Intel or it’s an O Santana no I

said that with a British accent

deliberately because I don’t know how to

say that in Portuguese really wants me

to say something in Portuguese on this

channel so I would say this cool bit of

our portal yes that’s all I know

um yeah obrigado obrigado fraggle or

pacing or I know some Portuguese but I

can’t speak Portuguese okay so azzedine

seven Everdeen seven says I seen your

videos just now and I want to tell you

that the way you explain is awesome

thank you

my question is how many languages do you

speak

the answer is I speak two and a half

times I do speak Spanish fluently after

living there for a couple of years I

obviously speak English and I am

learning Italian stone Veronica Yana and

for anyone else that is learning Italian

I have found the best youtuber she’s

absolutely amazing her channel is called

learn Italian with Lucrezia says child

with you a bit but nothing mio canale I

love her she explains things really

clearly she speaks perfect English and

also perfect Italian but she speaks very

slowly with a really clear accent and I

actually take a bit of inspiration from

her for my videos so if you’re learning

Italian check her out because she is the

best one that I’ve found so far and the

next language that I would like to learn

would be I imagine Portuguese or Chinese

I’m not sure but I want to really learn

Italian well first and then I’ll move on

to the next one I’m not very good at

learning two languages at a time some

people could do that I just start to get

confused okay and Dennis Joe says hello

Lucy my question is what is the biggest

difference between British English and

Americans except pronunciation

okay we’re obviously pronunciation is

huge difference but then it would be the

use of certain words so for example this

the rubbish bin I call it the rubbish

bin or the bin and in America they would

call it a trash can now we understand

each other because of course I watch

American programs and they watch British

programs but it is quite amusing to talk

with an American if you would like to

see a video on the difference between

American and British words and I could

definitely get an American friend to

help me out on that it might be quite

fun

okay so John Deasy from Instagram asks

when are you coming to Valencia again

for those who don’t know Valencia is a

beautiful city in Spain I went there two

years ago

when I was studying in Madrid and well

I’m hoping to move back to Spain

sometime soon so probably next year for

last is less finance is a huge party

over there which was amazing so

definitely for less fires okay

Mohamed yellow or blue yellow blue

yellow blue it’s pretty name I like it

yellow you

yay yellow you okay Mohamed that’s it

and the difference in pronunciation of

true and through okay well the endings

are the same but true is with it and

through is with us so I’m sticking my

tongue out through and then true it’s

all about the tongue in that one okay so

meant for Bilal says what’s the best way

to learn English well this could be a

whole video actually I’ve

quite a lot of questions saying how do I

learn English I’m just thinking that’s a

big question so in my opinion the

absolute best way of learning any

language is immersion you need to go to

that country you need to be dropped into

a situation where you have to speak that

language you need to be with natives and

you need to swallow your pride we’ve

talked about that one before you need to

forget all embarrassment and all shame

and just speak take corrections well

have friends that will correct you and

obviously this isn’t a possibility for

everyone if you don’t have the

opportunity to do this then firstly try

and speak with natives or at least

English speakers secondly all the tip

try and watch English and American TV

shows if you want a recommendation for a

really good British television series

then I would recommend broadchurch it’s

set in a village in the South of England

and it’s really really interesting I

loved it make sure you watch it with

English subtitles though and if you

don’t get it the first time around watch

it again that’s how you’re going to

learn be diligent be persistent every

single word that you don’t recognize you

need to find out what it is the longer

that you ignore that word the longer you

will remain without knowing what it

means seems very simple but I know that

I sometimes will ignore a word in

Italian or Spanish for ages and then

when I finally learn it I think God why

did I go throwing up without knowing

what that word meant okay and guila too

says red or white wine God can you not

tell by my video owner actually red or

white wine oh that’s like asking to

choose between my mom and my dad that’s

difficult okay red I prefer red but it

really stings my teeth I’ll have a sip

in there that we like red teeth um a

death mask says what do you think about

sued America

so South American countries I love South

American countries I love South

Americans I’ve never visited South

America and but I have a lot of American

friends I great people great food I’m

dying to visit they’re my best friends

just been traveling all around Central

and South America and that is number one

probably number one on my list of places

I’d like to go so Janette oh three it

says how difficult is it to get from B

to C one it’s definitely a jump but it’s

definitely doable but you do need to put

in a lot of work and how do you see will

you teach business English great ideas

yeah definitely request if you’d like a

video I’m sure I can do a video on

business English I used to teach

business English in Spain so so yes

expect one of those however just bear in

mind I have a long list of videos I’d

like to do so it might take a couple of

weeks or even a couple of months to be

able to do it but I’ll definitely try a

lot of my videos have been requests from

students like the take one I did the

other day

so keep requesting things that you’d

like to see out chan cheese yeah

Chang sorry - Yong time hope I said that

right said what smoking it about right

Satoru discussed that and what is your

favorite British singer well when it

comes to music I’m a bit boring

I really like the Beatles and I like

Coldplay oh I actually don’t listen to

so much music so my neighbors however do

listen to a lot of music haha

hey cassia cassia pieps and Zak exedoc

cassia cassia cassia cutter I don’t know

cassia sorry Castiel for planting your

name like that

hi Lucy do you teach in any college for

foreigners or do you give private

lessons by the way you were great thank

you Cassie ah that’s really

yes I run my own lessons and if you are

interested in lessons in Northwest

London around the West Hampstead and

Kilburn area then you can send me a

message on facebook i teach lessons

between the hours of 9:00 and 5:00 and I

only do groups I don’t do any private

lessons okay that’s it for questions now

many of you asked me a lot of English