YouTube LIVE Whats It Really Like being a Youtube English Teacher
all right
hello we are live super exciting
we’re live on english channel
super super excited a little nervous
because of all the tech and
all the potential things that can go
wrong here um
but really really excited to have so
many of you
being able to join live be part of
the conversation with me today
um i’m really excited to be introducing
the other half of english
other half of my life shah
lots of you might recognize shah if you
have
seen any of the imitation courses
that we’ve put out um maybe you’ve
popped up in a few videos on the channel
yeah and you’ve been roped into being
here
on a live video with me well the topic’s
very relevant
relevant to something i know lots about
which is all the behind the scenes stuff
that happens with
emma being a youtube teacher yes exactly
and that’s
totally what we are hoping to talk about
today
the main reason why we want to be here
and to be chatting with all of you
is because there are so many of you who
tune in every week
weekend week out watching the lessons
commenting
and you know we just wanted a way to be
able to
reach out connect with you say hi answer
questions
um share a little bit more about what
happens behind the scenes
with um with english absolutely
yeah yeah so the idea today
is um that we’re gonna do a couple of
different segments
in this video today lots and lots and
lots and lots of questions
so we’ve got three different ways we’re
going to be getting emma to answer a
bunch of questions so
part one is called rapid fire rapid fire
is like a machine gun like
lots and lots of questions very very
quickly um that we’ll be firing at emma
she doesn’t have a lot of time to answer
and we’ll see
what she says um and then in this second
part we’ve got some more
maybe more thoughtful or longer
questions to ask her we’ll be pulling
some questions out of this here um mug
and we have a whole bunch of questions
inside here we should be excited to pull
those out and
see what is inside there a lot of those
questions are also from our community
and then of course we will be and
throughout this we’ll also be
going over to you guys to answer your
questions so please if you do have any
questions please drop them in the
comments emma would love to know
all of the things you’d like to ask of
her and what we’re doing to all of them
i have just got all of the comments up i
was just
panicking for a minute thinking how am i
gonna see everyone who’s here but i can
see manuel
olga from the ukraine um kevin
nice to see you nico as well um
awesome to see so many of you joining in
the comments let us know
where you’re watching from um so
many of you from all over actually we’ve
got iraq
india poland indonesia
uh quebec canada portugal
oh wow so some of you up early in the
morning
some of you watching in the middle of
the day and for us
it is eight o’clock in the evening
here in perth in australia so that’s
where
um we live that’s where i’m always
filming
lessons from perth is on the west
coast of australia it is um
on the opposite side of the country to
melbourne and sydney
and we’re actually in the same time zone
as singapore which um so we’re
sort of in the same time zone as a lot
of asia which is
super cool hopefully it’s convenient for
you guys to be watching
right now yes yeah absolutely
um great to have so many of you joining
in the comments
really really appreciate you giving us a
shout out and saying hi
like i said this live video is really
just a chance for us to hang out and
to um answer some of your questions as
shah said we’ve got um
a couple of little uh activities
to keep our conversation going today but
feel free
free to drop any comments into the the
chat box any questions that you have
um before we get started
this is obviously quite a new format
um video format for english and we’re
trying something new
like i said i’m a little bit nervous
about how this is all going to go down
but
um it’s going to be fine it’s going to
be fine
you know we’re at we’re you know we’re
in the home studio oops
that may be a question we’re going to
ask you no we’re going to be fine
we did one practice run kind of yeah
anyway we’ll get this first one done but
the idea being that maybe
once a month we’re gonna host live um
events on our youtube channel
and i’m really curious to hear from each
of you
if you’ve got some ideas or some
types of videos that you would like us
to do in
a live video format some questions or
some
different types of things that we could
chat about and share with you
let us know gosh we’ve got argentina
kenya
turkey india taiwan lebanon france
philippines jordan italy oh gosh
how awesome libya yes of course i know
it patrick
welcome to so many people here from
so many countries it is amazing thank
you so much that’s where our story
starts
in vietnam so good to have you watching
thank you so much for showing up
um why don’t we get started char are you
ready
maybe we’ll just go over what the plan
is one more time before okay
i have a whole page of questions right
here
all written down rapid fire questions
meaning that we’re going to ask them
rapidly to emma
i don’t want you to think too much and i
don’t want you to give
really long answers for this one just
kind of whatever comes to mind
and some of these questions um you don’t
even know that i’m going to be asking
you which will make it really exciting
for everybody who’s watching i’m sure so
let’s see
everyone in the english team knows that
the request you just made is
really difficult for me to answer
quickly
don’t waffle on which is
a really good a really good expression
to know
yes um to waffle on is to
continue to talk without really getting
to the point
just saying lots of different things but
it’s not really useful information
unfortunately that’s a bad habit of mine
i
tend to say emma tends to waffle on and
tends to waffle on
cheap tents yes okay are we ready
question number one
how long have you had your channel
2016 was when i started the channel i
think so that’s
almost yeah five years coming up to five
years emma do you like being called a
youtuber
oh that’s an interesting question i
would always call myself
a youtube teacher rather than a youtuber
and
i don’t think i’m cool enough to be a
youtuber
all right then what’s your favorite part
about being a youtube teacher then
i love that every week i get to
check in with a whole bunch of students
um
of course the channel’s channel’s grown
and it’s quite big but there are always
familiar faces in the comments popping
up
asking great questions um all of these
things
and for me that is the part that i love
after i release a video jumping in the
comments and getting to
say hi to everyone awesome yeah is it
true that you’re
actually scared of public speaking i
hope i’m horrendously
i’m tremendously
every week but if we put you in a room
live with people what happens
i completely seize up and
can’t speak and sweat and
choke on my words it’s very different
being in a studio with a camera
and recording on your own i don’t record
with anyone else in the room
at all not even you not even me um
so it’s only me and my viewers
it’s your little safe space it’s super
safe and on a stage
is not a safe space for me you have made
about 200 videos now which is a
lot when you think about it was any any
of them your which was your favorite one
that you made
oh uh there’s lots of favorites for lots
of different reasons
okay which i want
to hold this but maybe two
i i loved making last year i made
an imitation lesson
that we posted for the entire community
to practice with and then
submit their videos and
super cool that was super cool because i
got to actually
see so many of you
practicing the same imitation lesson
that you’ve been learning with me
and then submitting it and recording it
and i put together a video
and um shared it on the channel i might
try and link it up
so that anyone you guys haven’t seen it
i mean it’s not so much an english
lesson it’s more just watching the
result
of people imitating emma from around the
world even her
hand gestures the way she smiles you
know emma smiles so much
and it was just lovely to see um older
people younger people
and we put it all together in a video
and it was great yeah yeah that was
probably cool
um and you know i was you worked so hard
on your lessons too
um you put a lot of effort into them is
there another one that you actually wish
that more people watched because you
can’t always tell
on youtuber is everybody gonna see this
did some people miss out
did you have one that you that you made
and was like you know what that was like
the best lesson i ever made
i wish more people actually saw this one
because now’s your chance the people are
here
because they’re listening there’s been
there has been a couple
where um you know they’re really useful
grammar lessons
but you know grammar tends not to be
grammar
so fun it’s
yeah yeah so um i think
that it’s interesting on my channel um
sometimes the videos that
i think they’re so fantastic and they’re
so useful
there’s one on the passive voice that
i’m thinking about now
that when it first went out
not a lot of people saw it but over time
it’s definitely been
building up because the passive voice we
will link to that
link to that where do you make your
videos emma do you have a film crew
um i make them do you have like a food
truck waiting for you outside after
you’ve filmed the lessons and you can go
on people make food for you when you
someone does your makeup
for you snacks do help yes sometimes
you make a little snack plate which is
really really nice
but actually it’s just uh you’re looking
at the
english film crew so shah will often
help by setting
up lights in the studio and things like
that but i film it right here in this
room
um which is one of the bedrooms in my
house
luckily we recently moved into a house
where
we have a whole room that we can just
permanently leave set up as a studio so
for the first time in my life
i’m not setting up packing down the
studio setting up
backing down settings up backing down
now it’s just
always here and ready to film which is
so
good i’m just going to warn you that
from now on my questions are going to
come a little bit
faster okay sorry and i’ve been talking
too much
i’ve been walking on uh that’s
absolutely what did you eat for
breakfast today
did i eat breakfast i think i i think i
ate
a piece of peanut butter toast and is
that what you would normally eat um
it’s not far from it question number ten
what would you rather have eaten
um
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i would have loved i love a poached egg
on avocado with a big piece of
your homemade sourdough bread no well i
was gonna say so
anyone does feel like making breakfast
for emma she absolutely loves to have
poached eggs on toast
don’t forget uh so what’s it like where
you live
do you live in the mountains what is it
like where do you live i
live by the ocean actually and
i love it every day i get to go
for a walk in summer i go for swims at
lunchtime
it is so lovely to live by the beach
and i’ve always lived by the beach um
so not doing so would be kind of weird
for me i feel like i’m just
attached to the coast and to the ocean
right next year and do you like um
this next question is do you live in a
big house with
other youtubers no good answer
what kind of car do you drive
i drive a really old car
i drive a 1994
lexus which used to be my dad’s
it’s a classic it is a classic i
inherited it
it’s a lovely car um it’s got a lot of
sentimental value
so i will continue driving it until it
can drive
no more i try to make these questions
fast
emman have you had cobia no no
which do you think is faster a tiger or
a shark
a shark who’s your favorite english
teacher on youtube
oh i would have to say it’s either
lucy or vanessa which teachers don’t you
like
none do you get all your clothes free
from
sponsors no none
if you were able to if you were able to
get any brand to sponsor you and send
you all their clothes for free
which one would it be
oh you know the answer to this just in
case they’re listening
i’m completely obsessed with gorman in
australia any of you who are in
australia and you know gorman and their
bold bright colors and beautiful fabrics
um i could shop there until
two more questions to go so gorman is
your favorite your sponsor of choice
um do you have any pets
i did just get a pet today
what kind of pet did you i got a puppy
today
today um so
she’s literally just arrived she’s very
very new
she’s actually asleep right down
there and so far
she’s not really disrupted the youtube
live but
if she does wake up i’ll definitely
bring her up and
introduce you to her um so yes she is
now the apple of my
eye um everything we don’t even have a
name for her yet do we don’t have a name
um we’ve got two choices
that we’re trying to toss up between
frankie or daisy
and we’re trying to work out we’re
trying to now that she’s arrived we’re
just
doing our final decision is it going to
be frankie is it going to be daisy
if you’ve got an opinion on that let me
know in the comments i would love to
know
um what you think i should call her
i’ll show you her when she wakes up i
promise all right well i’m happy to
um that was good we got through those in
in in a good amount of time i thought
and um
we have a bunch of comments coming in
yeah so thanks for
for joining us emma for that first part
of the rapid fire question oh man
manuel’s saying he’s listening to our
conversation and got about
70 80 percent of it which is
awesome and we’re speaking quite quickly
you’ll notice that char and i talking
together
is much faster than my
videos that i’m usually putting out my
lessons that i film
so this type of conversation is
definitely
a little different and so it’s great
training extra practice for you to be
listening to me in a different context
probably in a more
natural context like a regular
conversation
or being asked questions that she
doesn’t really want to answer
um we do have some questions from
our viewers anna is asking why isn’t
your accent
really strong most australians have a
really strong accent you kind of talk
like this how come you don’t have that
accent you don’t have a really strong
australian accent do you emma
that’s a that’s a really good impression
yeah um
i have always put it down to
the fact that i’ve lived overseas in
other countries and i think that that
forces you for any native english
speaker
i think it forces you to speak more
clearly
and articulate sounds more clearly
i also think that being an english
teacher plays a big part in that
um and i spend a lot of time trying to
speak clearly articulate sounds and um
you know regular everyday australians
they don’t have to
and you know we speak to each other
and understand each other and can get a
little lazy with our speech
and you know you might be thinking
what on earth is going on here or so
what if you have
a really thick accent you help people
with thick
accents often we don’t we often don’t
encourage
people to try to change their accent but
maybe to
improve their pronunciation we did have
a question from murray ewan that says hi
emma
how can i work on my thick accent so
if you don’t have a thick australian
accent and you did that you achieved
that through
teaching english maybe from a lot of
travel speaking to lots of other people
with different accents and you have to
kind of
change the way you speak how it’s
something i think that that’s
you’ve just touched on a couple of
really key things so there’s obviously
um you know the regular pronunciation
training
watching your favorite youtube teachers
practicing out loud with them
focusing on drilling those sounds in a
lot of the
the videos that focus on the individual
sounds but one of the things
that really does help to shape
the way that you express yourself and
forces you to do it
clearly is by speaking to
other types of english speakers not just
native english speakers but other
is never going to be the case for me
with all of my students the
sooner that you can get out into
real situations real conversations and
be
speaking with other people the better
because there are so many different
types of skills
that you are practicing in a real live
conversation yes you’re practicing
grammar but you’re also
practicing vocabulary you’re practicing
non-verbal communication you’re
listening
you’re watching other people as they’re
communicating and all of these things
are what make speaking and communicating
generally
really hard so even if you have perfect
grammar on paper
it doesn’t mean that you’re going to
step out into the world and be able to
interact with people in a
in a really positive engaging way and
um and so the sooner you start
breaking down those barriers
and you start building confidence with
your speaking skills
you start connecting with other people
in
in english there’s motivation
there’s little wins and success that
you’re having
at every point and for me that is
much more important than perfect english
grammar great answer
now before we move on i’m just going to
let you know that someone people have
been writing to us to say that the
connection has cut out
is anyone been experiencing that we
haven’t noticed we’ve been here
answering questions and things like that
technical stuff i have no idea
um it seems to be that we’re back um can
everybody see us
i’m not sure i’m hoping that my face
wasn’t super embarrassing while i was on
pause for a while
maybe we’re all used to that kind of
thing um but it seems like we’re back on
i can see myself moving on the screen
and i’m so sorry guys for those of you
who we dropped out um i don’t know how
long for
um but potentially yeah we are back
um and so let’s just carry on
um the last question that everybody
heard was about how to change
strong accents and so we missed the last
question that’s quite
all right i’m hoping that we’ll still
have that in a recording somehow
um we’ll find that out later so are you
happy to
move along for the moment em or um would
you like to go back
i’m just watching all of the comments
fly through and
big hello to daddy dave as well familiar
face out there
um lots of you are saying it’s my
connection that sucks
uh it would appear that perhaps it’s
al’s um
anyway thank you javier for your
congratulations
on and to the team of um
reaching four million subscribers really
appreciate that
we absolutely love showing up at in
english
week in and week out and sharing lessons
and
and getting to hang out with all of you
that’s why today is so special we um i
mean this is actually the second
live youtube video that i’ve ever done
the first one
was must have been in 2017
it was a few years ago um i’m not sure
if any of you were
also present at that live video but it
would be quite funny to know there were
people who watched live then as well
um i’ve never done a live video by the
way
don’t understand how you could do this
on your own i would have to have a
friend with me
to do you’ve got a friend with you
you’ve got a friend
right well we have some more questions i
mean guys keep saying
there’s been some great questions coming
in we love questions because
it just helps us to understand what do
you want to know how can emma help she’s
just
you can see she just turns her teacher
on just like that but then in between
we can switch between to try and find
out
more about emma that goes on because of
course there’s so much more to her than
what you see on screen and i’m hoping
that some of the questions in that mug
are gonna help us to unpack a little bit
of that so
are you ready to move on to some of
these questions and we’ll come back to
some more of our audience questions in
just
a moment okay
so i’m picking the first one out here so
we have a bunch of questions inside here
this is quite a cool mug actually this
is the
mug which yeah do you like
do you guys like these mugs i mean we
could make some
merchandise if you like the look of this
mug i just made this for emma because
we’ve got our new logo that you guys
will have seen now and i thought it was
really cool
um if you guys like this maybe we can
sell them in a shop or something like
that i’m not really sure how all that
works but maybe we could give them out
as prizes
i’ve just become aware that i’m probably
speaking really fast
for you guys so let me slow down a
little the first question we have
is what was the moment that you had the
idea to start a youtube channel
at all oh that’s a great question
that um that would be when i was
teaching in vietnam
and that’s actually answering
christian’s question as well he said did
you ever work as a teacher
before starting the youtube channel so
i worked in australia at
um a couple of language schools and also
at
monash university english bridging
program
so some of you if you’re watching from
melbourne australia
you might even be familiar or maybe went
to monash university um but
then we moved to vietnam which
we absolutely loved we were there for a
year and i was working at a language
school there
but one of my classes was this classroom
full of adults
who worked really long hours
until seven o’clock at night they would
grab some dinner on the way from work
to my classroom and sit there and we’d
have to use these textbooks
and practice silly conversations about
nothing that was relevant to them in
their lives
and i thought i’ve got to find a way
to get them to really love learning and
practicing
english with me because this isn’t
working
and um does anyone else feel like that
is the textbook
is the textbook way of learning english
or learning english in language schools
is it
boring to you is that because that’s
emma was thinking that weren’t you
it was like i’ve got to do something
about this well i think it’s like
you know it can depend if the class and
the group of people are really great if
the teacher is awesome then that’s great
then you know it also depends on
your situation if you are trying to
squeeze in a class you know between
the time that you finish working the
time that you go to bed and
you know you’re trying to do that three
times a week you know you’ve got to keep
doing it
to keep up your practice and your skills
then it starts to feel
like a chore and it’s hard and it’s hard
to stay motivated
so that was really how i started the
youtube channel i wanted to
just film incidental um
moments in my day that um particularly
around food many of you who’ve been
watching the channel for a long time
will remember that
a lot of my early videos were about
cooking and about eating with loves
yeah yes so i really wanted to just you
know
create these really relaxed
conversational kind of videos
around food and so at that time i was
sharing it with about
20 of my students and
i think it took maybe a couple of months
and i looked at the channel and there
was like 3 000 people watching
watching you eat noodles and take away
right but it was a little bit odd
at the time um i remember feeling
i don’t know whether i feel okay about
this but i guess it’s cool
and maybe i’ll keep making these videos
because obviously people are enjoying
them
um and yeah so that was that’s how it
started it started in vietnam
um and inspired by the classroom
um and the students that i had at the
time
yes and for those people who have been
asking how do you start a youtube
channel i guess
watching emma you just kind of start one
i mean you just get your phone and then
you make a video and then you upload it
i don’t know
i should have pulled out that camera
that i was using for like the first
three years of the channel and at the
time it was one of those little
um flip handicam
things that you know you can record
video on but you could walk around with
your hand slipped in the side
yeah yeah that was the cheapest one that
they had because you didn’t have much
money
it was the cheapest and it worked fine
for like three years yeah we didn’t even
get we’ve got a nice one now
so what i always always tell anybody
who is starting out on youtube and is
thinking about
creating a channel is not to go out and
buy
all of the different cameras and
lights and bits and pieces you can do so
much with just
natural light a really simple camera
a phone now you know get into the habit
the hardest part about starting a
youtube channel is
getting into the habit of showing up
consistently and regularly and
you know coming up with new ideas even
when
you know it feels like you’re not
getting very far and you’re not
um making any money and or you’re not
reaching anyone or you’re tired or
you’re trying to like have a holiday
all of that that’s the hard part all of
the important things you are amazing
i mean i just don’t know anyone who just
keeps turning
up every time the next question
how’s our little puppy going she is
shh stirring
her eyes are open but she’s still lying
still
how did your family react when you quit
your job to focus
on your channel because not everybody
says mom i’m gonna quit my job now i’m
just gonna make youtube videos
what does your family do when you
families are so
sometimes families get involved in the
in the decision making in your life
sometimes
what does your family like that what
happened my family
was quietly supportive
so what i mean what i mean
is i think that they were thinking
uh what on earth are they doing
right uh what am i what are you
wondering what we were doing
i was wondering what you were doing i
was wondering what you were doing why
would i yeah
shah was also um starting his own
business
and we were both working on the internet
on the internet
which yeah back then was kind of an odd
thing to do
not so much now but um yeah i never
i never felt i never had any questions
or
concerns or doubts coming from my
parents
but i did definitely feel
it a little your mom may have said your
mom may have said
uh i found a newspaper advertisement for
you emma there is a job here for a
teacher in the university
yeah um yeah yeah why don’t you go and
take them no
that’s like um uh it’s just sort of
we call it passive aggressive
like just subtly hinting at i think
they’re just people just
unsure they’re just not sure and they
want the best for you
yeah and sometimes they’re not so sure
how to say that
yeah and also um
it is like you know taking a little
risk like starting a youtube channel
and moving away from traditional sort of
teaching i think is um
there is a little risk there and it’s
not the kind of thing that everyone
is willing or able to do so lots of lots
of people from the outside might be
thinking oh i don’t know about that but
you know it’s been proven time and time
again
as we say onwards and upwards okay
next one just trying to pick out another
one
okay can you walk us through a day
in your life how does each of your days
start and end
and tell the truth you don’t go into a
meditation retreat on top of a morning
in the morning uh under a waterfall on
top of a mountain
oh ask me the question again because i
was looking at all these comments coming
actually i did notice that somebody from
azerbaijan is cheering us on today thank
you so much
did you know that the video editor for
english is actually from azerbaijan yes
she is very intelligent
can you walk us through a day in your
life walk us through a day in your life
how does each day start and end please
tell the truth
um okay so please tell me please tell
the truth
that’s really exciting or interesting i
usually get up in the morning
and the first thing that i like to do
is um have a cup of
tea or a glass of water i like to
move my body a little if i’m
feeling like it that means going to the
gym i go to f45
i don’t know if any of you go to f45
gyms but i really love going to the gym
but
a lot of the time i said i live by the
beach um i just
love going for a big long walk in the
mornings
um just to get my body moving and ready
to go
because then i come back i make myself a
coffee
and i sit right here and
work work work work work
to check in with all of our team
work on different projects so it might
be creating
um lessons or
courses and content for english
but i also have another
business that we both work in um
and that is a like a tech startup in the
language learning space so we are
currently
building a web platform for our
community
called the ladies project soon to be hey
lady
um which is really exciting but that is
a huge epic
project that takes a lot of time by the
time i get to the end of the day
i either we go out to eat dinner because
it gets to seven o’clock at night and no
one has done anything
you look after most of the cooking in
our house right do you look after our i
love cooking
our health cooking is my thing yeah yeah
and you love eating i got a match made
in heaven
it is perfect i cook she eats yeah yeah
and breakfast is simple poached eggs on
toast guys it’s true
all right um
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oh this is a juicy question what
don’t people get to see about you in
your videos
do you ever make mistakes do you ever
get nervous
yeah of course um in this video you will
see all of my mistakes
and pauses and hesitations and
i’ve already choked on my words twice
and that happens when i um
feel nervous and uncomfortable and when
i’m making lessons
uh on for youtube i just edit that stuff
out
but that’s not what happens in reality
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um yeah one more question yep we’ve got
another question here
yeah and then we should probably answer
a couple more questions and
and start to wrap up okay um you touched
on this a second ago
this question says you devote a lot of
your time to helping women
actually who are learning english what
exactly do you do
so that um relates to the
startup that i just mentioned so i
do a lot of work from english and we
both spend a lot of time
um on our startup which is
in the space language learning space
it’s for women
who are learning english helping them to
build the confidence
to speak and to communicate effectively
in english
so yeah in that community
we have an amazing
group of teachers who create awesome
content and
host lessons and classes and create
speaking events and opportunities for
our community to connect
we of course have this incredible
network of women
all over the world who are learning
english and
when they come to us they feel um
doubt uncertainty a little uncomfortable
um
nervous about speaking in english and
you know
through the incredible community that we
have
they build confidence they practice with
the
the tools and the lessons that we
provide
and create incredible friendships that
connect them across the planet which is
pretty special i was like is that all um
that sounds amazing
yeah um definitely um we are keeping up
the great work on all of that
let’s move on to my goodness the number
of questions that are flying in
um victor says i can’t see nothing i’m
hoping that’s not still the same
everyone else seems to be okay there
we have um someone whose name has
appeared
in i think russian who was asking what
breed is your dog yeah mandratha is
saying show us the puppy show show us
the dog
dog dog um
oh she’s okay we’ll pick her up in a
second she’s too cute
one more question one more question um
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well we’ve got a different two-part one
here um
okay we’ve got what are your favorite
sports you could just this could be
rapid fire what are your favorite sports
like watching sport to watch sport i
really like watching australian football
and
i’m sure that most of you have not even
ever heard of it it’s different
to american football different to soccer
different to rugby um in australia we
have our
our own game and that’s probably the
sport that i love to watch most okay
australian rules football the next one
we’ve got is we may just go over this
for people who have not watched the
channel
or didn’t know or have come along and
seen this channel it’s called
mmm english why
did you call the channel um english
instead of just like
english with emma or emma’s english or
excellent english or any other
variation what’s with the um thing is
the question from
charlotte great question charlotte and i
love answering this because it’s
so random i always think like
how did google end up being called
google um
um english is uh the name
was actually you came up with the name
did i
yeah yes when we were on holidays in
greece
yeah um it was because
it’s because of food food is this
connector it brings
everyone together in social situations
no matter what language you’re speaking
you know it helps to break down barriers
and to put everyone at ease and so when
i first started the channel i was really
focused
on using food as a tool to help
us connect through english we love food
language you love
food who doesn’t love it
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is all about being
delicious and
then of course over time as people kept
asking this question i was like well
this is cool because
you know you can also say hmm
english or
um so
it’s like um a little expression that
you can use
with lots of different tones and i i
think it’s interesting how it applies to
english it’s used in lots of different
ways
all all right i’m gonna go get the puppy
yeah you can start talking about
why what made you decide to do a live
video today oh good one of the reasons
you can’t do this
on a recorded video
um yeah and i was talking a little bit
about that at the start
um because for five years now i’ve been
making
videos and putting lessons out on the
channel
but the the version of me that you get
to
meet and see through those videos is a
little different
than you know the real me and me being
able to sit here and respond to all of
your
questions hello
sleepy sleepy puppy sleepy
little puppy that could be called
frankie
or she might be does she look like
frankie or daddy
oh oh look she’s yawning
look how fat her tummy is
oh this is a 10 no 8 week old puppy
yes she’s a full mastiff puppy she’s
going to get
quite big quite big and we’re
super super excited if you were here at
the start of the live stream
go put it back on them okay say bye
everyone say
bye bye bye bye bye
bye so we just got her
and she arrived today so we haven’t even
had
our first night sleeping with her i
don’t imagine
we’re gonna get a lot of sleep tonight
um
so um there’s
yeah a little bit of a little bit of
work to be done i think we need to run
her around before we go to bed but
um thank you so much for everyone who
has joined and jumped into the comments
we will be going back through and so
will the english
team going back through the comments to
see if there’s any suggestions or
recommendations
for other types of live videos that
you’d like
us to do well we are listening we are
really listening yeah and we’re thinking
of doing
these live videos once a month so
um we’re super happy to continue doing
them if
you guys are into them and are excited
to be watching
and and being part of the videos with us
we have our
team we have a couple of members from
our team yeah comments in the chat
right now so if you are posting your
ideas there we will definitely
yes definitely be talking about i want
to give a huge shout out to brooke
and to kaelin who are um in the comments
mentioning commenting to
everyone that is um writing questions
they’re also sending us the juicy
questions the ones that we can’t miss
as well so thank you for both being
there and for helping out today
and to all of you who have joined us it
has been such a pleasure
to see lots of you and um
and hang out for a little while thank
you
was it okay do you think you could do
this again will you come back
maybe yeah
if they say no but if they say
yes then absolutely
i’ve had fun all right see you soon
everyone thanks for watching and um bye
for now