What do you do? | British & Australian Conversation & Filler Practice

hello everyone welcome back to english

with Lucy I'm with Emma from mmmEngish

mmm yes you are mmm 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

ok so Emma what do you do?

well Lucy I'm a teacher teacher I teach. Are you?

Yeah I teach English online 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

how did you get into teaching?

because you originally did something

different yeah i did I've been teaching for

about five years now

okay but before that I was a landscape

architect a landscape architect yes

it was a design degree that i did at

university but you know of course I wanted to

travel and 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 and academy or did you do private

lessons I taught in an academy there

yeah yeah I've never had any Vietnamese

students i mainly teach Spanish

students ok in person but I have a whole

rainbow of students on my online and

that's the great thing about teaching

exactly

what do you think is the biggest

challenge for vietnamese students learning

for Vietnamese 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 they speak in Vietnamese

there's only one so a lot of consonant

sounds especially when they're the end

of words shall I get a lot of comments

about the th sounds yeah for Spaniards

actually for Spanish speakers the biggest problem

is the pronunciation of the vowels

mhm because in English we have 12 vowel

sounds and seven diphthongs and they just have

five vowel sounds and a couple of dipthongs

as well and I think it's even even more

difficult because actually the script

the alphabet is the same so the

confusion between the letters and

the pronunciation is crazy and of course with

english not being phonetic ... absolutely, because in Spanish it is phonetic

exactly yeah you read it as it is

i remember seeing children read really really long

words in Spanish and I thought oh my God you guys

are GENIUSES and I realized that

actually no you just read it section by

section and 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

yeah even if it's the same so what do you think

is the best way to students to

learn how to how to pronounce words in English

i think i'm a really big fan

of imitating other native speakers

definitely and I think that's great

for pronunciation practice but also for

learning the intonation and the rhythm of

English because your 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 know the same sentence in a

couple of different ways with different

tones of voices and it means something completely

change it yeah and that 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 be the expressions but this is the

same for learning any language I remember when I

Spanish here really weird phrases and

you want another wheeler

yeah you can't just guess yeah you mean

like Indians or radio and yeah yeah you

really have a few it's like inside

knowledge really have to work on

so what about Spanish learners what I

you've talked about some of the

navigation problems they have but what

other kinds of problems do they have

with English one of the big ones in my

opinion is World Order

hmm you can't just translated sentences

literally because we really change

things around

yeah so in one sentence in spanish you

can't directly translated into English

is we're going to send you

we're going to talk to you that's a big

one

also they really struggle with trailers

and I'm a confusing thing in English is

some crazy about have multiple means yes

separable

people really little and so what about

your teaching experience what how did

you get into teaching by accident really

the best accident i have had and i was

working and marketing in madrid in my

life I was doing sandwich course at

University which is what you do two

years university one year industry and

then one last year university okay

normally courses are three years if you

do a son which course that ball so I'm

just going to be my year industry Madrid

and then the company closed i found

myself chocolate so I did my teaching

qualification just feel that get in

madrid i didn't develop actually i moved

back with my ex-boyfriend and teaching i

will have to make had to be for awhile

and then I also finishing my degree I

had a couple of English groups

yes then I started to everything

yes yeah this is a game-changer for sure

so what is it that you really love that

teaching i love that you can really make

a difference and you can see it and I

like Google people's confidence so I

know that after one hour session with

someone i will be able to see a real

marked difference you know they're the

quality of that

yeah without 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 understanding something

and start using the language differently

so i think 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 I didn't know spanish I wouldn't be

here meeting I from late so much for

answering my questions nobody like dat

shouting and lovely catching up with you

here not yet been great xu yeah I come

and visit mean well but so if you like

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 without introductions

yeah introductions and small talk with

our first video that's in the

description box so click on that and go

and see what we spoke about on any

channel don't forget to connect with me

on my social media which is all over her

face right yeah if you don't mind I will

see you again for another English lesson

very very soon not right up

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