British English Listening Practice | Why did I become a teacher?

Hello and welcome back to English with Lucy!

Today I'm going to be answering all of the questions that you sent in

I'm going to be answering questions from my Instagram, my Facebook and my Weibo

So thank you to everybody who asked me a question

And hopefully yours will get answered today

Quickly, before we get started

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Ah! My Youtube channel of course

And, as you might have seen in the last video

I've recently created a Patreon account

This is just a way that you can sponsor my videos

and earn some really nice rewards like skype lessons

cards and things like that

And I must say thank you to my first sponsor on there

which is Jaime and he pledged $10

and he will be getting a letter in the post very soon!

OK, Jocanda_ros asks "Can you talk about the myths and realities of the English character?"

OK, let's talk about a couple of the English stereotypes

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 is a big part of British culture

Umm..another one, that we say sorry a lot

This is true!

Anyone who lives in England or the UK

will realise 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...you sound desperate like stop apologising!"

But yeah, a myth...that 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

Ok so Valess....Vales GLZ

I imagine they're...uh...Spanish

Valesglz says "In terms of culture, what is the best and worst thing of living in Spain and the UK?

about living in Spain and living in the UK

And what are your plans for the future?

OK, the best thing about Spain...well, 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

really, in this day and age, it should just be available online!

So that was very frustrating!

Ok so Jaime G Patina says

How does a marketer go from ads and pitching to teaching ESL?

When were you aware that you liked teaching as a professional career?

ESL is English as a Second Language

And this is because I used to work in marketing

and my degree was in marketing

I found out that I liked teaching by mistake

I was doing a placement year that went wrong

And I suddenly had no job

I'd done a little bit of teaching before when I was living in Madrid but

I moved to Seville

I did my teaching qualification at TEFL International Seville

which was great. If anyone wants to do it then definitely do it there

I mean it was fabulous

They offered me a job there, I continued on, fell in love with teaching

and because I did marketing and advertising

I wanted to create my own thing

So here I am! Doing it!

Alessio Ghironi says "Hi, do you have natural blond hari?

Yes I do actually

I've never died my hair before

So...err...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 colour so yeah..

The bad thing about having blonde hair is that this happens

Can you see that sunburn?

That was 20 minutes in the sun!

So yes, I like my hair colour but my skin is very sensitive

What can you do!?

Ok so Italoooo....Italo Santana

I said that with a British accent deliberately cos I don't know how to say that in Portuguese

Really wants me to say something in Portuguese

On this channel. So...I will say....

Desculpe nao falo Portuguese

That's all I know! Umm yeah...

Obrigado

Obrigada!

Frango

Pessego!