Arnel's Everyday English Interview | Speak English Fluently with Steve Hatherly

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Welcome back to another edition of Speak English fluently.
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I am your host Steve Hatherly and I thank you, uh, very much for joining us once again.
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Iā€™m very excited today because my guest is the owner and operator of her very own
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YouTube channel.
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It's called Arnelā€™s Everyday English.
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Which offers English lessons for ESL and EFL students.
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She is from the United States originally.
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But she has been living in the U.Kā€¦ living and working for the last 11 years.
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Her channel is extremely popular 497,000 subscribers.
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And that's just the last time I checked.
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So Iā€™m sure the number is even higher now.
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The channel keeps her very busy, as does her regular teaching job, as does her family life
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at home.
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And, therefore, I thank her very much for joining me today.
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Arnel, welcome.
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And it's so nice to meet you and have you here.
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Thank you, Steve.
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I love that introduction.
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And Iā€™m really excited to be here as well.
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Well I think we're finished then.
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We got a good introduction.
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We can just we can just end there.
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Yeah, goodbye.
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Goodbye.
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Well, let's talk about you before we talk about your channel and the details of your
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work and all of those things.
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So you're from the United States originally.
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Which part?
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I was born in Arizona.
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Very nice.
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Arizona.
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But I left when I was six months old because of my dad's job.
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I traveled everywhere.
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So I left the U.S. when I was seven.
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I left when I was seven and I haven't lived there since, oh wow, um, yes, Iā€™ve been,
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where did I live?
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I lived in Korea.
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I lived in, um, South Korea for one year.
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And then Germany for 10 years.
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And then the Netherlands for four years.
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And Iā€™ve been in the U.K. for 12 years.
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Goodness me.
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Oh, I apologize.
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It's been 12 years now, not 11 in the U.K.
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You truly areā€¦ you truly are a citizen of the world then.
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I am...
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I am but I still have my family in the States.
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And I like to go back and visit them, um, from time to time when I can.
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But, yeah, Iā€™ve been in the U.K.
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Do you travel to China or Korea much at all?
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Because I was reading in your bio, and you told me before we got started today, you get
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this question a lot about your ethnicity.
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You're American but you're also a mix of Chinese and Korean.
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So you visit the States.
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Do you also visit China and Korea too?
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Yes, lots of people ask me where Iā€™m from.
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So my dad - he's American.
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My dad's American - my mom is Chinese-Korean, um, so Iā€¦ the last time I was in Korea was
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2014.
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Okay, so, no, I don't visit Korea often but I do have relatives in Korea.
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I don't have relatives in China.
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But my Chinese relatives are living in Taiwan.
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Oh, I see.
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And also, it will be a much further trip for you to come visit this part of the world than
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it would be to get to the United States.
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I suppose yesā€¦ yes and, um, I have three little kids, Steve, so I think any parent
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knows traveling with kids is no fun.
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So howā€¦
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how old are your children?
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My son is eight.
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I have one son he's eight.
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And then I have twin daughters.
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Twin daughters!
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They are five.
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Oh, my goodness!
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Where do you find the time to do all of this YouTube work plus your regular job?
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That's a good question yeah, um, I eat coffeeā€¦ coffee is my answer.
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I think a lot of my followers know I love coffee.
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I need several strong coffees a day to keep me going.
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But not after 3 p.m.
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I learned that from watching one of your videos.
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Yes, exactly.
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Otherwise, I can't sleep thatā€¦
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Iā€™m jittery the whole day.
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Um, and I didn't have coffee before this interview Steve just to calm my nerves.
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So you know before this interview, if you pass out halfway through, then we will understand.
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So let's talk about your career then.
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Um, when did you get into teaching?
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Is it something that you transitioned into or has this been your thing since the beginning
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of your career?
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No, um, so I told you I lived in the Netherlands for four years and that's where I did university.
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And I, um, was originally a dancer.
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Oh, wow.
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Yeah, I don't think anyone knows that, so this is the first timeā€¦
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Iā€™mā€¦
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Iā€™m kind of announcing that.
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Um, I trained as a dancer professionally since I was 13.
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And then, um, I went to university for dance.
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So my bachelor is in contemporary dance.
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So what kind of dance were you doing in your university studies?
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Um, well we had ballet training every day but it I specialized in modern dance.
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And it's kind of hard to explain modern dance.
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Um, I wish I had a clip to show you on my phone.
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I could show you a modern dance but you can Google it.
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Everyone can google modern dance.
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So the plan was then, in your younger years, to pursue dance professionally obviously,
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so when did that decision come to, kind of give up on that part of your life?
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Ifā€¦ if in fact you did, and transitionā€¦ and transition into this part?
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Well I graduated, um, from uni in 2010.
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And to be honest, I had been dancing for such a long time that I was burnt out.
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So I didn't want to dance anymore.
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I was burnt out by I guess theā€¦ the dance world.
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I could describe it like that.
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I was really burnt out.
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I didn't want to keep going so I thought Iā€™m going to travel.
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And I think, as you know, a lot of people who travel, they also teach English.
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Sure.
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And I thought I can't just be a native speaker and teach English.
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I have to, um, get some training, I have to learn how to be a teacher so, um, at this
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point, I was in the U.K. and I decided to do my, um, TESOL training.
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And from there, I never traveled because what happened.
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The school that you got your TESOL training from is the school that you started to work
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at correct?
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Correct, yes.
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Thank you.
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Thank you for reminding me.
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I remember my own I read.
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I read that bio very carefully.
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Yeah, Iā€¦
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I completely forgot, so keep reminding me.
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Um, because I couldn't forget, um, yes at first it wasn't a, um, how did I start?
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I think I first started out by doing the summer school.
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It'sā€¦ a lot of junior students from Europe would come to England.
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And I was a summer school teacher.
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And from there, Iā€¦
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my contract kept getting extended, um, you know six more weeks another six weeks.
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Um, yeah so that's kind of how my teaching career started.
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And it was, um, a wonderful learning experience.
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I think all, um, teachers and newly qualified teachers know when you're first starting out,
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it's stressful.
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It's stressful walking to a classroom with, you know, 15 students.
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But that was good for me.
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It really helped me, um, help me progress.
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A lot of new teachers perhaps don't realize, and maybe even a lot of students don't realize,
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that teaching there'sā€¦ there's a large performance element to teaching and that's difficult to
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get used to in the beginning.
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Right, yes, um, I remember the very first lesson I taught.
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So when you do your TESOL training, on day one, you have to teach.
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I had no teaching experience and I remember very clearly how to teach the weather.
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And I was so flustered.
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I was speaking really quickly and I was writing on the board and I was just talking.
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And I think I kept gettingā€¦
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well the students were just staring at me.
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They all had blank expression because I was speaking too quickly and, um, I was so nervous
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and that made me even more nervous.
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So I would say my very first day in the classroom is not something I want to remember.
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I can remember my first day on the radio and I, uh, I don't look fondly upon that experience
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either.
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So I completely understand what you're saying.
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Yeahā€¦ yeah and I remember afterwards, I got some feedback from one of the professional
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teachers and he said I really liked how he used two colors on the board.
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So I used one red pen and one green pen.
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And I said, ā€œOh, thank you,ā€ but I actually didn't know I was doing that.
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It wasā€¦
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I was like, yes I plannedā€¦
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I plan to use two colors, but in fact I was just so nervous I was using random pens in
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my first class.
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That's funny.
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Yeah, so how long were you a teacher than before you decided to go the YouTube route?
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Um, seven eight years.
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Oh, wow, okay.
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So it had been a while?
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Yeahā€¦ yeah, and I originally, um, did not want to start a YouTube channel because Iā€™m,
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um, a pretty private person.
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And I didn't have a personal Facebook.
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I didn't have a personal Instagram.
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I never had anything like that, Um, so the idea came to me that I should start
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a personal brand.
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Um, and I thought, oh if Iā€™m going to start a production brand, have my own website, I
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should probably start making YouTube videos.
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And this was end of 2019.
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Okay.
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So, I think Iā€™ve been thinking about starting YouTube channel since 2018.
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But it took me a long time to get the courage to be like, right, Iā€™m gonna film this video,
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and Iā€™m gonna edit it.
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And I didn't know how to edit videos.
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So I had to find the software and do all of that.
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Um, so yeah, I procrastinated a really long time because I was so nervous about making
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videos.
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We call itā€¦ or you call it, excuse me, uh, Arnelā€™s Everyday English.
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It started three years ago now I think.
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Iā€¦
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I think Iā€¦
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I found your first video, I think, correct me if Iā€™m wrong, but was it about, uh, something
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about pickingā€¦ picking the right one.
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Or it'sā€¦ it's yours to pick or something like that.
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Take Your Pick.
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Take Your Pick, that wasā€¦ an idiotā€¦
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Take Your Pick, yeah, that's what it was.
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And I noticed, because I watched your recent video, some of your recent videos, obviously,
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you have so many I couldn't watch them all, but I watched some recent ones, and then I
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watched the first one to Take Your Pick video, and I thought, wow, usually when people start
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with YouTube or something, where they have to be in front of the camera, it's really
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kind of unnerving right, to stare at a little green dot.
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Yes.
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With no eyes looking back at you and act natural.
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But in my opinion, you were very natural fromā€¦ from the very beginning.
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Did you have any training for that before you started or did you just turn on the camera
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for your first video?
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No, I think I did practice.
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Um, so my husband he set up the camera.
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And I kind of practiced a little bit.
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And when I watched my video back, I thought, ā€œOh, my god.
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I can't use this.ā€
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It's so hard to do isn't it?
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To watch yourself back.
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Yeah, it's hard toā€¦ to watch yourself . So I, um, I tried multiple times actually
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and finally I decided Iā€™m just gonna have to do it.
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So I posted that very first video and you know it's kind of like closing my eyes.
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Sorry internet, there's my video.
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Yeah the, uh, the channel the channel isā€¦ is so incredibly popular.
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Congratulations by the way.
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Inā€¦ in only three years, uh, for when I saw the number 497 000 subscribers.
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I thought, oh, Arnel must have been doing this, for I don't know maybe five or more
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years, maybe even 10 years, but it's only been three years.
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And you've had that amount of success.
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So congratulations.
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And from that very first video, the Take Your Pick video.
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Yeah, things have progressed really quickly for you, yes?
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Um, I think because Iā€™m kind of involved in it.
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I think about it every day.
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I don't feel like the progression is that quick but I know it is.
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But I think because I, you know, Iā€™m always working on the, um, my next video, I don't,
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yeah, I don't really pay attention to how quickly it's progressing.
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Interesting, um, well let's talk about the channel in general.
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Give us a give us a rundown, if you could, on what the channel is all about Arnelā€™s
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Everyday English?
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If you go to Arnelā€™s Everyday English, you will see general English topics.
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So I like teaching grammar.
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I like to break down all of the grammar structures in English and try to make them easy to understand.
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Um, grammar, vocabulary, including idioms, phrasal verbs, um, and other topics like making
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small talk.
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I try to include as much as I can to help students improve.
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Yeah, what are some of the favorite videos that you'veā€¦ that you've made - some of
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your favorite content?
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Um, my most popular video is about the four conditionals and mixed conditionals.
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I watched thatā€¦
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I watched that one.
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Yeah, I think 1.6 million views something like that for thatā€¦ for that video.
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And I wanted to, yeah, I wanted to ask you as well if teachers also send you comments
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and ask you questions because even for me, as a native English speaker, watching that
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conditionals video, I learned something in there.
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Of course I know how to sayā€¦
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I know how to use the rules, but I never actually thought how to put it down so that it would
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be easy for a student to understand.
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So really really really well well done there.
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Thank you.
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Yeah, um, that was a tough one.
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I think my grammar videos are my most popular videos.
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So if you look through my channel, theā€¦ the best performing videos are always about
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grammar.
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Um, and yeah, I think it's not easy to write a script for these grammar topics.
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And I spent a long time on my conditional video.
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And I had a lot of fun.
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If you watch the video, you'll see Iā€™m kind of having fun in the video.
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I like, you know, having those animations, a few silly things in there is what I always
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like to include.
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Your editing skills are beyond impressive.
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Even from video number one, the Take Your Pick video, you had little animated, uh, pictures
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of different beverages in the corners.
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Yes, and I thought, ā€œWow that's really cool.ā€
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Andā€¦ and you were able to kind of follow the images as they came out obviously.
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That'sā€¦ that'sā€¦ that's a product ofā€¦ of good editing.
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But goodness me, that conditionals video isā€¦ is another great example.
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And all of your videos are so well edited.
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Do you do you think that that helps with the success and the popularity of your videos
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as well?
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Iā€¦
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I think it does.
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I get a lot of comments and they love the animation.
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They love the editing.
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And it helps them because, um, you know before I started my YouTube channel, I was really
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thinking how can I teach on a video?
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Iā€™ve never even thought about just recording 20 minutes and putting it out there.
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And I thought, okay, if I have all the text on the screen, and if I highlight all of the
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grammatical structures, that's one way I can deal with this and, um, I include that in
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my script.
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So a lot of times you might see my videos, Iā€™ll turn, and Iā€™ll pause for six or seven
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seconds because I know Iā€™m gonna have a video clip come up there.
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So that's all the script.
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Um, and yeah I think, um, students do like my editing.
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And so thank you, um, to everyone who has complimented my editing.
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And Iā€™m still trying to get better and better.
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It's amazing that in only three years you've gotten that good because if you talk to any
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YouTuber, any topic, any channel, their number one, not complaint, but they're the thing
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that takes them the longest isā€¦ is the editing.
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How long does one of your videos take to edit?
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You know it's funny you say that because for me editing is, it's kind of like finally,
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it'd be editing.
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Oh, interesting.
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That is the first time Iā€™ve ever heard that before.
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Yeah, um, for me, the script takes a long time.
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Um, to try to break down the grammar or the vocabulary that's the hardest thing for me.
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And, oh, I have an example one second, okay just reaching over here so Steve you can see
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I have my script.
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This is for my latest video.
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Okay, and, um, this is what takes me the longest.
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It'll take me about a weekā€¦ a week and a half to write the writing of the script, yeah,
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depending on the topic.
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Because if I can break it down in the script, um, and hopefully students can understand
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it easily, then I feel like the lesson will be okay.
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Okay, so once the script is done, then I have to filmā€¦ film the video and that stressful
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for me as well.
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Iā€¦
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I wouldn't say Iā€™m a fan of the whole filming process, setting up the lights, um, you know
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getting the mic getting the mic ready, all of that stuff.
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Iā€¦
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I really don't like.
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And once the video is filmed, I can think, it's time for editing.
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Iā€™m the total opposite.
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The setup of everything, that the microphone placement, theā€¦ the headphones, the audio,
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chat, I don't like that.
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Oh, that's my favorite stuff.
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And for me, when it comes time to edit, I just feel like please file don't disappear,
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don't disappear.
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I don't disappear.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah I mean, um, I think in the beginning, when I first started editing, I
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was learning how to use a software and I kept thinking, oh that's interesting you know,
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how I get a line.
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I didn't know how to do that.
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How can I put text on the screen?
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It was a real mystery to me.
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And now that I know how to do it, Iā€™m like what else can I do.
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And to be honest Steve, a lot of times, I hold back.
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I would like to add more screen but it is a lesson.
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Like, it can't be too distracting.
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That script that you just popped up in front of the screen, was that the future simple
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versus future continuous script?
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No, this was, um, this is a video I released yesterday.
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It'sā€¦
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I forgot the video I released yesterday.
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Um, it's about titles and names in English.
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So Mr., Mrs., newsman all of those titles that I think students can confuse because
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there are so many.
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Well, now, that seems like, I now if you, uh, because I saw you post about and you said
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future continuous and future, uh, simple that was one of the hardest scripts that you've
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ever had to write.
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That's what you said in your post but Mr. and Mrs. and Ms., that's quite a long script
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you showed me for Mr., Mrss and Ms. So you are obviously very detailed in in your
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scripts - the way you go about your preparation.
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Yeah, um, I think the reason why the future simple, future continuous script was so difficult
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is because that verb ā€˜willā€™ā€¦ ā€˜willā€™ in English is everywhere.
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There are so many uses.
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So I had a kind of I tried to break down ā€˜willā€™ before I moved on to future continuous.
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That's why it took so long.
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And I was kind of ripping my hairs out trying to find a simple way it's so explain it.
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It's so true and that that doesn't that happen so often when you teach English as a second
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or foreign language - where suddenly you come across a topic and you think, oh Iā€¦
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I of course I understand this.
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Iā€™m a native English speaker.
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But how do I explain this to someone who wouldn't get it?
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That's one of the challenges, isn't it?
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Yes, oh, absolutely.
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And I think, um, you know my years of teaching experience really helped.
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Because when I first started teaching, I didn't know how to explain things, and it's just
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trial and error.
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A lot of trial and error and feedback from the students, um, was very helpful.
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Yeah, so, I think you know about the detail in my script.
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I do put a lot of detail in there.
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And if I was teaching in front of a class, I wouldn't teach, um, in that much detail
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because I could kind of see the students the next day and I can ask some questions.
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But I feel like if it's in a video, you know, students can pause the video, they can go
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back to it.
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I might as well get as much information in there as possible.
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Well, you have your YouTube, uh, channel but you also teach online correct?
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Can you tell us about that a little bit?
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Yes, um, I have my online students.
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So they're one-to-one students.
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And I work from home which is great because, um, as you mentioned earlier, I do have three
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little kids.
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And it's not easy for me to get up in the morning, get ready, and go to a language school
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or anything.
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So I really enjoy teaching from home.
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Um, yeah so I teach about 15 hours a week, um, you know with my one-to-one students,
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so that doesn't leave a lot of time for my YouTube channel.
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Um, between my one-to-one students, my kids, it's kind of hard to squeeze in that time
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,so I know, um, I would like to publish more videos, but it's not always possible.
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Well, yeah, I wanted to ask about that.
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I mean you haveā€¦ you must have to have an extremely detailed schedule for yourā€¦ for
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your own life, I would think.
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Yeah Iā€¦
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I do, um, I work on my YouTube channel a lot of the evenings,
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So after my kids come from school, um, you know, Iā€™m kind of busy with snack time,
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homework time, play time, all of those things that involve them.
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And then, the evening, I can work on my script and, um, when Iā€™m editing that's the fun
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part.
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So it's not really a chore for me to edit my videos.
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It's kind of the script, I think ā€œOh my god!ā€
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I write my script, but when it's editing, it's the fun ride.
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So in the evenings is when I mainly work on it.
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I understand a little bit more now.
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I think because that's kind of the quiet peaceful time of the day when you can sit down and
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do the editing, right?
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It is.
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And I kind of thinkā€¦
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I think of ideas as I edit.
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Iā€™m like, oh, Iā€™m going to include that in there.
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Iā€™m going to put that sound effect in there.
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So it's a fun.
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It's a fun project for me to edit my videos.
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Um, and then, once I edit a video and I publish it, I take a couple days off because for me,
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it's kind of like a marathon.
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Just get my video out there, um, yeah so that's where I am now.
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Iā€™m kind of in between videos.
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Do you getā€¦
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Iā€™ll ask you that question now that I wanted to bring up before, do you get a lot of feedback,
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from obviously from students?
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Yes, but do you get feedback from teachers as well?
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Oh, um, yes I do.
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And I love hearing from teachers.
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So, um, if any teachers comment, thank you very much for commenting.
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I love hearing from you.
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Um, yeah, I get very nice comments thanking me for helping them with their lessons.
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Or I get questions, um, and so I try to answer as many comments as possible but I can't always
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get to all of them.
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And, yeah, teachers do message me.
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And it's really nice to hear because as a teacher I feel I can feel their pain when
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a topic is hard to teach.
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Iā€™m like, ā€œYes, I feel your pain.ā€
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Well I was going to recommend because it's been a while since Iā€™ve been in a classroom
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setting but as a former teacher I would recommend that teachers visit your channel as well because
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not only can they get help perhaps with an explanation of something that they've been
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trying to teach but they can also get lessons or ideas for lessons for their own classrooms
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as well.
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So I would totally recommend that teachers visit your channel.
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Thank you.
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And, um, some teachers do say I use your videos and my lessons and my students say, ā€œHi.ā€
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Iā€™m like, ā€œWow,ā€ it's kind of nice to be part of a community that I never met and
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they, you know, they've seen my videos.
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That's kind of a nice, um, way to connect with people online.
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And that's what I what I do love about my YouTube channel is that I can connect with
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people all over the world.
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Um, yeah, it's a cool.
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It's a cool thing, isn't it?
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Iā€¦
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I was looking at some of your comments and you do have, um, viewers from all over the
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planet.
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The world and teaching itself has changed and learning itself maybe learning at its
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core hasn't changed but how we learned that the tools that we have available to us hasā€¦
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has learnedā€¦ has changed so much.
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And now people can learn from anywhere around the world.
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And I was looking at the comments and you do have students from all over the world.
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That's kind ofā€¦ that's really cool, isn't it?
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It is really cool.
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I like responding to them and, um, I try to ask them questions as well.
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And I get some really funny comments, um, you know, about I can't think of a funny comment
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right now.
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I doā€¦
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I do get funny comments.
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That's a funny comment.
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That's a funny comment.
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That's a funny comment, um, trust me, I get funny comments.
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I just can't remember them.
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I wish I made a list.
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Oh, that's quite all right.
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So then, what is the future, uh, of your channel?
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Do you have any plans to kind of come up with, I don't know, Iā€™m guess, Iā€™m wondering,
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if there's maybe a website coming, or an app coming, or books coming, or things like that?
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But, Iā€™m also guessing that maybe there's just not enough hours in the day for that
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right now.
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I do have a website, arnelseverydayEnglish.com And on my website, I have a blog that goes
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along with my videos.
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Not all of my videos, but a lot of my videos.
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Um, they, I make a blog post because some people prefer reading watching so I have my
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website, and on my website, I have a free library where students can download PDFs,
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um, about different grammar topics like, um, ā€˜well versus goodā€™ or homophones.
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So lots of different, um, different PDFs and one thing students might like is I have a
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PDF of 101 idioms and it's very colorful - you can print it out, you can cut it up.
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So I recommend you go and check it out.
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Fantastic.
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And tell us why everyone should visit your YouTube channel Arnelā€™s Everyday English?
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Because Iā€¦
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I hope it helps you.
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I hope you find a video there that can help you with one of your, um, you know a grammar
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problem you have.
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Or if you want to expand your vocabulary.
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And I hope, um, my channel will teach you something new in a fun way .
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That's what I would like - in a fun way, colorful way.
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And Iā€™m speaking from my own experience, watching a few of your videos, you are soā€¦
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so good at speaking, uh, in a way that everyone can understand.
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You've had a lot of experience in front of the camera now.
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Everything is very controlled.
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And I thought when I was watching you, wow, this is a really really good teacher.
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So I think everyone should check out Arnelā€™s Everyday English.
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You can find that on YouTube.
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You can check out, uh, her, uh, website as well for the blog posts and the PDFs and all
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of those.
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100 was it 101 1001 English 101 idioms okay 101 idioms maybe a thousand for free maybe
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a thousand and one a few years down the road who knows that's my next one yeah right
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Well, Arnel, it was a real pleasure to speak with you today.
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Once again congratulations on your channel's success and your family success and all of
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the success in your life.
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And I hope that we can speak again someday.
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Thank you.
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Thank you very much Steve for just for being so easy to talk to and so complimentary about
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my channel.
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Thank you very much.
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Well I appreciate your compliments as well.
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That'll do it for today's edition.
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This edition of Speak English fluently.
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Iā€™ve been your host Steve Hatherly.
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I hope you come back again next time.
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And if you are interested in seeing more interview style videos, on my own personal channel,
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you can search Storytime Steve Hatherly on YouTube as well.
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Now thank you once again and have a good one, bye.
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Bye-bye.
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