Advanced English Listening Practice: Why I Started Teaching English (and How I Met My Wife)

Hello this is Jack from tofluency.com -

welcome to this english lesson where

it's going to give you some listening

practice,

ok, so what I'm going to do is I'm going

to tell you about how i started teaching

English and I'll leave the words and

phrases I use in the description so that

you can learn new words and phrases -

which is always a good thing.

Now, you might notice I am somewhere a

little bit different

Let's take you on a little tour - this is the

meeting room and I sometimes book this

... just to do some work, you know, mainly

to do writing. When I'm at my big

computer, I'm making videos, I'm editing

videos, I'm editing photos, and things

like that. But when I'm in here, I bring

my laptop and I feel like writing things -

but anyway, let's focus on what today's

lesson is about... it's about how I got

started with teaching English - somebody

asked me this on my Facebook Page and I

thought it would be a great idea to talk

about it. So, back in 2007 I went

traveling for a few months and I've made

a few videos about this before about my

trip to Bolivia, erm, I've talked about

how i got typhoid in Columbia, for

example, but I it was in Ecuador where I

met my American wife I've made a video -

on that but the short story, in a

nutshell,

in summary, she is from America - I am from

the UK and I needed something that I

could do when I was with her in America

and when I was back home in the UK. So, I

looked into online teaching and I found

this website... so, with this website what

you can do is: you can upload a profile

you know, and say this is what I teach and

this is how I teach and then learners

can find you and take lessons with you.

And people started to do this - I started to

get online students and I was teaching

both in the UK and in America but

teaching online... and then, after my wife

finished college we needed a place that

we could both go to where we could both

live and she ended up getting a

scholarship to teach in Spain. So, I got

certified as a teacher, we moved to Spain

together, and we started teaching English

in Bilbao and then in Valencia. In 2010, we

decided that we wanted to put down roots -

that will be in the description - so we

wanted to, you know, settle down - we wanted

to get a house, maybe have children, those

types of things. So, we decided to move to

America and I had a couple of choices at

this time, well, we we had choices I should

say, we could've either gone to new york

and i was going to teach in a language

school in New York, or we could have come

here to Asheville, and that's what we

decided to do. So, we moved to Asheville and

that's when I decided to teach English

online full-time... to teach one-to-one lessons

online. So, you can kind of say that with

teaching english, I kind of fell into it

it was something that I just fell into. I

didn't plan to do it but it was

something that I could do in the UK and in

America and earn some money while I was

doing all this traveling. But what's

interesting is that the more I've done

this, the more I love it, you know, I've

been teaching English for nearly 10

years now, which is incredible, and

obviously, the way I have been teaching

has changed.

You're watching this video on YouTube -

I've been teaching mainly on youtube and

through my courses for the last 2-3 years,

but it's something that I love doing and

even though I fell into it,

I've cultivate this passion, I've

developed this passion for teaching

English and helping everyone learn. And I

can see myself doing this for the

foreseeable future

I really enjoy teaching and I don't see

myself stopping any time soon so that's

why, if you are new,

you should subscribe. Be sure to check in

the description i'll have a lesson notes

in there, i'll also give you some words

phrases that I used, things like 'fall into', so

check out

the description and please share this

with anyone who would find it useful.

Thanks for watching, see you in the next

lesson!