Best of English 2018 | mmmEnglish TOP 5

Well hey there I'm Emma from mmmEnglish!

2018 was a huge year for us here at mmmEnglish.

We spent a big part of the year getting organised,

you'll notice that I was much, much more consistent

this year bringing you lessons almost every week.

And I'm really thrilled to be here helping you to build

your English skills and connect with other

English learners and increase your confidence

using English in the real world.

In this lesson, I'm going to be looking back at my five

favourite lessons from 2018.

Before I tell you my favourite mmmEnglish lessons from

2018, can you tell me which one was your favourite?

If you can, post a link to that lesson in the comments

below and tell me what you really enjoyed about it.

I love hearing what you think about my lessons

and I honestly read almost every comment,

as many as I can and I consider all of your

new suggestions and your requests

so I try and make really relevant, interesting lessons

for you. And I would love to hear your feedback on

which lessons were your favourites from 2018.

Now if you've been watching my lessons all year

and you're still not a subscriber,

then show your support for my channel by clicking

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and all of the messages and things in my community

as well. Okay, ready for my top five? Let's do it!

One of my biggest highlights this year was reaching

one million subscribers - so super cool!

I still can't believe that that happened.

I've been working away on this channel for a little over

three years now, producing lessons and videos

to help English learners build their skills

so this was a really special moment for me.

Even more special was the love and support that I got

from so many other YouTube English teachers

and they really came together and helped us to

celebrate, right? Didn't they? Did you see this lesson?

Hello, I'm Emma from mmmEnglish. Just kidding!

I'm Vanessa from The Speak English with Vanessa

Youtube channel.

Congratulations Emma on one million subscribers!

Hello! It is Lucy from English with Lucy!

A massive congratulations to my dear friend Emma

who has just hit a million subscribers.

I'm so proud of her!

We're big fans of mmmEnglish!

Hello everyone! My name is Anna from

English like a Native.

Hi, I'm Rachel of Rachel's English and congratulations

to you Emma on reaching one million subscribers.

Hi everyone, I'm Jennifer from English with Jennifer!

So we are Love English. I'm Layla. I'm Sabra

and we're coming to you from Britain!

Hi Emma! How's it going? It's your friend

and fellow youtuber, Gabby Wallace.

All of these amazing teachers left you something

pretty special in that video,

their top tip to help you study English online.

So their number one tip and some of those tips

were brilliant - really, really helpful practical tips

to help you to study more effectively online.

So if you missed that video or you want to watch it

again and you want to remind yourself of all of those

awesome tips from all of your favourite

YouTube teachers, then check it out right here!

Another absolute favourite of mine was this lesson.

Now I was actually, really, really pleased by how many

of you enjoyed this lesson and found it helpful.

And of course, you should because collocations

are so helpful when learning to express yourself

correctly in English.

Collocations are such an important tool.

When words go together like this, they're called

collocations - words that frequently

occur together in English sentences.

The reason why native speakers say that something

you said sounds weird or strange is because

they're not used to hearing those words together.

They don't often get said together

so it sounds a bit strange. Part of the problem is that

you're probably translating words

from your own language directly into English,

words that are commonly used together

in your language but in English, they're not.

Yep, learning collocations instead of individual words

will help you to sound more natural when you write

and when you speak. So if you want to learn some tips

and some tricks about how to learn collocations,

then watch the rest of that lesson right here.

So how many of you completed the mmmEnglish

grammar challenge this year?

This was fun. Well, as fun as a grammar lesson can be!

In it, I talk about the ten most common grammar

mistakes that English learners make.

Ones that I see and I hear my students making

all the time!

So what are the ten most common grammar mistakes

that English learners make? Number one.

Uncountable nouns.

Mistake number two. Irregular verbs.

Number three. Subject-verb agreement.

Number four. Auxiliary verbs.

Mistake number five. Articles.

Number six. Prepositions.

Number seven

We're going to talk about word order in questions.

Mistake number eight, lucky eight.

The present perfect tense.

Another mistake, this is number nine.

The difference between the past simple

and the present perfect tense.

Mistake number ten.

And I wonder if this is a mistake

that you sometimes make.

When do you use adjectives that end in -ed and -ing?

So I recommend you watch this lesson if you want

a good overview of the ten most common mistakes

but if you want to sign up

and join the grammar challenge, it's still running!

It only costs a dollar and you'll get

ten grammar lessons plus ten mini quizzes

that you can use to find out how good you really

are with your grammar - particularly in these areas

where lots of English learners make mistakes.

We've been giving away some pretty cool prizes

this year to those students who complete the grammar

challenge and go into the draw to win

some English courses, t-shirts, things like that.

So make sure you check it out up here.

Now of course, the grammar lesson is super important

but improving your conversation

skills and your English fluency is also important.

And this is something that I prioritise here at

mmmEnglish. Teaching new skills and strategies

to help you feel more confident

in English conversations.

Lots of my videos focus on natural English

pronunciation to help you to understand native English

speakers when they're speaking but feel more confident

in conversations and help you to sound more natural

when you're speaking yourself.

So if this sounds right up your alley, then make sure

you watch this lesson - you can get to it here.

It's one of my favourites and also one of yours too.

In it, I show you how ten of the most common

English words sound really different

when they're spoken naturally.

The other thing that these words have in common

is that they all have stressed and unstressed forms

when they're spoken and this is exactly what we're

going to go over in this lesson

because using the unstressed forms of these words

when you speak English will help you to sound

more natural.

To keep watching that lesson and practise your

natural spoken English, then make sure you check out

the link to that lesson.

But if that lesson sounds right up your alley,

then you will definitely, definitely love this one.

In this lesson, I teach you how to pronounce some really

common English expressions - ones that are used in

greetings all the time.

So if you're interested in improving your spoken English

sounding a bit more natural and relaxed,

then this lesson is definitely for you.

One of the challenges about naturally spoken English

is that sometimes it sounds completely different.

Well, let's be honest,

most of the time when you're listening to native English

speakers, right? It's tough

because we contract words together, we reduce the

sound so that you can hardly hear them.

Naturally spoken English is very different to the lessons

that you hear when you're studying English at school,

right?

The lessons that you hear in textbooks.

So in this lesson, I explain in great detail

how this happens.

What are you up to?

Up?

What are you up to?

If you've ever been confused by this expression,

you're not alone. It's even confusing for me

when I think about it.

"What are you up to?" is another way of saying

"What are you doing now?"

If you're curious about what your friend is doing,

you could say: "Hey, what are you up to?"

Or you can use it with another time expression

to ask about future plans.

"What are you up to tonight?"

"Do you have any plans tonight?"

"What are you up to on the weekend?"

"Do you have any plans on the weekend?"

So this expression has a couple of meanings.

Now this has been really fun. I've been experimenting

a little bit in my recent videos to see if you want me to

shake things up a little and create some

different types of lessons.

So I'm quite curious to find out

what do you think about these extra practice sections?

Should I keep making them? Do you really enjoy them?

Let me know in the comments.

So it's been a huge bumper year, right?

And if you love mmmEnglish and you want to

support us in 2019, it's really simple.

You can definitely like this video,

you can share it with your friends if you think

that it might be useful for them,

particularly because it shares quite a few of my

best lessons from this year.

You can also subscribe to the channel

if you haven't already.

I know how important these lessons

are to you and the brilliant news is

we won't be slowing down at all in 2019.

If anything, we'll be picking up speed.

So my last question to you is:

What lessons do you want me to teach you in 2019?

Please add your suggestion and your requests

into the comments, I read all of them

and I'd love to hear from you.

My best wishes for a wonderful, exciting,

fruitful year ahead, full of good fortune and lots of other

good things.

You know that I'm here and that I've got your back right?

When it comes to English.

It's going to be a really, really good year.

Take care and I'll see you in the next lesson.