for speaking list for for hello how can I help you today can you explain when to use a or an before a word use a before words that start with a consonant sound and and before words that start with a vowel sound for example a car and an apple oh thank you for explaining the difference between the two you're welcome is there a specific example you would like to practice with Ann yes just give me some examples real conversation in English ready so let's get started hi Jackie thank you so much for being here with
us hi thank you where are you where are you from uh okay I'm originally from the northeastern part of the United States um and currently I'm at friends in New York uh but usually I am just traveling yeah and teaching and and training teachers yeah so we don't have a home anymore no home is where your heart is right home is where your heart is home is very Yeah so basically every time I'm at our friends or something I'm home but I'm not home so I'm Nomad I'm basically yeah a teacher trainer Nomad okay and
where are you in Brazil what city I'm in s Paulo now but I'm from the very south of the country I don't know if you know a little bit about Brazil but I'm from a state called H which is the coldest one of the coldest states in the country and then I uh 12 years ago I moved to in the South yeah the south is cold and the North and Northeast are hot uh so I yeah yeah have you ever been to man have you ever been to manous never never I would love to though
why have you been to manous no but just because of Camp you know you have so many like Brazilian students and you do learn about sa poloo Rio manow you know one of my best students is a public defender from manow so I've learned a lot about it over the years and it's funny that a lot of other Brazilian students have never been there but people don't realize the enormity of Brazil Brazil is huge exactly it's huge it's a Continental Country so it's too big uh it's impossible to travel to every uh State not impossible
but it's hard it's hard uh so yeah but but tell me something you've learned about manow then well just that I think the history of it is that it was big it was a big rubber manufacturer I think so used to be quite a prosperous area uh and it's still I guess a it's the city right for or the area for that region because that's the amazonus and the a lot of indigenous people um and doesn't it have like a beautiful opera house or something it has some kind of beautiful building in minous that's like
a symbol for manow but I can't remember but that's part of it like if a student is from a place now that camp has the share screen you can Google any like they can say where they're from and you can Google it and have images and then get them can I share a screen now yeah I can do it I didn't know that I didn't know that yeah which is great this is something I've always you know uh wanted to have uh on C saying C is improving and where are you in New York now
in in Manhattan um is it close to you know yeah right I was in Manhattan uh but now I'm on Long Island yeah it's lovely so very and tell me about the place the places you've visited uh you know being a nomad teacher that's hard you have to sit like because you know I've been to over obviously 40 countries and uh yeah I don't know and I don't have a favorite necessarily because anytime anybody asks me where's the best place you've been what's your favorite place in the world You' visited and I always say that
my favorite place is where I am at the moment you know wow so because it's true because everywhere again your your heart is with you your home is with you as you are navigating the globe so yeah interesting yeah this is something I would like to do one day in my life but now I have two small kids uh so traveling is Al is always you know challenging uh but maybe in the future I don't know I would like I would actually like to live in the USA for a while because I would like to
practice my English every day because I don't speak English every day here in Brazil I don't have nobody I don't have anybody to talk with so self correction right there good self correction but how how did your English get get to this level it's obviously C1 it's the top practice it's practice Yeah just practice and did you work on any kind of accent reduction or anything because you don't have a a heavy accent either yeah I I I study pronunciation uh and actually I'm a specialist in in English pronunciation for Brazilians others you can help
others exactly yeah so I know exactly the transfers that we do from Portuguese to English and I try to avoid them because I know and I know the phonetic symbol so whenever I have you know uh a doubt or anything I would go to a dictionary and say oh so this vow is a not e so I I am very aware of U the way I speak so I think this has helped me and this way I can also help my students you know uh improve their pronunciation skills of course everybody has an accent I
do have a foreign accent I know I do must and I want to say that too like I don't I don't like the idea that you do accent reduction to where there's no accent I just we do accent reduction just to make sure that the meaning is conveyed but everyone is a unique speaker of English and I I think it's so important that people maintain their accent I don't believe I mean you know I don't like the idea that someone's like I want an American English accent or I want British English accent no have your
accent on English because that's how everybody says I'm learning English because I want to meet people and travel the world well when you're meeting a person from somewhere else that's their that's the way they speak English so it's very practical and realistic to keep people you know I'm sure like all of your listening practice in English classes growing up it was probably a British text book or it was an American English textbook American yeah yeah so you would do listening exercises and they would have that American accent all the time which doesn't really prepare you
to hear other accents or you know what I'm saying so it's like now I love the idea of recording a Portuguese speaker of English with a Chinese speaker of English and having a dialogue and having people listen and learn listening from from various P interaction patterns I couldn't agree more I couldn't agree more because English is a global language and it's funny because many Brazilians are obsessed with the idea of speaking like a native I want to and the native speaker is never you know a person from Jamaica or a person from Australia it's an
American so I want to speak like uh the characters uh on Friends the friends characters that's how I want to speak but not everybody speaks like that so so uh and when you speak English in this globalized world the majority of the people you're going to talk to uh are non native speakers of the language so whenever I travel I've traveled uh to uh New York to uh Europe to Australia because of my YouTube channel and I always had you know an Indian um friend to talk to or somebody from Asia or somebody so we
have to be prepared otherwise our listening uh skills are going to be prepared just for the American accent so exactly exactly and it's just not real life anymore at all so what's the hardest accent for you to understand you know I don't really think I have one I'm going to be honest I I I don't have a particular one but I want to say that as a teacher because I I really love what I do English as a second language I love it and training teachers um I would have a definite accent America on Portuguese
if I were trying to say like abrado or something you would hear that it would be the American I would never triy to Bean yeah because it just would not not work and there would be like inauthenticity it's not really me playing a part so yeah I want but you know I like me when I'm speaking your language you know I've just interrupted you which is very Brazilian Brazilian interrupts people I'm sorry but I I was just because you were saying that and I was thinking that uh I think you think the way you think
because um you are a teacher and you're a professional because you're not just a native speaker talking on Camp which is fine if your aim is just to talk to someone in English but you have you know uh your degrees you have a masters because I read your profile before so we have a masters you have a Sela and a Delta degrees which are uh you know degrees for English teachers right for for you to teach English as a second language so I think you've studied this before so yeah I'm passion about I love it
yeah yeah tell me about your decision to become an English teacher you know okay so I think basically I wanted to travel I started to realize that like life is short so get out there and do what you want to do so uh I left the country for the to live in Tokyo Japan and uh teach just teach English but not really know know anything yet just basically be a native speaker and have conversations and so this was before you got your degrees exact in in my English I had already had my master's degree in
counseling and guidance psychology but uh yeah no experience teaching English but I was in Tokyo for a year and then I went to Okinawa still same company teaching conversational English and just like you said when you're helping uh Portuguese speakers of English you're helping them with their pronunciation and everything you know the cave you know what's going on there and you know how to help them fix it well I'd be in a class with the Japanese Learners of English and they would always have like a r versus L problem and pronunciation and with no understanding
of the methodology or the pedagogy behind that I I I didn't really know how to fix it so that's when I started my journey for uh the Sela so I went to I was given a a leave for professional development from the company and I went to Egypt and did my Sela and it was the best thing I had ever done it was the hardest thing at the time that I had ever done and I and mind you I already had a master's degree but the Sela one month was intense but it uh it taught
me a lot it got me a foundation then I think I returned to Japan just to finish my contract and then I uh went to Vietnam and ended up living and working in Vietnam for four years got a lot of great experience after selta to the point that I'm like ah I I understand what Sela was about now like I understand the process more when I'm in the classroom and actually applying everything and then I'm like I need to get the Delta I need to understand even more deeply you know what's behind you know the
teaching of this so I did that and then I became a teacher train well I did my Delta with in Vietnam and then after eight years of being abroad never returning to the states I finally went back to the states in 2011 I yeah so from 2003 to 2011 I was I lived outside of the country came back I came to New York for the first time and became a trainer and then I returned to Japan that same like 2012 I think and started teacher training around the world so w I've been to beautiful places
like Lebanon Venezuela Colombia mova you usbekistan I mean just everywhere is beautiful I cannot you know Express that enough so wow but that was quite a journey right it's very nice to hear you I'm proud of you because you you worked hard to to get what you are where you are sorry so yeah good you're very good at self-correcting I'm a teacher too so that's why I teach myself English all the time that's what I was you that's what I was going to say so you uh I was telling you I don't really have an
issue understanding accents and stuff and I have a a couple students that are really they're some of my favorite students because they don't really have the grammar yet or anything but they will throw out words you know they give make the effort they're like anything that they can say with words they will they will do it and then but it's really to someone that's not a teacher I think someone would be like huh what did you but as a teacher with so much training in hearing you know speakers of English from all over the world
I told you some of the countries I've been to but many more um it's yeah it's just basically like what's what I'm trying to think what was I talking about with the thing because talking talking about when students are just throwing some words and then you can't understand because you're a teacher yeah so I said to them so I'll respond to them and they say teacher you understood what I said and I'm like yes and they're like what I go so don't worry like about making mistakes because we can put it together correct your grammar
um so but they laugh about it because they're like that didn't they're like do you understand and I'm like yes and they're like wow like you know this is yeah go ahead go go ahead but I think that's what's nice about uh about Camp sorry because uh when you have no other option uh you will make a huge effort to try to get your message across so when these basic level students can get their message across it's like wow a huge feeling of accomplishment so they want to study more yeah and it makes them feel
good they're like wow I did very little but she got me and um and no offense to people that aren't teachers of English but it takes some time to understand that and one of the times I remember I was teaching in Vietnam and I had a Holiday in Cambodia and I remember entering my hotel and the people in front of me were you know getting their key to the room and everything um but there was a lot of communication issues and the staff uh couldn't really understand them and these tourists were not teachers so they
spoke at the their regular speed they connected their words and so sometimes you know you have to be cognizant you have to be aware of the the fact that you know he's a Cambodian speaker of English and he's you know at the reception so it's like just speak more clearly for them and and understand that they're just looking at your mouth they need that you know to learn it you need to see it so yeah anyely it's things we think about that you know the other people don't necessarily think about yeah and uh I keep
correcting myself because uh it's funny because you know the rules I I'm I'm talking about me I know the rules I know all the constructions I know all the theory but sometimes when I start speaking and I think this what this is exactly what happens to our students as well uh I just you know oh my god I've just made a mistake and then I notice my own mistake oh let me just correct my mistake let me fix what I said and uh but this happens to me because of lack of practice I think uh
because I don't have anybody to talk with as I said so uh if I spoke in if I lived in the USA if I worked using English all the time because even though I'm a teacher now I'm my main uh occupation is my YouTube channel and my courses so I don't speak English every day as I said so yeah uh I think if I practiced more I would have to correct myself much uh less often you know I don't know it's just just really fluent it's really fluent so I don't know like I'm trying to
catch you out before you catch yourself out but I haven't yet I'm faster than you it's like a competition who can spot my mistakes first oh my oh my uh we only have two minutes now but tell me about uh you know if you can think of a funny situation or I don't know a culture shock situation in one of these countries you've been [Music] to off the top of my head it would be my first uh experience in a public toilet in Tokyo Japan so I didn't you know I came from the US a
reg standard toilet what have you uh in this particular Tokyo Station it was a squat toilet so sometimes where there's no toilet bowl it's just the hole in the ground yeah um but Tokyo is very modern obviously but there were still some parts of the station they had regular bathrooms and I ended up in that one I don't know how and there's all of these chains and buttons and everything to push and I had just been there about a week so I I had my Japanese wasn't happening yet anything and so I was on I
was at the toilet and then I pulled thinking that's defin that's flush right that's going to flush the toilet but it was an alarm oh my gosh it was a it was a help me thing like you know because I guess so um yeah so up around the corner come the you know train SEC Station security and I was like oh you know I knew one thing like suen like excuse me suen like that and then they ran out they realized yeah it was it was a female that came into the female part yeah security
officer but um and she laughed because she and then so when I came out they were laughing and yeah like oh she's a foreigner you from where are you from yeah just another Foreigner yeah that ended up living in Japan off and on for six years yeah I I love Japan for sure as well for
