hi everybody and welcome back to love English a little bit of a different
lesson today because we are relaxing but we're also going to be answering some of
your questions so it's a Q&A with us and Mia say hi very cute little
kitty joining us today you might have might remember her from Instagram if you
want to learn more about Mia you can follow her there her hashtag is maja I'm
a kitty no I'm joking
ok everybody so we asked you recently please ask us some questions about who
we are our experience everything like that and we have taken the best of those
questions we've got 15 of your questions and we're going to answer today oh it is exciting you have gone through
most of these yeah there was definitely a theme so we are going to focus on some
of the ones that you kind of are all asking yeah that's right now Leila what
do they have to do if they haven't done it already if you haven't already then do
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correct by the way guys thank you so much for
all of these questions we really do love to hear from you and it's so nice that
you're interested in us and that you want to know more about us so thank you
so much for asking us all these very interesting questions I hope we sound
like we're interesting you might be a bit disappointed after this
we'll try to be as interesting as we can ok let's get started guys so question number one
is are you sisters I don't remember seeing you growing up I have to say
I don't remember you being born or maybe I was born later we are not sisters we are friends yes we have
known each other a very long time yeah we've known each other since college so
since the age of 16 yes so we've known each other a very long time and we
didn't actually stay in contact for all of those years but we kept bumping into
each other and we kept having kind of like strange parallel lives so we've got
lots and lots in common yeah Leila has an Italian fiance I do, I used to have an
Italian boyfriend we both love Italy we both can speak some Italian that's one
thing we have in common we love Prosecco earl grey tea, clothes
we do have a lot of weird things in common, we have a lot of weird similar our fathers have similar occupations yeah
our fathers have similar jobs we studied the same master's degree at the same
University we obviously both became English teachers so we have lots in
common so it's like we are the double is the other
we're sisters from another mister next question yeah I'm gonna give this to
Leila to answer, okay is are you Muslim? I'm not Muslim
I don't really call myself anything I don't have a specific religion I have
beliefs but no specific religion however my family half my family are Muslim
because obviously I'm half Iranian half English English half Iranian but she was
born in the UK I was born here I don't speak Farsi, she is 100% British, yeah I'm very very
British um I don't speak Farsi but I do love Persian food so I am not a Muslim
either I was born in the UK I do have a little bit of Spanish blood and we think
we think we've got some Arabic blood but far back in my family so you know
great-grandparents and we think that blood is from Lebanon okay next question
we had was what is your favourite music ooh
that's a good question I have a lot of music that I like I've got an eclectic
taste well yeah I do as well, so what would you say are the band's
you're listening to at the moment I'm listening to Queen a lot at the moment
because of Bohemian Rhapsody but I love listening to Queen what else do I
like I always love Sting, Sting and the Police, that's a bit old sorry guys Pink
okay um modern music what Ariana grande but I wouldn't necessarily buy I'm sorry
it's a bit young and trendy for me I love Shakira oh I am a big Shakira fan, Shakira is amazing!
and I like a lot of rock music yeah I like Guns N'Roses, ooh your cool, Prince,
is once of my favourite ever artists mm-hmm and I shared my video recently guys on
my best the best British musics I think is great for learning English and a lot
of my favourite artists are in that video another question that you guys asked was
what we like to do during our free time during our spare time when we get any
because we have had full-time jobs and in your channel and we try and have
boyfriends yes you know we are not very popular with them yeah so when we do
have spare time what do you do okay I like umm going for walks I love going
in the countryside I love yoga so yeah I do like kind of exercise nothing too
intense I'm not really a fan of jogging or anything like that, you are quite outdoorsy I love love walking in
the countryside that's probably my biggest hobby yeah I love watching
movies I'm a big film fan reading books, media teacher yeah yeah kind of my main
hobbies I think yeah what about you? What do I do I'm not very outdoorsy Leila's more of a sofa
and chocolate girl I a I like cooking as I said I I cook Persian food
I'm very good at cooking and my boyfriend's Italian (fiance) he's Italian
and he's very good at cooking he made lasagna yesterday so yeah I'm a bit of a
foodie I love having kind of meals having
people over for dinner socializing stuff like that and I travel
a fair bit oh yes we both love travel yeah I think travel when we can I'm off to
Rome next month Wow okay so another question that you asked was do British
people make fun take the mickey mock the American accent
oh my god oh my god I totally love this question I really love it it depends
there's so many variation yeah the American accent I think like Californian
is not the further south you go the more intense yeah I think we do joke
about it but we do we would also be respectful of it as well and I think that they also
tease us for our accent yeah I think they think there's two accents there's
posh British or there's cockney yeah that's true yeah it's yeah I know like
on American movies the British person always talks like 'oooohh helloo' yeah
they've always go a top hat on and we're always evil we're always the bad guy that's right
okay next question is where do we both live here I live here this is my house
yeah we live in the South of England don't we yeah we live in Bournemouth
which is in the South of England it's a coastal town beautiful coastal town and
it's how far is it from London uh well I don't know by distance but by you can go to
London by train in two hours yeah so it's about two hours from London it's
kind of right in the middle of the south coast almost
I'm not sure are we east are we west it's really confusing it's a bit confusing
another question you asked was what accent do we both have that's an
interesting one we're from the South but we don't have necessarily a Dorset accent
can you do a Dorset accent no we don't talk like that. So where we are from it is a bit more like
farmers because it in the south so it's a bit countryside but we don't have that we
don't know we have a I would say a modern RP accent we are language
teachers yeah we do speak pretty correctly yeah but it's not like the Queen's
English yeah not that posh we're really not but clear clear quite neutral neutral
it's probably more of a southern accent in the sense that a lot of people in the
South will have a more neutral accent than the north so guys I'll just point out
the fact that I did have a northern accent a Liverpool accent when I was
born because I lived up in Liverpool until I was five or six so yes I did
used to have a Liverpool accent but when I moved here I lost that quite quickly
and if you want to hear Sabrah, don't do it now they have to click the
lesson or watch at the end of this one yes, to learn how to have to do the
Liverpool accent so keep watching and click that can you sing or dance Lulu my
nickname... no badly to both I would suggest probably the cat does a better job Leila
doesn't dance sadly no Leila's not a dance but I can do
the like the chicken Bob you're a chair dancer, it depends how many glasses of Prosecco
I've had I might dance no you you're a bit more of a sing singing dancing belly
dancing kind of girl yeah I do like singing and dancing I'm alright as a
singer I'm not sure if I'm alright as a dancer oh okay you can you can I can,
throw a few shapes I've got what is your marital status okay my marital status is
single although I do have boyfriend you're in a serious relationship
don't getting too excited the guys well be like yes I'll marry you Sabra how many
marriage proposals can Sabrah get comment below let's see that'd be really
fun look how beautiful excellent catch
she's a wonderful cook no no no my boyfriend's gonna be very unhappy yeah
no but actually this is an important point on a form if you say what's your
marital status there isn't a in a relationship option there's single or married
so for me I'm still ticking the single box but yet no I am in a relationship I
am due to get married I have a shiny shiny and call it my shiny shiny Leila's
got yes a beautiful engagement ring so she is getting married soon, so when are you getting
married Leila I have to book it we're going to go to Cuba and get married on a
beach I'm not into weddings and all of that stuff sorry okay next question is
do we have children my cat is my child yeah my dog is my child yeah child if if
pets count as children then absolutely yes we have children if they don't then
no but human children not yet no we're far too busy being youtubers to have
children here if we added a baby- YouTube is our child yeah our channel
Love English good yeah guys we really loved this question that somebody wrote which
was how did you learn English as we said we didn't really have to make very much
effort to learn English no I'm pretty sure I watched cartoons
I had my ABC building blocks our mothers are English our mother tongue is English
so we didn't have to make much of an effort it just floated into our brains
I didn't have any grammar books when I was learning English at one I could how
old were you when you started talking do you know? Quite young actually I think
one yeah something like that apparently i was singing, chatty, I can imagine imagine us as babies it we
I was really talkative yeah we should put some pictures up of as
babies shall we? Here's a picture there you go the next question is what did we do before we
became English teachers now it was such a long time ago, it wasn't that long
no it wasn't, it was very recent yeah what did you do before you became a language
teacher so before I became a language teacher I was so I studied I did a degree in
English and Drama and then I briefly worked as an actress for a year
did you sing and dance, I think i sang I definitely didn't dance yet but yes so I became an
actress for a short time and then I got a job I did my CELTA so the CELTA
is the official English language teaching qualification I got that and
then I became a language teacher but then I went back to university the same
as Laila and studied a master's degree in media studies I almost when I I think
I had some jobs after university but I kind of almost went from university I
did my master's degree immediately after and then I did my CELTA and started
teaching I was very lucky I worked for a really nice school for about seven years
before I started where we work now yes all right guys I hope you learned
something I hope you enjoyed you know having an informal chat with Sabra and I and we answered
answered some of your kind of pressing interesting questions absolutely yeah
and of course if you would like to learn more about us you can ask some questions
in the comments box below and let us know if you'd like us to do kind of
regular Q&A yeah we can do a Q&A of course about English so I think the next
Q&A we can do one about your English questions
that'd be a good idea yeah so if there's some questions you really want us to
answer and we haven't yet for example I know some of you will write in the
comments and ask questions that we can't always answer every single comments we
might busy but if you would like a specific for example a grammar Q&A or
something like that then do comment below and tell us your questions and if
you watch and check out the community section on our youtube channel you'll
see that we do interact with you guys and ask you questions ask for ideas on
lessons and in fact all these questions have come from either Instagram or the
YouTube community so thank you very much to you guys who did ask some yeah we
love hearing from you guys so keep that coming keep the questions coming thank
you so much for watching guys we hope you enjoyed this informal chat with love
English and we'll see you soon
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