hello and welcome back to real English with real teachers today we're
going to be learning your language aren't we yeah we think it's a bit unfair we're
English teachers we're English people we never learn languages but today we're
going to learn yours possibly possibly yours yes we're going to learn
three each because as Harry said British people aren't very good at learning
languages so we're gonna put it to the test and see if we come out winning or
losing yeah we should be all right because we're English teachers so we
should be able to do it to some extent fingers crossed you're watching Real English
With Real Teachers real teachers alright so we're gonna be using the language
learning platform italki for this one because we've used them many many times
we started on there as teachers you can still book a lesson with us on there as
tutors if they really want if you really want and we wanted to give it a full
review and compete against each other to see whether we can learn any languages
pick up any phrases in your language absolutely and they'll be completely unknown to us
but the great thing about italki is there are hundreds of different
languages and probably tens of thousands of teachers to choose from so we're
going to choose each other some students or some teachers rather that we've never
met and try to speak some languages that we've never ever spoken No so we're
gonna record this all within 24 hours more or less
so we've got to find six tutors to fit within our schedule and we think that
italki are up to this challenge because it is so convenient and
therefore convenient for you as well that's right so we're going to choose
each other three different teachers and we think that you should do the same
when you look for a teacher I've been learning Spanish on italki for a
while haven't I you have been yeah I can vouch for him
I really have nice expression to vouch for somebody yeah and what I always do is I
will take three different lessons at the beginning I'll have three trial lessons
with three different teachers and find the right one that I get on with and I
like their teaching style okay so have you found some that you click with more
than others yeah exactly some that I click with some that I really
don't like at all okay but that's normal yeah it's normal that we don't click
with everyone yeah yeah that's life so let's see if we click with any of our
upcoming teachers let's give it a go yeah well let's give it a whirl
are you gonna choose my lessons now get out yeah he can't be around I've got to
choose them in surprise in secret let me go get my laptop alright let's see who
we can find so immediately you have a variety of languages and tutors
available showing their schedule and showing their hourly rate how many
lessons they've had and the star rating you get out of five stars
so probably choose a five star or four and a half star tutor
and so I'm going to choose a language to begin with you can choose where they're
from you can choose whether they're advanced native and you could also choose
whether they speak any other languages so that it can help basic learners like
Harry and myself in this competition it's not competition or maybe it is all right I'm gonna
go for Russian there we go I want to choose an hourly rate okay so once you
click on a profile you go ahead and get their video [hi there how about learning some Russian]
about it yeah so I'm
gonna book a lesson and get Harry in class so she's available when I want all
right so that's booked now I'm going to wait for her to respond and confirm that
the lesson is ready to get going while I wait let's go get Harry and book my
first class right so charlie let's find you a teacher so I've been
thinking about languages that Charlie won't know any words in that's what I want
I want to put him in a really really uncomfortable situation where he sits
down with a teacher and he literally has no vocabulary no grammar no way to
communicate with this person I also want to choose somebody who hasn't got much
experience on italki because someone has got to book their to book a lesson
with this teacher they need experience so I want to give them that experience
with Charlie and we do have a quite a large following in Indonesia so I
thought it'd be really funny if we booked Charlie a lesson in Indonesian so
I'm gonna have a little look for students or for teachers who speak
Indonesian so I'm just gonna select Indonesian and
Charlie doesn't know any Indonesian so maybe I'll put it's important that they speak
English yeah so he doesn't suffer too much
I don't want Charlie to have a panic attack so let's have a look so Rara
Quinn wow extremely cheap $4.95 so she's had 30 lessons these teachers are
very very affordable my word wow Achyar this guy looks perfect he has only had 29
lessons so he's getting started he's making a name for himself here I like
this guy so we're gonna look at his his profile now maybe have a look at what
other students have said about him so I think that's important so when you're
booking your lesson on italki just go onto the profile maybe read his his
or her about me section have a look at their credentials and so he's said a bit
about himself there here are his rates and here are his thing about his history
so here we have the reviews Andrew thanks Achyar for forcing me to speak
it was really helpful for my learning lovely I think Charlie's gonna really
like this guy and so I think I'm gonna book a lesson for Charlie so let's have
a look at his schedule wow his schedule is wide open
so yeah I'm sold so that is Charlie's lesson booked I hope he enjoys that I
actually really hope he suffers through this but Achyar sounds like a
really nice guy and let's see how it goes
Hello Achyar
okay please use Indonesian okay first your name tell me about your name
Indonesian Indonesian okay
your name okay
nama saya
nama saya charlie
charlie Indonesian yeah Indonesian Charlie
Charlie okay okay my is saya it means saya
what is thank you Terima kasih Terima kasih
Terima kasih
okay if you say education education it means pendidikan okay
pendidikan nama saya charlie
saya berasal dari London yeah okay and then next
pendidikan terakhir terakhir, terakhir, terakhir
okay Terima kasih Terima kasih bye-bye
well I'm fluent
okay so I'm ready for my first lesson in a language I've never spoken before and I am pretty
pretty excited / scared her name is Anya Golubeva
and I don't know what her location is but that name sounds very Russian
Charlie hello um no my name is Harry
Harri Oh
harri harri but in Russian Harri Harri or Garri
yes
Garri mm-hmm I am Anya okay Anya
I am Anya I am Anya you are Garri
you are Anya I am Garry yes you are Garri I am Anya
yes Garri are you an artists
artist no
no I'm not an artist
I am not an artist are you a dentist
no I am not a dentist, are you a dentist? no I am not a dentist you're not an actress
Are you a basketball player no I'm not a basketball player
let's look at this greeting to say hi mmm-hmm and that is privet
mmm-hmm so I'm gonna move my cursor and have a look how I pronounce p so this
is letter p which denotes the sound p and then this rolling r
and I heard you can do this this privet
mm-hmm so basically every letter denotes just one sound right mm-hmm
you just have to memorize that this is not P but rrr this guy here is not b but
v mm-hmm wow your v is a bit different it's v
v it's not v like in English but v your like using the back of the tongue
mm-hmm I'm not putting my lip behind my upper teeth like pronouncing in English
you say v Russian it's v
well thank you very much really really really enjoyed this lesson
thank you my pleasure my pleasure thank
you so much okay now I'm going to say bye in Russian bacca bacca
okay so all good students after doing a
lesson if they care about the teacher they care about their progress they should
write a little review for the teacher that they've done so that it adds to
their profile and more students know what to expect right exactly
yes so I had one with Achyar from Indonesia Indonesia and I need to go and
confirm first that the lesson went ahead and then I need to rate his class
how many stars [painful sigh]
bear in mind that he's not a professional teacher you know you
get what you pay for three dollars that was
three dollars okay I'll give him four stars yeah round him up
was he punctual?
no no, was he supportive
not majorly okay was he prepared
not really
was he not okay let's leave those bits and what would you write about him
come on give some feedback constructive feedback he had good English to help facilitate the
class okay considering I had zero Indonesian yeah and was passionate about his job
lovely alright so now I'm going to do mine I was very impressed by her well
she had a lot of classes under her belt and she did a lot of stars so you're giving
her five stars no doubt prepared supportive punctual she really was all
of those things I love the way she instantly got me to use the language now
we're going to try the instant tutoring feature because we're busy teachers
and we want our lessons right now if you go on to find a teacher and then you
click on the timing you will find that you can do now as an option and click on
instant tutoring so that allows you to book them right here right now I'm going
to see if there's any Chinese Mandarin for you oh yes because it's an
instant one they have ten minutes to respond
otherwise the credits get returned to you and you can pick another one okay
hopefully she'll respond soon and then I can add her on Skype I can add her on Skype
now actually okay so it's not totally instant by it's pretty quick within ten
minutes yeah within ten minutes ah she's accepted you're in I've got my
first Mandarin lesson first Mandarin alright get outta here boy
hi hello
hello [in Chinese]
yeah like hi how are you hello like that hello [in Chinese]
can I ask you yeah
hello
hahaha lovely sounds so it sounds so beautiful so the next word is please
please
so could I ask could I say like how do you say tea
tea yeah that's good tea in second tone
tea
tea please oh you want to say tea please like that
yeah
oh you need one more word like drink please drink tea
please drink tea
keep your tongue flat maybe not that high but
yep that's good
water and water
yeah that's good that's like yes
okay I'm gonna I'm gonna
offer you a tea now so welcome welcome hello do you want some tea
yeah remember it is the second tone yep
want a cup of tea?
very good
do you want one yeah sure
fantastic wow this is amazing I need to book a holiday to China soon
this is my friend who I do the YouTube channel with hello what's your name
is that right
what's your name [in Chinese]
it's too long right is it
yeah amazing you guys have a really amazing pronunciation why did you learn Chinese before
he's very good at Chinese I'm fluent in Mandarin actually yes
wait tell her the sentence that you know tell her the sentence
oh yes ma ma ma ma
it's been so fun yeah
so fun how do we say goodbye goodbye
goodbye goodbye
and on that note we're actually going to leave it there but don't worry we will
be back very soon with part 2 of the video where I get challenged with
Japanese can you read [Japanese words]
and you can even find out if Harry can speak Italian but in the
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