I receive messages from you guys every single day asking me things like "Emma
how do I pronounce this?" "Emma what does this mean?"
blahblah loads of different questions and that's fantastic and I love taking
requests from people, however, from time to time the requests are quite er.. what's
the word... ridiculous. Today I'm going to share some of those requests with you,
not all of them because there are just too many, so I'm gonna share eight of my
favourite ones today. Firstly though before we get started with today's list
of ridiculous messages, welcome back to my channel Pronunciation with Emma. If
you're new here then hello and welcome, if you're interested in improving your
British accent and pronunciation then do consider subscribing to my channel. I
post every single Friday, so if you're interested in the British accent,
improving your pronunciation, I also post videos about grammar, vocabulary, and other
things that help with culture and just videos like this really to give you
a little bit of listening practice. If all of that sounds like your cup of tea,
then consider subscribing to my channel. So let's just get started with the first
one which is please ma'am or mam you can pronounce it both ways, please ma'am
the way that they've spelt it though I think they probably say ma'am, can you start
to wearing can you start to wear or start wearing, don't use both, okay, can
you start wearing more makeup you will get many followers. Now, I am one of those
women who doesn't really wear that much makeup. I wear a little bit when I film,
simply because I look very tired about 95% of the time and so I wear a little
bit. I mean I'm talking the tiniest bit of foundation, little bit of mascara,
sometimes it's some eye shadow, but it's very neutral that is it and I only
started wearing makeup, I would say about five or six years ago, so for me makeup
is a very new thing. I don't wear a lot of makeup and
the fact that someone has asked me to start wearing more makeup, bear in mind
this is a man that has messaged this, I'm not gonna wear more makeup to get more
followers no whatever makeup or whatever clothes a woman decides to wear
especially youtubers, decide to wear, it's completely up to them, whether they want
to wear makeup for followers, they can do what they want, but don't you dare
ever message a woman and tell her to wear more makeup just because you want
something to er.. *click* over later. Now, the next one, you would be so surprised at how
often people message me asking me this, so this person asked me miss please
speak with American accent, that should be with an American accent. I got a bit
confused so I replied "do you mean offer the American pronunciation as well as
the British?" thinking maybe they want me to start doing the American. They said "no do
American only please" please there's no E at the end of there, there should be an
E but no er.. do American English please
no that's all I can reply to that one. No. I am British, why would I start doing
American English? There are thousands of other youtubers and Instagram and
Facebook profiles where there are American speakers, American English
speakers I should say, and they teach pronunciation. Go follow those instead.
I'm here for British English because I'm British.
I feel fake if I make videos with an American accent.
I feel fake when I pretend to do an American accent, so why would I do that?
Why? now the next one I've received quite a few times and it's umm.. please stop
smiling and laughing in your videos, it's very distracting, okay, for the rest of
the video, I can't even do it *laughs*. For the rest of the
video, I will be very monotone and I won't laugh or smile during the video
because that's of course what people want, right? People are requesting that I
don't smile or laugh or show any joy or emotion and I should be a robot. The next
one, this is a new one and yeah I did share this on my social media and you
guys loved it and quite a few of you guys said "oh please share more of these kinds
of requests", requests, that you receive, "I want to know more because this is
ridiculous" so this one is... stop forcing people to
subscribe to your YouTube channel and follow your page. All I do is share my
videos on my own page on my own channel, this is not forcing anyone, this is me
sharing my content on my own pages and this person said stop forcing people
I literally shared my own video but where did they message me this? I think it was, I think
it was Instagram, yeah, and they said I was forcing people. I posted it on my own
Instagram. This next one is good and it's simply because I just don't understand
what they're asking and it's "can you please make a strong British accent?
Thanks." I like that "thanks" there like they are expecting me to do this for
them, like thanks in advance. I have no idea what this means, a strong British
accent. What is a strong British accent compared to what I'm doing now. I don't
know, should I start speaking like the Queen? Should... no one speaks like the
Queen. Only the Queen speaks like the Queen. I'm not sure what this one means
but I thought it was an interesting one. Now if you've been watching me and
following me for a while, that sounds stalkerish but I didn't mean
it like that, then you'll know that I do live videos quite a lot. So this person
said "stop drinking water in your live videos it makes me thirsty".
Not thirsty, but they've, yeah, they've written in with a with a U and it
shouldn't be like that. It make me thirsty, it makes, it should be
it makes me thirsty. Well firstly, go and
get some water if you're watching me live, just cause you're watching me live, it
doesn't mean you are banned from moving, you can take your phone or take your
computer and move around. Go get some water.
I mean, if you're so desperate for water, go get some, don't wait until I've finished
my lives. That's just crazy. As well, when I do lives, it's just essentially me
talking to myself for half an hour to an hour, sometimes longer,
so my throat does get dry, it does get sore, so I do need water and that's that.
That's my justification for drinking water during a live. So stupid. I can't
believe I have to justify drinking water during a live video, but anyway that's
that one.Okay another ma'am ma'am I suggest you have a baby and show your
your followers, your followers, how it learns English language. No I'm not gonna
have a baby and show you how it learns the English language. If I had a child,
the last thing I would do would be putting it on the Internet. I just
wouldn't do that because that child has no consent, so why would I, why would I do
that? And last but not least ma'am, mam again,
"why you look so pale? Are you tired or sick?" um... you know this is my normal skin
colour. If I look like this it is normal. It is my normal skin colour. I'm not sick.
I may be tired erm... but normally I'm not. If I'm filming then I'm... I normally don't film
when I'm tired, it's just my normal appearance, my normal face. So
that's it for this video and these ridiculous requests. So let me know down
in the comments which one was your favourite one and if you want to send me
a genuine request please don't be scared to do that I honestly do love receiving
genuine genuine requests, things like "Emma how do you pronounce this?" and "can
you make a video about connected speech?" whatever.
I love these requests. Ones like wearing more makeup, having a baby and whatever
the other ones were, not so much. But anyway, don't forget to subscribe to my
channel if you've enjoyed this video and if you want to improve your British
accent and pronunciation. I will see you guys next week.
Bye bye.