good morning good afternoon and good evening welcome to Smashing english oh my goodness this is
insane the last time i made a video i think i had about 4 000 subscribers now we nearly have 30 000
subscribers so thank you so much for subscribing if you haven't already press that subscribe button
um yeah thank you so much i haven't made a video in a while it's been very busy i've moved house
i've had to do about seven million different things but now we are back we are making new
videos for you lovely people this is crazy so because so many new people have subscribed to
this channel i thought i would use this video to introduce the people behind smashing english
what the people behind it well if i just say you there's only two of us hopefully we can answer
some of the questions that i've been seeing in the comments and you can get to know us a little
bit more so first of all my name is laura and i run this channel with my partner bess you could
do that better and i run this channel with my partner bez hello there i am 24 years old
and i am also 24 years old but if you're watching this video in the future i'm probably older bess
currently has a mark on his head from wearing a hat i grew up in the black country which is a
place near to birmingham about 25 minutes away but my parents both have rp accents so my accent is
somewhere in the middle of rp standard english with hints of black country so it's
not an easy accent to explain but basically standard english is what i would say yeah
yeah middle of the road middle of the road nothing special i grew up in north wales in a town called
wrexham and i too like laura have quite a strange accent i think so
being from wales i do think that i have hints of a welsh accent but then throw in a dash of the
stouse accent liverpool accent because wrexham is quite close to liverpool uh and also i've been
told that sometimes i sound a little bit like i'm from manchester i thought you were from manchester
when i first met you to be honest yeah i'm mad for it so my accent is kind of a mixture of
north welsh liverpool and manchester so we met at university we both went to the liverpool institute
for performing arts and we met paul mccartney we did meet paul mccartney which was very very cool
because he started the school so when you graduate you meet paul mccartney which was just amazing
and we both studied acting at university um we are disappointments to our parents aren't we
my nan wanted me to be a scientist but we decided to train in acting
so after we graduated from the liverpool institute for performing arts we decided to complete a tefl
qualification tefl tifel i think it's tefl careful do you say tefl tefl tefl tifel
teaching english for foreign learners we both did one because if you haven't guessed already
everything we do we do together after we completed our tefl qualification
we became english teachers but bears here you teach english and welsh
so we both teach on a website called italki and we have lots of different students
you teach english and welsh i teach just english i'm not as impressive as you but the links for our
um lessons are in the description so if you want to have a lesson with either of us you can have
a lesson with us down below down bez why don't you tell them this next fact in welsh well arold
uh nathaniel pender channel youtube
and that's it really yeah that's it that's the story bye so yeah we both have teaching
qualifications we've both taught in person and online so we feel somewhat qualified to help
you learn english with this channel yeah and we're both gorgeous so what more do you want
so yeah we are the people behind smashing english
and we are going to make a lot more videos for you we've been very busy recently
we've been very busy it's been very it was we moved house and then we had like some holiday
stuff we had to go to like weddings and and all this kind of stuff really so but this whole time
we were thinking of you we were we were thinking oh we need to get back when are we going to do
we were changing me yeah we were very excited to make videos so yeah if you have any questions you
want to ask us put them in the comments down below if you want to follow us on instagram the link for
that is on bez's head um i don't think there's anything else we need to say really in there um
well nothing other than to say thanks for watching this video we'll be back soon with something else
you