Hi! This is Greg from OnlineLanguageAcademy.com and in this video I want to
speak to you about the real reason why I teach English on YouTube.
It's a 'storytime' lesson so feel free to put the subtitles on if you want. If you
don't want that's fine too, but it's a great lesson to help improve your
listening skills in English... so let's go!
Right, remember to subscribe to my YouTube channel if you want your chance
to win 5 conversation classes via Skype with OnlineLanguageAcademy.com.
So, in order to explain why I teach English with free lessons on YouTube
I need to explain a little bit about my past and we're going to go back to 2010
which is when I started my own business. In 2010 my wife and I moved from the
North West area of Spain to a very small town in rural Galicia and really I
remember that was the year that I wanted to start business and I remember
thinking this could go horribly wrong because I thought, are there many people in
such a small town in the middle of Galicia who actually need English?
I wasn't sure and so I went with the idea of teaching privately with starting
my own physical academy there, but I also had a plan B, a back-up plan, and that was
to create a website and to offer classes via Skype, and this was just really a
little extra it was.. OK, if nobody wants to learn English privately there
or if no companies there want to hire me as an English teacher, then at least I
have some money coming in, something from the classes via Skype. And OK, for the
first two years when I lived there it went alright, I really enjoyed teaching via
Skype, in the morning usually, and teaching in the academy, in my physical
academy, in the evening. So the classes via Skype just filled my schedule and it
was fun - I could teach people in Madrid
or in other countries. I had a student in Germany, I had a student in Abu Dhabi,
so it was very good - very cool to do that. However, after two years of living
in this small town, me and my wife we were so happy there
we really were, I mean the business was going very well, lots of people there
wanted to learn English and I had a growing number of students on Skype
as well, but my wife got another job in a different place and we had to leave
again. So, I was gutted! Again! I was... I didn't really want to move again now
everything was settled but we did. That was the future, that was the
logical thing to do for us, so we moved. And then I had a decision to make:
did I go to the city again and create an academy - a physical academy - or did I put
all my faith into online teaching. It was a difficult decision to make but in the
end I thought, I'm going to try the online teaching! I'll try for one year
and if it completely fails then, OK, I tried and I'll try then later to build
yeah, to build, to set up a business in a physical - a bricks-and-mortar - a
physical academy. So the first year was tough. It is, I think, it's always tough
the first year in any business, but yeah, after getting a little bit
demoralized after a first few months, things started to get better and better
and it was a hard year, it was, a lot of work, a lot of work and not a lot of
return, but I had... I saw enough there that made me believe that this can
go places. This is what I want to do. I loved working from home. I loved the
flexibility and loved having students from all over the place,
and it was a cool business to run! I really enjoyed it, so I stuck with it, I
stuck with it, I continued to build the online academy and guess what... after
another year my wife got another job so we had to move house again but it
didn't affect me at all this time because everything was online, everything!
I could take my computer to any place in the world with internet connection and
continue my business, continue growing my business and continue teaching the same
students online... and that's what I did! So after 2 years we had a baby and again
things completely changed. Now, daycare - that's where you leave your child with
someone else during the day while you're working - it's very expensive and really,
working from home I really thought, well, I can be with the
baby, you know, you can have two decisions, what do I do? Either spend a lot of money
paying someone else to look after my baby (our baby), or look after the baby
myself? So, we decided that, yeah, if I wanted to then I would look after the
baby and that's what I decided to do, and that's what I do! And it's difficult at
times but I treasure every minute I have with my little baby. It's the right
decision and I'm happy I made that decision. One sacrifice of many
sacrifices, but one big sacrifice was that if I'm at home all day with my baby
I can't teach via Skype, I can't commit certain hours every day so it's very
difficult for me to continue offering classes via Skype personally. And some
people say to me, 'hey this is your business but where are you? Don't you
teach the classes via Skype?' Well, I used to. At the beginning I was the only
teacher and it grew and grew and grew. Now we have many teachers selected by me,
They're all super qualified, fun, friendly, natives and they are a great great
selection of teachers and I love working with them! But yes,
sadly at the moment I cannot personally teach via Skype with Online Language
Academy. I still manage the business, I still run the business and market the
business and I love doing all that! But I don't teach. Instead I teach via
YouTube! Why? Because I love teaching! I don't like the fact that I have to stop
doing what I love just because I spend most of the hours of the day with my
baby! I can do better than before - before I had a limited number of
students who could have classes with me. Now I can teach all my students, all the
students of Online Language Academy and anybody else on YouTube or Facebook
with these free video lessons. So I can teach more students, I can also build up
a really useful resource for our students of grammar, phrasal verbs... people
can go back to old videos and learn and learn and learn. I always say to anybody
on my mailing list, 'if you have a question just let me know!' If YOU have a
question, let me know in the comments. If I can answer it with a video I will! If
I've already done a video I'll send you the link
and you can watch and learn from me. The most important thing, personally, is that
I can do this when I want. At the moment it's Saturday mornings. I
generally record 3 or 4 videos every Saturday which I publish the
next week. But my baby is always changing and and my life is always changing so
sometimes, earlier in the year for example, I used to record one video every
day. Whatever works best, but I can adapt and I can do it to whatever suits me
and my family and my family life! At the moment, at the time of recording I have
750 subscribers on YouTube. It was my goal in my first year of
recording to reach 1,000! So, if you're watching click SUBSCRIBE to help me
reach my goal. But really I would love thousands and thousands and thousands of
subscribers on YouTube. I love the idea of helping as many
students as possible who really want to learn English with me and I'm really
happy doing this .Yes, it's free but I really enjoy it and I hope you enjoy it
too! So, if you're wondering where my face is on the teacher list on Online
Language Academy dot com, that's why it's not there. But I hope you can follow me,
subscribe to my channel and learn from me on my YouTube channel. Remember, if you
want to win 5 conversation classes with my company, OnlineLanguageAcademy.com
just subscribe to my YouTube channel. OK,
so I hope you've enjoyed this video, I hope you've enjoyed the listening practice.
Thanks for watching and I'll see you soon!
By for now!




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