Probably the most popular English teacher on Youtube would be Lucy Bella Simkins of England. Her channel is called English with Lucy. She is from Bedfordshire near Cambridge, studied in London and Spain, before returning to Cambridgeshire where she lives on a farm. She covers a wide range of topics: national dialects, phrases for speaking politely, and especially likes teaching pronunciation. Her own accent is Received Pronunciation, the south England standard.
Learn English with TV Series is another popular channel. They show you a short scene from a movie with English subtitles, and then one of their teachers picks out phrases, and tries to explain what they mean in different words. They also replay a few pieces of dialogue, showing with spelling how the pronunciation is different from the spelling. The main teacher speaks American English.
Kendra's Language School has videos giving a phrase in languages such as Spanish, Japanese, Indonesian or Chinese, and then giving the English translation. We don't see the teacher, and there is no explanation of the meaning apart from the translation.
mmmEnglish is a channel hosted by English Confidence Coach Emma of Australia. The teaching style is somewhat similar to English with Lucy, and the two have even collaborated. The teacher at Learn English with TV Series pronounces etc. as /eksetera/, but Emma tells us the word should be pronounced /etsetera/ with a 't.' Interestingly Emma pronounces the letter H as /heich/ rather than /eich/. Emma has recently stopped posting videos to pursue a separate opportunity.
The BBC is the British Broadcasting Corporation, the United Kingdom's national TV and radio broadcasting service. BBC Learning English is their channel for teaching English. The videos do have a feel similar to a radio broadcast, professional presenters, but sometimes at quite an advanced level without so much explanation.
Speak English with Vanessa. She is an American, a young mother. She seems to really enjoy teaching, and likes to share amusing anecdotes as she takes us through common situations highlighting phrases, slang or idioms that might be useful.
Rachel's English. Rachel is an American former opera singer who studied German and Spanish, but is now teaching English. She talks about pronunciation, how to practice, how to do interviews and introductions and other topics.
Learn English with Rebecca * engvid. Rebecca Ezekiel is probably an American. In her videos, she talks about common mistakes and how to correct them. She appears to be interested in teaching business clients and cross-cultural communication skills.
Easy English has short cartoons that show you conversations in context. The voices seem to be reading from a script, and some of them are not native speakers, or might even be created using artificial intelligence.
Luke's English Podcast. Luke Thompson is a teacher from England with a Diploma in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. He was at one time an aspiring comedian, and sometimes does segments on jokes, along with more serious topics such as how to use chatgpt to study.
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