A lot of you may know me from TikTok or Instagram, where I teach English.

And I've recently taken that here to YouTube, so I'm still growing this channel.

And I've been asking a lot of you what topics you'd like me to cover or questions you want answered.

And a lot of you have been asking about me and what I'm like, where I'm from, what I'm interested in, how I became an English teacher.

And I want to get a little bit more personal today and cover some of those questions for you in this video.

So, I've come up with six facts about myself to tell you today.

And for my next video, I will be answering your questions that you leave in the comments on this video.

So, like I said at the beginning of this video, I am an English teacher on TikTok and more recently on Instagram.

But if you have been following me from the start, you may have seen my videos on TikTok where I play the ukulele and sing.

And I am by no means a professional ukulele player, but first fact about me, I have a music degree.

So, I studied singing for both my bachelor's and my master's.

So, I am not only an English teacher, but I'm also a professional singer.

My main passion with singing is opera, which a lot of you may find hard to believe, as I know opera is not the most popular genre.

But it is my favorite to sing.

But I've also sung musical theater, jazz, pop.

So, I really just enjoy all kinds of singing.

And if you guys want me to bring back more ukulele content, let me know.

Okay, fact number two about me is that I live in Germany.

So, I am originally from the U.S.

I was born and grew up there.

But as an adult, I moved to Germany.

And I've been living here for about five years now.

So, I do speak German as a second language, which I had to learn as an adult.

And so, I understand where a lot of you are coming from with learning English as a second language and all the challenges that come with that.

And I can tell you that German is not an easy language.

So, I also use teachers on YouTube, on TikTok that help me to learn German.

Fact number three is that I used to live in London.

And London is probably my favorite city that I've lived in.

I studied in London for two years.

It's where I got my master's.

And there, I learned a lot about the differences between American English and British English.

Because there actually are a lot of differences.

There are not only language differences, but there are also cultural differences.

So, I do like to bring those sometimes into my videos.

And if you guys are interested in learning more about the differences between American and British English, from my experience, let me know in the comments.

Okay, fact number four.

I've already kind of touched on it, but I am from the U.S. Midwest.

So, the accent I have is a Midwestern American accent.

So, for example, I pronounce the city Chicago with a really bright A.

Ah, Chicago.

Which is a typical characteristic of the Midwestern accent.

There are also typical characteristics of Midwestern people in general.

Midwestern people are normally known to be very hospitable, very friendly, sometimes oversharing.

So, when I do go home, sometimes that can actually be a bit of reverse culture shock for me.

But yeah, the Midwest is probably not the most beautiful part of the U.S.

But the people are certainly beautiful.

Aw, that was nice.

Okay, fact number five is that I do yoga every morning.

I love the history of it.

I love the principle.

I love the fact that we can use tools within ourselves, like the breath, to make positive change.

To change our mindset.

To change our bodies.

To calm our nervous system.

All these things.

I love yoga.

If you ever want to talk yoga, let me know.

And my sixth and final fact that I have for you today is I am learning Italian.

I've been learning Italian for about two years.

I have an online Italian teacher that I meet with once a week for one hour.

And we speak Italian.

And I'm really enjoying it.

It can be really difficult at times, which I'm sure a lot of you know or have experience with.

But I'm pretty passionate about learning languages.

I think it's really interesting to dive into a language.

See how it works.

See how it's different from other languages that I speak.

And I also love learning about the culture through learning the language.

And being able to use their language if I go and visit that country.

So I would love to learn more languages.

But Italian is the one that I'm focusing on right now.

I am by no means a language expert.

It doesn't necessarily come easy to me.

I just like to learn them.

So Italian for now.

Who knows what's next.

Okay guys.

I hope you enjoyed learning these six facts about me.

So if you guys have any follow-up questions to any of the things I spoke about today, leave them in the comments.

But also leave me your English questions.

Because I'm going to take any of the questions from this video and answer them in my next video.

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