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I am also an English teacher (currently a stay-at-home mum) and I would like to thank you for voicing feelings and opinions I didn't realise I had. Now that I am a bit older, I no longer feel like smiling all the time and creating 'fun' lessons, I want to help those who want to be helped. I have no desire to be a clown. 🙂
@@nataliahernandez8573 La estupidez de hacerse a un lado... O sea, ella debería renunciar a su trabajo, ahora que empieza a verlo con otra madurez, para dejarle el puesto a una pedorra que en comparación, no tenga idea de lo que está haciendo. ¿Todo porque la experiencia la trae a un lugar más introspectivo (sí, es una palabra búscala en el diccionario) y ve su misión más como vocación que como diversión? Vamos bien así.
@@nataliahernandez8573 Perdona, no va dirigida a tu persona. Es una reacción contra ciertos conceptos establecidos que nos hacen sentir cómodos sin necesidad de analizar la situación demasiado pero que a veces pueden hacernos cometer injusticias en honor a esa comodidad. Un cordial saludo.
Does not matter if you smile or not. . You are a first class teacher as you have always been, this is the main point🙂🙂🙂thanks for the interesting lessons!
Yes...Very annoying! Jade is providing these video to help people. It’s a lot of work, time and yet more time. people should be more appreciative. Especially because Jade’s videos are excellent.
@@Latbirget I meant, this advice "be yourself" shouldn´t be put this way, because maybe there is a problema with the person that can be solved with professional support. It can´t be used without criteria. The countenance shows many things about people's life, their bitterness, sadness, even their profession, and it can hide issues that can turn into bigger problems to them and to those around them.
It does not matter if you smile or not, the most important, in my view, is your clear and useful lessons that you teach us, thank you Jade, God bless you.
For me as an Eastern European your style is pretty normal. When I grew up nobody was smiling much in normal conversation (they laughed at jokes etc. but that's another thing), teachers were just like you, strict. Nowadays many younger people acquired the fake cheerfulness from Western, especially American culture though.
I am Polish and I highly appreciate your teaching style. Poles tend to smile when there is a reason. Seeing constantly smiling faces all around makes me feel awkward. Therefore, big smile for you!
I confirm. I am also Polish. I enjoy Jade's videos. I rather learn and teach seriously than with common fake smile. If you smile for no reason, there must be a hidden reason behind your smile - either you are trying to trick someone or play a happy chap.
As a german teacher I have to agree with you in the sense that every person is different. Some people may enjoy your style better, others may prefer a more upbeat, cheerful style of lesson.
You are pretty unique and lovely in your own special way, plus i have always loved your sense of humour.. you need not smile all the time, don’t let people pick it up as a flaw. Serious women are attractive .. you are our strict English teacher
The world is full of insincere or dull smiles, so that every serious person out there catches even more attention. And when they smile, they honestly smile. Please don't go changing!
Hi, Jade. I've been following you since around 2014, and back then I only knew basic grammar and vocabulary, and could not understand a word of spoken English. Thanks to your videos I discovered other wonderful teachers in EngVid, and as an introvert, I very much appreciated your old videos, I just wish you had kept them at least in a separate channel, but I'm very grateful to you for helping me develop my English skills. PS: you are an amazing teacher with a beautiful smile.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the way you teach and speak. You are instructive, clear, and succinct. And constantly smiling when you do not mean it does not come across as sincere.
I haven't watched a video from Jade in a while and it's nice to see her again. Personally, I don't need English lessons but my wife does. Jade is one of the best teachers I've seen on TH-cam and I can't recommend her enough. Jade doesn't smile as much as your usual Spanish teacher, but she can be witty and has made me laugh a number of times in her videos.
Jade was one of the first English TH-cam teachers...i remember when i had a hard time understending british English...her accent was a pleasure to hear and used to gave me hope, about learning listening british english ..may be she doesnt know but her work has been a Big part of our Road on the English learning...and all for free...hope life gives her back some of the much she has given to us
Jade, I have massive respect for you. I have followed your videos from when I was learning English. You were one of the teachers on TH-cam who impacted my journey to fluency positively. That's why, I'm very grateful 🙏😻
Hi Jade, your channel was one of the first learning channels I’ve found on TH-cam, I honestly can say that I always loved the way you teach. Practical, effective and interesting. In my opinion things were the most important, however I do remember several videos in which you did smile. I just love your teaching style.
I totally agree with you, sometimes I have the feeling that nowadays teachers are being asked too much to motivate their students and the lessons have to be always fun. In a way that is good, however in life we also have to be serious and the students also have to do more of their part. In any case you are an excellent teacher and I love your channel
Thanks for the explanation. Your lessons are well made and educating. They do not need much smiling. I like, that you smiled, when you said "Bye." That shows, that there is a wellcoming person inside you. Hug to you.
Your seriousness and your tone differentiates you from typical TH-camrs, and that's the reason I subscribed to your channel :) I would love to see you and hear you the way you are ) Cheers
I started following your site two days ago and it's been a kind of "revelation". Most female teachers use their sex appeal to engage students and they managed to do it. I acknowledge my weakness in this sense but I'm here to learn not for other purposes. You're focus on what it's really important. Your honesty and transparency is a rare treasure to find...
I watch your videos because you go straight to the matter, language-wise, and also because I happen to be a stranger to British accents and I'd like to broaden my hearing skills. I am a 68 years old fellow from Santiago-Chile and not a native speaker at all. Thank you Jade..!
Jade, don’t worry about smiling please. Your content, ability and knowledge are first class. If someone is after fun, it is available elsewhere. As to the good looks, you are blessed with classic features fit for art-house movies. Thanks you for your individual efforts in teaching others. Your followers like myself learn from you native or non-native speakers. God bless.
Please don't worrie about smiling or not. I like the way you are it's a pleasure to learn with you. I think it is difficult to smile while working because you need to be concentrated and that changes anything to your nice face with beautilful eyes. Sorry for my mistakes
Learning English is a serious business, and teaching English is even more serious. Jade, you are an excellent teacher just the way you teach. I am learning a lot from you and I love it. Keep up with the good work. Thanks a million.
Jade, I think your lessons are distinctively amazing and interesting. Normally I would prefer a teacher prone to be humorous, however, you are an exception. Just be yourself, you do not need to ingratiate yourself with anyone.
Hi Jade! You are a good teacher. I am aware about, you know, you don't smile frequently. Ok, true. But, What are we talking about here? Teaching. That's the point. You make a strong effort to explain well all the topics and for me, that is the most important thing. So be yourself Jade. A big hug!!
You can't win. Whatever you do, you will always have someone who will bring it up as a covert criticism of your character, if not a blatant one. For example, I smile a lot and laugh a lot, not every single time, I can be serious too but most of the time I am lighthearted face to face and I get some people telling me that I "get on their nerves" because of that and on those occasions when I might be serious, you can nigh on guarantee you will get one other person who will say to me "oh cheer up John for god's sake, you're depressing me".....blah blah blah. As the late Ricky Nelson used to say in his 'Garden Party' song, you can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself.
Jade, you are the best. People can only be self-motivated. People are motivated when they are not speaking English but moving to UK, and when they need to teach your children English.
a lot of people here are expressing their liking for your style of teaching and i'd like to say i really agree with that! i think it's all well and good to make some effort to not look inapproachable, but on the other hand it can so often be overdone. personally i find it distracting when a teacher is too perky and seems to care more about being seen as likeable than about delivering the information effectively. it is precisely this straightforward, no-nonsense approach that i think makes your videos so accessible, so please keep it up and don't let the criticism bother you too much! thank you for your valuable work!
This is a reason I subscribed your channel. I also don't smile a lot and I don't like all these fake,"American style" smiles on many internet English teachers. Life is often really tough and we live in hard times so we should be just ourselves,not pretending someone else
So stay like this Jade: serious, respectful and friendly - as you normally are and DON’T change or feel weired or low just because some comment about their lack of received smiling in life in general……..
I think you’re totally cool - and normal - like that. In today’s world, everybody needs to be happy and smiling all the time, especially when it comes to teaching. It needs to be “fun” all the time. Who said that? Thank you for being you, the way you are!
You are my one of the favorite teacher. I love the way you teach and convey the difficult word explanation in adequately. You don’t need to change your style of teaching. Keep going JADE
Thanks a lot for your honesty. I was wondering why you did not smile, when I saw one of your videos today, so I am glad you explained it a little in this video. I think you deserve all the respect for it.
Hello Jade, I love your videos, and I really appriciate your commitment... And still you do smile sometimes. I always learn a lot from your videos, so do not change anything. Thank you :)
I recognize your intrinsic motivation and am therefore happy that you do what you do. I would like to add that I had to laugh a lot at the contradiction between the serious content of your story and those lights behind you! :-D
People ask me the same thing. Sometimes they say "Are you fine". Wtf. Why should we be smilling all the time if there is no reason to do so. Jade you are the best. When I see somone making that fake smile to take pictures it like "what???"
Teacher Jade you don`t need explain nothing about yourself !!! You are an incredible person, wonderful teacher and your Videos are amazing !! You only ignor any comment about your beautiful smile !! you are really wonderful !!! I am your loyal follower, greeting from south america !!
What an amazing coincidence! I just yesterday shared your video on how to pronounce "OFTEN" with a female American Teacher of English as a Foreign Language, and her comment was: "Honestly she put me to sleep in the morning! She shoulda bin born American so she’d smile more often!!" I found her comment degrading and revealing a basic lack of grasping your beautiful lay-out of the linguistic evolution of the pronunciation. Aannyways .... 🙃
I have subscribed to this channel for like 7-8 years now and I loved almost all the classes! I agree that seriousness is required when it comes to teaching... too much smiling us annoying! No offence to Lucy!
Dear, Jade I've only just discovered your videos. I love your delivery and your passion. You are very entertaining and I see you smile. I am now a fan.
I'm terribly sorry to hear you harbour anger and disdain for the state of education and at people's general attitude towards learning. I, too, have been rather troubled by the growing trend of people not having the desire to learn or improve themselves. I often find myself bordering on misanthropy. I find looking at things on the macro level helps. We're more connected today than ever before in human history. I prefer to see the state of things as an exposition of the human condition that has persisted rather than a regression in our growth as a species. We just see and hear from far more and far wider than ever before. The people who have no interest to better themselves never quite had a far-reaching platform to be heard before the internet. I sincerely hope you find comfort in knowing that there are many out there who are keen to learn and you are an excellent guide, whether you smile or not.
First of all, I admire you for being so honest. Unfortunately, I am not able to follow your classes regularly but as far as I'm concerned you are a good teacher. For some, the teacher's smile is one of the necessities of education. But for me and many of your students, you are a teacher who seriously and responsibly tries to provide his knowledge and experiences to her students, so we students also want to see such a lovely person happy in return. I hope this situation is only related to the classroom. Thank you, dear Jade
As far as I know... many smiley teachers do not really care about the growth of others. I also intend not to smile when teaching. Many love you like that, I know.
Hi dear teacher Jade I follow attentivelly your courses in order to improve my English through your best method of teaching and excellent explanation. I really appreciate your job. I wish you peace and happiness under the sky of prosperity. Your Student from Algeria.
Hi Jade, please, don't ever listen to those idiots! You're a great teacher just the way you are 👏😊 I really enjoy your classes and the quiet tone of your voice.
I have always watched your old videos and back then, subscribing your channel since few years ago, I love watching them and learn a lot, keep going and we always wait your lessons, 100 %. You know, I am lucky as I find your English lesson videos, your lovely British accent and I never think that you don't smile. Salam from Indonesia
You are an EXCELLENT TEACHER. You don’t need to smile, keep going as you are. Your style comes across as very professional. You remind me of a woman I know who grew up in Blackpool and now lives amongst the Tatler readers and “are you going beagling this weekend” fraternity. She presents a very neutral front like yourself with the very low energy quite closed mouth delivery, I’ve always said it is because she worries about her natural accent slipping out like Eliza Dooolittle at Ascot. It worked for her and seems very happy with life but inside there is a lovely person who does have a sense of humour and itnis always a joy to make her laugh. Oddly you look very like the younger her… perhaps a distant relo’. My wife is an actress so we both love the nuances of accents and so enjoy your channel.
I have a similar teaching style to you. Some people seem to assume that just because the students are not bouncing off the walls and having “fun”, that they are not learning … my students learn a lot in my lessons and regularly pass their proficiency exams! You can see the growth, but I’m not a dancing clown in the lessons! You don’t have to be!
Thank you for your opinions Jade! Very compelling. I think it's good that you're publishing a video expressing these thoughts, it addresses problems that we, as humans in the world that are both learning and teaching, have to address.
I totally agree on that point where you can see the problems and others can't, it's so frustrating that you try to explain them the solution but they don't understand.
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"Don't smile before Xmas" was the first advice I got and to be fair, we have no reason to smile in this job.
You need to have a good boy friend like me to make you smile !
thank you very much for the lessons
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Save it !
I know what are you trying to do, you're not going to make it as you forgot to mention Jade is having a Nice Body !
If someone asks you why you don't smile, tell them you're Polish. It works every time!
I am also an English teacher (currently a stay-at-home mum) and I would like to thank you for voicing feelings and opinions I didn't realise I had. Now that I am a bit older, I no longer feel like smiling all the time and creating 'fun' lessons, I want to help those who want to be helped. I have no desire to be a clown. 🙂
@@nataliahernandez8573 todo el mundo es libre de hacer lo quiera con su vida. Si el quiere ser serio o no, está bien, es su vida.
Same here :D
@@nataliahernandez8573 La estupidez de hacerse a un lado... O sea, ella debería renunciar a su trabajo, ahora que empieza a verlo con otra madurez, para dejarle el puesto a una pedorra que en comparación, no tenga idea de lo que está haciendo. ¿Todo porque la experiencia la trae a un lugar más introspectivo (sí, es una palabra búscala en el diccionario) y ve su misión más como vocación que como diversión?
Vamos bien así.
@@nataliahernandez8573 Perdona, no va dirigida a tu persona. Es una reacción contra ciertos conceptos establecidos que nos hacen sentir cómodos sin necesidad de analizar la situación demasiado pero que a veces pueden hacernos cometer injusticias en honor a esa comodidad. Un cordial saludo.
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Does not matter if you smile or not. . You are a first class teacher as you have always been, this is the main point🙂🙂🙂thanks for the interesting lessons!
It's annoying when people say "smile then" or "cheer up". Just ignore them Jade and be you.
Yes...Very annoying! Jade is providing these video to help people. It’s a lot of work, time and yet more time. people should be more appreciative. Especially because Jade’s videos are excellent.
I completely agree with you. Unfortunately that world we leave in, fake world with so much pretence.
"be you, be you..." It´s not that simple. "Being you"
@@Anderson_Anderas OK so you don't like this advice but haven't put forward any constructive advice yourself.
@@Latbirget I meant, this advice "be yourself" shouldn´t be put this way, because maybe there is a problema with the person that can be solved with professional support. It can´t be used without criteria.
The countenance shows many things about people's life, their bitterness, sadness, even their profession, and it can hide issues that can turn into bigger problems to them and to those around them.
‘I accept that weariness’ absolutely breaks my heart.
Feel it to my core
It does not matter if you smile or not, the most important, in my view, is your clear and useful lessons that you teach us, thank you Jade, God bless you.
I love your style. My purpose is to learn from you, I'm not bothered about anything else. After all you are a teacher not an entertainer...
For me as an Eastern European your style is pretty normal. When I grew up nobody was smiling much in normal conversation (they laughed at jokes etc. but that's another thing), teachers were just like you, strict. Nowadays many younger people acquired the fake cheerfulness from Western, especially American culture though.
E European here, I believe so too.
That's a genuine shame, as I'm a Yank and hate that aspect of my culture.
I, for one, stopped smiling when started teaching. I cannot smile now that I am exposed to the abyss of human ignorance.
Interestingly, that made me smile.
@@janderson1008 ;)
Ironically you are teaching that ignorance because you follow a curriculum which doesn't actually benefit children.
@@insomniacbritgaming1632 I teach adults.
I love you Jade Joddle and I love that you are authentic, not trying to put on smiles just to appear likable. Keep going. Love you.
Even though you don't smile, you spread positive energy around you. Stay as you are and smile whenever you feel like you want to
I am Polish and I highly appreciate your teaching style. Poles tend to smile when there is a reason. Seeing constantly smiling faces all around makes me feel awkward. Therefore, big smile for you!
I confirm. I am also Polish. I enjoy Jade's videos. I rather learn and teach seriously than with common fake smile. If you smile for no reason, there must be a hidden reason behind your smile - either you are trying to trick someone or play a happy chap.
As a german teacher I have to agree with you in the sense that every person is different. Some people may enjoy your style better, others may prefer a more upbeat, cheerful style of lesson.
Teacher, you are just authentic. That's all.
People who like your style of teaching will always follow your lessons. That what matters the most.
You are pretty unique and lovely in your own special way, plus i have always loved your sense of humour.. you need not smile all the time, don’t let people pick it up as a flaw. Serious women are attractive .. you are our strict English teacher
The world is full of insincere or dull smiles, so that every serious person out there catches even more attention. And when they smile, they honestly smile. Please don't go changing!
Thank you for this!
Hi, Jade. I've been following you since around 2014, and back then I only knew basic grammar and vocabulary, and could not understand a word of spoken English. Thanks to your videos I discovered other wonderful teachers in EngVid, and as an introvert, I very much appreciated your old videos, I just wish you had kept them at least in a separate channel, but I'm very grateful to you for helping me develop my English skills.
PS: you are an amazing teacher with a beautiful smile.
There is no need to make another separate channel. She has some playlists on her channels, they might be helpful for what you're looking for.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the way you teach and speak. You are instructive, clear, and succinct. And constantly smiling when you do not mean it does not come across as sincere.
So many fun fun English teachers, and that’s ok for someone. But we we need a good angry teacher too. Huge respect
I haven't watched a video from Jade in a while and it's nice to see her again. Personally, I don't need English lessons but my wife does. Jade is one of the best teachers I've seen on TH-cam and I can't recommend her enough. Jade doesn't smile as much as your usual Spanish teacher, but she can be witty and has made me laugh a number of times in her videos.
I’m in love with your character and way of speaking, your English language is beyond refreshing.
Jade was one of the first English TH-cam teachers...i remember when i had a hard time understending british English...her accent was a pleasure to hear and used to gave me hope, about learning listening british english ..may be she doesnt know but her work has been a Big part of our Road on the English learning...and all for free...hope life gives her back some of the much she has given to us
Jade, I have massive respect for you. I have followed your videos from when I was learning English. You were one of the teachers on TH-cam who impacted my journey to fluency positively. That's why, I'm very grateful 🙏😻
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You are just a serious teacher, not a clown!
Jade you are amazing just don't care about people who ask these types of questions.
You're doing absolutely fine, Jade. Just be your true self and keep up the brilliant work.
Don’t change anything whatsoever,I love you as you are!
Thank you Jade for your sincerity. I really value when people express their reasons.
I can’t believe people made you feel like you had to explain yourself.
Hi Jade, your channel was one of the first learning channels I’ve found on TH-cam, I honestly can say that I always loved the way you teach. Practical, effective and interesting. In my opinion things were the most important, however I do remember several videos in which you did smile. I just love your teaching style.
I totally agree with you, sometimes I have the feeling that nowadays teachers are being asked too much to motivate their students and the lessons have to be always fun. In a way that is good, however in life we also have to be serious and the students also have to do more of their part.
In any case you are an excellent teacher and I love your channel
Thanks for the explanation. Your lessons are well made and educating. They do not need much smiling. I like, that you smiled, when you said "Bye." That shows, that there is a wellcoming person inside you. Hug to you.
Your seriousness and your tone differentiates you from typical TH-camrs, and that's the reason I subscribed to your channel :)
I would love to see you and hear you the way you are )
Cheers
You are serious , knowledgeable and professional and you care about people. So smiles are not required your knowledge is. Thank you Jade.
I started following your site two days ago and it's been a kind of "revelation". Most female teachers use their sex appeal to engage students and they managed to do it. I acknowledge my weakness in this sense but I'm here to learn not for other purposes. You're focus on what it's really important. Your honesty and transparency is a rare treasure to find...
Jade is also a beautiful cool stone that can be sculpted into exotic and amazing forms.
I watch your videos because you go straight to the matter, language-wise, and also because I happen to be a stranger to British accents and I'd like to broaden my hearing skills. I am a 68 years old fellow from Santiago-Chile and not a native speaker at all. Thank you Jade..!
Jade, don’t worry about smiling please. Your content, ability and knowledge are first class. If someone is after fun, it is available elsewhere. As to the good looks, you are blessed with classic features fit for art-house movies. Thanks you for your individual efforts in teaching others. Your followers like myself learn from you native or non-native speakers. God bless.
Please don't worrie about smiling or not. I like the way you are it's a pleasure to learn with you. I think it is difficult to smile while working because you need to be concentrated and that changes anything to your nice face with beautilful eyes. Sorry for my mistakes
That smile at the end got me :D
Learning English is a serious business, and teaching English is even more serious. Jade, you are an excellent teacher just the way you teach. I am learning a lot from you and I love it. Keep up with the good work. Thanks a million.
“I’m a man of contradictions, I’m a man of many moods, I contain multitudes”
Jade, I think your lessons are distinctively amazing and interesting. Normally I would prefer a teacher prone to be humorous, however, you are an exception. Just be yourself, you do not need to ingratiate yourself with anyone.
Hi Jade! You are a good teacher. I am aware about, you know, you don't smile frequently. Ok, true. But, What are we talking about here? Teaching. That's the point. You make a strong effort to explain well all the topics and for me, that is the most important thing. So be yourself Jade. A big hug!!
You're authentic and lovely and I always learn a lot from your lessons. Thank you!
Thank you for watching and commenting Luis.
You can't win. Whatever you do, you will always have someone who will bring it up as a covert criticism of your character, if not a blatant one. For example, I smile a lot and laugh a lot, not every single time, I can be serious too but most of the time I am lighthearted face to face and I get some people telling me that I "get on their nerves" because of that and on those occasions when I might be serious, you can nigh on guarantee you will get one other person who will say to me "oh cheer up John for god's sake, you're depressing me".....blah blah blah. As the late Ricky Nelson used to say in his 'Garden Party' song, you can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself.
Nah I don't think so. Alot of them are innocent. You like Jade have become jaded in this world
Hello Jade. Thank you for your effective efforts. Your seriousness is just part of your charisma and charm.
Jade, your work has long been an inspiration to me. Keep going!
Jade, you are the best.
People can only be self-motivated. People are motivated when they are not speaking English but moving to UK, and when they need to teach your children English.
a lot of people here are expressing their liking for your style of teaching and i'd like to say i really agree with that! i think it's all well and good to make some effort to not look inapproachable, but on the other hand it can so often be overdone. personally i find it distracting when a teacher is too perky and seems to care more about being seen as likeable than about delivering the information effectively. it is precisely this straightforward, no-nonsense approach that i think makes your videos so accessible, so please keep it up and don't let the criticism bother you too much! thank you for your valuable work!
This is a reason I subscribed your channel. I also don't smile a lot and I don't like all these fake,"American style" smiles on many internet English teachers. Life is often really tough and we live in hard times so we should be just ourselves,not pretending someone else
You are amazing, Jade. I am very happy to listen to your videos. Thank you for your great job.
Sound like me. People criticized me for not smiling when I work even in general society. Unfortunately.
So stay like this Jade: serious, respectful and friendly - as you normally are and DON’T change or feel weired or low just because some comment about their lack of received smiling in life in general……..
I think you’re totally cool - and normal - like that. In today’s world, everybody needs to be happy and smiling all the time, especially when it comes to teaching. It needs to be “fun” all the time. Who said that? Thank you for being you, the way you are!
I like your mood, your pace, teaching style, Jade...keep it up!
You don’t need to smile too, Jade. You look great as you are.
You are my one of the favorite teacher. I love the way you teach and convey the difficult word explanation in adequately. You don’t need to change your style of teaching. Keep going JADE
Thanks a lot for your honesty. I was wondering why you did not smile, when I saw one of your videos today, so I am glad you explained it a little in this video. I think you deserve all the respect for it.
Hello Jade, I love your videos, and I really appriciate your commitment... And still you do smile sometimes.
I always learn a lot from your videos, so do not change anything.
Thank you :)
You are a crusader jade! And brave enough to be there and help people. Bravo!
Congratulations for your courage. Beautiful explanation. I wish you the best results with your work. You deserve it.
Spot on, and thank you for your honesty; the state of education is quite troubling.
Never realized you were not smiling...always listened to you...it's a great opportunity to learn from you...
I recognize your intrinsic motivation and am therefore happy that you do what you do. I would like to add that I had to laugh a lot at the contradiction between the serious content of your story and those lights behind you! :-D
Miss the old vids. Loved the smile at the end :D
People ask me the same thing. Sometimes they say "Are you fine". Wtf. Why should we be smilling all the time if there is no reason to do so. Jade you are the best. When I see somone making that fake smile to take pictures it like "what???"
Cmon humans, we are learning a lot from her for nothing.
Thanks a lot! I like your seriousness, because I take the process of learning seriously.
You are the best teacher ,,the way you are teaching is amazing your accent is wonderful i love it,,,thanks.
You are a teacher, not a cheer-leader.
No compulsion to smile.
Don’t know why your video popped up randomly but glad it did. You’re so beautiful!!!
I love your lessons, I find you friendly and correct.I like you how you are and I love your classes and your content.Please don’t change.Just do YOU.
Teacher Jade you don`t need explain nothing about yourself !!! You are an incredible person, wonderful teacher and your Videos are amazing !! You only ignor any comment about your beautiful smile !! you are really wonderful !!! I am your loyal follower, greeting from south america !!
What an amazing coincidence! I just yesterday shared your video on how to pronounce "OFTEN" with a female American Teacher of English as a Foreign Language, and her comment was: "Honestly she put me to sleep in the morning!
She shoulda bin born American so she’d smile more often!!"
I found her comment degrading and revealing a basic lack of grasping your beautiful lay-out of the linguistic evolution of the pronunciation. Aannyways .... 🙃
I have subscribed to this channel for like 7-8 years now and I loved almost all the classes!
I agree that seriousness is required when it comes to teaching... too much smiling us annoying! No offence to Lucy!
Dear, Jade I've only just discovered your videos. I love your delivery and your passion. You are very entertaining and I see you smile. I am now a fan.
Thank you for watching. ☺️
I'm glad to have found you again, to see the changes you've undertaken, to see that you are still at your craft. Keep on striving: you are needed.
You have done a wonderful job till now Jade. You older videos were really fun to watch.Do not stress over people who are not worth it.
I quite appreciate you whether you smile or not. Be you, Jade.
I never understood why ppl get so mad when others don't smile
Now I understand. Thank you for what you do.
I enjoy your style, the content of your teaching is more important than your beautiful smile. I love you
I have started subscribing since English Jade, as a half British I do enjoy your youtube videos and helped me a lot too.
Jade, I invite you to come and live in Easter Europe, we do not smile here at all. I'm sure you would enjoy it!
😅 Sounds like I would fit in nicely.
The advantage of positive emotions is that they are self-strengthening.
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love :)
I'm terribly sorry to hear you harbour anger and disdain for the state of education and at people's general attitude towards learning. I, too, have been rather troubled by the growing trend of people not having the desire to learn or improve themselves. I often find myself bordering on misanthropy.
I find looking at things on the macro level helps. We're more connected today than ever before in human history. I prefer to see the state of things as an exposition of the human condition that has persisted rather than a regression in our growth as a species. We just see and hear from far more and far wider than ever before. The people who have no interest to better themselves never quite had a far-reaching platform to be heard before the internet.
I sincerely hope you find comfort in knowing that there are many out there who are keen to learn and you are an excellent guide, whether you smile or not.
First of all, I admire you for being so honest. Unfortunately, I am not able to follow your classes regularly but as far as I'm concerned you are a good teacher. For some, the teacher's smile is one of the necessities of education. But for me and many of your students, you are a teacher who seriously and responsibly tries to provide his knowledge and experiences to her students, so we students also want to see such a lovely person happy in return. I hope this situation is only related to the classroom. Thank you, dear Jade
Part of this is sexism. If if it was a male teacher you wouldn't hear people telling him to smile more.
As far as I know... many smiley teachers do not really care about the growth of others. I also intend not to smile when teaching. Many love you like that, I know.
Hi dear teacher Jade
I follow attentivelly your courses in order to improve my English through your best method of teaching and excellent explanation.
I really appreciate your job.
I wish you peace and happiness under the sky of prosperity.
Your Student from Algeria.
Hi Jade, please, don't ever listen to those idiots! You're a great teacher just the way you are 👏😊 I really enjoy your classes and the quiet tone of your voice.
So if people think she looks and sound boring they are idiots? I'd rather say that calling other people "idiots" shows you're an idiot. Right?
I'm enjoying you from Germany, I have to admit that I also was irritated first, but now I prefer it professional. You already helped me :)
I have always watched your old videos and back then, subscribing your channel since few years ago, I love watching them and learn a lot, keep going and we always wait your lessons, 100 %. You know, I am lucky as I find your English lesson videos, your lovely British accent and I never think that you don't smile. Salam from Indonesia
You are an EXCELLENT TEACHER. You don’t need to smile, keep going as you are. Your style comes across as very professional. You remind me of a woman I know who grew up in Blackpool and now lives amongst the Tatler readers and “are you going beagling this weekend” fraternity. She presents a very neutral front like yourself with the very low energy quite closed mouth delivery, I’ve always said it is because she worries about her natural accent slipping out like Eliza Dooolittle at Ascot. It worked for her and seems very happy with life but inside there is a lovely person who does have a sense of humour and itnis always a joy to make her laugh. Oddly you look very like the younger her… perhaps a distant relo’. My wife is an actress so we both love the nuances of accents and so enjoy your channel.
I agree!
I have a similar teaching style to you.
Some people seem to assume that just because the students are not bouncing off the walls and having “fun”, that they are not learning … my students learn a lot in my lessons and regularly pass their proficiency exams! You can see the growth, but I’m not a dancing clown in the lessons! You don’t have to be!
Thank you for your opinions Jade! Very compelling. I think it's good that you're publishing a video expressing these thoughts, it addresses problems that we, as humans in the world that are both learning and teaching, have to address.
I just love to overcome any problems or brush up on my understanding. Love your programme. Thanks.
I totally agree on that point where you can see the problems and others can't, it's so frustrating that you try to explain them the solution but they don't understand.
You are so sweet and a good teacher. I learned a lot. I' m from Germany. Thx