Name: Etacude English Teachers Interview with Eric Wesch | Speak English Fluently with Steve Hatherly
Uploaded: 2022-04-27T17:36:45.000Z
Duration: 30 min 26 s
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Welcome to another edition of Speak English Fluently.

Gerund

And I thank you for joining us once again.

I'm very excited today because my guest is Mr. Eric Wesch.

He's been in Korea for about 10 years now, in total, teaching English.

But in 2019, that's when Eric decided to start a YouTube channel,

Now, it's an interesting channel because it's about education.

It's a channel that is dedicated to helping teachers become, quote, and I quote from the

YouTube channel, “An unstoppable force in the classroom.”

Mr. Eric Wesch, thank you very much for joining me today.

It's a… it's a real pleasure to meet you.

It's… it's a pleasure to be here today.

I've just come from visiting your YouTube channel and watching some of your videos

and we're going to talk a lot about Etacude.

And… and what it is, and what it's for.

But first, let's start by talking about you.

Um you've got Johannesburg, or Johannesburg at the… in the north, and then you've got

Um the easiest way for me to explain, is that I live about an hour away from Johannesburg.

Would that be considered the countryside a little bit?

I grew up in a town with a population of 200,000 people so not very big.

Uh… what made you come to Korea originally, I wonder?

And I taught in South Africa for a couple of years.

But, because South Africa is so far away from, well, the rest of the world, I wanted to explore

So, I did some research on countries to travel and to teach at.

And I heard some good things about South Korea.

And then, yeah, just came to South Korea to teach.

And you learned that all of those good things that you heard before were very very true,

Were you teaching English as a second language in South Africa, or were you teaching in the

I was teaching in the public school system.

And I had to teach a few topics, a few subjects.

Uh one was, uh, English, and the other one was, um, I had to teach some social sciences.

So I've uh I had a few classes, but it were… it was at a public school.

From looking at your YouTube channel, and reading your channel description, I saw, and

learned, that you've taught almost all ages here in the country.

I'm very fortunate to have taught all ages.

And now, currently, I'm teaching at a university.

Um, I've also had the opportunity to work with adults to teach business, and other types

Is there any particular age group that stands out to you as your favorite?

Well, every age group has its, uh, benefits and well also its struggles, or its challenges.

And I feel with younger learners, they have a lot of energy, and you can have fun with

Then with all the students, they are very self-motivated.

But… and you don't have to struggle with classroom management.

But it's sometimes difficult to get them to talk and to be excited about a topic.

So, um, to answer your question, I actually prefer, right now, to teach adults, or students

But, every now and again, I like to go and work with young learners because they're so

much fun and uh it's… it's a… we can play so many games, and it's very engaging.

So you were teaching for about seven years in Korea and you're living down in Daegu now

Well I taught three years in South Africa.

Five years in Busan, where I taught at a science high school.

I really enjoyed it, very smart students.

And I've been here for five years, so 10 years in Korea.

If you're not familiar with the geography of Korea, Daegu is on the South Eastern side

Um, well, like I was getting to, so you were in Korea for about seven years I guess when

you decided to make the YouTube channel called Etacude.

So let's talk about that decision to start a channel in the first place.

And then maybe you can segue into talking about what the channel is actually about.

I've been teaching for a long time and… and I remember when I first started teaching.

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