Answering Your Questions about Me (with @TeacherMikeEnglish and @AmericanEnglishBrent )

- So today's English lesson will be a little bit different.

Last week, I asked on Facebook and YouTube for some of you

to ask some questions about me,

and in this English lesson, I'm going to answer them.

It's an English lesson in the sense that you can study

the way that I answer these questions.

These are all questions about me,

kind of like talking about myself, sometimes.

So as I answer the questions,

you might be curious to know the answer,

but you should also look at how I put my answer together,

how I answered the question.

So, welcome to this English lesson about me.

Hopefully, it helps you learn to talk about yourself.

(upbeat music)

Okay, here we go.

First question from Triskelion from YouTube.

I would like to know who was your favorite teacher

in school and why?

And my second question is what personality trait

do you value most in people?

Well, my favorite teacher

was my French teacher in high school.

He was very encouraging.

He was always happy, and he was very encouraging.

So I really liked him.

In fact, a lot of how I am as a teacher

is modeled after how he taught.

He was a really nice person.

And what's my favorite personality trait?

It would be something called sticktoitiveness.

I'm not sure if you know that word.

It's when someone does something,

and they do it really well and they don't quit.

They have a lot of sticktoitiveness.

It is an actual English word.

Maybe, I'll put the definition on the screen here,

but yes, my favorite character trait, sticktoitiveness,

and maybe second to that would be competence.