So I was hoping I would be coming back here today and eating my words, but I'm not.  Everyone, hello. Hi. So this is the start of a new series on my channel. This is inspired by a popular kind of trend of videos here on YouTube where booktubers read other booktubers' favorite books. But I want to change it up a bit. I am turning this into a competition. So the idea in this series, booktube twin test, is to find my booktube twin.  Let's just read everyone's favorite books. I want to find out who my top booktube twin is so that I always know to go to them for like any feature recommendations. They're just someone I can rely on, right? So we're just gonna test out loads of booktubers. Basically, I am going to read three books from each booktuber that they personally recommend to me. So books that are their favorites that they think is going to be one of my favorites too. And obviously I'm going to rate that book out of five. Now my rating would then convert to points. So there's a maximum amount of 15 points available and there will be a leaderboard as we go throughout this series of how many points each booktuber gets. Now I wanted you guys to end up picking basically who I do this video with. So I asked you guys on Instagram who my reading taste is most common to on booktube. And it's not a surprise that you all said Kayla from Books and Lala. Now the reason you say this is because I get all my recommendations from her. Like she is the number one person I go to for my book recommendations. I just trust her. We have had pretty similar opinions on a lot of books that we have both read I think. Pretty much all of you. Like I would say 90% of you named her. She is gonna be who we test out in this first booktube twin test. Kayla has sent me over a video recommending me three books she loved that she thinks I'm gonna love too. I haven't watched it so let's watch it together and find out what I'm gonna be reading in this video. Hello Meg. Thank you for inviting me on this journey to discover our four book twins. I have selected three titles for you. I actually gave all these 4.5 stars. Hear me out. But a lot of the five stars you have already read of mine and loved, which is encouraging. And a lot of the other five stars are too risky. So I selected some books that I have loved and I hope that you love and I have reasons for them. Okay first up because of our mutual enjoyment of podcast. Oh my god wait wait wait wait. Kayla's coming with the receipts. Kayla's like I know what you are. Just related stories and insular small town mysteries. I am giving you The Night Swim by Megan Golden. I highly recommend the audiobook for this. It's a very straightforward mystery with a good cast. Lots of entry and you kind of get to discover the mystery and solve it as you go. Oh so excited to read that. Next up because of your already established love for Kate Inkram and a mutual enjoyment of existential sci-fi. I'm recommending you The Weight of Our Stars by Kate Inkram. This is Moody and Pluffly and I think I cried a little. Next up, going for safe bets here. Because we have both enjoyed YA hard-hitting and sapphic stories with a little bit of weirdness and because you've already enjoyed a Katrina Leno, I'm going to have you read Summer of Hope by Katrina Leno. This story is a little bit darker than depicted on the cover. It's again a moody but lovely story. Here are your three books. They're all a little intense. I'm now just realizing I didn't give you anything light. I'm sorry but I would like to see you cry so we'll see what happens. Good luck. Oh my god they're all blue. How beautiful. I can't believe that. I actually can't believe that. I own all three of them. Let me go grab them from my TBR card. In this video, like Kena just said, we're going to be reading The Night Swim which is one of my most like anticipated literary books that I own. The Weight of the Stars. I loved Kian Krum's other book, The Wicker King. Sorry, The Wicker King that I read. And I've been so excited to get to this. And Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno. Katrina Leno is an author that I loved again when I read from them. And this is on my Summer TBR. So I'm finally gonna like check off some because I don't think I'm doing very well on that Summer TBR. Oh my god, Kayla's picked so well. And she was right. Look at the spines together. That is a vibe. Oh my god. Let's read them in the order that she recommended them. So let's start with The Night Swim by Megan Golden. All I know about this. Oh my god, Megan. I am just so excited. I'm in the thundery mood. I've been wanting to read this for so long. So I am actually already halfway through The Night Swim. It's kind of flown by it. Like I am really really enjoying it. I'm obsessed. Podcaster who's gone to this small town to cover this rake trial of a really high profile defendant. He's like a swimmer.  And she's also been contacted by this girl who believes that her sister was murdered 25 years ago and it was chalked up to being like an accident. My first thing I would say is that if you can get your hands on the audiobook, do it. Do it. Because the audiobook is amazing. Now I was heartbroken because I'm in the UK and I looked everywhere. I looked everywhere and you can't get the audiobook anywhere on in the UK. And I'm like why not? Like you can't even get it on Audible when I thought Audible had like everything. So I don't know what's going on there. It's a conspiracy theory that I'm actually interested in. I tweeted about it and Ali from Hardback Holder pulled through and pulled the strings for me and has helped me get the audiobook. And I am loving it. It has chapters from Rachel who's the podcaster from her perspective. Then we have letters from Hannah, the girl who sister was her drowned. And then we have chapters that are the podcast itself. And when it's a podcast itself, there's the music. It's told in this, the narrator really like makes it feel like it's a podcast. The one of the episodes she's out in this field and it has all the sound effects of the field and her feet walking in the field. It is such a good audiobook. It's up there with like Sadie. And I'm really enjoying this book.  I love the podcaster kind of detective format. I need, if you guys know any more book recommendations with this kind of format where you have this podcaster investigating this situation, like please recommend it to me because I'm obviously like completely into it. If you get it, you get it. If you don't, you don't. If you know, you know. And if you don't know, like I honestly feel bad for you. Like the pacing is wonderful. The small town claustrophobia where everyone knows each other is wonderful. And I think this is one of the first dollars I've read in a while that has like courtroom proceedings. Like she's following this, the court proceedings that she's in the court every day. I don't think I've ever read anything like that. And it's also very interesting how this differs from the UK. Because like if it was the UK, I doubt you'd even be allowed to do the podcast. Like the jury are not allowed to like speak to anyone. They're not allowed to like, no one's allowed to introduce. Like it's so much more, trial can be so much more publicized in the US where there's a lot of strict rules. I know because I did a journalism degree. In the UK, there's so many strict rules about how you're not allowed to identify like even a suspect and stuff. It's crazy to me how like this isn't allowed. But I'm loving it. It's a great thriller. I think it's really well written. I think the protagonist Rachel is a very compelling protagonist. I'm really liking how there's information from the rate trial of the happened that Rachel knows and everyone else knows, but we are being fed very slowly. So there's like things that are common knowledge to Rachel and the public, but we don't know it yet. And they're kind of like, shocking us. Kayla, not gonna lie, is kind of pulling through with this first recommendation. If I had a wig, I would throw it. Imagine if they're all like five stars and then it's just like the competition's over because Kayla will be top of the leaderboard. Okay, so I finished the night swim and I loved it. I absolutely loved it. I'm gonna give it, I'm gonna give it 4.5 stars. There was a reveal at the end that just wasn't like completely satisfying to me. It wasn't unsatisfying, but it wasn't like, oh my god that's a five star feeling. You know what I mean? But I loved like everything about this. I loved the podcast that was such a cool element of it. If you can get the audiobook where you live, I would recommend you do it, but I couldn't find it in the UK. But for those of you like in America, I think you should be able to do it. I loved the courtroom setting. I definitely want to read Martha and Liz with like a courtroom setting because I actually can't remember any other one that I've read and I really enjoyed that kind of dynamic. And you know, the number one part of this is kind of highlighting the legacies of rape and the ways that it like has existed throughout the years and ruined so many girls' lives and how I think particularly maybe like small towns such as these which are so insular, like rumours can ruin a girl's life and a girl can be blamed for like something that hurt her, you know, that she didn't want to happen and that she was forced to do, you know, that she can then be blamed for that. And yeah, I just thought this was such a great thriller. Like this is one of my favourite thrillers I have read this year maybe. I really, really enjoyed it. We did it! Yes! We've won! Yes! I just thought there was so many interesting ways that this was told also with like Rachel and Hannah's perspectives. I just thought it was done so, so well. And I thought Rachel as this main character with the podcast was a very interesting and nuanced character. I felt like she was constantly surprising us with like what she was doing and her attitudes and like how she thought about stuff and her actions. I thought she was kind of constantly surprising me in a good way. Listen, Kayla picked well with this first book. I am so happy I finally read this. This has been one of the books I've been most excited to read I would say for a long time. Kayla has 4.5 points starting off which is pretty good. Like that's a pretty good starting point. I am now going to read The Weight of the Stars by Kay Ancrim. I am so excited to read this you guys. I have been wanting to read this for so long it's another one I've been super excited to read and I'm just excited for like more of Kay Ancrim's style and so many of you have told me I'm gonna love it. Of the stars. By the way I haven't mentioned how much I love this cover and the spray edges. I just think it's like an amazing cover. Here's a thing! No, it's not bad. It's not bad. Don't get worried. Don't get worried. It reads so fast right? Because this is told entirely through like one to two page chapters it reads faster than a 380 page book should. So I still feel like I haven't really got my bearings and I definitely felt like that with The Wicker King as well by Kay Ancrim. It keeps me on my toes so I find it hard to know what I really think about it until the end and even then I still I still feel very confused about how I felt about The Wicker King so I'm like you may not get answers from me today. I know that's the purpose of this video but like working is just it's not my top priority. It's it's never going to. I am really enjoying it though I think. So basically we're following Ryan Baird who here's a thing.  How do I explain it? So it's kind of like a budding romance between Ryan and Alexandria and then there's like this weird friendship found family dynamic and also the family dynamics Ryan's parents have died years and years ago and her brother like stopped talking this plot is quite complex isn't it this is a quite complex plot and then one day he came home with a baby so he's like got a baby that they look after their their relationship I really enjoy I don't know I can't put my finger on it but there's something about their relationship that I find very touching even though James doesn't really speak he'll sometimes type things in his phone for her to read that's really my favorite aspect to the book actually it's not even necessarily a big bit but their kind of like familial dynamic and situation is probably one of my favorite things about the book I think I'm enjoying it but like I'm also a bit lost I'm also a bit like whoa but that's the fun of a kanko book you're kind of like take along for the ride a lot of what is said as well you have to like infer certain things you know something will be half told to you like a secret we half told you and you have to kind of like figure out what you think that means but the fun of a kanko is that you're confused and you actually don't know what's going on and that's how I feel right now I don't think it's going to be a five star honey you've got a big storm coming but everyone say hey well how many people were scared I need to I was really really scared okay so I listen fuck um I I'm so torn I'm so torn I was out here saying I'm not getting another five stars the last half of this was five stars it was five stars um fuck there's I loved the second half of this I loved it so much I can't tell you why because it would spoil it I I can't tell you why but I loved it I I hate kanko I hate I hate them because they have this like beautiful writing like this beautiful almost like quotable writing like some of the some of the lines and this I can just imagine on tumblr back in the day and that's like not not shitty quote tumblr not that slide but like good beautiful quote tumblr I'm obsessed I'm obsessed kanko's books also have this strange quality to them that I cannot describe I do not have the words to describe but there's nothing out there like them is wistful the word I'm looking for and strange and uh fragmented but beautiful like I I'm obsessed I am giving this book five stars what what I could I could not have predicted it I'm gonna give this book five stars I'm really happy today yeah this is for all of us the characters in this are so nuanced like they're so so many layers to all of them and it's just the ending is like fuck I I I am a wreck I am a wreck I am a rag also I feel like this book if I got a little bit of a brain epiphany in this because a big theme of this without spawning anything don't worry how quickly our life can change how quickly the our life as we know it can go how quickly the people that we love in our lives could not be in it and the thought of carrying on without them and like that being survivable although unpleasant is something that I need to like develop in life because I think I'm definitely the kind of person who wants to like hold on to everything I haven't you know had a lot of loss in my life and very lucky touch word and so I think I do struggle with the idea of people not being there all of a sudden like the thought of losing someone from my life and I thought that the view that this had on that as characters who had lost time and time again was something that I could learn from personally so it was just amazing kankrim you have my heart I am obsessed like I am so emotional like you guys you don't even understand how many times in the last like a hundred pages I almost cried so many layers there's it was outstanding so now we're gonna read summer of salt by Katrina Leno and I think I'm gonna try and read this whole thing today like it's only 250 pages and part of me just thinks let's just go for it let's just go for it and read this whole thing today because why the fuck not you know what I mean rawr is up for it aren't you give me a sniff she says hell yeah listen Kayla I didn't I didn't even want Kayla to do well in this because I didn't want Kayla I didn't want like the first episode that's mean I shouldn't say I didn't want her to do well but like I would like to defend myself but sadly that's the truth I didn't want this first episode to be like right there we go conclusion Dan you know but we've had a 4.5 star and a 5 star and I'm gonna even say like if I could rate these lower I would but Kayla knew what to recommend so let's see if she hits a home run because these are like amazing books pardon me even okay this is I am tempted to raise my rating of the night swim to a five star oh my god T central over here looking back on it it feels more like a five star because I think I enjoyed aspects of it more than this this just got me more emotional so like can I do that that's not very fair but I'm gonna do it because it's the truth I can't lie I can't tell a bit of a lie there I have to tell the truth and I'm gonna I'm gonna I very rarely do this because I was trying to be harsh but I'm gonna raise my rating to a five star so we've had two five stars is it even fair to carry on I don't know but we're going to 110 pages into summer assault I have read part one I think there's three parts I don't know how I feel about it yet basically we're following these twins who come from this family of like magicians or witches like female magicians this kind of family of them and one of the twins hasn't got her powers yet and you're like supposed to get your powers by the time you turn 18 and that's in like two months they live on this island where there's this obsession with this bird that comes there every summer and that's like the tourism industry like her mum runs the inn where all these people come and stay and that's kind of how they make their living and this summer the bird is not showing it's all the drama mate I just love it and it's been sapphic as well the protagonist is very interested in one of the girls that has arrived at the island and something terrible has just happened I'm not gonna say it because I feel like it's kind of a spoiler but something terrible has just happened and I am intrigued to see where the story is going to go from here this is very different in tone and in writing style to you must not miss and I just don't know if I am enjoying the writing so much also I think I have a bit of a problem with books set on a tiny insular island and I don't know why like this kind of like summer island like tourism thing I don't I feel like I read like two when I was a kid like you know when I was like 12 that I didn't like and in my head I just like have those negative connotations now so that's where I'm enjoying it I think like the sisterly relationship is very interesting but when I started you must not miss I was like obsessed instantaneously with the writing and I don't feel like that with this yet but I mean things can change very fast we saw with the weight of the stars my opinion can change instantaneously but it just feels not quite right to me it feels like a couple steps away from being right it feels like a three star at the moment and that feels very harsh and I can't really tell you why but I'm just not 100% vibing with it so I was hoping I would be coming back here today and eating my words but I'm not I'm gonna give it like three stars I just didn't really connect with it I don't really know why the story took on a very different route than when I first checked in with you like from that point onwards it stopped being so much about like what it's like to live in this small town and we had this kind of incite incident and trigger warnings for rape in this and I felt like that was all handled handled very well and I still liked Katrina Leno's right I can you tell I'm sorry I've just woken up and I still liked Katrina Leno's writing but something about it just didn't like come together for me and I don't really know why part of it feels like wrong place wrong time I think maybe I just wasn't in the mood partly still feels like if I read this at a different time when I was more into it I would have given it five stars which I think is strange but I think a book like this a book that's a little bit weird you have to like be in the right mood for and you have to click with it straight away and if you don't you never truly break this kind of barrier that you need to break with the book I've also felt like a lot like how I feel with Lee Bardugo who if you don't know I love Night Pulse Six of Crows and Queen Kingdom but I really don't like the original Shadow and Bone trilogy and when I read Lee Bardugo I can see you know in the original trilogy I can see the roots of what I love in her writing now but just not quite fully like fleshed out and to the point where you know that I want it to be at you know not quite um fully formed and that's how I feel with this I can see a lot of similarities to you must not miss in the writing in the plot in the ideas behind it in the magic but it just didn't it didn't quite all come together and that is kind of a beauty of writing right is that writers improve and they learn and they develop their craft so you know it doesn't put me off reading any Xenoleno in the future in fact it probably makes me want to read her future stuff more because I can see kind of the progression but I am sad I didn't love it more so I am going to give it three stars and I don't really know why because there's nothing wrong with it I just didn't get into it at the end of this video Kayla has scored 13 points which is honestly a mammoth point total I really don't know if anyone's going to be able to top it I really don't know because we have got some amazing books here I feel correct with raising my the night swim rating to a five star in retrospect that feels right and the weight of the stars was definitely a five star I am sad about this but like I said I feel like if I was to reread it maybe I would like it more I just don't think the timing was right I hope you enjoyed this video I'm going to be doing loads more of these so let me know down below what booktubers you think I have a super similar super love Megan let me know down below which booktubers you think I have a super similar reading taste to I would love to know for future editions of this video and if you've gotten to the end of this video comment the C wave emoji thank you so much to Kayla as well for sending me the video for this I really appreciate it and listen I read some great books because of it so yeah I hope you enjoyed the video and I will see you very very soon in another one bye


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So as usual, we've got some icebreakers here. Today we do a bit more than usual with a command line interface. So you can answer the size breaker. This question, I didn't write it very well. How do you run the same things over and over again, but with slightly different parameters? So this is like you have 10 different datasets and you want to run the same code on all of them or you have like you have one dataset and you need to run with 10 different values of some parameter. So how would you do that? Okay, there's these other questions here which we can try to answer in a bit, but we have a special guest with us. So Luca Franti is a, can you introduce yourself? Yeah, sure. Yeah, so I'm Luca Franti. I'm based in Finland and at the moment I'm finishing my PhD in computer science and I'm also working in industry as a Julia software developer in a startup for AI. So yeah, I'm Julia enthusiast and in Finland I organized this Julia users Helsinki. It is a small community of people in Helsinki era or even outside the Helsinki era who want to come together and talk about Julia. Yeah. And you may wonder why do we have a Julia visitor here and a pipeline course? Yeah, and indeed I brought the white flag because I come in peace and also want to live in one piece. But I mean, my answer to that is that why not? I mean, it's not like one language is better than another for everything but there's all these different things here and knowing more about different languages would have helped me in the future some or in the past. But also the idea is to have role models of different kinds of career paths. So Luca, can you tell us a little bit about how you got to where you are now? Like what's your background and how did you like? Yeah, so my background is more like a computer science statistical signal processing and stuff. And I think when I started doing my master thesis I had the traditional story that I was doing a lot of coding at the beginning I was doing in a very painful way like moving files around and that felt wrong. So I started getting more into proper way and got more into proper scientific computing and so on. And also I heard about open source communities and I was interested in that. And at some point Julia came in under my radar. So I heard about this Julia language that was meant for scientific computing and researchers and I was pretty interested in it but what really sparked my enthusiasm about Julia wasn't even like the technical features of Julia because at the beginning I didn't know anything about it. I didn't know like why it was good. Like I didn't know about internals or multiple dispatch or metaprogramming or whatever. What was cool is that it was beginning in 2020 I had started my PhD and as you probably remember COVID had also started so I was stuck in my home and I joined the Julia Slack. And then it was like pretty cool to see that like how like everybody was very friendly how everybody was very active and I was seeing like famous people like people of like popular Julia packages who were like sitting there answering my down the questions and getting me step by step as it was like more of this community feeling that really got me into open source and so I stick to Julia. Then I actually started writing documentation. So I was in this Google Summer of Docs for like writing documentations and I started like building a webpage for a couple of libraries and writing documentation for libraries. And then I was twice in this Google Summer of Code program like doing more Julia programming. And after that, I also found a job as a software developer, Julian like a startup through like people I knew in the Julia community. And I have of course like been using Julia in my research also for like for my PhD and for my own research. And yeah. Julia is a pretty new language, right?  There was this HackMD kind of a yearbook where you could design your experience of 10 years of Julia. So it was I think the first commit was from 2009 and the first public release was from 2012 and it achieved the version 1.0 at the 2018. It was developed at MIT. And the goal of Julia was to like solve this so-called the two language problem. So you encountered this problem that you start writing in Python and then you hit like some performance bottlenecks because Python is interpreted language and then you needed to rewrite it in C or also like people who use Python actually under the hood like TensorFlow is written in C or like a lot of libraries are written in C or Python. So, sorry, in Python, I meant not Python. So whereas in Julia, the power about Julia is that it allows to prototype and achieve performance in the same language. So the magic word here is multiple dispatch and there's a very inspiring talk like the unreasonable effectiveness of multiple dispatch from JuliaCon 2019, which explains how it achieves like both dynamicity and performance. Okay, interesting. Okay, so we're almost where we need to begin the lesson. I want maybe give a couple links. Do you have any questions for Luca? Well, if you do, please write down there. So Luca, there's something I always ask people. So what do you know now that you wish someone had told you at the start of your career? Yeah, so for like my like open source career like being involved in the Julia community like one thing that I really wished people like told me before which I learned kind of by experience is that you like you really don't need to be scared to start and you don't need to ask permission. That's a good thing about open source that like also at the beginning when I started I was a bit shy. Like also like I was like, okay, maybe a first prototyping closed repository should I open it? Will people just like say it's a dump or like will people like steal my job or stuff like that? And but this doesn't happen in open source at least not in Julia communities like reasonable size for it not to happen. So just put your code out there and don't be afraid like, you know, the best way to get the answer is not to ask the question is to post the wrong answer. So just put your code out where put your work out there and people will help you. Like you don't need to be afraid of that. And actually similarly applies to research at least like in my field, I don't need to worry that much about scooping. So it's pretty cool that also a researcher can put my code and my work out there publicly and I'll just meet new people. So that and maybe other quicker thing about is that open source is not about code, it's about community. So we have already a lot of people coding in open source and of course the more the merrier but we also need the non-technical people in open source. People helping with writing documentation. People helping with bringing people together. People helping with improving diversity and inclusion. So open source is really not about code but it's more about community. And as I mentioned, like I got like sparkled from Julia not because of multiple dispatch which I didn't know what it was but because of people friendliness. So yeah. Yeah. Okay. Great, thanks. And I can also say about what Lucas said about putting your code out there if you want to be hired somewhere like whenever I'm looking to hire people having public code and saying that like being able to see things that's a huge benefit there. Okay. But now we need to get started. Yeah. Thanks for visiting. Yeah. Last thing if you are in Finland we have every month in Helsinki this Julia Helsinki meet up except not this month but the next one is going to be on the 13th of December and it's gonna be especially for beginners about Julia. So we're gonna be like intro about Julia and about how to use Julia research and teaching. I also put in the notes. So 13th of December it's not official, it's not even the website yet but I can give you the spoiler of this. Congrats and hope to see you there. Yeah. Okay. Great. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you for having me. Bye. Okay. Bye. So with that said I guess we should get started for the day. Yes. So the first lesson is Thomas and I. Hello. Thomas you've already introduced yourself. I think so. Right. I don't think so. Okay. This is my first appearance this year. Introduce yourself. So yeah. I'm a research software engineer at Art University working in Richard's Group and in general interest in the field of research and teaching. So I'm going to start with and in general interested in programming. In general. Okay.


Hey guys, I got some breaking news that I have to bring because I started searching on YouTube and I see anybody break this news I'm gonna break it because I'm a huge Toronto Maple Leafs fan. I'm a huge Mitch Marner fan So Mitch Marner just signed a six-year 65 million dollar contract with Toronto Maple Leafs and the news is swirling everywhere. It's breaking news Mitch Marner signs with Toronto Maple Leafs six years 65 million The Maple Leafs are stacked now. They've got Nylander signed, Mitch Marner signed, John Tavara signed And they've got Austin Matthews signed so Toronto Maple Leafs look loaded And the breaking news is Mitch Marner has finally signed with Toronto Maple Leafs six years 65 million dollar contract. It's true. It's breaking news Toronto Maple Leafs have signed their star winger Mitch Marner The kid is from Toronto He's been Toronto's whole life. He was drafted by Toronto and now he has signed a six-year extension with the Toronto Maple Leafs six years 65 million dollar contract to stay with the Toronto Maple Leafs and a lot of people don't realize that Mitch Marner was their leading scorer You know, he's not just an extra player. He was their leading Scorer and he's a kid, but this kid is so talented. I love Mitch Marner I'm a huge Toronto Maple Leafs fan and this is huge news for the Toronto Maple Leafs This is up there with Ezekiel Elliott signing with the Dallas Cowboys, which was just as big. I'm a huge Dallas Cowboys fan So pumped Mitch Marner is signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs six years 65 million dollars. It's done Everyone in Toronto can celebrate. We signed Austin Matthews. We signed Mitch Marner We've We've signed John Tavares and we've signed Nielander long-term and With those four contracts, they have over 40 million dollars just with those four contracts Which is the biggest for The NHL those four players are all on the Toronto Maple Leafs on one team No team has ever had four players getting paid 40 million dollars Dylan says hey, hey, oh my god, that's sick cash. Wow. Wow. How could you still be under the cap? Yeah, you know, I don't know how they're doing it but they've got Tavares Matthews Nielander and Mitch Marner collectively the four of them Making 40 million dollars a year and they're all signed long-term So that's the big news. Mitch Marner signs with Toronto Maple Leafs Six years 65 million dollars. I wanted to break the news because here at Rich TV Live We bring in the news and we bring it to you first. Mitch Marner at Toronto Maple Leaf for the next six years $65 million. Let's go. I'm out. Peace


Are you constantly forgetting things that you need to do or tasks that need to get done? Don't worry, you're not alone. Your brain is for coming up with ideas and thinking of those original ideas in the first place, not for storing them and remembering them later on. That's why it's really important that in our day-to-day life we have devices around us where we can take those ideas from our head and put them somewhere else so we can refer to them in the future. Personally, I use a mix of writing things down with a pen and paper and then also using my phone to get reminders and calendar notifications so that I don't forget anything that I need to do.


Y cwpanffordd ar wahanol. Rydych chi. Y tattoos am yr ystyn ni. A mor hynny i gwybod dli'r ddeddiol. Efallai allwch hwn taro'r ddechrau gwaith hwn o'r ddeddiol. Ychydig iddo dnos. Dyna lle mae'n ystafell hon. Felly efallai hwnnw gweld drod o IBM, mae'r cyfnod iawn iawn i ein ddill gweld I.T consultation company. Y cwpanffordd argyrch am ddillwyd. Wrw i gweithi'r llein gweithledd. Mae'n ddillwydd gyda'r lleig. Ond byddwn i'n gweithio i'r ffawr i eich cyhoeddi. Mae'r fawr i eich cyhoeddi i'r fawr i eich cyhoeddi, mae'r fawr i eich cyhoeddi yn gwneud. Rydyn ni'n gofio'r 5 minu. Yn ystod, rwy'n cymdeithas i'r fawr i eich cyhoeddi, a oeddwn i'n gweithio'r stori'r fawr, ond mae'r fawr yn ymddo. Rydyn ni'n gweithio i'r stori, rydyn ni'n gweithio'r hero. The hero will go on a journey, and the spoiler is the hero will learn something about open source, so it will be relevant in the end, and if it's okay with you, I'd like the hero to be Cloud Foundry, because I work on it. Does anyone here not heard of Cloud Foundry? Anyone? A decent amount, that's quite nice. Cloud Foundry is a Paz. Does anyone know what a Paz is? No one, amazing. So, you're not wrong. This Paz word I think has caused a lot of problems, and we should have probably come up with something better. I joked that we should have just called it serverless three years ago. This is a slide by Simon Wardley who is amazing and gets some of the difference, and I know a lot of people don't like this serverless word, but I think it's exactly the correct way to explain what we're doing. For a long time, it's like, why is Paz, how is it different from containers as a service, or infrastructure as a service, or any of these things? The answer is it's about what it removes. It's about what you're not responsible for, what you don't have to care about, whether that's servers, or orchestration, or containers, or any of those other things. The serverless is the idea. Why is that important? Say it with me, because with great power? I've always wanted to say that on a stage. That is the goal, right? Only by taking away some of the power can we build things at a high level. You can't add features to C to create Ruby. You'll get C++, but you won't get Ruby unless you take away the pointers. The reason that's important is because I hope in the future, in five years or ten years, the programmers will be physicists and students and geographers and chemists, and to do that we need to make it easier to push code to a platform. That's the Cloud Foundry idea. Here's my code. Don't make me care how. So far, so good. A good story needs a villain. This is one of those stories where the villain is actually very much a hero. It's kind of a second, double hero in this story. That's going to be Kubernetes. Has anyone heard of Kubernetes? No one? I came to the right place. Kubernetes is amazing. It's fantastic software with different goals, which is fine. It's at a lower level of the stack. Kubernetes gives you amazing tools that you can use to build distributed systems. To put it another way, Cloud Foundry, Paz is serverless, want to stop you needing to fight crime. Kubernetes wants to bite you with a radioactive spider and set you loose on the streets. It can make it so easy to do distributed systems that everyone can do it. That's a different goal. Of course, there's nothing wrong with that. That's not why it's the villain of this story. It's the villain of this story for really selfish reasons. This is the Cloud Foundry architecture. That big red bit is the container scheduling bit inside it that I've spent years working on. That's the bit that there's now this really great fantastic community and piece of software that's also doing that. What do we do? In an age of proprietary software, I think we know what we do. Just get worried. We're not in that age. We're in the world of open source. These are both open source projects. We're in Britain, so I think this is a good time to refer to some ancient ... If you're not from Britain, you'll know these people. If you're not, I'll catch you up. These are some of our ancient British sages. These are Delboy, Rodney and Grandad from a British show called Only Fools and Horses, which I like to think of as a sun-zoo's art of war for British people. In that show, there's a parable called Trigger's Broom. Trigger is the guy on the right. In the middle is the broom in question. Trigger is very proud because he's had this one broom for 20 years and it's still going strong. Of course, he's replaced the brush five times and the stick 10 times, and maybe you see where I'm going with this. The goal of this thing that we've built that I'm really passionate about, as you can probably tell, is to build this high-level system. It doesn't matter what we use to schedule the containers under the covers, and there's this fantastic software that's open source that we can use. Or in other words, it can be the same brush and a different stick, but as long as it cleans the same way, maybe it really is the same thing. That's the Irini project, which I've been working on with an awesome team of people to bring these two together and give people the option of using Kubernetes as the container schedule in Cloud Foundry. Of course, it's a story about how Cloud Foundry learned to love Kubernetes, but it's also really the story of how I learned to stop worrying and love open source because when these things come together, we can build something that's better than either of us could have built alone, and open source lets that happen, and that's really awesome. Five-minute talk, I have five bullet points. One, open source is fantastic because it lets us share and consume. Sharing and consuming, bringing these things together is amazing because we can build things that we couldn't build alone, but I really believe that it's not just about adding features. We have to think about what we remove to make these systems easier for people to use. You can't add features to see to make Ruby. You have to remove pointers, and that's okay. There doesn't have to be just one abstraction. Sometimes you need Ruby, sometimes you need C. If you're interested and you'd like to try out Irini and you have a Kubernetes cluster, there's two Helm installs to try out the CF push thing, the URLs at the bottom, and with that, thank you very much.


Hi, my name is Sandra Butekis and I'm here to teach you Windows 7 Basic. Now in this course we get a chance to really look at the raw basics of what the operating system is and really how to find your way around. The intention of this course is someone who has very little or even no Windows experience at all and we can get a chance to show it all. Now in this course I have a lot of fun teaching it because I still remember the first day I had a computer. I'm sitting at my desk, someone put it on my desk and they said, here you go, learn how to use it. Well there weren't any classes to take and there certainly weren't any video based classes or tutorials. So based on that I know where people are sitting because I remember learning the hard way all the way through. So it's my job in this course to see if I can make it a whole lot easier for you and make everything make sense by the time we're done.


Hi, welcome guys. Linda here from ITTT for another live session this week. I'm so happy to be here today. The weather is great. Today the lighting is good. If you were watching last week, yeah, it was pretty much like the end of the world weather here. It suddenly turns super dark and I don't have a light or anything, like a ring light. So, but today it's great. I feel good. I have my coffee right here, even though it's almost gone. But yeah, so happy to be here. If you can see me, if you can hear me, please just drop a high into the comments. We are live on Facebook and we're also live on YouTube. And if you're listening to this as a podcast episode, thanks for the download. We really appreciate it. We always turn our live sessions into podcast episodes. You can find the podcast on all major podcast platforms, iTunes, Spotify, Google podcasts, all of those good places wherever you get your podcasts from. It's called the Teflon TESOL podcast by ITTT. If you're into podcasts, I highly recommend downloading it. And yeah, I see there are a couple of people already here. Hi, Gwen. Hi, thanks for joining today. We also have someone watching from YouTube. Hello. Juliana's here. Hi. Thanks so much for tuning in today. I appreciate you guys showing up week after week after week. It's really great. And so today what I have for you is basically just a casual Teflon TESOL Q&A. Let's have a chat. Let's have a discussion. I have prepared some questions that we get asked quite frequently and also that are asked quite frequently on different online forums and different platforms about Teflon TESOL. So we can go through that. And then you can also just drop your questions in at any time. Let's have a conversation. Just something casual, something fun to get to know each other, to learn more about Teflon about TESOL, about teaching English abroad and online and Teflon courses, online Teflon courses, in-class Teflon courses, combined Teflon courses, anything that you like to know. My name is Linda. You can find me personally at Linda Goes East right here on social media. I've been living in South Korea for the past six years. Before that, I lived in China. I taught English there and in Korea. And I've also been working for ITTT for the past five-ish years. Actually longer than that. Full-time five years and then part-time before that. But anyway. Yeah. So good to see you guys. That's about me. And yeah. So I also would like to mention that please do not forget to like and subscribe as always so you don't miss any of our other upcoming live sessions. We do go live twice a week, typically. Me on Fridays or Thursday, depending on where you are. This time. And my colleague Lisa, she goes live every Tuesday. She is in Russia. So check out that timeline, the time zone. And it's really cool because she is a non-native English speaker. Also very successful in teaching English. She also taught English in China. And now she's teaching mostly in Russia and online. And she has really, really, really great tips for non-native English teachers, but also native English teachers. I learned so much from her, especially like lesson planning and how to find students and how to, you know, always be up to date in your teaching style and technique. And like she's just great for that. So check her out on Tuesdays. Like and subscribe. Like our Facebook page. Subscribe to us on YouTube. So you don't miss any of that. We also share a lot of other great content, not just our live sessions. And yes, there is also a 30% off deal during our lives. We only share 30% off links during our live sessions. So that's a very special opportunity for you guys if you're watching. So one way to get the discount is to get to scan this little QR code here up in the corner. And also, if you cannot scan that, you know, the drill. You probably know this. If you've watched before. There is also a discount link that you can use. It's the same thing, basically. And it looks like I just posted it into the comments. It looks like this.  It's a really great deal. So if you're not yet Teflur TESOL certified, if you're thinking about it, or if you're thinking about, you know, getting some specialized Tefl courses or one of the more advanced courses, this is great for you. Don't miss this deal. Okay, I think that's about it in terms of the intro. Let me just check if I don't miss anything. But yeah, let me add this here to the stream so we know what's happening for people who are joining later. So we are doing a Q&A. So that means you have the opportunity to ask me questions about teaching English abroad, teaching English online, about ITTT, about Tefl courses and TESOL courses and all of that good stuff. So this is what we're doing today. And I also prepared, like I said, a couple of questions that I found that most people ask online and that we at ITTT get asked a lot. So I want to clarify those questions. And then we can start having a conversation and you have the opportunity to ask your questions. And please don't be shy. Don't be quiet.  I don't want this to be quiet. It's really important that you ask questions today. So it's not just me sitting here and talking, you know, I've worked during my life sessions. I love hearing from you guys and hearing what you have to say and learn from your experience as well, because I know a lot of people here already have teaching experience and you are Tefl certified and you also have something to add to this conversation here. Some of you guys are already ITTT grads, which is awesome. And some people are not yet. So we can have this conversation and share our experience and our knowledge together today. I hope that sounds good. Yeah, first off, let me know where you guys are in the world at the moment. Where are you watching from? What time is it there? And how are you doing? How are you doing? I'm doing pretty good. It is 10 a.m. Friday here in South Korea. I live about an hour and a half south of Seoul in a city called Chungju. And yeah, that's where I am today. I'm originally from I was born and raised in Germany, near Munich about an hour from Munich. And my mom is German and my dad is American. And from a really young age, I was super interested into foreign languages and growing growing up in Europe. It's so easy to travel around. So I've always been interested in different countries in different languages. And that's sort of how I got into finding opportunities to go abroad. And I learned French and Spanish in school. And then I was looking for something different. And I was torn between Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. And then I opted for Mandarin. And that's how sort of I ended up in China. And then also in South Korea. So I'm all about Asia.  It's basically a, yeah, a site about traveling in Asia and hidden gems, but also must see popular places all around Asia. Nowadays, a lot of Korea content, obviously, a lot of China content, but also Southeast Asia content. And also my Instagram, you can see, I actually just got back from a trip to the South of Korea, really like the coast down down in the coast in the South. It was really, really beautiful. So you're gonna see a lot of that content coming up soon on my Instagram. So check that out. And then yeah, Juliana's still in Illinois. Great. So Juliana says I'm watching from Illinois. It is 810 here. So Thursday, right? Thursday, 810 p.m. I assume. Awesome. So what time difference does that make? 10 hours? I think, I think 10 hours. Maybe not. No, it's more than that. I'm really bad at this. Anyway, it's a big time difference. Okay, cool. Then I appreciate you guys. Thanks for leaving your comments. So I want to start off with a question that we get quite a lot. And a lot of people are confused about this. So that's what I want to talk about this first. And that is, what is the difference between TEFL and TESOL? Right? Because we hear the two terms all the time. Also, if you look on our website, we always mention TEFL and TESOL. So a lot of people are asking, what's the difference? Which one should I get? You know, what's the deal with those two acronyms? And basically, so TEFL stands for teaching English as a foreign language. And TESOL stands for teaching English to speakers of other languages. So when we break this down, it basically comes down to the same thing, right? Teaching English as a foreign language or teaching English to speakers of other languages. So those terms basically mean the same thing. And that's why also the training, whether you get TEFL or TESOL training, the training involves the exact same components. You're going to learn about classroom management. You're going to learn about lesson planning. You're going to learn about English grammar. You're going to learn about the different types of students, different types of teacher functions. Yeah, a lot. You're going to learn a lot about a lot. But the same content, whether you're taking a TEFL or TESOL course. So at ITTT, what you can do is you can decide whether your certificate at the end should say TEFL or TESOL. So you you're flexible with that. And the reason for that is that some regions in the world and that is so some regions of the world use prefer one term over the other. So basically, Europe and I believe Australia, South Africa, they tend to use the term TEFL more. Whereas the US and Canada, they tend to prefer the term TESOL. But they are the same, right? So it just depends on where you're from. You might hear TESOL more or TEFL more, but the training is exactly the same. And so we give you the option to choose.  So you can decide based on where you're from, you know, what the people where you're from are more used to hearing, more used to using. So it's going to depend on that. But yeah, that is the difference. Just wanted to mention that right of the bat today. Because we do get a lot of questions about that. And yeah, I think that's really great. So my certificate, I can show you real quick. My certificates. This one is the 120 hour certificate. And so I chose TEFL on it. So you're going to see. I hope you can see that. Yeah. So here where it says, no, here where it says the ITTT 120 hour TEFL course. So here you can choose either TEFL or TESOL. But as you can see the top here says international TEFL and TESOL training. So that's what ITTT stands for ITTT international TEFL and TESOL training. So no matter what, you're going to see the both terms on your certificate TEFL and TESOL. That's very important. Because we do get a lot of questions about that. So I just wanted to let you guys know so that there's no confusion from the start. Okay. But I maybe most of you knew this already, but just making sure. And then another question we also often get is do TEFL or TESOL courses expire or basically do the certificate expire? So we also get this question quite a lot. And I just wanted to show you again, this is a certificate, what it looks like. And it says when you completed the course, when you achieved your certificate, there's no expiration date. So TEFL certificates do never expire. They never expire. And one other great thing that you will find on your certificate is this unique number right here. And what you can do with this number is or what basically it's used for employers or schools. And what they can do is they can take this number and punch it into our website to verify that this certificate that you show them really is a accredited ITTT TEFL or TESOL certificate. Because typically what you will do when you apply for a teaching position, you won't actually send in your physical certificate in your application. You will apply online. So you would send in a PDF, right? And PDFs are easy, easier to fake. And so what the employer then can do to make sure that you're not sending him a photoshopped certificate, they can punch in this number to make sure that this is a real certificate that really you took the course and you earned it and you are really certified. So that's the purpose of that. But TEFL or TESOL courses, they never expire. However, there's obviously always changes happening in the TEFL or TESOL industry. So that's why we also always sort of add new courses to our portfolio or to our range of courses that you can then take and add to your portfolio, if that makes sense. So about a year, almost two years ago, we introduced the teaching English online course because of all the transitions to teaching English online. And then that's when a lot of people took that specialized course as sort of an add on. So obviously that's what you can also do. But they never expire, but it's never a bad idea to get more certificates to add them onto your portfolio to stay up to date with the teaching community and what's happening in the teaching world. And also, actually Lisa, my co-worker, she talks about that quite a lot. There's a lot of online course platforms online course platforms like Coursera, Udemy, places like that that offer free courses. Also a lot of teaching related courses that you can take to sort of stay up to date on what's happening in the teaching world. So those are always really recommended as well. Oh yeah, Juliana says it's a 14 hour time difference. Yeah, my bad. Not 10 hours. Thanks, Juliana. Good. I think I wanted to mention one more thing I forgot now about the certificate. Okay, yes, I remember now. So I said, remember I said when you apply typically you would apply sending in your PDF, you would apply online. However, for some countries, and this is especially true for China, when you apply for your Chinese visa to go to China to teach, you actually need to go to the embassy to give them all your paperwork and one of the requirements to get your teaching visa in China is a Tefl certificate. So there you would actually give them your original and they would check it and make copies of it. And that's why this is also important that this number because this number they would also use and then verify if this is a real Tefl certificate. Just wanted to mention that. So it's not true that you only need your PDF version. Obviously, you also going to need your paper embossed paper version of the certificate as well, depending on where you go. But just for applying to your job, you know, to a teaching position, you're not going to send them originals. And there was actually a live session that I did a couple of weeks ago about all the documents that you need when teaching English abroad. So I highly recommend checking that out.  So check that out. It's in our playlist. And yeah, good. So that was the second question that I have prepared that a lot of people are asking. And please feel free to at any time if a question comes to your mind, just to type it into the comment box so that I can see it. And then I'll be happy to answer that as well for you. And another question that we get or that I see a lot online when I do, you know, market research or just when I'm online and I search for Tefl and stuff, what is the best Tefl or T Sol certification program, right? We see this a lot on different platforms, you know, Reddit or Quora or who answers places like that. And, you know, this question is really hard to answer because it just depends on what your goal is, what you want to do with it, you know. So if, for example, you want to just go abroad, you want to go abroad to teach, you know, for just a year, you know, nothing long term, short term or even shorter than a year, then, you know, it's going to be a different, we would recommend a different kind of Tefl certification program compared to somebody who wants to, who knows exactly like, oh yeah, I want to go to Dubai and stay there for five years and, you know, work for an international school, like this is, it's going to depend on what your goal is. So it's very hard to say what is the best Tefl certification program, but there are a lot of options and that's why it's really important for you to take the time has so many of your doing listening to our different live sessions, looking at our website and obviously not only our website, our other Tefl providers websites as well, to then make an educated and smart decision for what fits best with your needs and what I'm here for and also my colleague is here for to help you guide you through that decision making process, right, to help you find the best possible Tefl or T sole certification program that fits with your goal and your needs and qualification background and things like that. So at ITTT and most other Tefl course providers, we offer three different types of courses, so that is online Tefl courses, in-class Tefl courses and combined Tefl and T sole courses. So at the moment, obviously in class is a little bit difficult in class courses, what that means is you would go to an actual Tefl school, usually in a location of your choice abroad in a different country. We have over 30 different locations available. Some of them obviously are closed at the moment or they do not accept or you can't like travel there. So it's it would only be for people who are already in the country. Some locations are open. So if you're interested in that, check it out on the website. We have detailed information for every different location. So that's one option and you would spend four weeks at that center and you are basically like in a classroom, you're learning all about teaching Tefl the theoretical parts with a other you know, other group of teacher trainees and the teacher trainer is an experienced professional teacher who's been teaching English for a lot of years and he is or she is going to teach you how to teach as well and you're also going to have the opportunity to teach real English students in that training center. So that is the in-class option. The online option is the most popular option because it's just so flexible, so easy to do from anywhere in the world from the comfort of your home and you can study at your own pace. You don't have to go anywhere. So that's why online courses are really, really popular. And you know, a couple of years ago, it was like only in class courses are accredited or are like what matters. But nowadays, it's really shifted and in class and online are really on the same level in terms of the certificate. And also when you look at again, when I show you the certificate that I have, this is also from an online course and it does not say online on the certificate anywhere. It just says 120 hours up here, 120 hours. So it doesn't say that you took this course online either. And then the combined option basically combines online within class. So first you would complete a theoretical part online at your own pace. And when you've completed that, then you can go to a training center for between five and 10 days, depending on the location and get your teaching practice component there. So those are the differences. All right. OK, I have a couple of questions here. So let's see. OK. Javier, does ICOES give some kind of support on your certificate? OK, ICO. I need to check what that is. Hold on. ICOES. ICOES. OK. So our certificates, I see that this is a accreditation institution. OK, so our courses, they are accredited by OTTSA. OTTSA, and I'm going to which is basically the same thing as that what you've mentioned. So let me just show you this one. Our online courses are accredited by OTTSA, which stands for the online Teflon and T-cell Standards Agency. And I've just pulled this up on the website. It says the online T-cell and Teflon Standards Agency is a professional educational organization dedicated to raising teacher training industry standards, specifically online courses in the teaching of English as a foreign language. OK, so that is what our courses are accredited by. So check that out for more information. Highly recommended. We also have a accreditation tab on our website where you can also find out our other partnerships and accreditations because there's more than just OTTSA. So yeah, check that out. And then Juliana says the online class would be the best option for now. I think so too, because it's just difficult and unpredictable. But hopefully soon, you know, in class is going to pick up again. And actually, we had someone watching another regular watcher for our live sessions, Brett. I don't think he's here today, and he's actually going to Rome to do his in class Teflon course very soon, too. I think in July. So some locations are definitely open, but it's also going to depend on, you know, your nationality or where you live, if you are able to travel there or not. So that's, you know, it's going to depend on that. They're not all closed being class centers, but it's definitely a little bit more difficult. Yeah, so awesome. And then another question that I want to talk about that we also get lot is, can I teach English without a Teflon or TESOL qualification? So this is, again, not an easy yes or no answer because it also is going to depend on where you want to teach, right? So, for example, if you wanted to teach English in Korea, where I am, a Teflon certificate is not an official requirement for to obtain a visa, for example. So a lot of schools that do just hire people even without any Teflon or TESOL qualification, it is definitely possible. And there are many, many other countries like that. However, then there's also countries that I always like to compare with is China, where when I taught in China back in first 2012 and then 2014, I taught there a Teflon certificate was not an official requirement, but now it is a requirement to get that teaching visa, that work visa that you need to live and work in China. So things are changing all the time. And also China is the biggest market for teaching English as a foreign language. It has the most amount of schools, the most amount of job openings than anywhere else in the world, and a Teflon certificate is a requirement there. So if you want to go to China, the answer would be no, you cannot teach English in China without a Teflon or TESOL qualification. And even for countries like I mentioned here in Korea, it is not a requirement. However, I was Tefl certified, qualified. And that's why I got hired at a better school in a better neighborhood or a better city. And I earned a higher salary right from the start compared to people who were not certified. And also, so that's one point. But the other side is also what if you, you know, now in Korea, it's not a requirement to be Teflon or TESOL certified. But what if it will be, you know, in a year or two? So you never know, things are changing all the time. So like I said, when I was in China first, it was not a requirement. And then now it is. So I think that having a Teflon certificate is definitely going to be you're going to be on the safe side. It like it only has benefits. There are no real drawbacks to it. Of course, the financial could be a drawback. But like I said, with a Tefl certificate or TESOL certificate, you're usually going to earn a higher salary. So then you're going to get that money back anyway that you spent on a Tefl course. And also, so that's the other thing, right? Just having this certification and piece of paper in your hand. But the other side of Tefl, which is also super important and then a lot of people just don't really recognize is that a Tefl course really teaches you how to teach, right? Because we as either native English speakers or also learners of English, we don't really know how to teach. We know how to speak English and we know probably a little bit about the grammar. Some people might not even, especially native speakers. We don't really think about the grammar, right? So that's why I think a Tefl certificate is even more important because you learn how to teach, you learn how to manage your class. And what I think is the most important part of a Tefl course is that it explains the most important parts of English grammar. And also not only that, but it shows you exactly what most English learners are struggling with when it comes to English and how to deal with those problems. So how can you deal with, you know, people are struggling with this particularly grammar point and then how what can what can you do as a teacher to get your point across and teach effectively? Because I think there's nothing more embarrassing or just hard when you're in a classroom full of students and they don't understand what you're saying. You're trying your hardest to explain something, but they just don't understand, right? It's not a good feeling that you want to be in. It also looks bad probably in front of your co-teacher and your employer. So you don't want to be in that position. That's just my opinion. All right. Great question from Javier. Thanks so much. Javier asks, how easy or hard is it to get a job as an English teacher having a degree non-related to linguistics? Great question. We also do get the question quite a lot. So basically for most places and most types of schools, the majority of places, 90 percent, I would say, you do not have to have a degree in English or TESOL or linguistics. So for me, for example, I have a bachelor's in business and I was still able to teach English abroad. So typically it does not matter what your major is in. What matters is that you have a four year degree for most places. There are also places where you can teach without a degree. So, yeah, however, in, you know, if you have a degree in English or in linguistics, that's always going to be a plus. And that's also going to likely get you a higher salary and access to some schools that are usually not that accessible to people without that degree. So like international schools, for example, and international schools, they typically pay a much higher salary. So those are places where you could then go into or even universities sometimes require you to have a bachelor's or a master's in English or TESOL or linguistics. But for the majority of teaching positions abroad, it is not necessary, not necessary. And I know a lot of people who, you know, they moved abroad, teach English with just their regular bachelor's degree, not teaching related. And then they loved it so much that that they then decided to get a master's degree in TESOL or in teaching in linguistics. And then they had access to even better job opportunities. They became headteachers at their schools and things like that. So it definitely helps, but it is not a requirement to have a degree in linguistics to teach abroad or also online. Thanks so much for the question. OK, keep them coming. So those were how many? One, two, three, four of the most asked questions that I've picked for today's live session. And that's it for my side. So keep your questions coming. I have a good one from Mikey now. How about if I have only a certificate in education, not teaching? Is it possible? OK, when you say certificate, what do you mean by certificate? A degree, four year degree in education, but not teaching. So a lot of people ask us this, actually, so they are they have a teaching license from their home country. And then they want to go abroad to teach English, right? So then they're like, well, I have a teaching license. Do I need to get a Teflor TESOL? And usually what we say is that, yes, especially if we want to go to China, again, a Teflor TESOL is a requirement in China, regardless of whether you have a teaching license or not. However, there it's also different, right? So Teflor, again, like we said in the beginning, stands for teaching English as a foreign language. TESOL stands for teaching English to speakers of other languages. So that is a very specific kind of teaching certification. And if you have a teaching license, you likely have not covered the same type of content that a Teflor TESOL course covers in terms of teaching English to people who do not speak English as a first language. And that's what this is all about. So if I hope I'm making sense, a teaching license, however, does definitely make, you know, is a huge plus. And actually a teaching license is going to get you access to a job in an international school. That's usually what they want to see on top of a Teflor TESOL. So they usually only hire people who have an actual teaching license in their home country. So it's definitely a huge bonus. And you can also ask for higher salary if you have a teaching license from your home country. However, you would still need to get a Teflor TESOL on top of that in most cases. Yeah. I hope that answers the question. And I hope I'm making sense. Sometimes I feel like I'm rambling and I don't make sense, but just let me know and I'll clarify again. But thanks so much for asking, Mikey. All right. Just looking at other comments. Yeah. OK, cool. I think I've answered pretty much everything and also the questions that I wanted to cover. Good, good. So keep your questions coming. I'm still here for a little while. And also, don't forget, you can always watch this in the replay and then ask questions. And I will be able to get back to them later in the comments as well. So that's no problem at all. No problem at all. And also, please don't forget the 30% off link. You can find it in the comments. Click on that or scan the QR code, whatever works better for you. And then you can get 30% off any Teflor TESOL course. We, like I said, we only share this 30% off link in our live sessions. That's very, very special. You don't want to miss it. If you're not yet, Teflor TESOL certified. And yeah. All right, another question from Mikey. Thanks so much. Can I apply for the diploma without doing certificate in Teflor? OK, now, Teflor is something different, right? We need to clarify, Teflor is not Teflor. I'm just going to put that into the comment box so I can show you. So Teflor is not Teflor, right? What does Teflor stand for? It's a OK, let me Google that. Teflor stands for Teflor stands for test of English as a foreign language. Test of English as a foreign language. And it is a standardized test to measure the English language ability of non-native speakers, wishing to enroll in English speaking universities. OK, so that is something different. That's an English proficiency test, right? Measuring how well you can speak English. Teflor is for teaching English as a foreign language. OK, different thing, different thing. So maybe your question is, can I apply for the diploma course without doing a certificate in Teflor, like without doing the Teflor certificate? Can I take the diploma? And the answer is no, at ITTT, our diploma course. Our TESOL diploma course is based on the certificate.  And then you're able to take the TESOL diploma course because that one is based on the basic. The basic Teflor course, so you cannot do that. Yeah, I thought so. Thanks for clarifying, though. Yeah, but we do also get that question a lot. We know, you know, people ask us about Teflor. And that's just a really different thing. However, you know, as a Teflor teacher, you might have to teach a Teflor class. Tefl prep, right? To prepare your students for taking the Tefl test that can also happen. But Tefl and Tefl are not the same thing. Good. I hope that answers your question, Mikey. OK, so let me see. I do think that if you sign up. Just want to make sure this is still the case. We had this special deal that if you sign up for the diploma, you can actually get the 120 hour course for free. Let me just check if we still have that. Want to make sure? Just one second. And then I can send you that information. So you can actually follow me if you want. You can click on that link, the discounted link that I shared. And then you'll see the application page. And then you would choose your course type online and then you can choose. Ah, yeah, it's not there. So basically, let me see. What you would have to do is do the I hear diploma. Yes, it's here. Three hundred and seventy hour TESOL diploma course. We recently changed the name. It used to be two hundred and fifty hours. Now it is three hundred and seventy hours. So three hundred and seventy hour TESOL diploma course plus tutor and videos plus free course. And then you can choose your free course and you would choose one hundred and twenty hour TESOL course. So that is included. And I'm just going to fill out this test application so I can tell you exactly how much it comes down to with the 30 percent off. Let me just see. OK. So it will come down to four hundred and nineteen dollars instead of five ninety nine. And that is the one hundred and twenty hour course plus the diploma. So that's a really, really good price. Thirty percent off with the 30 percent off link that I shared. Four hundred and nineteen TESOL diploma plus one hundred and twenty hour together. The one hundred and twenty hour TESOL course comes for free if you sign up for this diploma course. Yes, I can send you the link to your email. I can do that. Sure. How about I'm just going to send you a Facebook message after this live or you can also send me an email. Linda at TESOL. OK. OK. Got it. All right. I didn't want to share it with everybody. But yeah. OK. All right, I'm going to email you after this live with the link and the instructions. All right. Thanks, Mikey. Awesome. OK. OK. Cool. We have a question here about teaching English online. So what are typical wages to expect for newly certified Tefl instructors teaching online? Cool. Good question. My colleague, Lisa, she did a really, really great live session about teaching English online in the different platforms and because all the different platforms have different wages and salaries. So I highly recommend you check that out. You can find it. You're watching on YouTube. So you just go to live our live videos and there is a live about teaching English online, the different platforms, something like that. And not with me, with my colleague, Blonde Hair. So she goes over all of the different platforms and how much you can make there because it really ranges and varies a lot. And typically teaching online platforms, they would charge by the hour. So it ranges really anywhere from 15 to $30 an hour or more. It really depends on what platform you work for. I recently started teaching English online with a platform called Café Talk, which is a very flexible platform. You can basically you create your profile and you can create sort of the lessons, the kind of lessons that you want to offer. It's very flexible. You don't have to teach like the platform doesn't give you any material or any lessons from the platform itself, but you can structure that all by yourself. So you can offer I offer like between 15 minute classes to an hour class. So it's really flexible. So it really depends. And you can also set your own price on there. So, yeah. But like, yeah, between 15 and 30. Dollars per hour, even less sometimes, it really depends on the platform. So I highly recommend you check in at Lisa's live about that. OK. Cool. All right. I'm going to wait just a little bit longer to see if we have another question coming in. And then if there is nothing more, I'm going to sign off. This was really great. Thanks so much for your questions. Highly appreciated. I hope you learn something new today. And yeah, it was so nice to see you all again. Also some new people, which is great. There is going to be another live session next week. And hopefully I'm going to find a new different topic to talk about for next week. Yeah. Mikey asked, what is that platform? Would you mind share it? Yeah, it's called Cafe Talk. That's the platform that I teach on. Yeah. It's my fourth month, I think now I started teaching on there. It's really fun. So, yeah, if you're interested, check it out. You can also offer like I offer English and German on there. I'm a native speaker of both languages. So you can basically offer anything on that platform, which is really fun. All right. Caviar is asking, could you make 120 hours training and then upgrade for business English or young learners or do I need to pay full package? Again, great question. So if you get the 120 hour course with tutor support, you get one free course on top of that. So 120 hour plus tutor and you can choose one of the you can choose either the business English or the young learners course and then for free. That is included if you choose the tutor support version. Mike, he says, is it an app? I think they I don't think they have an app. No, it's on just desktop computer. No app. Please don't forget the 30 percent off, Mikey. I am going to email you about that. I will send you the direct link with instructions on how to get that good deal. The diploma with the free 120 hour course. And yeah, I think I'm going to sign off now. If there are no more questions coming in. It was really, really great to talk to you today. Super happy about that. All your questions coming in and yeah, just a fun crowd. And please, please, please join us again next week for another live session. And also my colleague Lisa on Tuesday. Don't miss out on that. She has some really, really great content, a lot of teaching tips and how to create lesson plans and lessons from scratch, how to find online teaching students. So that's if you're into teaching English online, definitely check her out. Yeah, thank you, Mikey. Thanks so much. Thanks so much, guys. And I hope to see you again next week, OK? And don't forget to like and subscribe. Very important. All right. Yeah, then I'm signing off and I'll see you all again hopefully next week. Stay safe. Stay kind and yeah. Thank you so much for watching, guys. Bye bye.