Teacher finally speaks out

[@mike03a3]

I am so in love - witty, smart, woodworker, likes SciFi and Monty Python. Where were you thirty years ago???

[@MatthewWeekley]

As some one married to a Teacher, subscribed and love!

[@thisuserpwnsnoobs]

As a secondary school student in America, I have to say that this may be one of the more curious things I've stumbled upon while browsing the Internet. For someone who doesn't speak English as their native language, you are remarkably good at expressing yourself with just the right word, and I find that people like that usually have ideas that inspire and make me think the most. Gladly subscribing.

[@sparkylamb2112]

You are so funny and original. Your intelligence is only surpassed by your beauty and wit. I wish you success and happiness.

[@veggiet2009]

Your people are absolutely entertain, I must say. And like you I've wanted to start video blogging for a while, but my schedule and my perfectionist really won't allow it

[@BeezerBee]

I've just come across your videos via a Dr Who thread. Love them. I found it interesting when you talked about getting intrigued by too many ideas to fit into your teaching and therefore having to have an outlet for them elsewhere. I had the same problem when I was a teacher, only it got to the stage where i enjoyed all the stuff I wasn't getting paid for more than the stuff I was so ended up leaving teaching! Heres hoping you can keep all your 'balls in the air'/'plates spinning'/Cats herded!

[@Rixtm27]

I just noticed ... The ''BEWARE the weeping angels... oh, and don't blink'' sign behind you. Brilliant. GAH I love it when I see Who references!!

[@Raphanne]

I would have loved to have an English teacher like you! I didn't really like English classes when I was in school. I don't want to only blame my teachers, I wasn't super motivated either, but they never managed to be as interesting and enthusiastic as you are. I'm happy I found your videos :D Ps: I'm a perfectionist and I care about environment too haha. It also creates big debates in my head. YAY!

[@abrahamrebollo9156]

Oh my gosh I just saw your "I built a TARDIS" video and I came to this one, and now you have a new subscriber :3

[@paulwatts003]

You really are funny! your English is fine, I am laughing with you, not at you :o) And you are so right about having different sides for work, friends, family etc, I get really uncomfortable if they ever mix - unsure how to act. Anyhow, I am really enjoying your videos. thanks!

[@TheRectorscale]

You are such an intriguing person!

[@sillysparrowness]

@WithMusicInMind Nope. In Germany, it's 10/11 to 18/19. We have a really selective school system here. Select early. Not sure if that's so good...

[@eatmarth]

I love your personality(ies)! You remind me of my favorite teacher when I was in High school which is probably the main reason I have for watching the content on your channel so... :)

[@rrooorroo]

You're really funny, I really liked your many selfs and just so you know I would've re-printed or shoved it in some far away corner where I can't see it.

[@arrowzfly21]

Wow, your video answered all my question about you. you are on a roll to video blogging.

[@IamGrimalkin]

Well you're in good company doing this, I've seen this from paint and vsauce and they're brilliant channels.

[@SaadAldousari]

Heyyy teacher! I like your videos and your sense of humor. By the way, you've got a pretty good British accent. Peace!

[@Hydatius]

Hi, Astrid. Your videos are definitely not banaaaaal I'm a professor at a university and I use Perfectionist for teaching Ancient Greek and Creative for teaching giant classes of Roman History. Don't let anyone keep Creative away from the classroom! (BTW I'll have to try the pom-poms). The Tardis episode is a classic.

[@tehfrogprince]

Hello Astrid, It is nice to meet you, I would say you are not boring. James.

[@SantaBJ]

All teachers have their own way - but I wouldn't be so dismissive of using social media in your classes. I've done that in some of my classes and it was brilliant. My workload was decreased, information was more easily available to the students, student-teacher interaction immediately became more "natural" (less forced / restrained). I am thinking about using KZbin actively in my classes at some point, with a view to "flipping" the classroom (look it up if you don't know what I'm on about).

[@firnantok]

Great introduction! I wish my English and German teachers would have been as awesome as you.:)

[@ronaldderooij1774]

A beautiful German woman with humor that speaks English very well. How extraordinary it all is...

[@NumNumMunchies]

You're so cute! :D (When I say that i mean your personality is adorable, not that you actually aren't adorable...agh you know what I mean.) I am totally subscribing. :D

[@parslei]

the fact you have a lovelier English speaking accent than my own nasal Northern English accent is annoying, but I think I fell a little bit in love with you when you said "stradergy" :)

[@Puzzleguy123]

The Poliwhirl you have on the wall was my first ever toy :') I called it Poke-Poke :3 So many memories.. Thank you :)

[@ToddCarpenterToddPCWV]

I adore all of you.

[@sillysparrowness]

@rrooorroo Aw, bless you! Perfectionists united!

[@sillysparrowness]

@bobpeters61 Why thanks!! My next video is going to all about that subject, but... yes, it did. Since I've learned (British) English at school, my accent had deterioated over the years to something unidentifiable, rather American(ish) I was quite ashamed of. So before I started vlogging, I started practising a lot (in fact, the vlog is me, still practising) to get my British accent back, mostly by watching lots of British youtubers. So, yes. I'm very flattered it seems to work (I wasn't sure).

[@sillysparrowness]

@Zeroviron No, I don't. I'm actually hiding this from mine. (Well aware that eventually, they'll find out.) But none of my pupils currently knows I'm doing this and I would like to keep it like that. Now whilst I wouldn't really mind them finding out, because I am proud of what I do and I don't think I'm compromising myself, I think the person I am in school should be enough. They need a good teacher, not a good youtuber. But, you know... chances are the secret will be out one day.

[@georgecarra]

Hello to "all sides of you" sillysparrowness. Pleased to meet you. Thank you for your wonderful and lovely video. I'm a handyman myself, prehaps I could give you a tip on cutting wood straight, and suggest something called a "Set square" to get a straight edge on the piece of wood you managed to cut.

[@keyofawesomefan]

this is amazing!!!

[@sillysparrowness]

@TheNevs89 Aw, I love people who share my taste in humour!

[@ambient.pixels]

Du bist meine lehrerin

[@Hi-dd1cf]

Digga

[@LadyWentworth30]

@Rixtm27 I know! I got really excited about that one too!

[@georgecarra]

@sillysparrowness your beautiful sillysparrowness, your comment made my lips turn into a rainbow shape smile. I appreciate your reply, very much, thank you.

[@florisv559]

That is very funny, and most of the time I can't hear that you aren't a native speaker, you just have a very sophisticated accent.

[@billbrett365]

I need more information on time, gravity, cosmology, dark energy, dark matter, quantum physics, origin of universe, nature of reality .

[@MrDonkrypton]

Hi Astrid! I'm older than you...so I can say "you" to you ... *bangingheadontable* ... *doingitagain* ... however...first, I just found your vlog via Google+...and I'm very happy about that! Your way of making your videos is lovely, the idea of multiple personalities is awesome - and (after having left school for more than 20 years now) it's great to hear this beautiful "Uxfurd Inglish"again! What shall I say...where Tim had "had", Don had "had had"..."had had" had the teachers okay...:-).!

[@melkior13]

not sure what you mean by needing to learn English - you speak it very well

[@mmvvbb]

"Strong dislike of measurements." - My favorite part of the video.

[@laurenkoehnvideos]

Beware the weeping angels!!!! DONT BLINK. [terribly sorry, but I had to]

[@sillysparrowness]

@georgecarra *immediately googling set square*

[@Filifow]

It's good that you are doing this in english, otherwise many people couldn't understand you and that would be a pity. :)

[@Mrmannyguy]

Why could you have not been my teacher in school

[@Freethinker99]

(At the risk of offending various nationalities) I suspect that if you tease out all the various strands of your subselves you may also find a 'German', 'English', 'French', and 'Italian' subself. (We would like to see them manifesting their individuality on KZbin too! Hint, hint!)

[@TheCapnPorridge]

'Yes, as in ...' Me: That's a rooster! :D

[@recklessroges]

For the English people that are confused by majuscule, it means upper-case. I'm guessing that Astrid's knowledge of french, (they use the word majuscule to mean upper case) lead her astray, (and now her perfectionist has more fodder ;-)

[@Mandibulari]

your name ASTRID is an anagram for TARDIS, that's cool! (na auch ein WHOVIEN? Hab die Tapete an der "Wand der Dinge" gesehen)

[@tentsforpaddies]

* Funniest moment * : "For some reason I'm not allowed in front of a class" * Best putdown * : Dead heat between... "I think it's called over-excited" and "Oh yeah, as the reason it took us so long to get started" * Best use of non-word *: "Frownsy" (Genglish perhaps?) * Situation I most identified with * : "which is why I have paint stains on about 30% of my clothes by now" * Best use of sarcasm *: "Yep, the world has clearly been waiting for you"

[@billbrett365]

Can I share this on my Facebook?

[@darcybrooker]

You are very cute :D. My name is Darcy, if I was a girl they would have called me Astrid.

[@EBMZEQUENZER]

I want to be in you're class 4 ever !

[@ThePixel1983]

"... but I will explain LATER". Please.

[@Freethinker99]

"[with glasses] I look immediately like a teacher". Or an extra-brainy librarian....

[@raiduk]

Around 5:00 there was a german accent takeover :p

[@IamGrimalkin]

Well I dunno, how many german kids search for videos in English? Seeing as this is a year on, have any of them found out yet?

[@ragnkja]

You need to learn English? In the first video I watched on this channel (about "Forever Yours" by Alex Day), I honestly thought you were English, because your pronunciation is excellent. (OK, if you mean "I need to expand my English vocabulary", I suppose that may be true, since I don't know how much you work on each video, and how easy or difficult it is for you to find the right words.)

[@eratosthanes]

How old are you?

[@xRainbowDashx100]

All the sides of me.. :3

[@JamesTrevorLucierIII]

dear silly (sally) sparrow. DUCK! DUCK NOW!!! I love your references :) (especially the one up on the right corner quoting David Tennant) I just subscribed and I'm excited to see more of your videos! P.S. If you would like to listen to a song about dr. who, come check out my channel. It's the second one down on my video list. ":)8

[@mittfh]

And that is why the rest of Europe puts us to shame - we struggle to learn any other language, but they all tend to master at least one other Continental language as well as ours...

[@harmonizensing]

I thought u were austrailian

[@Mirandorl]

Are you saying you have dissociative identity disorder? That's OK

[@HENJAM48]

I prefer Sybil. (Google it kids!)

[@MultiAbstrak]

Qualli Othlli

[@bobpeters61]

Did your learning of English rely heavily on imitating native speakers? The reason I asked is that your accent, at least when speaking English, sounds like a more refined sort of English accent rather than a German accent. I was surprised to hear that you were German for that reason.

[@Bill_CBR]

What... you don't speak English ? Wait a minute here, did I miss something? I guess I'll just have to watch them all to figure it all out.

[@jacobhornerjh]

where'd the pessist self go??