So, someone had been bashing an English teacher for teaching proper pronunciation. Our planet has become a trashpile.

What I don't think people always realise is that I am willing to take criticism, admit when I am wrong, and have healthy discussions where I can learn from others whilst also sharing my point of view. I hope that this can be a discussion going forward. Thank you watching, and sorry for my mistakes. Lucy

Dear Lucy, You Channel is Excellent, your British accent is beautiful & Your Sensitivity & Desire for Growth is Admirable. KEEP UP the great work! I'm a big fan! -- professor fink; Los Angeles, CA.

I am a Sri Lankan who always wanted to follow the British accent. Indeed I feel unprofessional each time I mispronounce a word. That's why I am here to learn. So you have done no crime...! Chill...!

Hi Miss Lucy. I was never hurt by your lessons. Infact teaching correct pronunciation is such a nice thing.

I might have missed something in this life, but... isn't it teacher's job to point out mistakes students make and correct them? How else are we supposed to learn? I came to your channel because it offered a great deal of pronunciation tips, and was happy to learn about some words I got wrong. Please don't let yourself be dragged into something you are not meant to be part of. You are an excellent teacher, very polite and professional, and I really wish that you concentrate on people who come to your channel to actually learn something rather than those who want to push through their political statements.

When I see things like that, I am sure society is doomed. A language teacher having to apologise for teaching pronunciation is a sign of our failure as humans

Dear Lucy, they were competitors and trolls. There are a lot of such people on the internet. Be brave and strong. Do not leave your chanal. You are the best teacher.

Please don't delete those videos 😭😭 Who's with me put a like so she can see my comment Ps:thanks for the likes guys😍😍😘

We're waiting for your upcoming lessons. Anyone agrees, pls like.

Ridiculous that learning proper accent is a kind of discrimination😂 to those who think it’s a discrimination, please be humble to learn other’s culture

It really is a unnecessary apology dear. We are here because we want to be “professional” in English. We should only feel hurt when we cannot speak a word correctly and professionally . You did nothing wrong

This would be one of my very few comments on someone’s youtube account. I’ll just let you know that I’ve seen your videos for years. Through these videos I got a chance to complete IELTS test in my first try, and went to University overseas and got my postgrad degree. I wish you keep teaching no matter what people say because you’ve been doing nothing but teaching and give us hope to learn new language and to use it the way natives do. Appreciate your work, Lucy.

I think people overreacted on this. English is my second language, and my accent and pronunciation aren’t perfect. That’s why I need to learn and improve. Never doubted your intentions. If you want us to sound smart, it doesn’t mean we are stupid. You can always be smarter. Thank you Lucy for all your time and this video shows how genuine you are.

I wouldn't worry that much. As we say here in Spain, "some people have very thin skin". IMHO, there's no need to apologise. Eager to enjoy new lessons ;)

I'm Dutch and therefore I will make stupid mistakes. You telling me to "think before I say" is like what my fav teacher did when I was 16. He is still in my fonder memories. Your pointing out mistakes is reason for me to do better. And I thank you for that.

I have never felt it in this way. In fact I really like your way of teaching and guiding us for a more accurate pronunciation.

Lucy, my accent is hilarious and I never felt offended because of what you said. Keep up the good work.

Don't apologize, you didn't do anything wrong. You are probably the most superb teacher of the entire KZfaq game.

This extreme political correctness is doom of our world :(.

Dear Lucy, I've been with you for over a year now and watched almost every single video on your youtube channel. I'm from Ukraine and of course I have an accent, I don't have as much speaking practice as I want. And during all this time when you say "sound like a native speaker" or "sound proffecial" I have never been offended. That thought have never crossed my mind. Keep on going, Lucy! You are a wonderful teacher and I don't want you to feel sorry for what you've said. Your beautiful British accent is like a music to my ears. Lots of love from Ukraine

As a simple learner: There is no reason to apologise.Just do more videos and let us learn more from you.

"I'm so sorry to everyone who felt hurt by that video" As an English teacher of over 20 years experience, I can assure you that almost none of these people were students!

I love your channel so much, Lucy! Thanks for these lessons you give us, thanks for motivation and opportunity to learn this amazing language. We love you!

You don't need to apologise for anything, you're such a great teacher, I've learnt quite a lot thanks to your videos, so it's perfect. Take care now.

Well I've always seen your titles as "How to sound professional or intelligent" as motivation. It's all about perspective and unfortunately that's life. There's about 8 billion people around the globe and surely they have like 8 billion different personalities and perspectives. Criticism will follow you all the time no matter how careful you are and it applies to all of us. But It's not necessarily a bad thing since It provokes our creativity and intelligence. Anyways we all love your videos and we appreciate your passion and dedication.

This whole "political correctness" is going way too far. Anyone who says/thinks different must apologize? Ridiculous.

There are lots of comedians in the UK who make fun of accents... their shows are on youtube. I mean... RELAX. Especially now that we are living in such difficult situation. I have a great respect for you Lucy because, thanks to you, I love English language even more. A huge hug from Italy 😘

If learning makes someone feel stupid, they don’t understand the concept of learning.

Dear Lucy, as a non-native speaker, I have always appreciated your pronunciation videos and I have improved a lot. Love the British accent and I love learning the correct pronunciation! In my opinion, your last video was meant for advanced English learners, who are in professional settings, and it was meant to make them feel more confident with their pronunciation. Keep going Lucy!

You are special Lucy, thanks for all things you do and for your way to transform criticism into self improvement: good lesson for all of us. ❤️

I think that just the fact that you apologised shows how lovely woman you actually are. We love you with your goals AND with your mistakes. Big thank you for everything you've ever done for us.

Lucy, I have watched your video and I did not feel discriminated even though I have an accent that can make things more difficult for me to pronounce. But I really learned a lot from you and I want you to know I love your videos. Never stop, please.

I’m form Italy. I didn’t actually feel those words “offensive” or “discriminating”. In my opinion, you, as a teacher, just wanted to warn us that we have to pay attention to the pronunciation of those words in order to sound more English and grammarly correct. Keep doing what you’ve always done, I’m learning such a lot of things thanks to you, and I’m improving my pronunciation and vocabulary skills. Kisses

I really enjoy your lessons. You are so positive in the way you’re teaching and I’m trying to improve my English with your classes . Those few videos I have watched , made me so closer to beauty of English. Thank you

Dear Lucy, I dont really think you deserved so much criticism. You've always been great. RP is what most of English learners want to learn, we all want to sound like this... We are also aware that we speak with different accents and that there are lots of in the UK itself. But it doesn't mean that RP can't be used as the example. A goal for most of us is to sound like this.... maybe I'm wrong, but I've always thought that inspite knowing that we all speak differently we have the same goal and it is the RP pronunciation. I always admired the way you speak. You are A GREAT example for me.

I never felt offended infact your teaching and explaination so simple and easy to learn.nothing wrong to correct if your wrong.

Dear Lucy, Whenever you say in your videos “sound like a native” and “sound more professional” I can only appreciate. As a speaker of any foreign language, each of us have limits since there are distinctive sounds in each of them (which are phonemes). As children we have better contact with a particular language acquiring its characteristic phonemes and may have to strive a little more to imitate different sounds. It’s natural to us. With practice however -as with everything in life- one gets used to the new sounds as to speak in parallel and so be better comprehended by ones who have acquired these different sounds as children -as we did with our own; they might as well find difficulty to pronounce sounds of other languages. Although I know I will not be able to pronounce all words 100% -the same goes to the use of grammar-it’s clear that your intention is to help one to improve his speech as best as he can; with excellence, not perfection. After all, who wouldn’t want to be better understood by everyone? Lucy, you are a marvellous teacher. I’m much more confident in my English after your lessons. And all that for free, I couldn’t be more grateful. Thank you!

Mira Lucy, como se que lees perfectamente en español te lo digo por aquí. La gente está muy sensible por muchos factores. Tu da mucho, muchísimo. Eres una persona generosa, abierta, y una profesora excelente. Aquí, en España tenemos un dicho: "El que se pica, ajos come". El amor que TU le pones a lo que haces supera en mucho a cualquier pequeño error que puedas tener. Ya te disculpaste. Basta ya. No te castigues más. Tiene muchísimos más valor todo lo que aportas de manera desinteresada y gratuita. Mucha gente te aprecia y te quiere. Quédate SIEMPRE CON ESO. Que no te llegue más lo negativo que lo positivo, que muchísimo más. Un enorme abrazo preciosa. Sigue haciendo lo que mejor sabes hacer. Desde Granada te doy dos enormes besos. Rocío.

It's heartening to read supportive comments from people from all walks of life - including loads of language learners (We don't expect them to understand fully why you had to give an apology - but hats off to you!). I absolutely see where those learners were coming from when they mentioned 'British accent', 'native pronunciation' or 'no need to apologise' in their comments. As a Briton and EFL teacher, I believe we can raise the awareness of **English varieties** among language learners - that includes the wealth of British-type accents. It seems that you're in an excellent position to educate some 4 million language learners in one go. Best of luck!

Are you crazy? Telling people how to pronounce words correctly can't be offensive !!!

You shouldn't feel bad. I can't imagine that anyone would think that you were looking down on anyone. You have been abundantly clear from the start that you are helping people to sound a certain way. A person can desire to change something about themselves without there being anything wrong to start with. I don't feel that you have ever presented yourself as being better than anyone else, just someone who has something different to most of the world that some desire to emulate. Like one of my teachers repeatedly said 'different is different, not bad, just different.' Everything I have seen of yours has been positive, and uplifting.

In general, I would've thought the same. I'm in customer service in Germany and took over most of my deparment's English support. I am constantly trying to improve not only my own vocabulary and pronunciation, but also my colleagues' as well. In my opinion, a company writing emails or letters, which are full of typing or grammar mistakes, shines a bad light on everyone working there. It just doesn't make us look professional or competent. So, I'm grateful for channels like yours, because it helps people like me, to be at the top of our game. Intelligence, on second thought, is different. Not being fluent in a language doesn't mean that a person is stupid. They just cannot show how much of a genius they are, if they cannot express themselves in a language their dialogue partner will understand as well. 🤔

When I was first look your video I thought I have best way to learn English, and I also recommend my family members and friends to watch your videos. I know one thing you're the best English teacher for me I ever met, because I learned many things than I known There's nothing to apologize. Be brave and strong. You're the best English teacher in the world❤. I'm waiting for your new lesson. Please don't give up and fight .👍

I'm fed up with this kind of stupid situations caused by some people saying "I feel offended" about almost everything.

Lucy, I have been watching for a few months and to be honest, I've never felt stupid, unprofessional, unintelligent and disgusting! I have understood that if you pronounce those words properly, you may SOUND like a native speaker or professional, it doesn't mean you're quite the opposite of you don't do so. I'm 14 and because of you, I've finally found a way, how I can have fun and good time while learning a language. I developed it into next level and because of you, I'm able to talk with native speakers, write articles and ace every single exam at school! I sometimes don't feel like doing homework, because I'm addicted to your videos which gave me a tramendous hand and your beautiful accent! I would be joyous if you were my teacher! Keep up the good work! I'm looking forward to watching your next video!

That’s ridiculous, one only feels inferior to others when they feel the need to be superior to others. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. Calling out on good people to compensate your unwillingness to improve is a sign of weakness.

I feel bad for u🥺, we know you didn’t do that intentionally. You are the best English teacher I have ever met. I’m thankful and happy for everything you teach us about English.🤗

Dear Lucy, your apology post on youtube was so disapointing to listen. I really admired your lessons and your personality. You were a breath of fresh air in these days... You need to apologize to no one for teaching corect British English. I watch your videos to improve and correct my English and prononciation. Then what’s the purpose of teaching a correct prononciation if everyone can pronounce a word like they want? Yes, you have to learn how to pronounce a word correctly to sound more professional and if you want to correctly learn a language. Nowadays, so many feel discriminated, there is so much sensibility... please continue to be you, teach proper Prononciation, and don’t get caught in this discrimination madness.

To be honest I never felt it ma’am

Hey Lucy, you are such a great teacher! My sister and I are always improving our english skills with your amazing videos! Don't be too hard on yourself! I understand your point but I swear I've never got your lessons in that way. You've been a bless in our lives! Love from Brazil S2

You are one of the best teachers on you tube and you have never discriminated any dialect or accent... Don't feel embarrassed. My best wishes from India🇮🇳

For God's sake, now people can't teach how to pronounce words correctly in English because it offends someone's accent. This world went nuts

Dear Lucy! You are making a huge mistake apologizing and deleting your videos. This is unfair to those who love your lessons. You enable the minority to triumph over the majority. People who don’t like your lessons are limited in their thinking, but they defeat a huge number of your fans who learn English using your videos. And you, Lucy, follow the lead of the minority, not respecting the majority, depriving your real students of your beautiful and very useful videos. You must believe in what you are doing. And to understand that a huge number of people support you. It seems to me that it would be reasonable and fair if you return the video. It will be respectful to the majority. And a minority who does not like your lessons should find another teacher who will suit them. This is what civilized people do. And also. It seems to me that other teachers envy you. Because Lucy is the best!

You know, you are the best teacher ever. Two years ago I couldnt talk or understand english but now I am waching you everytime and I like your accent even I talk like you. for this reason now I can understand everything.I can talk........ thank you for every lesson I want to see my positive teacher

This is utterly insane. There is a right way and multiple wrong ways to pronounce nearly every word we use in the English language. Just because a crowd shows up at the castle door with pitchforks and torches demanding that you dumb down (yes, I mean dumb down) the language, that doesn’t mean their argument is valid.

There was no need to attack her. She tries to teach us for free. Study harder and only you can fix your pronunciation.

Whenever someone says that's how professionals or experts pronounce it, it makes me work harder on my accent because I love to know how I should pronounce the words correctly. I think there was nothing wrong with your old videos but the only thing is, that people receive words differently, you should do you and not just change because someone is hurt by your words which are clearly not hurting others and it's not your intention to do any bad ;) we love what you do and if we don't there are many other channels:)

I just started watching a few videos of your English lesson, and I started to fell in love with the way you teach, especially you provided the best examples, Thanks so much 😍

You're really a good teacher and as a friend for me.. I know that some time we face like this types of problems.. It's good that you realize your mistakes.

I've been a teacher for almost 30 years. If I wanted to count my mistakes , I wouldn't never fall asleep. We're only human!

You don’t need to apologize. I never felt that way. You’re actually helping me get my British accent. Your videos are amazing. Keep on doing great work

I didn't think that. Your tutorial on pronunciations helps me alot. Thank you.

Hello Lucy. I found your channel last year. It’s gives me much motivation for studying language. I started to work with older people and have no much time for learning but I’m understand how important to have good pronunciation and better possible accent. I’m happy to meeting good and passions people. And I happy to follow your lessons on KZfaq. You are working so hard all this time. Good teacher is Severe teacher.

I am offended that you have to apologize for being a good teacher.

English with Lucy is one of the best KZfaq channel. Lucy is a great, smart and brilliant teacher. I'm not an English speaker. Then, how will I ever be able to correct my pronunciation mistakes without these videos? Lucy helped millions of people. If someone doesn't say about my mistakes, I will continue making them. I will fail my exams. Is it right? No. I constantly check my pronunciation in my native language. I have a master's degree and, yes, I make mistakes in my own language. When I correct my mistakes, I become more educated, more intelligent and more professional. It is not an insult. It is an improvement. Dear Lucy, thank you for your videos.

We are all humans - We do make mistakes. What makes you special to me right now, is the fact that you came out to apologize. You are a beautiful lady, both in and out. You've imparted on me so greatly that I cannot thank you enough. Thank you for ever so much!❤❤❤❤❤

I am really impressed with how honest your apology was. I don’t know, whether there was a need for it but it certainly was honest. You are a great teacher. Please keep doing your pronunciation videos. This too shall pass.

We live in a snowflake society where almost everyone is offended by something

Dear Madam! I am an English teacher from Poland. I recommend your channel to my students. The truth is that your channel is directed to non-native speakers. It is a shame that you are removing these videos as for non-natives, it is the truth that they will sound uneducated and simply ridiculous in the eyes of other non-native co-workers who are also taught British or American pronunciation (the way it is presented in the dictionary). It is not discriminatory to present specific British accent in a channel created by a British person. It doesn't mean that people with other accents are not intelligent or anything else. It just means that if you are a learner of English, it is better for you to study the "dictionary" accent. Maybe instead of removing the videos, it would be enough to state that this is a channel for learners of standard British English. Thank you for all your work. You are doing a great job.

I've learnt a lot from your previous videos. I'm waiting for your upcoming lessons. Love you and your classes.

It's a pity some people felt offended. I hope you are feeling better now. Love your videos and I hope to see more in the future.

People get offended by literally anything nowadays. That’s crazy!

As an English non-native speaker, I’ve never felt attacked by any of your “jokes” or whatever. I’ve been watching your videos for years and they’ve helped me improving my pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. I am completely sure you didn’t intend to hurt anybody, and I don’t see any reason to apologise...We love you and we all understand you just want to give us a hand❤️

I can just say that's nice of u and shows your beautiful heart. whether what you have done is wrong or right, having the courage to accept what might be a bad thing is the most precious thing you have taught in ur channel

Wowwww, my hat off to you. What an amazing and sincere apology. Lucy you are an extraordinary English teacher. But most importantly, a fabulous person. I teach English in Spain. I have an academy and at times, ig can be really hard. Cheer up. Keep up with your excellent work

My native language is Portuguese and I'm pretty sure that any other non-native speaker should be able to understand what is accent and what is wrong pronunciation. You shouldn't be apologizing for teaching people how to pronounce words. If you are offended by someone teaching you how to pronounce, the problem is with you, not with your teacher. Learn it! Be grateful for someone teaching you without even charging for it.

I've been an ESL Teacher for a few years now. English is my second language and the one I teach is American English with American pronunciation. However, since I discovered your channel some time ago, I recommend my students to watch your videos. You are always positive with a nice sense of humor. I watched the video and neither you nor the video tried to give a negative message. I'm concerned people will be offended so easily or want to read between the lines something that doesn't exist. Anyway, Lucy, there's no need to apologize, at least not from my point of view. I send you hugs from Mexico!

The best apology video I have ever seen. Admitted mistake, apologised and even took down the videos that were called into question, very welldone!

Lucy, I absolutely love the energy of your channel, which I recently discovered! For me (non-native English speaker), I feel kindness and positiveness from your videos. With regard to this particular video, this subjective feeling of desire to do positive things and then the discrepancy of good intentions with the objective outcome which turns out to be negative to some people or groups is sooo familiar to me. In this, I feel empathy and compassion for you.

That reminds me one quote: Do not correct a fool, or he will hate you; correct a wise man and he will appreciate you. - unknown

Lucy, you did not intentionally imply any wrong message here, we all know that! Please put this behind you and kindly continue your classes, we are here to learn. Much love, xx

You never made me feel that way, you actually made me feel energized and motivated me to learn english, i feel bad rn hearing you have to apologize for this kind of thing

Please don't apologise. You're just doing what you were supposed to do, that is, teaching us how to pronounce english words in a proper manner. Continue to do so.

Apologising for something you haven't done wrong is a real insult to my intelligence.

I am italian, my accent sounds terrible and I wasn't offended at all

why am i tearing up listening to this? lots of love Lucy ❤️

“He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her”

I admit that my accent is horrible and non-professional - that's why I'm here to learn. I never felt offended because of what you said! And people who feel offended - they just don't know the simplest logic rules. Don't make them fool you! Keep up the good work. This politically correct world has gone too far!! Now I cannot watch your previous and valuable and precious videos...

This is the biggest WAIT WHAT I've ever said out loud. I'm speechless, you are apologising... for teaching!? What's next? People offended by the camera angles? Wanting to educate yourself doesn't mean you were stupid at first It means you're willing to expand basic knowledge and that's by no means something to be offended about or reason enough to come at those who are trying to make your learning path a little lighter. If you ever get offended by something, first look at yourself, accept your weaknesses and strengthen them, learn every single day and focus on what YOU can do to make yourself better instead of wasting that precious time on bringing other people down just beacuse you don't consider yourself enough. I had to say it since you had no reason to apologize in the fist place. You're a great person and genuinely care about giving those who follow your content the quality learning material they deserve and hopefully reaching out to more people. I am always eager to watch your videos on pronunciation since I am not a native English speaker myself but I want to get better at enunciating some words. I am really thankful you take the time to go through every single word, pronunciation and grammatical wise and also make it fun to watch and listen to all the same. Now, the reason behind why I can't not seem to understand people getting offended by whatever they think you did wrong it's because I have seen myself how some people (foreigners), not native of certain language, as a matter-of-fact, take for granted pronunciation. However, when talking it sounds so off that is kind of embarrassing, there's when you really REALLY feel stupid. But you shouldn't bring it on others, in fact, its a learning opportunity. So, again, I am thankful to you teacher Lucy and all those who care about education, real education. Moreso, want to make a difference everyday for them and also for everyone willing to learn and educate themselves.

As a Colombian English learner I have never felt bad about the way you corrected pronunciation! I love you, you help me teach many things. Don't go, please

Love you Lucy, don't even give for us.. you just so inspiring and I adore you.

Soon people will start apologising for breathing...come on...this needs to stop! Please, people!

Come on Lucy, there is no need of apologies, I’m a beginner English Teacher and I’ve seen your videos many times to help me out when I’m doubting about some details I need to teach and you’ve never made me feel bad with your content, you’re an excellent and very professional teacher and person as well, never stop making videos for us! This is the type of channel that it is worth watching! You’ve made me feel quite motivated with your videos to keep learning English! Greetings from Mexico🇲🇽!!

first of all we thank you alot for what you have ever taught us, and your apology means that you are strong enough to do alot, and i wanna say that learners like me must know that there is sill away to be improved by knowing the way native speakers pronounce words. And at the end of any video we do practice, but i've never feel that i am not educated. and what you have said is very nice because we have to change the mentality starting from our selves and then people around us and spread the concept of accepting others the way they are, regardless the way or the accent they speak, which will reduce bullying too.

Thank you Lucy!! I would like to speak English like a british native and you help me ; a huge hug for you from Madrid!!

I wonder, Lucy, are you alright dear? We haven't seen or heard fom you after your totally unnecessary apology.

I can't believe what I've just heard! Lucy, you're teaching British English with the pronunciation we can find in dictionaries. And it's the best one to learn for non-native speakers. Of course there are different accents, but you are not teaching them. If someone is offended by that, he can go and find a channel with that different accent he likes. Last video was brilliant. I found that many of these mistakes are common in my native language (Polish) as well. And many of the words you talked about in that video are not about an accent. Espresso is always eSpresso and not eXpresso! It's not an accent, it's a mistake! And if someone is making that mistake it doesn't mean he's unintelligent. It just means he doesn't know how to pronounce the name of that coffee. And you can help him with that! If you really feel bad about the situation, maybe just change the titles of your videos. There's no need to use words like intelligent/unintelligent, etc. You can write: "Correct British pronunciation of 10 professional/school words." or "10 common mistakes...". I don't need catchy titles, because I love you content anyway. Just like millions of your subscribers. Please have that in mind and don't change!!!

Can I just say you are so helpful to us and we appreciate what you do. Sending you our love from Australia

What a delight it is to hear a beautifully executed delivery of the English language. Don't apologise just continue making your informative videos. There's always a group of people that aren't happy unless they feel someone has offended them.