Come and Visit Marsha's English Classroom on YouTube







Here's my first video!

In the summer of 2021, I began posting videos of radio interviews that I did in April and May. In the future, I'll be adding teaching videos to help readers learn better pronunciation and grammar. After that, I'll see which topics are the most popular and explore different possibilities. 

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