Emma from MmmEnglish and Hey Lady! [961]
Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
Luke Thompson
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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[961] Emma Jakobi is the host of MmmEnglish on YouTube, and now the online community Hey Lady! In this episode Emma joins me for a chat about living on the remote Western coast of Australia, "blowing up" on YouTube, her decision to step away from MmmEnglish to focus on Hey Lady! Also, her thoughts on the rise of AI, and some fun facts about singing in the shower, her vintage Lexus car and her phobias of public speaking (surprising) and leeches (understandable). Full transcript available.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Luke's English podcast. For more information, visit |
| 0:07.5 | teacher luke.com.com.com. Hello listeners and welcome back to Luke's English podcast. |
| 0:19.4 | This is my show for learners of English all around the world. Are you a learner of English? Are you around the world if the answer to those two questions is yes and yes, then welcome. This show is for you. This is here. My podcast is here to help you get more listening into your life, which I think is a very important |
| 0:38.7 | part of developing good all-round English skills. You've got to listen to lots of English. |
| 0:44.7 | On the podcast today, I am talking to Emma Jacoby. Emma is an English teacher and online content |
| 0:52.1 | creator for English learners, like me. |
| 0:56.1 | Many of you will be aware of her. |
| 0:58.5 | Most of you will be aware of her. |
| 1:00.4 | She, in terms of online sort of content creator, English teacher people, |
| 1:06.2 | she is definitely one of the most recognizable, one of the most famous, one of the most popular people. |
| 1:11.9 | If you've ever been on YouTube and looked for videos for learners of English, then you must have |
| 1:19.2 | come across Emma's content. Emma from M English. M English is her channel. M English at the moment has, |
| 1:28.0 | I've just checked. |
| 1:29.4 | It's got 6.26 million subscribers, which is a lot, isn't it? |
| 1:34.8 | 6.26, 6,000, 6,260,000 subscribers on YouTube. |
| 1:43.5 | Right? |
| 1:43.9 | That's massive, isn't it? So So yes, this is one of the biggest and |
| 1:47.5 | most well-established YouTube channels for English learners. But a while ago, she actually |
| 1:55.6 | decided to stop uploading to English and focus her attention on another project. So that can't have been |
| 2:05.8 | an easy decision to make. At the time she made that decision, she had about 5 million subscribers, |
| 2:10.9 | and she took the decision to step away from her channel and start a brand new other project, also for English learners. But that's not an |
| 2:21.6 | easy decision to make when you've got five million subscribers. It's very difficult to just sort of step |
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