Steve and Maggie (mostly Steve as maggie is a bird who can’t talk) are children’s educational entertainers and teachers. It came to be when Steve R. Watts taught children English in Tokyo without having any knowledge of the local language. All it took was to create the right context and involve body language, particularly facial expressions and gestures because non-verbal communication is the most important in the world of a child. The body language he used in teaching English meant that his young pupils had no problem understanding him. On the contrary: they mastered new English phrases and language structures with unbelievable ease. Just as easily, in fact, as they learned their own native language at home.

Steve took this fantastic basic idea forward, coming up with the foundations of the Wow!Method, a simple but ingeniously effective concept: teach a foreign language in the same, natural way as the mother tongue. It was in 2014 when Steve and Maggie came to be a double act on YouTube which won over the hearts of millions of people worldwide – helping children better their vocabulary along the way.

Now, after a successful growth on their YouTube channel because of their unique take on learning languages, Steve and Maggie help 30,000 children from more than 26 countries of the world now learn English using Wow! materials and the Wow!Method.