Name: Who is Rachel of Rachel's English?┃Learn American English Pronunciation On the Go
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You're listening to the Rachel's English Podcast, made especially for non-native speakers, where we study the way Americans really speak.

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My goal is for you to listen to this podcast every week and sound more natural when speaking

English and improve your listening comprehension.

Today's episode will be a little different.

This is the first ever Rachel's English Podcast.

In this first episode, my husband David is going to interview me so that you can learn a little bit about who is Rachel and what is Rachel's English.

We're getting pretty conversational here, so if you have a hard time keeping up with the conversation or understanding all the words, you will be able to download a free transcript of this podcast.

Just visit rachelsenglish.com slash podcast.

Well, I've never been a huge podcast listener and recently some friends started podcasts and as I started listening to them to see what they're about, I realized this is a really fun format.

It's a really fun way to talk about things.

I feel like in my YouTube videos, it's sort of a formal feel.

And the podcast feels like it has room to be a lot more conversational and that sounds really fun to me.

And after all, the people who are following Rachel's English want to know a lot about conversational English.

And so, since I'm going to have a transcript available for each podcast, I feel like we can really speak at a normal conversational pace.

And for people who are having a hard time catching all the words, they'll have that as an option, that transcript to go back and look it up.

It just feels like a really fun way, a new way to talk about these topics.

So I wanted to know more about why do you think it's going to be fun?

Well, it took me a while to decide what my different episodes were going to be like.

I don't know if you know this, but I settled on the idea that actually you are going to be in almost every podcast.

Well, because it's a lot more fun to have two people involved because hence the conversation happens.

It's hard to have a conversation by yourself.

And it's just another way to make it a little different from my videos, which are generally just me teaching something.

Here it's you and I discussing something and I'm for, let's just go ahead and say it.

You can add a different perspective to what I'm saying.

You may stop me and ask me questions that I didn't think about.

And I just think that because you, my husband, will be in on these podcasts that, you know, potentially it will just be a more friendly, open kind of conversation.

Maybe little anecdotes from our lives will come up.

And I'm looking forward to sharing that kind of thing more.

And I think you definitely are the expert.

But one of the things that's been interesting over the years that we've been together is

I've become an expert in how much I'm not an expert.

I mean, it's been really fun to sort of learn from you about all the intricacies and nuances of language that I had no idea about.

And even as a native speaker, I, you know, I see the English language and hear the English language in a really different way.

So it'll be fun to talk with people a little bit about that along the way, too.

And I know that this is a question that for you, you get asked often whether we're at a party or you're meeting someone for the first time.

And because you don't have a quick and tidy answer, it's been sort of annoying almost at times.

But here you go in the moment on the podcast.

It's such an American thing to ask it right off the bat.

But I have a couple of different things I've been trying out lately.

Sometimes I just say I make YouTube videos and then people have no idea what to say in response to that because I can tell they want to say, no, I meant what do you do for work?

They're just not quite sure what I mean if I'm saying I make YouTube videos for work.

Lately I've also been saying I run an online school.

And it's only been the past six months that I've been able to say that because I just launched six months ago.

I run an online school where I teach English as a second language to intermediate to advanced language learners.

And then I want to hear you describe for everybody a little bit about how did Rachel's English come into existence?

I mean, you know, where this thing come from?

Well, it started back in 2008 and YouTube, I think started in 2006, might have been 2005.

But at any rate, it hadn't been around that long.

I was living in Europe and I was studying German at the Goethe-Institut in Göttingen.

And as a part of that, I was hanging out with a bunch of people from all over the world.

You know, when I thought, when I was thinking about going to Germany to study German, I thought I'd be speaking German all the time with German people.

I thought I'd be hanging out with Germans.

But really, I was in school a lot of the day.

And so I was not hanging out with Germans.

I was hanging out with other people studying German.

And one guy in particular, a guy from Turkey, we ended up having, I think, six months of class together in a row.

And he was interested in American English and movies, American movies, and wanting to sound more American.

And so he was having me coach him a little bit.

He'd say a couple things, I would tell him what to change to make it sound better.

And I remember describing the AA vowel to him.

And so I said, well, you're missing a vowel.

And I was describing what the tongue should look like.

And then he said, you're really good at that.

And I thought, oh, hmm, well, maybe I'll start making YouTube videos about it.

I mean, I had never posted a YouTube video before.

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