Name: Q&A: Pausing a Subscription -- Rachel's Online School
Uploaded: 2020-03-10T23:13:38.000Z
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But I've been going live a couple times over the past couple of weeks to talk about Rachel's English Academy.

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It is a on online school that I am launching next week, so over the course of this week, we'll be going live a couple more times to answer your questions.

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So what I've done is I've gone and looked at the pass recordings, and I've written down your questions that I didn't get to in the comments, because it's very hard to keep up with the comments as I'm talking and trying to be coherent.

So again, put your comments here and I might not read them as I'm going live.

But I will look at them all after the video is over.

So let's get to some of your questions. 00:00:59.710 --> 00:01:7.050  First of all, maybe this is your first time hearing about it, and you don't know what Rachel's English Academy is. 00:01:7.540 --> 00:01:8.700  It's an online school. 00:01:8.700 --> 00:01:16.560  Hey, Lucas, that I'm launching next week, a week from today, actually October 25.

And Lucas, who's commenting right now, I actually gave him an early pass.

You gave a couple people on early pass to get feedback, and so he's one of them.

So he's been in there already, and he already wrote a really nice review.

Thank you for that, Lucas, which I got to see a day or two ago.

So anyway, Rachel's English Academy is a set, of course, is that you can get Thio Onley through a subscription.

I'm not making a big course that sells for a bunch of money.

If you join in the first week, it's $10 a month for as long as you choose to stay in the academy. 00:01:59.410 --> 00:02:6.660  So you get access to all of these different courses for $10 a month, and I I'm starting small. 00:02:6.660 --> 00:02:22.570  There's seven courses in there and incomplete, but the idea is that each each month, once a month, I'm releasing new lessons and starting new courses.

So, for example, right now there's a course in there called Bells, and if phones and there are three vowels in there, and so next month I might add a couple more.

I might start the continent's course, but there's lots in their toe work with.

It focuses heavily on conversation and listening comprehension.

If you followed me for a while, you know this is my passion.

I don't teach writing, but I love the voice and how we use it.

I love discovering what's musical about her speech and one of the courses that was really fun to make, It's called Basics is it uses a lot of other languages, and I used those other languages to explore English and to find out English different from other languages of the year in language not just as far as the sounds go, because that's just a small part of it.

But all of these other things, the feeling, the character of it, that's really what interests me, how we can sound more natural, more conversational when speaking a language.

I know when I study a foreign language, I really want to understands the character of that, how to use my body to sound natural, and for me that's more important even than vocabulary is just feeling it inside of my body and and, uh, expressing myself that way. 00:03:55.910 --> 00:04:3.120  So Rachel's English Academy focuses on those things that I love, and we do a lot of speech analysis. 00:04:3.120 --> 00:04:7.960  We study a lot of conversations, and there's a lot of audio for you to work with. 00:04:7.970 --> 00:04:12.430  And the idea is, if you are my private student, this is what I would be giving you.

Well, I'm not taking private students anymore, but this course is a way to get all of that information and to access all of that.

And there's also going to be a private Facebook group for members only in the academy.

And so in that Facebook group, you can post videos.

You composed questions, and you can also find a language partner who is working through the course to practice with.

Okay, so that is a little run down of of Rachel's English Academy, and now I'm going to answering your questions.

Well, it's all online, and you can get access starting October 25 next week next Tuesday. 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:2.690  In the meantime, above this video, there should be a link. 00:05:2.700 --> 00:05:8.280  It's a bit Lee link, and if you click on that, it takes you to a page with a countdown timer. 00:05:8.840 --> 00:05:13.780  Very exciting, so you can see exactly when the academy opens.

In the meantime, there is a yellow button there that you can click to get on the V I.

This you click that button and you send your email, and I'm looking at all of these e mails as they come in that is doing something.

When you send in your email to get on the V.

P list, you should get one email, just a little notification that says you're in on.

Then, starting October 25 when the school is available, you'll get a series of e mails reminding you went to buy what you get if you buy in the first week, because you do get a few extra things.

If you buy in the first week and then also, you get the lowest price if you buy in the first week.

So if you click on the link, put your name on the V I P list, then you'll get those e mails. 00:06:0.690 --> 00:06:3.680  So that's how you join on at that point? 00:06:3.680 --> 00:06:13.720  Then on October 25 if you choose to go ahead and join the academy and start your subscription, then you get instant access to the courses that are there.

And the lessons that air there, Um, and to the Facebook group.

And I will be doing a life class every month, but an extra one after the first week on November 2.

We're all sort of be talking about the academy, how to use the lessons, how to navigate.

It will also be a chance for you to test out and see the weapon.

Our platform that will be using for our live classes.

Okay, I'm gonna get to some of these questions now.

Okay, If you ever cancel your subscription, then if you choose to restart later than you just restart at whatever the current price is. 00:06:59.220 --> 00:07:3.500  So if you cancel that you're giving up whatever price you joined at. 00:07:3.750 --> 00:07:7.550  For example, if you join in the first week, your price will be $10 a month. 00:07:8.140 --> 00:07:10.310  And maybe you decided to cancel in a year.

Maybe the price has gone up toe $18 a month or something.

If you cancel on, rejoin them when you rejoin, you would join it $18 a month.

Unfortunately, there's no way to pause the membership.

So once you sign up, you just stay in there until you feel like you're ready to be done practicing on your English.

And But once you start your subscription, you get access lifetime access to the academy at that price.

So no matter what happens over time, as the price goes up, as there's more and more content in there, you keep your price for the lifetime of your subscription payments.

I found out that I can only accept credit card payments through this academy. 00:07:58.730 --> 00:08:2.110  The thing is, I can't do everything right. 00:08:2.120 --> 00:08:3.260  So I came up. 00:08:3.270 --> 00:08:11.150  I am using a website platform to build the online courses because I can't do all that myself.

I can come up with the lessons, but I can't handle building and all of that and everything.

So I'm using a platform that does that and to be using a subscription with it, which I'm doing.

They can only use credit cards as a form of payment.

So I know that's gonna not be good for a lot of people.

On a lot of people, that means they're not able to get access.

So I want you to know that I am trying to think of other things.

And one idea I have is that I will be able to take payments in another form.

I would give you access to the course. 00:08:50.850 --> 00:09:0.250  It wouldn't be automatic through the system, so probably the way I would do that is I would require, like, six months or a year at once. 00:09:0.870 --> 00:09:5.940  And then at the end of that, if you want to buy again when you buy again, I wish there was a better way. 00:09:5.940 --> 00:09:10.960  I I am asking the platform to come up with more payment methods.

Someone asked about tests practice, um, and speaking test prep.

So there's nothing in there specifically about test prep.

I like the idea of it, and I definitely could see a future course on that, Um, but there's nothing aimed at that directly.

However, every course is aimed at speaking pronunciation conversation, confidence phrases.

Um, so if you're working through this material and you are improving the way you speak, how you're able to speak more naturally with your flow, you're finding the American placement from the conversation studies. 00:09:56.840 --> 00:10:7.060  Maybe you're picking up phrases that Americans use when talking about themselves, even though it's not directly relating to a particular test question. 00:10:7.070 --> 00:10:11.150  It's definitely preparing you for any spoken exam.

Um, okay, someone says, Who's gonna have direct contact with the students?

It's Rachel's English Academy, and for now, I'm all you get videos in there I've written and made, and then I'm going to be the one in the Facebook group.

Um, I'm going to be the one teaching the life classes, so it's mostly for self study, and this is something you're gonna be working through on your own.

I'm gonna be giving you access material, and then you're doing it.

I'm not assessing you personally at this point. 00:10:47.660 --> 00:11:2.100  I would like to get that going at some point in the future having some people that can actually give assessments and check ins with students and say you need to work on this a little bit more or whatever, but for now, it's really a resource for you. 00:11:2.380 --> 00:11:5.450  Tow work through on your own with guidance from me. 00:11:5.980 --> 00:11:7.840  Um, yeah. 00:11:8.020 --> 00:11:9.850  So I hope that answers that question.

Okay, Someone says I am interested in joining, but I know I'm busy in this first month.

I'm gonna be busy in October and I'm not gonna be able to do all the lessons.

You will get behind a little bit in the sense that there is one class.

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