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Conversation & Pronunciation: Learn English with The Rachel's English Podcast Rachel's English: Pronunciation & Conversation Guru, American Accent Trai
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Study English conversation skills with one of YouTube's most popular English as a Second (or third!) Language teachers, Rachel of Rachel's English. Most beneficial for intermediate to advanced students, Rachel's specialty is the nuance and musicality of spoken English. Learn about English stress, sounds, and melodies, in addition to American slang, idioms, phrasal verbs, vocabulary, common phrases, culture, and more! Each episode is a CONVERSATION, so join the conversation now and learn how to communicate naturally in English.
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025: New Year's Resolutions
Do you make New Year’s Resolutions? Today we discuss the kinds of resolutions we make, and discuss tips on how to keep them. Learn what a SMART goal is, and learn the idioms and interesting vocabulary words we use when speaking: ‘to be on to something’, ‘flip on its head’, ‘just in the nick of time’, ‘down to the wire’, ‘went by the wayside’, and more!
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024: The Best Present You've Ever Gotten
Today we talk about the best present we’ve ever gotten, and define interesting words, terms, and phrases that come up in natural conversation. Learn the phrases ‘freaking out’, ‘big deal’, ‘to be up to it’, ‘nailed it’, ‘stand out’, ‘add up’, the difference between ‘implode’ and ‘explode’, and more!
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023: Conversations: Describe a Recent Situation that Made you Crack Up
David and I ask each other questions to get the conversation going – then we stop when we use an idiom, phrasal verb, or challenging vocabulary word and explain it. You’ll learn and these words and phrases because you heard them in context! Some of the phrases we discuss this week: to roll with something, under your belt, to be caught off guard, amped, back pedal.
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022: Phrases for being Polite in American English
When we were in Italy recently, we often struggled with knowing the polite way to phrase a request or ask for something. We could get the point across, but we lacked nuance with the language. Today we discuss phrases you can use to be polite in American English, like, “would you be able to tell me if you have ___”, or “we’re ready for the check, when you get the chance.”
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021: Our Experience Being Non-Native Speakers
Today we reflect on our trip to Italy and what is was like being non-native speakers. We discuss how we picked up language there, and how it felt not being able to fully communicate. We talk about becoming comfortable with being uncomfortable, and how to engage native speakers to help you learn.
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020: Letting Go of Inhibitions and Embodying a New Language
Today we listen to a conversation that we recorded in Italy with my sister- and brother-in-law as we discuss what it means to be in another country, trying to speak a new language. We talk about leaving your whole self behind to try to embody the new language, not just 'learn an accent'. We also talk about how your personality might be affecting how well you're absorbing English as you study among native speakers.
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My comment on this interesting episode
I played like 3 times and i really enjoyed it alot
I like the American accent and i really gained a lof of interesting vocabulary. Keep it going
Thanks
Best teacher ever
I love that you know all the hard words and u translate them right away such as stand up
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Dear Rachel,
I can't thank you enough for all your effort, dedication, enthusiasm you put in teaching English the way it should be taught. I benefited a lot from watching your videos in youtube and listing to your podcasts. My accent has improved considerably, and i am understood in formal, business, and general conversation more than i have ever been before. I now speak with confidence, assurance and cohesion.
I like the way you teach us how real Americans speak and use the language. I like, and do appreciate the videos and illustrations you provide as medium of instruction. I like your style of teaching through which you mix the formal with the casual in a very subtle way that keeps intact the professionally of the teaching and learning mode. Particularly i like the way you bring in friends and family as a teaching method for students to learn how natives speak in real life.
As i am one of thousands of people who benefited greatly from your courses, i urge everyone who wants to have full command in English and speak the language as natives do, to watch your videos on youtube, listen to your podcast, and more importantly, to subscribe to your courses on your website for the full course. The Rachel's English Academy online website is resourceful, informative, and user friendly.
I thank you once more and i thank every one who made this possible induing David and Stoney.
Sincerely,
Hatim
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