Q&A: Yes, Rachel will still make free videos! :)

25,814 views ・ 2016-10-12

Rachel's English


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And I'm live on Facebook.
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Hey, everybody.
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I am going to be uploading this to YouTube after the Facebook Live happens.
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So, hi to people on YouTube as well.
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I'm going live because last week I published a video on Friday saying
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that October 25 I'm going to be launching an online school,
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and I got some questions.
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I got some comments asking more about it.
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So, I wanted to answer a couple questions
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about Rachel’s English Academy and what it's going to be.
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The main question that I wanted to answer is someone said,
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are you still going to make free videos? And the answer is yes, absolutely.
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Every Tuesday I post a video to YouTube and to Facebook.
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Those are usually a lesson of some sort, and that's still going to happen.
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Every Tuesday you're going to be getting new videos.
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I have videos coming up soon on placement.
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I have a video on the BR cluster.
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I have another challenge that we're going to do towards the end of 2016.
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So, look for that.
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So, the answer is yes, absolutely.
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Rachel’s English Academy is not replacing anything that I am already doing.
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Hello.
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People are starting to say hi in the comments.
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So, there's that.
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Don’t worry.
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Nothing about what Rachel’s English already is, is going to change.
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There's just going to be additional stuff to work with.
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The videos are going to be a little bit different,
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and I was trying to think of how best to describe that.
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So, the videos that you see on Facebook and YouTube,
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those are the lessons, and when I teach privately, I send my students those lessons.
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So, the videos in the Academy are different in that they are everything
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that I say to go along with the lesson.
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It's more of the how to work
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and I think of when I'm making the videos for the Academy,
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I'm thinking of all of the questions that my students ask me
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when it comes to working with a particular topic.
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That's what goes into the videos in the Academy.
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So, it's a little bit more what I say to my students when I'm actually working
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with people directly to fill in the gaps between the lessons,
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which is more like what you see on YouTube and Facebook.
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The lessons themselves.
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Then, of course there's just going to be more lessons.
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I'm doing about four Ben Franklin videos a month about one a week,
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and those are everybody’s favorite.
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They're such a great way to study pronunciation
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and there's going to be real life conversation that we study,
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and also some scripted conversation, and the reason why we're doing
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a little bit of scripted is because it tends to be a little bit slower,
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a little easier to understand.
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There's not a lot of background noise.
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There's not two people talking at the same time.
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So, there's stuff in the Academy for beginners and also for advanced learners.
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Some of the conversations that we're studying are native speakers
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just hanging out, my friends having a casual conversation, and they speak so quickly.
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So, it's going to be great for someone who is already pretty advanced,
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can understand pretty well, can pronounce and be understood pretty well,
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but just wants to get a little bit more with the subtle details.
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Wow, we have almost 100 people live.
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That's so fun.
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We just jumped to 107.
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Hey, guys.
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For those of you just joining, I'm talking a little bit about the Academy,
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the Rachel’s English Academy, which I announced last week will open October 25.
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So, I'm still putting the finishing touches on it still doing
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a little bit of work there, but I have chosen the date.
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I have announced it.
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So now I have to do it.
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October 25 is when Rachel’s English Academy will open and for the first week,
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you can get in for $10 a month.
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Once you register for Rachel’s English Academy, whatever price you register at,
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you will keep for the rest of time unless you cancel.
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So, if you register now, not now, you can't register now.
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If you register on October 25, in the first week, for the rest of your life,
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you pay $10 a month unless you cancel.
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The price of the Academy is going to go up every six months or so.
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It's going to go up initially after the first week.
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So, I've been looking around at other online subscription, other online schools,
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and I think $10 is a really good price compared to what I've been seeing.
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So, I feel good about that.
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It was important to me to not make it a huge fee.
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So, we're starting low, $10 a month, and there's new stuff added every month.
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It's a subscription.
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So, there's not a ton of content in it to begin.
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There's about 25 videos, and I haven’t counted up the hours of audio.
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Maybe four or five hours of audio.
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So, there's a lot there, but it's not nearly what it's going to be.
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I have so many lessons planned out that are going to be added to it every month,
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and then of course, there's going to be live classes.
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So right now, we're live.
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It's amazing, and I can post comments and that's cool,
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but it's kind of hard for me to keep track of them
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because I'm talking at the same time, but that's a way for us to interact,
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but the thing about the live classes in the Academy
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is that you're going to be able to do more than just add a comment.
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You're going to be able to actually work with me.
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So, each month I'll have a live class where we'll be talking about a topic
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and then I'll be taking some students who are present
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and I'll be turning on your web cam.
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Of course, only with your permission.
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Then, we'll work on a topic.
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So then, everyone gets to see that mini lesson, how to work, how to improve,
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and then they also get to see, okay, how is the student doing?
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Are they responding? Oh, wow, that worked.
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I hear a difference.
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That's amazing.
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So, not only will some people get the benefit of direct coaching,
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but then everyone else gets the benefit of seeing that and learning from that.
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So, that's part of the Academy as well.
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So, that was sort of the main question that I saw was,
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how are these videos different than what we already get?
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Then also, are you still making our free videos?
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So, I hope that answers that question.
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I'm planning on going live some in the next couple of weeks leading
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up to October 25 in order to answer questions that are coming in.
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So, if you have questions about the Academy, post them to my Facebook page,
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post them to the YouTube videos about the Academy,
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and I'll be answering them in live videos.
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So, someone has just asked, how many lessons per week?
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Well, I'm adding approximately eight to 10 videos a month.
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So, it's about two per week.
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Then, in addition to the videos, there's audio.
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So, some lessons will be video and audio.
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So, it's going to take more than one day to work with,
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and actually, that brings me to a really important point.
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Thank you for asking that question.
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The Academy is how I want my students
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that I work with one on one—I don’t have any of those right now, by the way.
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Some people are asking, Rachel, can you teach me one on one?
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I'm not doing that right now, but the way that the Academy works is,
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it's how I want the people that I've worked with to work in order to improve.
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I never give someone a lesson and then the next day say, okay, stop doing that.
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Now work on this.
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That is not the way to improve.
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When I was working with students one on one, I would give them a couple concepts
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to take home to work with the whole week and then bring back to me,
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and that repetition that I asked them to do every day is what made them get better.
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I saw the difference between the students who got better
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and the students who didn't, and it's so clear
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that it's the daily work that made get people better, and it's the repetition.
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So, some people would come to a lesson with me and they’d be so into it.
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They’d be so great, but I knew that they weren't going to work after the lesson,
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and they knew they weren't because they didn't have time.
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So, we would have this lesson.
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It would be fun, we’d make progress, and then the next week we’d do the same thing.
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Then there were students who would go home and they would work the audio homework
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that I gave them and they would come back and they would blow me away,
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and I would say, how did you do that?
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I remember two that I'm thinking of in particular would say,
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10 minutes a day, 20 minutes a day.
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So, the way this Academy is set up is, it's the same audio plus some
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that I would assign to my private students to work on for a week, for two weeks.
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So, it's really important in the Academy that the people who are in there know
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that it's not about getting a lesson every day and learning a new lesson every day.
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It's about working every day, but sometimes you're working
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on what you worked on yesterday because that's the only way to get better.
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The YouTube videos, they already tell you how to do something.
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That is such a small part of what matters in getting better.
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You have to actually practice your butt off.
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Can you say that in Facebook Live? I think you can.
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You have to practice, practice, practice.
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It's all about repetition.
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I'm trying to teach myself piano again.
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I took it forever ago when I was a kid,
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and my hands do not want to even do a basic scale anymore.
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It's so sad.
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So, I'm sitting at the piano and I am working so slowly through a C scale,
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both hands, whatever, and it's actually a great thing for me
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to be doing on right now as I'm working on the Academy
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because it is giving me an example of what it's like to learn
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something with your muscles, to retrain your muscles to do it naturally.
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I sit down at the piano and I play these scales so slowly.
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It's ridiculous, and I do them over and over, and I'm just realizing
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every time I do it, okay, my body is getting a little bit more used to it.
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Okay, I'm getting a little bit more fluid with the movement,
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and I'm just like, yes, this is how my students need to work,
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and that's why I'm giving you so much audio homework.
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It's all about repetition.
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So, there's two ways to approach the online school.
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One, as soon as you sign up, you get access to everything.
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So, you can be in control and you can work on what you want to work on,
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and you can be your own boss, but two, if you feel like,
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well, I'm not the expert here.
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I don’t want to be my own boss.
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I want someone to show me what to do, then there is one class,
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one course, in the school that every day releases a new thing to work on,
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and that's where I'm building in a lot of the repetition.
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Sometimes I'll have you work on the same audio for a whole week.
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Now, that's not the only thing you're doing.
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I'm making sure that it's interesting by putting in other things,
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but within that daily planned course, you have a map for
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how much you should be repeating the same exercise,
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just like I sit down at the piano and I repeat those same scales.
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So, I forget what made me start that whole little story,
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but Rachel’s English Academy, approach it two ways.
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Work on your own as you want, at your own pace, or work with me in the daily plan.
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I'll be sending you a new lesson every day what to work on.
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Repeat, repeat.
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Learn something new.
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Repeat, repeat.
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Okay.
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That was a great question, thank you for asking it.
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If anyone else has any other questions about the Academy, you can post them below.
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If I don’t see them, I'll be able to look later after this publishes.
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You know what? I'm just going to say right now, tomorrow,
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the same time I'm going to go live again.
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So, it's currently 11:30 here in Philadelphia.
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So, tomorrow at 11:15 in the morning in Philadelphia,
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whatever time that is for you, I will go live again
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and I will answer some questions, but the main thing, the main takeaway is,
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in the description of this video, I put a bit.ly link, and I hope it's clickable.
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I don’t actually know, but if you click on that link,
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then it will take you to a registration page,
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and it's totally free to register for the VIP list.
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What is the VIP list?
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That just means you're saying, Rachel, I am interested in your Academy.
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I'm interested in your online school.
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So that means, on October 25, you're going to get reminder emails
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about what you get when you sign up, and it's totally free to be on the VIP list.
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If you end up changing your mind and you don’t want to join the Academy, that's fine.
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It's just a way that I know that you're pretty interested in what this is going to be.
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So, click on the link.
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I'll add it after I go live if it's not already there, but it's a bit.ly link.
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Click on it, put in your email, and then you get put on that VIP list.
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Now, if you register in the first week, October 25 to November 2,
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in addition to getting the $10 a month, which will go up on October 3,
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you're also going to get a couple free little throw-ins, free little extras.
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Freebies, if you will.
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Three things.
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One, you're going to get an extra live class.
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So, I'm going to do an extra live class
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right after that first week of registration where I'm going to be talking
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about how to use Rachel’s English Academy and I'll answer your questions.
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Number two, a lot of people want downloads of some of the videos.
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So, I put together a slightly different version
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than what appeared on YouTube of my job interview series for download.
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So, if you join the Academy in that first week,
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you get the download of those five videos as well as a PDF.
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Number three, the last freebie is fun,
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and if you followed me last year around this time, then you may have already seen it.
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I think 200 people have seen it, but last year at Thanksgiving,
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I made a Periscope of the meal, and it got a little crazy.
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I have a big family.
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There was a lot good food,
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but I'm going to be sharing that freebie as the third freebie.
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So, the videos from my Thanksgiving dinner, which happened almost a year ago,
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and you get to see all of the foods that were passed around the table.
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You get to hear the formalities of what my family did before the meal began,
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just mark that as an important moment.
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So yeah, it's fun.
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I was pregnant, and really tired at the time.
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I was eight months pregnant.
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So, it's interesting.
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It's a fun video.
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So, all of those are free if you register in the first week.
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So, if you sign up for the VIP list,
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then you're going to get lots of reminders about registering in that first week.
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Okay, someone is saying, this is for intermediate for advanced learners.
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How do the students know the level? That's a great question.
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Thank you so much.
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I would say if you can watch my YouTube videos with the captions
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and understand pretty well, then you're a good level.
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If you're watching the videos with the captions
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and you have to watch a ton of times, you have to watch many times,
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you have to be looking up a bunch of words, then it's probably not quite for you,
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but even in that case, you can try it because it's only $10 a month,
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and if you decide in the first 30 days that it's too hard, you can let me know,
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cancel your subscription, and I give the $10 back.
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I give you back whatever you paid.
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So, if you're not sure if it's going to be too hard for you
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or if it's going to be a good stretch for you, then you should go ahead
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and sign up because I will happily refund you your first month
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if you let me know within 30 days that it's not a good fit for you.
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Okay, so, guys, that's it for now.
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I've been live for about 15 or 20 minutes, and I'm going to cut it off now
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and as I said, same time, same place tomorrow around 11:15 Philadelphia time.
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I'll go live again to answer any more questions.
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Yes, it is 10 USD dollars per month if you sign up in the first week.
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If you wait, then the price goes up to $14 a month.
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So, you save $50 a year if you sign up in the first week.
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Okay, guys.
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That's it for now.
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Thank you for your questions.
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Thank you for being here.
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