Q&A: Yes, there will be Certificates -- Rachel's Online School

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Rachel's English


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Hey, everybody.
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Rachel's English going live here on Facebook to answer some of your questions.
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I will be posting this to YouTube.
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So, hello if you're watching this video on YouTube.
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So, yesterday I went live and I think almost 400 comments came in.
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So, I have read all of those comments,
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and I'm going to be answering some questions that came through here now.
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So, the Q&A is about an Academy.
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It's an online school that I'm opening in just under two weeks,
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October 25 is the first day that the school will be open.
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So, I'll be answering questions about the Academy.
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So, some of the questions that came in.
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A couple people asked about certificates.
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There will be certificates of completion
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and you have to have a LinkedIn profile in order to get these
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because the system will automatically post them
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to your LinkedIn profile if you want that.
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So, that will be a way for you to let employers know, schools know,
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friends and family know that you did complete courses within the Academy.
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To start, there are about six to eight courses.
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So, each year I'll be adding even more.
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If you stay with the Academy for a long time, you’ll be able
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to add probably dozens of these completion courses to your LinkedIn profile.
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So, yes.
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You will get something for your work and your time.
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Okay, another question.
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Someone asked, am I going to be working with partners?
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Or is it going to be just me making the content?
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The answer is, for now, it's just me.
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If you're a fan of Rachel’s English,
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you might know I've been doing this for about eight years.
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So, I love what I'm doing and with your help, with your feedback,
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I've gotten pretty good at a few things.
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So, we're going to start with that.
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We're going to start with Rachel’s English does best.
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I do have ideas to get a little bit bigger in the future.
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For example, maybe bringing in a teacher who’s really expert at writing skills
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and having that teacher develop some courses for that, but for now,
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it's just me, and of course I do have a lot of real life English in there
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with my friends and family, but the lessons are just Rachel’s English,
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Rachel’s English style, Rachel’s English expertise,
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and that is conversational English,
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both listening comprehension and pronunciation, accent, fluency.
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Other questions.
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Okay, a couple people have said, how do I join?
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Well, in the description to this like video, there's a bit.ly link.
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You can click on that and that will take you
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to a web page where you can put in your email.
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When you do that, you’ll be entered into a VIP list.
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It's free to get on that list, and that's just showing me
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that you're interested in the Academy so you’ll get some emails about it
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when it's time to sign, when you can get the best deal,
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when you can get some extra free bonuses.
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So, follow the link and put in your email
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and I will be in touch with you about how to get into the Academy.
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One person says, what if there's no money to pay for the Academy?
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Well, I understand.
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Even $10 can be a lot for some people, especially depending on your currency.
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So, I will continue to make the free videos.
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There will be one free lesson every week.
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The Academy is not going to affect the Rachel’s English that you already know.
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So, no need to worry about that.
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Someone asked, will be DVD of the lessons? There will not be.
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I have created one DVD.
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It's on Amazon.
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You've probably never heard of it.
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It's hard to find.
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I found the DVD sort of hard to make.
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The functionality, I didn't think was great.
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The video quality of the DVD wasn’t great.
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So, I'm not going to be messing with DVDs.
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It's just going to be streamable, online video.
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Someone else asked, do you need a credit card?
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You don’t, but you need a PayPal account if you don’t have a credit card.
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So, with PayPal, you can link a bank account
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and just pay directly with your bank or you can use a credit card.
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I'm thinking about integrating WeChat.
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I need to learn that a little bit more,
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but I would love to ask you if there's a payment method that you use a lot,
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that you would like to see me use,
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please put it in the comments and I'll look into it.
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Someone else asked, will be there live classes? Yes.
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Once a month at least, and I'm working on that right now,
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the technical side of it, but there will be live classes.
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That's going to be an important part of the Academy.
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Someone else said, what are the topics? Okay so, to begin, it's a subscription.
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So, there's going to be new lessons added every month, but for now, to begin,
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the topics are, we have a course on the International Phonetic Alphabet.
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If you're a beginner, it's just to help you get used to the symbols,
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and if you're more advanced, then there's some fun tests in there
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where you will be able to practice reading an IPA.
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Number two, there's a basics course.
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Now, you might think I've been doing Rachel’s English
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for a long time or I'm pretty advanced.
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I don’t need the basics course.
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That's actually not true.
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The basics course, the things that you’ll learn there
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are for a lot of advanced learners,
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going to be the final step in really sounding American.
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It's all about the character, and I want everyone to start with the character
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so that everything else they learn in the Academy
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can be related to that, that important foundation.
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There's a course on vowels and diphthongs.
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There is a ton of audio in that course.
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A lot of people have a hard time hearing the difference between some sounds,
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so there's a lot of audio in there to get your ear in shape to hear the difference.
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Speaking of hearing, can you hear my baby shrieking in the background? Just curious.
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I can hear him and it's a little distracting,
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but I'm not sure if the mic is picking that up.
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Okay, there's lots of conversation.
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There's a conversation course that has both scripted conversation.
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That's going to be more for beginners,
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because it's a little slower, a little clearer.
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There's no background music.
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People aren't talking at the same time.
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Then, there's some real life English conversation there, too.
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That's harder because it's a real conversation.
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People are talking at the same time, maybe there's background music,
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maybe someone’s further away from the microphone.
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So that might be better for the advanced learners.
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Then, there's also a Hollywood course, where I'm taking some clips from TV
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and film and some little scenes and we're doing an analysis of that conversation.
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So, your listening comprehension should be improving for TV, film,
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real conversation, all of the stuff that you need it for.
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When you follow the bit.ly link and it takes you to the VIP sign up link,
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there's a video there too that kind of goes over
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some of the courses that will be in the Academy.
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Okay, so those are all of the questions
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that I wrote down from the last live video.
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I'm going to take a second here just to look through the comments here
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and see if there are any other questions that I can answer.
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Yeah, I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm really excited about it,
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and there has been a good response and that feels great.
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It has taken a lot of time to make the extra lessons for this Academy,
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and they've been very fun.
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My husband David’s in some videos and friends.
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I'm out to dinner with friends in some videos,
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and it takes what I've been doing for eight years
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and it puts it into a system for you.
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In addition to the video, there's text to bring it all together.
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There are quizzes so it's a little bit more interactive.
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There's listening comprehension exercises.
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So, it's a lot of fun, and I feel really good about it.
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I think you guys are going to love it,
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and the best part about it is, it's a subscription.
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So, each month I can add more stuff, which means I can respond to your needs.
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If you guys are saying, hey, we want more of this kind of a lesson,
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then I can make that, and that's what I really like about the ongoing nature
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of this is, you guys, the students, I'm expecting to learn a ton from you
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about what works for you, what you want more of, what’s not very effective.
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So, I can tailor the Academy to your responses, your needs,
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your tastes, throughout the months.
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Okay.
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There are not private lessons right now.
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That is a possibility for the future, but at the moment,
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there are not private lessons.
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It's going to be online videos and audios that you work through,
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but then there's also going to be a Facebook group where you can communicate
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with other people and then I'll also be in there commenting.
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So, you're not going to be alone doing this, but it is up to you to work
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through the content at your own pace except for the live classes.
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That will be more interactive.
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Is there going to be a trial period? There's not,
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but there is a 30-day money back guarantee.
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So, you can get access to the Academy, you can spend the whole month in there,
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and if at the end of the 30 days you decide,
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you know, this is not really what I thought it would be,
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this is not really what I need it to be, then you can just email me
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within those 30 days, and I'm happy to refund you and cancel your subscription.
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Oh, gosh.
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The comments are coming in so fast now.
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I'm having a hard time reading them before they go away.
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How long will students be in the Academy to take the course?
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So, that's really up to you.
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The Academy is never going to end.
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Okay, that's probably not true.
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It might at some point, but I have no plans to end it.
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Each month I'm going to be adding more content.
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So, as a student, when you feel like you've progressed to the point
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where you're really happy and you actually don’t feel like you
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want to keep checking in with your accent, then that would be when you stop.
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Now, there are going to be courses that come to completion within the Academy,
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but there will always be new courses that are being pushed out.
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So, it's really up to you, up to how much time you have.
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You may find that you go through a phase in life where all of the sudden
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you don’t really have time to practice your English anymore.
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At that point, you might drop out.
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Or you may find that even as you've gotten really comfortable with your English,
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you like the exercises in the Academy to just keep it going
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and you may find that you stay in the Academy for years because you love English,
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it's a passion, it's a hobby, and you appreciate the conversation skills
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that you're gaining in the Academy.
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Okay, sorry about that.
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Phone notification.
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I think I'm going to wrap this up for now.
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Thank you guys so much for all of your comments and for watching.
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I'm reading your comments, and even though I couldn't read every single comment live,
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I will read them all once the live ends.
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So, your voice will be heard.
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So, if you're saying, what's my next step?
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The next step is, get on the VIP list, follow the bit.ly link in the description
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to this video, and that's all you need to do for now.
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Once you join that list, then I will be coming to you with more information.
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You don’t need to seek it out anymore.
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So, that's it, guys.
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