Name: 誰是 Rachel's English 的 Rachel？┃立即學習美式英語發音 (Who is Rachel of Rachel's English?┃Learn American English Pronunciation On the Go)
Uploaded: 2025-08-27T18:17:28.000Z
Duration: 37 min 8 s

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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.

您正在收聽的是專為非母語人士製作的 Rachel's English Podcast，我們在這裡研究美國人真正的說話方式。

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

我的目標是讓您每週都收聽這個播客，並在說話時聽起來更自然。

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.

在第一期節目中，我的丈夫大衛將採訪我，讓大家瞭解一下誰是瑞秋，瑞秋的英語是什麼。

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.

我們的對話非常精彩，如果您很難跟上對話的節奏或聽不懂所有的單詞，您可以免費下載本播客的文字記錄。

Just visit rachelsenglish.com slash podcast.

請訪問 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.

我從來都不是播客的忠實聽眾，最近一些朋友開始製作播客，當我開始聽他們的節目時，我發現這是一種非常有趣的形式。

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

這是一種非常有趣的討論方式。

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

我覺得在我的 YouTube 視頻中，有一種正式的感覺。

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

播客感覺有了更多對話的空間，這對我來說聽起來非常有趣。

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

畢竟，關注 Rachel's English 的人都想了解很多英語會話方面的知識。

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.

是以，由於我將為每個播客提供一份文字稿，我覺得我們真的可以以正常的對話節奏進行交流。

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.

對於那些很難記住所有單詞的人來說，他們可以選擇回過頭來查找。

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

我只是覺得這是一種非常有趣的方式，一種談論這些話題的新方式。

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

所以，我想知道更多關於為什麼你認為它會很有趣？

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

我花了好長時間才決定我的不同劇集會是什麼樣的。

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.

我不知道你是否知道這一點，但我的想法是，實際上你幾乎會出現在每一個播客中。

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

嗯，因為有兩個人参與會更有趣，因為這樣才會有對話。

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.

這也是讓我的視頻與眾不同的另一種方式，我的視頻一般都是我在講課。

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

現在是你和我在討論一件事，我贊成，我們就直說吧。

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

你可以從另一個角度來理解我的話。

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

你可能會攔住我，問我一些我沒有想到的問題。

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.

我只是覺得，因為你--我的丈夫--將參與這些播客，你知道，這有可能會是一場更加友好、開放的對話。

Maybe little anecdotes from our lives will come up.

也許我們生活中的小軼事會浮現出來。

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

我期待著更多地分享這類事情。

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

但是，在我們共事的這些年裡，有一件事很有意思，那就是

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

我已經成為一個專家，知道自己有多不專業。

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.

我的意思是，能從你那裡學到我完全不知道的語言的複雜性和細微差別，真的很有趣。

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

即使作為母語使用者，我看到的英語和聽到的英語也是完全不同的。

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

所以，一路上和大家聊一聊這個話題也會很有趣。

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.

我知道對你來說，這是一個經常被問到的問題，無論我們是在聚會上，還是你第一次見到某人。

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

因為你沒有一個快速而整潔的答案，所以有時幾乎有點令人討厭。

But here you go in the moment on the podcast.

不過，播客中的這一刻，你來了。

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

美國人就是這樣，一上來就問這個問題。

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

不過，我最近在嘗試一些不同的東西。

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?

有時候，我只是說我製作 YouTube 視頻，然後人們就不知道該怎麼回答了，因為我知道他們想說，不，我是說你的工作是什麼？

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

如果我說我為工作而製作 YouTube 視頻，他們就不太明白我的意思了。

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.

我也是在過去的六個月裡才能夠這麼說的，因為我六個月前才開始創業。

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

我開辦了一所網校，向中高級語言學習者教授英語作為第二語言。

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

然後，我想聽你給大家描述一下瑞秋英語是如何誕生的？

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

我的意思是，你知道，這東西是從哪裡來的？

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

嗯，它始於 2008 年，而 YouTube 我想始於 2006 年，可能是 2005 年。

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

但無論如何，它存在的時間並不長。

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

我當時住在歐洲，在哥廷根歌德學院學習德語。

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

作為其中的一部分，我和一群來自世界各地的人混在一起。

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.

你知道，當我想去德國學習德語時，我以為我會一直和德國人說德語。

I thought I'd be hanging out with Germans.

我以為我會和德國人混在一起。

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

但實際上，我一天中有很多時間都在學校。

And so I was not hanging out with Germans.

是以，我沒有和德國人混在一起。

I was hanging out with other people studying German.

我和其他學習德語的人一起玩。

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

特別是有一個來自土耳其的傢伙，我想我們最後連續一起上了六個月的課。

就這樣，我們成了非常要好的朋友。

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

他對美式英語和電影、美國電影很感興趣，想讓自己的聲音聽起來更美國化。

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.

他說幾句，我就告訴他該怎麼改才能讓聲音更好聽。

And I remember describing the AA vowel to him.

我還記得我向他描述過 AA 韻母。

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

And I was describing what the tongue should look like.

我在描述舌頭應該是什麼樣的。

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

然後他說，你真的很擅長這個。

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

我想，哦，嗯，也許我可以開始在 YouTube 上製作相關視頻。

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

我是說，我以前從未在 YouTube 上發佈過視頻。

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