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.

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.

I'll try, but I can't see them all.

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.

It's a low monthly fee.

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.

This is what I do best.

I'm not a grammar expert.

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.

I'm gonna be commenting in there a lot.

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.

First.

I see one that's coming in now on life.

How can we get your program?

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.

P.

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.

I.

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.

And I'll be answering your questions.

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.

Someone asked in a previous video.

What about canceling and restarting?

What happens then?

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.

Okay, I have bad news.

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.

That's crazy.

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.

The academy is by subscription only.

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.

But it would be a manual thing.

You would send me the payment.

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.

Fingers crossed.

I don't know if they'll ever do it.

Okay.

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.

Definitely.

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

Well, that's me.

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.

Will I get behind?

That's a good question.

Yes and no.

Let me explain.

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

It's called the Daily Plan.

I almost forgot the name of the course.

It's called the Daily Plan.

And your first day that you're in the academy, you only see one lesson Day one.

The next day, another lesson gets released.

So on day 10 you have 10 lessons.

So in that respect, it is dripping you content daily. 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:3.990 So if you don't look at it for 10 days, then there are those 10 days they're going to kind of back up now. 00:12:4.700 --> 00:12:13.250 The thing about the Daily Plan course is it's not, actually, How do I say this, the lessons in there or not?

Only in the daily course, the Daily course.

Each day it suggests lessons to go work on.

So it takes all of the other lessons and all of the other courses and then suggests how you would work through them this day.

Do this this day.

Do that so you can work with the daily plan.

But if you don't want to, if you miss 10 days or something, then you can just go back to Maybe you're working on the basics course and you decide you want to work through the whole basics course.

Then you can come back to that.

The content isn't going away.

It's just more is being added.

And to be honest, I expect most people are going to be working on it.

That way they will be in there.

They'll be finding the courses they really like.

They'll work through them, and when they don't have time to work for a couple days or a week, they want and they'll come back and maybe they'll review some of what they already did, and they'll find Oh, there's this new course model.

I love this kind of lesson.

I'm gonna go study that, Um, but I do suggest the daily plan.

It's suggesting about 20 maybe 30 minutes, a day of work that you could do.

And it doesn't just take one course, start to finish another course, start to finish.

I'd like to jump around a little bit on.

We always tie things back into each other, and we also in the Daily Planet to a lot of repetition.

Because if I I just gave you a lesson and I said, Watch this and you watched it, and that was it.

Then you, you know, have to talk about something.

But you probably don't know that actually do it.

And I don't want this course to be something where you just get a bunch of information. 00:13:59.830 --> 00:14:3.230 I want it to be something where you get better at speaking. 00:14:3.430 --> 00:14:10.890 And so to do that, there's a huge practice element, and so practice is a lot of repetition.

So the daily plan is big on that work on this lesson again.

Do this again, and so it's looping back, so it's not just the information.

It's the training as well.

Um, if you were to get behind, if you were to take a week off.

But you're going for the daily plan and you want to keep doing that, then when you come back, just go back to the where you left off and maybe try to do two a day for a while.

But it's okay if you've been in the course for 100 days, but you're only on day 80.

That's fine.

You don't have to do do it every day, though.

I will say the more consistent you are with it, the better your results will be.

So I hope that you're in there 10 minutes a day. 00:14:58.460 --> 00:15:2.130 You know, before you go to bed and maybe you pull out your phone. 00:15:2.130 --> 00:15:3.510 You look at Facebook. 00:15:3.510 --> 00:15:6.250 You look at Instagram, Snapchat, whatever. 00:15:6.260 --> 00:15:7.390 What if you decided? 00:15:7.390 --> 00:15:11.700 I'm gonna take 10 of those minutes and I'm gonna look at the Rachel's English Academy.

I'm gonna watch a video.

I'm gonna spend 10 minutes training and audio.

I'm gonna take one quiz.

Whatever.

Maybe that could be your commitment.

10 minutes of my end of day phone time goes to Rachel's English Academy.

Something like that.

Okay, enough preaching about working every day.

Let me go on to some other questions that came in.

Okay, Someone says, Rachel, how will you judge the level of Lerner?

Well, I'm not actually going to be judging you.

I'm not gonna be giving you evaluations.

That's not a part of this academy at this time.

So within the academy, there are certain things that are gonna be for people who are more advanced.

And it says that, um and but that I was thinking about this. 00:15:58.030 --> 00:16:5.650 And I want to say that every lesson does work for every person you're level will determine what you can take away from it. 00:16:6.040 --> 00:16:9.570 But I would never say, Hey, you shouldn't look at this because it's not your level. 00:16:9.570 --> 00:16:14.400 You're still gonna learn something from it with the Ben Franklin conversation analysis.

Even if you're just watching and absorbing, but you're not able to repeat it back.

It's not making sense with your mouth.

Whatever.