QA Yes Rachel will still make free videos

And I’m live on Facebook.

Hey, everybody.

I am going to be uploading this to
YouTube after the Facebook Live happens.

So, hi to people on YouTube as well.

I’m going live because last week I
published a video on Friday saying

that October 25 I’m going to
be launching an online school,

and I got some questions.

I got some comments
asking more about it.

So, I wanted to answer
a couple questions

about Rachel’s English Academy
and what it’s going to be.

The main question that I wanted
to answer is someone said,

are you still going to make free videos?
And the answer is yes, absolutely.

Every Tuesday I post a video
to YouTube and to Facebook.

Those are usually a lesson of some sort,
and that’s still going to happen.

Every Tuesday you’re going
to be getting new videos.

I have videos coming
up soon on placement.

I have a video on the BR cluster.

I have another challenge that we’re
going to do towards the end of 2016.

So, look for that.

So, the answer is yes, absolutely.

Rachel’s English Academy is not replacing
anything that I am already doing.

Hello.

People are starting to
say hi in the comments.

So, there’s that.

Don’t worry.

Nothing about what Rachel’s English
already is, is going to change.

There’s just going to be
additional stuff to work with.

The videos are going to be
a little bit different,

and I was trying to think of
how best to describe that.

So, the videos that you see
on Facebook and YouTube,

those are the lessons, and when I teach
privately, I send my students those lessons.

So, the videos in the Academy are
different in that they are everything

that I say to go along
with the lesson.

It’s more of the how to work

and I think of when I’m making
the videos for the Academy,

I’m thinking of all of the
questions that my students ask me

when it comes to working
with a particular topic.

That’s what goes into the
videos in the Academy.

So, it’s a little bit more what I say to
my students when I’m actually working

with people directly to fill in
the gaps between the lessons,

which is more like what you
see on YouTube and Facebook.

The lessons themselves.

Then, of course there’s just
going to be more lessons.

I’m doing about four Ben Franklin
videos a month about one a week,

and those are everybody’s favorite.

They’re such a great way
to study pronunciation

and there’s going to be real
life conversation that we study,

and also some scripted conversation,
and the reason why we’re doing

a little bit of scripted is because
it tends to be a little bit slower,

a little easier to understand.

There’s not a lot of
background noise.

There’s not two people
talking at the same time.

So, there’s stuff in the Academy for
beginners and also for advanced learners.

Some of the conversations that
we’re studying are native speakers

just hanging out, my friends having a casual
conversation, and they speak so quickly.

So, it’s going to be great for someone
who is already pretty advanced,

can understand pretty well, can pronounce
and be understood pretty well,

but just wants to get a little bit
more with the subtle details.

Wow, we have almost 100 people live.

That’s so fun.

We just jumped to 107.

Hey, guys.

For those of you just joining, I’m
talking a little bit about the Academy,

the Rachel’s English Academy, which I
announced last week will open October 25.

So, I’m still putting the finishing
touches on it still doing

a little bit of work there,
but I have chosen the date.

I have announced it.

So now I have to do it.

October 25 is when Rachel’s English
Academy will open and for the first week,

you can get in for $10 a month.

Once you register for Rachel’s English
Academy, whatever price you register at,

you will keep for the rest
of time unless you cancel.

So, if you register now, not
now, you can’t register now.

If you register on October 25, in the
first week, for the rest of your life,

you pay $10 a month
unless you cancel.

The price of the Academy is going
to go up every six months or so.

It’s going to go up initially
after the first week.

So, I’ve been looking around at other
online subscription, other online schools,

and I think $10 is a really good price
compared to what I’ve been seeing.

So, I feel good about that.

It was important to me to
not make it a huge fee.

So, we’re starting low, $10 a month, and
there’s new stuff added every month.

It’s a subscription.

So, there’s not a ton of
content in it to begin.

There’s about 25 videos, and I haven’t
counted up the hours of audio.

Maybe four or five hours of audio.

So, there’s a lot there, but it’s
not nearly what it’s going to be.

I have so many lessons planned out that
are going to be added to it every month,

and then of course, there’s
going to be live classes.

So right now, we’re live.

It’s amazing, and I can post
comments and that’s cool,

but it’s kind of hard for
me to keep track of them

because I’m talking at the same time,
but that’s a way for us to interact,

but the thing about the
live classes in the Academy

is that you’re going to be able to
do more than just add a comment.

You’re going to be able
to actually work with me.

So, each month I’ll have a live class
where we’ll be talking about a topic

and then I’ll be taking some
students who are present

and I’ll be turning on your web cam.

Of course, only with
your permission.

Then, we’ll work on a topic.

So then, everyone gets to see that mini
lesson, how to work, how to improve,

and then they also get to see,
okay, how is the student doing?

Are they responding?
Oh, wow, that worked.

I hear a difference.

That’s amazing.

So, not only will some people get
the benefit of direct coaching,

but then everyone else gets the benefit
of seeing that and learning from that.

So, that’s part of
the Academy as well.

So, that was sort of the main
question that I saw was,

how are these videos different
than what we already get?

Then also, are you still
making our free videos?

So, I hope that answers
that question.

I’m planning on going live some in
the next couple of weeks leading

up to October 25 in order to answer
questions that are coming in.

So, if you have questions about the
Academy, post them to my Facebook page,

post them to the YouTube
videos about the Academy,

and I’ll be answering
them in live videos.

So, someone has just asked,
how many lessons per week?

Well, I’m adding approximately
eight to 10 videos a month.

So, it’s about two per week.

Then, in addition to the
videos, there’s audio.

So, some lessons will
be video and audio.

So, it’s going to take more
than one day to work with,

and actually, that brings me
to a really important point.

Thank you for asking that question.

The Academy is how
I want my students

that I work with one on one—I don’t have
any of those right now, by the way.

Some people are asking, Rachel,
can you teach me one on one?

I’m not doing that right now, but
the way that the Academy works is,

it’s how I want the people that I’ve
worked with to work in order to improve.

I never give someone a lesson and then
the next day say, okay, stop doing that.

Now work on this.

That is not the way to improve.

When I was working with students one on
one, I would give them a couple concepts

to take home to work with the whole
week and then bring back to me,

and that repetition that I asked them to
do every day is what made them get better.

I saw the difference between
the students who got better

and the students who
didn’t, and it’s so clear

that it’s the daily work that made get
people better, and it’s the repetition.

So, some people would come to a lesson
with me and they’d be so into it.

They’d be so great, but I knew that they
weren’t going to work after the lesson,

and they knew they weren’t
because they didn’t have time.

So, we would have this lesson.

It would be fun, we’d make progress, and
then the next week we’d do the same thing.

Then there were students who would go home
and they would work the audio homework

that I gave them and they would come
back and they would blow me away,

and I would say, how
did you do that?

I remember two that I’m thinking
of in particular would say,

10 minutes a day, 20 minutes a day.

So, the way this Academy is set up
is, it’s the same audio plus some

that I would assign to my private students
to work on for a week, for two weeks.

So, it’s really important in the Academy
that the people who are in there know

that it’s not about getting a lesson every
day and learning a new lesson every day.

It’s about working every day,
but sometimes you’re working

on what you worked on yesterday because
that’s the only way to get better.

The YouTube videos, they already
tell you how to do something.

That is such a small part of
what matters in getting better.

You have to actually
practice your butt off.

Can you say that in Facebook Live?
I think you can.

You have to practice,
practice, practice.

It’s all about repetition.

I’m trying to teach
myself piano again.

I took it forever ago
when I was a kid,

and my hands do not want to
even do a basic scale anymore.

It’s so sad.

So, I’m sitting at the piano and I am
working so slowly through a C scale,

both hands, whatever, and it’s
actually a great thing for me

to be doing on right now as
I’m working on the Academy

because it is giving me an example
of what it’s like to learn

something with your muscles, to retrain
your muscles to do it naturally.

I sit down at the piano and I
play these scales so slowly.

It’s ridiculous, and I do them over
and over, and I’m just realizing

every time I do it, okay, my body is
getting a little bit more used to it.

Okay, I’m getting a little bit
more fluid with the movement,

and I’m just like, yes, this is
how my students need to work,

and that’s why I’m giving
you so much audio homework.

It’s all about repetition.

So, there’s two ways to
approach the online school.

One, as soon as you sign up,
you get access to everything.

So, you can be in control and you can
work on what you want to work on,

and you can be your own boss,
but two, if you feel like,

well, I’m not the expert here.

I don’t want to be my own boss.

I want someone to show me what
to do, then there is one class,

one course, in the school that every
day releases a new thing to work on,

and that’s where I’m building
in a lot of the repetition.

Sometimes I’ll have you work on
the same audio for a whole week.

Now, that’s not the only
thing you’re doing.

I’m making sure that it’s interesting
by putting in other things,

but within that daily planned
course, you have a map for

how much you should be
repeating the same exercise,

just like I sit down at the piano
and I repeat those same scales.

So, I forget what made me start
that whole little story,

but Rachel’s English Academy,
approach it two ways.

Work on your own as you want, at your own
pace, or work with me in the daily plan.

I’ll be sending you a new lesson
every day what to work on.

Repeat, repeat.

Learn something new.

Repeat, repeat.

Okay.

That was a great question,
thank you for asking it.

If anyone else has any other questions about
the Academy, you can post them below.

If I don’t see them, I’ll be able
to look later after this publishes.

You know what? I’m just going
to say right now, tomorrow,

the same time I’m going
to go live again.

So, it’s currently 11:30
here in Philadelphia.

So, tomorrow at 11:15 in the
morning in Philadelphia,

whatever time that is for
you, I will go live again

and I will answer some questions, but
the main thing, the main takeaway is,

in the description of this video, I put a
bit.ly link, and I hope it’s clickable.

I don’t actually know, but
if you click on that link,

then it will take you
to a registration page,

and it’s totally free to
register for the VIP list.

What is the VIP list?

That just means you’re saying, Rachel,
I am interested in your Academy.

I’m interested in
your online school.

So that means, on October 25,
you’re going to get reminder emails

about what you get when you sign up, and
it’s totally free to be on the VIP list.

If you end up changing your mind and you
don’t want to join the Academy, that’s fine.

It’s just a way that I know that you’re pretty
interested in what this is going to be.

So, click on the link.

I’ll add it after I go live if it’s not
already there, but it’s a bit.ly link.

Click on it, put in your email, and
then you get put on that VIP list.

Now, if you register in the first
week, October 25 to November 2,

in addition to getting the $10 a
month, which will go up on October 3,

you’re also going to get a couple free
little throw-ins, free little extras.

Freebies, if you will.

Three things.

One, you’re going to get
an extra live class.

So, I’m going to do
an extra live class

right after that first week of
registration where I’m going to be talking

about how to use Rachel’s English
Academy and I’ll answer your questions.

Number two, a lot of people want
downloads of some of the videos.

So, I put together a
slightly different version

than what appeared on YouTube of my
job interview series for download.

So, if you join the Academy
in that first week,

you get the download of those
five videos as well as a PDF.

Number three, the
last freebie is fun,

and if you followed me last year around this
time, then you may have already seen it.

I think 200 people have seen it,
but last year at Thanksgiving,

I made a Periscope of the meal,
and it got a little crazy.

I have a big family.

There was a lot good food,

but I’m going to be sharing that
freebie as the third freebie.

So, the videos from my Thanksgiving
dinner, which happened almost a year ago,

and you get to see all of the foods
that were passed around the table.

You get to hear the formalities of what
my family did before the meal began,

just mark that as an
important moment.

So yeah, it’s fun.

I was pregnant, and
really tired at the time.

I was eight months pregnant.

So, it’s interesting.

It’s a fun video.

So, all of those are free if you
register in the first week.

So, if you sign up for the VIP list,

then you’re going to get lots of reminders
about registering in that first week.

Okay, someone is saying, this is for
intermediate for advanced learners.

How do the students know the level?
That’s a great question.

Thank you so much.

I would say if you can watch my
YouTube videos with the captions

and understand pretty well,
then you’re a good level.

If you’re watching the
videos with the captions

and you have to watch a ton of
times, you have to watch many times,

you have to be looking up a bunch of words,
then it’s probably not quite for you,

but even in that case, you can try
it because it’s only $10 a month,

and if you decide in the first 30 days
that it’s too hard, you can let me know,

cancel your subscription,
and I give the $10 back.

I give you back whatever you paid.

So, if you’re not sure if it’s
going to be too hard for you

or if it’s going to be a good stretch
for you, then you should go ahead

and sign up because I will happily
refund you your first month

if you let me know within 30 days
that it’s not a good fit for you.

Okay, so, guys, that’s it for now.

I’ve been live for about 15 or 20
minutes, and I’m going to cut it off now

and as I said, same time, same place
tomorrow around 11:15 Philadelphia time.

I’ll go live again to
answer any more questions.

Yes, it is 10 USD dollars per month
if you sign up in the first week.

If you wait, then the price
goes up to $14 a month.

So, you save $50 a year if you
sign up in the first week.

Okay, guys.

That’s it for now.

Thank you for your questions.

Thank you for being here.