LIVE LESSON Real English Conversation

my system setup so if you can hear me

please give me a shout-out in chat say

yes Rachel I hear you thank you guys for

being here it’s wonderful to see you all

today we’re going to be watching a video

that I made back in 2017 and I couldn’t

believe it when I thought of this video

and I went to find it I couldn’t believe

how long ago it was that I actually made

the video it just doesn’t feel that long

ago so great also thank you for

confirming in the chat that you can hear

me I appreciate that so this video is

just one of my favorites because it’s me

with one of my best friends and we are

cooking together and we are studying

real English as it happens so that’s

what we’re doing today this friend is

Laura and you may know her because she’s

been in a few videos we’ve been getting

together every fall to bake for probably

about ten years and I’ve been taking my

video camera there for a while now and

as we watch the video together I’m gonna

keep an eye on chat I see people coming

in from Spain Brazil Italy Egypt another

Brazil lots of Brazil here hello Brazil

wow they’re coming in so fast now we

have Turkey Iraq Spain Mexico Haiti

Venezuela El Salvador this is wonderful

Oh someone says I know Laura that person

must have seen my channel Korea Vietnam

Colombia Oh someone says Serbia Ethiopia

someone says you’re speaking in sync I

did have some issues last week with my

camera I apologize I promised I wouldn’t

go live until I fixed it and I fix it oh

my gosh

Honduras Bangladesh Germany Costa Rica

dr peru morocco venezuela i can’t even

you guys are awesome Russia India Yemen

Libya Panama Algeria my eyes almost

can’t focus it’s coming in so fast on

chat China

Denmark thank you guys so much for being

here it’s so fun I feel your energy as I

see that chat going by so if you have

questions about the video that we’re

watching together or anything else post

them in chat I’m gonna try to keep my

eye there i he i see Somalia Pakistan

Algeria Tunisia Guatemala

I saw Australia so put a comment there

in chat I’m gonna do my best to keep an

eye on that when we’re watching the

video together that’s what I’m going to

be doing so if you have questions just

ask and along the way we’ll stop the

video of the video from Laura and we’ll

just talk we’ll talk about what’s

happening what questions you guys might

have so keep them rolling in and let’s

go ahead and start this video so as I

said this was 2017 my good friend Laura

were in her house in Massachusetts and

we’ve gotten together for what we call

the fall baking weekend all right let’s

check it out in this American English

pronunciation video we’re going to study

real-life English while I make an apple

pie with my dear friend Laura caramel

this tasty word can be pronounced three

ways caramel caramel or caramel each

pronunciation is accepted and you will

find all three of these pronunciations

listed in the dictionary here’s what it

says whisk in a medium saucepan now it

doesn’t say over medium-low heat okay

okay I’ll do that okay notice how we

respond to each other kay and okay these

are both common variants of the word

okay this word is used a lot in

conversational English it can be used to

say I understand I’m listening

which is how Laura and I both use it

here over medium-low heat okay okay I’ve

read okay okay okay how many of you guys

love to cook I’m not seeing a whole lot

of questions coming in someone says will

the live video be saved can you save

this in your channel yes right now I’m

leaving them all as public I’ve done

this is my third or fourth so they’re

all there I think if you go to Rachel’s

I think if you go to youtube.com slash

Rachel’s English slash live that may be

old ones are there but if not I’ll

figure out where to where to send you to

go see it but yes this one will be up so

if you go to my channel you should be

able to find it along with my other live

videos so I want to know in there in

this video Laura and I were cooking

caramel sauce caramel and we’re talking

about the different pronunciations of

that so we’re making a dessert and I

want to know in the chat what is your

favorite dessert to make or to eat but

if you make it let me know Laura and I

are planning on getting together this

fall if we’re able to with travel

restrictions and we’re always looking

for new recipes to try I’m thinking it

would be so fun to try a recipe that was

where the idea was given to us by one of

you so in the chat let me know what’s

your favorite dessert and you know maybe

I can google it and find a recipe and

Laura and I can cook it up we can share

it with you guys okay let’s keep going

with Laura what are we gonna make have I

announced it yet I don’t remember if

I’ve said it yet at this point in the

video part of the recipe and we’re both

saying I understand that then she offers

to take care of it and I say okay again

here meaning I understand I’ll do that

okay

we also use it for yes will you add the

sugar okay

over a medium low heat

okay I’ll do that okay here’s what it

says mmm so we do this until the sugars

dissolved then we add the butter which I

put out on the counter so they stick

just light on the butter yeah you know

it’s not okay so Japanese cheesecake

lemon cake lemon pie

someone said cake someone said ice cream

a few people have said tiramisu Cheech

peach cobbler is one of my favorites

cinnamon rolls you know I’m thinking

about making some cinnamon rolls this

week I saw a recipe and I thought this

is too good to ignore okay someone from

Hong Kong says it’s 4:00 in the morning

thank you for joining us we’re just

talking about desserts

someone says brownies saint-honore a

very French cake and now I’ve seen that

made before on a cooking show but I’ve

never made it but I did buy a book on

French pastry and it’s in it so maybe I

should make that seems kind of

complicated but I’m always up for so I’m

seeing a lot of people saying Akito I’ve

never even heard this word before is

that a dessert if so please explain it

because lots of people said that

doughnuts

yes I love doughnuts actually last year

Laura and I made apple cider doughnuts

we covered them in cinnamon and sugar

they were some of the best things I’ve

ever made

I’m definitely gonna want to make those

again soon arroz con leche yummy

I’ve had that before for sure Nikita is

so good okay so what is it someone tell

me what is Nikki dough I’m giving it a

very American pronunciation aren’t I

Nikki dough I’m sure that’s not how it’s

pronounced

someone says baklava I love baklava I

used to not as a kid I didn’t really

like it I would say actually I didn’t

even like it for like even as an adult

for a while but then I had it and I was

I opened my mind to it again and I

realized how delicious it was pumpkin

dessert okay let’s keep going I’m gonna

shrink myself down again

and I’m gonna keep watching thank you

guys for throwing out all your does

suggestions I’m gonna have to go look up

what is Nikki dough so that I can learn

about it false I’ve said something here

that’s not true it’s false I’m not being

serious the pie is very high in calories

listen to the different ways you can say

I’m not being serious

oh I’m joking I’m being facetious

I’m just kidding she’s joking

yeah I’m pulling your leg it’s a high in

calorie blind okay so I’m just joshing

you I’m just joshing you can I’m just

joshing dang

don’t get upset I’m just joshing I’m

just okay so in that video there I’m

about to review all those things but

josh is a name it’s a pretty common name

for a man in the US and I don’t know how

the phrase joshing evolved it would be

interesting to look that up but we do

use the phrase I’m just joshing you to

mean I’m just kidding you so I don’t

know why or how but just watching this

you know it’s just so I see how hard I

laugh when I’m with Laura and it just it

makes me appreciate her so much you know

I know so many people across the world

myself included right now

we’re in a period where we’re not really

able to be physically in proximity to

friends we’re trying to do social

distancing and with two small children

it’s hard to do anything if if our kids

were old enough to understand then we

could potentially go sit in a field with

some friends six feet away but our

youngest child is 18 months and he

wouldn’t understand staying away from

people so it just seems kind of hard and

complicated to go be with people and uh

as the weather is getting warm

and we just think about getting outside

more it’s just more and more sad isn’t

it what about you guys are you guys

where where you live let me know when

the chat are you guys also having to do

social distancing

or maybe the coronavirus isn’t an issue

where you are right now but it is

definitely an issue here okay let’s go

back to the video I’m gonna recap all of

those different ways in American English

that we can say I’m not being serious

okay I’m being facetious I’m just

kidding I’m pulling your leg I’m just

joshing

all of these things mean what I’m saying

should not be taken seriously or

literally I could have also said I’m

just playing or I’m playing the word

just in all of these phrases can be used

but doesn’t have to be used a note on

the pronunciation of the word just if

it’s followed by a word that begins with

a consonant the T will usually be

dropped for example I’m just kidding

just kidding straight from the S sound

into the K with no T I’m joking I’m

being facetious I’m just kidding I’m

pulling your leg it’s a high in calorie

lie I’m just joshing you you want to

grab this stick of butter yeah so okay

so in case you’re wondering I saw it in

chat an Aikido is a cookie that is

famous in Brazil very delicious

apparently perhaps I should look up a

recipe recipe for this if I make it I

will put a story on YouTube and

Instagram and I think my Instagram

automatically goes to Facebook so if I

make it I will post it there and I will

give my review of this cookie I also saw

Meggie who is my student in Rachel’s

English Academy in the chat

she lives in France she said they’re

doing lockdown there and she wishes

people would take social distancing more

seriously am I getting that right Meggie

the chat went by really quickly but I

think that’s what I saw and the same

thing is true here some people are

taking it really seriously and other

people not so much you know if you don’t

know anybody who has it or who had it

bad I do think it’s probably harder at

this point to take it more seriously but

you know we’re all there’s such

huge sacrifice that’s happening right a

societal sacrifice and economic

sacrifice and all of that we’re still

keeping we’re still being very serious

and we’re really we’re really keeping

very isolated but we’re lucky that we

have a friend who moved in with us eight

weeks ago so we we’ve combined two

households and were we just decided to

be each other’s nuclear families so we

have one extra person living with us and

that has been great

so someone says what are some of the

differences from the students you first

taught and now in their English learning

so Jack I’m not sure if your question is

about how my technique has changed over

the years or how do I teach someone

that’s a beginner versus more advanced

and you know something that’s

interesting about that is I am often

working on the same thing because my

advanced students have picked up on a

lot of things but there’s often a little

bit of character that’s just keeping

them from sounding natural whether

that’s placement or making reductions

even shorter and so I’ll be working on

those final fine-tuning things with my

advanced students but then my beginning

students I think they’re such important

and crucial components that right from

the beginning I’ll be talking about

character as well so it’s often

something similar now I have to go

deeper on more topics with my more

beginner students like sounds working

out mouth positions and these kinds of

things but there are a few topics that I

work on with everybody because pretty

much everybody needs to work on them and

Meggy has confirmed that yes there are a

few cases in Bordeaux

you know Meggie I was in Bordeaux like

15 years ago or something loved it

totally want to go back if I do I will

look you up and we all have wined

together when all of this coronavirus

has passed us all right let’s head back

over to the video so that we can watch

the cooking and get really nice and

hungry for what how many years have you

been doing this

well we’ve lived here since 2010

no way no way here no way what does that

mean that means I can’t believe what

she’s saying I don’t think it’s true and

it turns out I misunderstood I thought

she meant she had been living in that

house since 2010 but she meant she’d

been living in the town since then ok so

a couple things I saw in chat someone

was asking about is it social distance

or physical distance it’s a good

question so it is physical distance but

it’s called social distancing isn’t that

funny

so in Philadelphia we’re being asked to

keep I think it’s six feet away from

people in general when possible but that

practice of doing that is called social

distancing so for example at the grocery

store or at a park we’ll see signs that

say please practice social distancing

maintain a distance of six feet or more

whenever possible also someone asked

about the pronunciation of the word

false and the dark L there so the L in

that word is what we call a dark L

because it comes after the vowel fall

that’s the dark sound and then there’s

an S this person said do you lift your

tongue tip for the L the answer is no

when you have a dark L and the next

sound is a consonant you don’t lift your

tongue tip of course there always be an

exception but in general one person

might do it once and then also if it’s

at the end of the sentence or your

thought you don’t lift your tongue tip

for example my name Rachel hey what’s

your name Rachel if I say that and I’m

done and I break and I don’t link into

an X word my name ends in an L a dark L

I don’t lift my tongue tip Rachel

I just make that dark sound false fall

or you can see my tongue tip is down for

that I’m making the sound with the back

of my tongue Oh

of course I have videos on the dark L

and how to make it but that’s a general

rule to keep in mind if the sound after

is a consonant or there is no sound

after it’s the end of a thought group

then don’t lift your tongue tip it’s

gonna bring the sound too far forward

it’s gonna make too much of the sound

and it’s probably not going to sound

right someone has asked so many times in

the chat do you speak Spanish a little I

lived abroad in college that was a long

time ago I lived in the Dominican

Republic I spoke Spanish there since

then I’ve spent a little bit of time in

Mexico but it’s been a very long time

since I’ve needed Spanish on a daily

basis so I can say I don’t speak it very

well but I’m happy to find that when I

go back to a situation where I need it

like when I was in Mexico in January

that I’m able to get by and that feels

good I feel like I have a base that I

can use to build on to improve my

vocabulary figure out where my holes are

and all of that you know if I’m ever in

a situation where I’m going to be

spending more time speaking Spanish all

right let’s head back over to the video

I said seven ish years while Laura said

six or seven years ish is something you

might hear put at the end of a word to

show approximation every fall I come up

to Laura’s house and we have a fall

baking weekend and actually we’ve made

lots of videos from the fall baking

weekend so I will put a link to that

playlist in the comments below also

right here just click the I they’re

really fun they are at least we have fun

we have fun we keep on working on the

sauce for that pie adding butter and

then adding cream there we’re both

unsure of what the recipe says we both

use the phrase supposed to we both

produce this phrase to sposta we reduced

it from 3 syllables to 2 this is really

common the s and T can either be

pronounced just suppose

or ZD spose de I think I’m supposed to

add this really slowly am I supposed to

keep whisking or stirring all right

there we go

whoa steam ball on the camera okay

steam bomb okay I’m seeing a couple more

comments and questions coming up and

chat first of all a few other people

from my Academy have let me know that

they were here thank you guys great to

see you here someone says whisking so a

whisk is that kitchen tool that we were

using that has all of those oh I don’t

even know what to call the metal strands

and it’s a tool that I think is probably

from French cooking originally someone’s

asking about my going live am I am I

doing it often so if you’re just joining

me here thanks for coming I am going to

be going live for the next several weeks

I’m thinking it may be May and June just

as a way to try to connect more during

this time of distancing and when I am at

home and I’m having more time to be at

home and right now I’m planning on going

live on Saturdays but just keep an eye

on Instagram Facebook YouTube because

I’ll announce it there and if you go to

Rachel’s youtube.com slash Rachel’s

English slash live it should show the

next time that I have scheduled and I’m

scheduling a day or two in advance so if

you check that then you’ll definitely be

in the know about when it’s happening

and you can share it with people I saw

someone asked about the difference

between V and W so a lot of my students

from India have problems switching those

two it’s actually very clear because you

can see the mouth position V and you can

see that’s different then W Wow Wow

so I do have a video that goes over that

up close slow motion you can pause it

you can really study the two sounds side

by side so make sure on youtube to

search for Rachel’s English V W and you

should be able to find

a couple people are asking if I speak

Chinese I do not that would be fun you

know my friend who I’m living with right

now her name is Renee and she lived in

China in the second and third grade so

when she was about like seven to nine

years old about and so she speaks

Chinese it’s fun to have her around

she’s teaching the boys a few Chinese

phrases and words of course they can

speak it way better than I can

someone says how does Korona day-to-day

life look like you know here I always

worked from home I have a home office so

that’s not different but for most people

that I know their work life is very

different for example my friend who’s

living with us she usually works in an

office in New York City but she’s able

to be here with us because they’ve

closed their office so they’re all doing

work from home so work from home is a

big thing childcare and schools are

closed that makes it very difficult for

people who have children like myself and

so our routine has changed the most that

way and that our children are with us

24/7 from the second they come and wake

you up by shouting in your face you know

until you finally get them to fall

asleep at 8:00 or 9:00 or whatever so

that’s the biggest difference is just

the constant on and you know I always

say after we finally get the last kid to

sleep we come down we come downstairs

and it’s a disaster zone and then we

have to spend like an hour cleaning that

up and then by the time that’s done just

so tired we just go to bed it’s a little

bit better than that that I’m describing

but that’s the main difference um we

don’t know anyone personally who is died

of it I know people who know people and

we know a few people who have gotten it

but it’s not been like a very close

relationship so as far as the virus

itself and the scariness of it we’re

pretty far removed from that at this

point but that’s what I would say our

main differences is the kids and not

being able to see friends not being able

to go out you know David and I don’t

we haven’t been out together on a date

of course and two and a half months now

all right let’s go back to the video I

want to see how this pie turns out I’m

pretty sure it was pretty good so now

we’re slicing the apples we’re using a

machine to make it a little easier you

can put them in here then yeah okay

there are always lots of reductions in

American English let’s look at the ones

I just used we are contracts to we’re

and is often pronounced were in

conversation it’s really fast and it

sounds just like this word or I use that

contraction twice here so now we’re

slicing the apples we’re using a machine

to make it a little easier you can put

them in here then yeah okay you’re gonna

put them in here then some more

reductions the word are at the beginning

was dropped

we need that word to be grammatically

correct but it is sometimes dropped in

spoken English going to became gonna and

that th was dropped in them put them

becomes put them put them no th and a

flap T to connect the two words put them

put them okay everyone practice that put

them put them put them link those words

put them you’re gonna put them okay a

couple questions coming in one person is

asking what video editing software do I

use I assume you mean in these live

broadcasts I know it’s pretty cool isn’t

it

I saw a demo and I was like this is

amazing it’s called Wirecast is what I’m

using to do this live stream with you

now where I am against a green screen

and I can be superimposed in front of

the video someone else asked a question

which of course I can’t remember now but

someone else is asking about something

about the community and it is true that

I do feel like my husband and I have a

really strong wonderful community that

we’re surrounded with and I think that

can come across in the videos I’m so

lucky that I

have friends and family that are willing

to be in the videos I think don’t they

make them more interesting when it’s

friends and family in the videos I think

it’s a lot more interesting than when

it’s just me I just saw another country

represented in the chat that I hadn’t

seen yet it’s Bolivia my parents used to

live there

they lived there for three years before

I was born so hello to you okay Wow now

the chat is going so fast someone says

what’s your favorite song

ooh boy that’s tough you know I used to

sing opera and that’s most of what I

listen to if any of you guys are fans of

the Opera I want to let you know if you

didn’t already that the Metropolitan

Opera if you go to met opera org every

night they’re doing a new free stream

it’s actually for 24 hours from their

archive and I’ve been able to watch

little bits here and they’re super fun

if you love opera go check it out if you

don’t know opera try it out why not all

right let’s go back I hope so oh I know

the other question I wanted to I wanted

answered blouson the word

sorry about that guys I totally did not

did not mean to make that clip happen

someone else asked a question and it was

about whether or not it’s possible to

sound like a native speaker if you

weren’t born here and how many years

does it take so I would say it really

doesn’t have to do with years it’s not

like in a certain number of years you

will achieve that it has to do more with

your natural ability to imitate and to

develop your American part of yourself I

call it your American persona and then

people who have a really good musical

ear and as I said very good imitation

skills can definitely get there or

almost there and it does take a long

time probably a couple of years I would

say but you have to certain people will

be able to achieve that and I think

other people will probably

never be able to achieve that it has to

do with their mindset and how open they

are to change how much they can find

something different with their body how

much they can understand a different way

of expressing themselves and you know

not everybody wants to sound like a

native speaker a lot of people value

their accents and they study simply to

feel that they can communicate more

easily and be more easily understood and

I always say I know I teach accident

reduction but I think accents are

wonderful and I I am not in the business

of eliminating accents I am in the

business of helping people reach their

goals for communicating in English

whatever they are okay let’s go back to

that video and again sorry about that

blip I just had is really unclear it’s

very common to drop the beginning and

basically just make the TS sound let’s

put the lemon juice in that it’s and

what can also make this reduction we’re

we’re just putting the TS sound in front

of the next word see this video for

further examples and explanation let me

go get him a couple reductions here let

me becomes Lemmy and the H is dropped in

him dropping the H in this word is a

really common reduction when we do this

it sounds just like when we dropped the

T H in them get him becomes get him just

like put them was put them the flap T

links the words and the reduction of

them and him are the exact same sounds

schwa and M get him did you guys know

that that the hymn reduction and the

vehm reduction will sound the same get

him put them in those cases we’re

linking with a flap T but both them and

him sound like um when they’re reduced

and sometimes people will say why on

earth would they be pronounced the same

and I say because the context we know

are we talking about a couple of people

or are we talk

about a single person so that’s why it’s

not really confusing so I said let me go

get him get him get him get him

that’s get him pronounced a more natural

way everyone out there try it right now

get him repeat with me get them get them

get them right okay now let’s go back I

think my son Stoney is about to make an

appearance

put them hey everybody

you want to try no okay dump them in

them is okay I really wanted Stoney to

say something to camera but he wouldn’t

do it and then I said dump them in dump

them dump them again them becoming um

get them dump them I love these

reductions and these are the

characteristic components of English

this is these are what make American

English very unique bill linking the way

you know some students come from a

language where each word is separate and

clear and they have the hardest time

with this linking and with changing a

word like them - um why would you ever

make a word less clear than its supposed

to be but this is what we do in American

English we love the flow we love the

smoothly the smoothness and it can make

it incredibly hard to understand but

when you know what the reductions are

and you study them like this like in

this video they will become easier to

understand and once that starts

happening you’ll find that your

listening comprehension does improve so

there is a good reason for studying all

of these things it’s not just

interesting in the beautiful music but

it helps you understand American English

produced again

dump them dump them I’m going to take

you down to Daddy I’m going to

got reduced with our most common words

and phrases we tend to do the most

dramatic reductions mana there’s almost

an idea of I in front of it but not

really I’m gonna mana mana I’m gonna

take you down to daddy I made a video

where I go over this reduction and more

examples click here or in the

description below to see that video

I love how when you start paying

attention to a particular reduction you

constantly hear it did you catch the

reductions of them here we’re talking

about the apple slices okay I think

that’s so fun and funny about making

videos with my friends is we all use

English without thinking about it of

course and as soon as I point something

out like the reduction and then you know

when they stop to think about it they

think oh all of them it’s so ridiculous

to say all of them and isn’t it funny

how all of ends up sounding like the

word all of all of the little green

thing that you get olive oil out of all

of all of all of them all of them I just

love this about language and it’s just

it’s so fun thinking about it when I’m

around people who don’t think about it

and discovering these things and just

listening to how they talk and reduce

someone says it’s like impossible for me

to learn all of these reduction things

you know what I’m gonna challenge you on

that there there are not a massive

number of reductions there are quite a

few but not hundreds I have a video on

each one of them you can learn them and

you can do it and the more you do it and

then you start doing analyses of native

speech you’ll get more and more used to

them guys this summer 13 videos in a row

we’re going to do those Ben Franklin

speech analysis videos where we’re

taking a scene from a movie

this case and we’re doing an in-depth

pronunciation analysis and so as a part

of that you’re going to be seeing a lot

of reductions and those are a great way

to solidify what you’re learning if

you’ve learned something like the

reduction of them and him then you go

see it being used in a conversation it’s

a great way to solidify that in your

mind so be sure to check that out it’s

an awesome series I just finished my

first round of editing with them and

they’re gonna be really good they’re

gonna be really fun we have a big

variety of videos of movies that we’re

going to be doing clips from and they’re

all they’re all worth watching there’s

something interesting to learn in every

one of them so make sure you come check

it out okay so the first one is the

first Tuesday in June alright let’s go

back to the video and we mixed the

apples in with the other dry ingredients

we packed the apples into our pie shell

and drizzled on the caramel sauce which

got too thick as it cooled we overcooked

it and finally we make the lattice top

for the pie I had some problems and I

kept messing it up what is wrong with me

really screwing up screw up is a phrasal

verb which means to do something the

wrong way or to do a bad job with

something I screwed up the pie crust

you could also say mess up I messed up

the pie crust have to wipe that off oh

darn I beat that caramel sauce this is

weird Laura last time I made this it

seeped in much more so went because look

when I’m doing the lattice now when I

pull it up it’s like bringing up all

this ready thicker it’s weird I gotta

say right now I’m like I’m feeling

embarrassed about how this is turning

out turn out another phrasal verb as I’m

using it here it means how something

develops or ends I’m not happy with how

it’s going I’m embarrassed

with the end result of my pie I gotta

say right now I’m like I’m feeling

embarrassed

about how this is turning out I finished

making the top and we put it in the oven

and the final scene of course needs to

be trying the pie also we made a pumpkin

pie I’m also feeling great about that

from scratch with a pumpkin

we made whipped cream big deal and Dana

made chocolate dipped macaroons macaroon

iraq-iran to clarify this is a macaroon

and this is a macaron which is also

pronounced macaron if you’d like to

recreate this pie it really is amazingly

delicious please see the link in the

video description below it’s from my

favorite PI book the four and twenty

blackbirds book in this American English

pronunciation or party okay I’m seeing

some questions coming in chat let’s just

take a quick minute to look at them

somebody was asking about the difference

between kin ki n Qing and keen like I’m

keen to do that I’m interested in doing

that so the difference there is the

avowal I can sit and the eval like in

seat and I do have a video on that where

I actually used the problem of the word

beech sounding just like a cuss word

[ __ ] and I know a lot of my non-native

students are like embarrassed and

worried about the difference in these

vowels because it also comes in with the

word sheet and then the cuss word with

the is sound would be [ __ ] and so it’s

important to feel comfortable in these

vowels and I know a lot of my students

aren’t so I do have a video you can look

that up probably googling on YouTube

Rachel’s English and then the word beech

would get you there

but the thing to note is with the with

the word king like king and queen so if

you look it up in the dictionary you’ll

see the avowal I can sit but it’s not

because that would be a kick King King

and that’s not how we say that word we

say King so when the avowal is ending is

followed by an NG sound then it shifts

to eat but that’s not what the

dictionaries will tell you this is

common in words like King and ring like

a ring but then also we have a ton of

words in English all of our verbs that

would have an ING ending so it’s true

there as well it’s not in it’s in in in

helping hanging in a dictionary that

would say it’s a but it’s really more of

a in practice it’s just one of those

things that for whatever reason the IPA

doesn’t really truthfully reflect the

habits of how Americans speak there are

just a few vowels like that and this is

one of them if owl

followed by ng the ing ending someone

says why are you an awesome teacher I

don’t know because I have awesome

students I think okay guys it’s been

really fun being here with you live

thank you so much for joining me the

chat was so on fire today I had a hard

time even reading the comments sometimes

they moved so quickly

I’m seeing someone asking about learning

vocabulary search that on my channel I

have a couple videos one of them is 5

tips on learning vocabulary and then

I’ve published two recently that are

intermediate words that are great words

for my intermediate students and also

any student studying for an exam like

TOEFL or IELTS these are going to be

words that you’re gonna want to know for

those exams so be sure to check them out

Rachel’s English vocabulary should bring

them up for you but this was fun guys

keep an eye out for my next live stream

it will likely be the same time next

Saturday and I will publish the link for

that a couple days in advance so that’s

it guys thank you so much for being here

I enjoy you I appreciate you I hope you

are