LIVE Watch Party Lessons with Rachel
excited to see everybody here I see it’s
10:00 p.m. in Paris right now 4:00 p.m.
here in Philly so how’s everybody doing
is everybody great just checking out the
chat all right Roy is here right on time
we have someone from Brazil someone says
I’m unable to watch this video it hasn’t
started yet
it’s just now starting so I’m from
Portugal hey Carlos great to see
everyone here it’s wonderful to have you
in my live stream so what we’re gonna do
today is we’re gonna watch a video
together it’s gonna be great so I just
want to talk a little bit about how it
works
I chose an old video of mine that I
wanted to watch with you guys we’re
gonna do a watch party we’re gonna turn
it into a lesson and I’m keeping my eye
on chat so as you have questions put
them there I’m doing my best to keep an
eye on them and I will answer questions
and read your comments and we’ll go from
there
so to start okay someone’s asking when
is my birthday
my question is does anyone out there
know when my birthday is
I’ve mentioned it a few times in other
videos and other settings
does anybody know my birthday
it’s November 5 and I’m turning I’m
going to be turning 42 in 2020 it’s
gonna be a good year okay we have a
Dominican Republic here we have India oh
it’s going so fast I can hardly read it
Mexico City someone says is a picture
behind you yes this is a picture this is
not my office I’m not actually in this
room I’m in front of a green screen and
I’m you know still getting better at it
so I don’t look totally perfect in front
of the green screen but it’s a stock
photo I thought it looked like a nice
looking room I thought oh I’d like to be
there so that’s why I turned it on
that’s why I chose this stock photo but
anyway good good call good I
you’re right it’s not my office we have
India Colombia Argentina Dubai maybe
someone saying Ohio there I was someone
whom Berta was also turning 42 that’s
awesome
El Salvador Peru Italy wonderful Costa
Rica Argentina Dubai Iran Iran Thailand
Texas hey my brothers in Texas so great
to see you guys ok so let’s get started
we’re gonna watch the video and I’m
gonna pause it as we go and ask you
questions and you ask me questions and
we’re just gonna have a nice
conversation English lesson together oh
my gosh someone just went by and chat
and I saw that they’re from West Philly
it’s like five miles from where I live I
was in West Philly before I moved over
here to Fishtown okay but let’s get
started
we’re gonna watch the video together I’m
gonna take myself here and I’m gonna
shrink myself down so that I don’t block
the video sort of a cool feature
it’s 6:30 7:00 in the morning wait a
second
oh that’s about how well my eyes focus
when I get up what time do you get up I
was recently at a YouTube conference
where someone did a presentation on my
morning routine different people across
the world just taking their camera
through their morning showing people
what their life is like and I thought
this is fascinating I loved seeing other
cultures seeing what people did how they
lived just a normal day
so I decided today I’m gonna do the same
I’m gonna show you my morning routine
what is my morning like and of course
we’ll turn it into an English lesson
along the way okay that’s a good time to
take a pause how many people have seen
this video already let me see a show of
hands in chat if you’ve already seen
this video so we’re gonna watch it
together and if you have any questions
if you’re just now joining me live this
is a live video watch party lesson we’re
checking out a lesson from the archives
and watching it together and I got
inspired to do this when
was at a YouTube get-together and it’s
called creator summit and there was a
guy there who works for YouTube who is
giving a presentation on different
trends on YouTube and my morning routine
is a big trend that I guess people show
things like getting ready for school or
my makeup routine or something but then
there were also just people showing what
their life is like in the morning how do
they start their day and I thought that
it was so neat to see how people around
the world spent the first hour of their
day that’s something I wish I could see
more of so anyway I decided to make this
video about my life what is the first
hour of my day like and I’m curious what
is the first hour of your day like let
me know in the comments I will be
checking them out alright but let’s go
ahead and we’re gonna keep watching the
lesson let me know when you have
questions just throw them there in the
chat what do you think the first thing I
do every morning is the first thing is
always nurse Sawyer he’s a little too
distracted by the camera it’s a nurse
right now nurse this word has several
different meanings
you can nurse a baby you can nurse the
sick person you can nurse the cold
you can even nurse a beer we’ll go over
all of these meanings first I want to
stay the verb breastfeed can be used
interchangeably with this term and it
doesn’t mean anything else so that can
be another option the first thing I do
okay
we’re gonna stop here I’m gonna ask you
guys what is it like culturally where
you live what is the deal with
breastfeeding is it something that
people do do women do it openly is it
kind of not okay to do it in the u.s.
it’s not very common it’s something
you’re just now starting to see
happening a little bit more when I was
born 42 years ago almost 41 and a half
years ago it was not the cultural norm
at all so it would be very uncommon no
women it was not even suggested really
that they do it in hospitals and this
kind of thing
now you know when you go to your
prenatal exams they might ask you about
it
they might they’re like classes you can
take so more and more people are
starting to do it but it’s still
something that I always felt a little
uncomfortable with doing in public and I
think other people feel uncomfortable
about it they kind of look away so what
is it like so someone says it’s not okay
here where do you live it’s normal in
Bulgaria Wow
that’s awesome I would just yeah they do
it openly in Brazil that’s that’s great
I feel like I still can’t say American
women do it openly we do it you know we
do it in public because we have to if
that’s what we’ve chosen to do but I
think a lot of us still feel a little
bit bashful about it
and you know it wasn’t until recently
that states had laws protecting the
right to do it I definitely know moms
who have been breastfeeding somewhere
like in a cafe and they’ve had people
come up and say you can’t do that here
you have to go somewhere else that’s
bothering people around you and this
kind of thing so now there are laws so
that it’s clear that yes moms are
allowed to do that but you know not
everyone knows that it’s the law and I
think there are a few states that maybe
do not have laws about it yet so slowly
the culture is evolving around this and
I think over time it will be more and
more accepted as more and more women are
choosing to do it because of the the
data but yeah I’m just really I was
really interested in what what is the
vibe like around that in public in other
countries so someone says in Ecuador
it’s a natural to do it in public
common in Mexico very interesting thank
you guys thank you for answering my
question all right let’s go back so as I
started to say there the word the phrase
nurse and nursing has a couple different
meanings one of them is breastfeeding
but there are a couple others that we’re
about to learn here oops here we go
morning is breastfeeding my baby
notice that I’m not saying the tea here
that’s common when the T comes between
two consonants we often drop it
breastfeed straight from the S sound
into the F sound breastfeed now let’s
talk about all those different meanings
if we use this word as a noun it’s
somebody who’s been trained as a nurse
to care for the sick it’s an occupation
my aunt is a surgical nurse as a verb
like I used it it can mean to breastfeed
to feed a baby it can also be used to
describe caring for someone who’s sick
she nursed him back to health it can be
used to describe taking care of an
ailment I’ve been nursing a cold for two
weeks that means I’m taking throat
lozenges for it drinking lots of tea
trying to get better we also use it to
talk about a drink
usually an alcoholic one that we’re
drinking very slowly just taking us okay
so how many of you guys knew all of
those terms before you probably knew
about the occupation nurse and nursing
it’s like my niece who’s going to
college next year is planning on
majoring in nursing so it’s like the
topic of study she’s gonna study nursing
she’s going to be a nursing major but
then we also use it these other ways
like for example we would use it to
nurse somebody I’m nursing him back to
health I’m making him chicken soup I’m
just making sure that he is healthy and
comfortable I’m making sure he gets all
his medications I’m nursing him back to
health but then we would also use it not
with a person but with something that’s
wrong so for example if I had a cold I
could say oh man I’m nursing my cold
with hot tea every morning lots of honey
trying to take naps and then we also use
it for a drink
usually an alcoholic drink something
that you’re drinking very slowly and I
used as an example someone could say hey
Rachel can I get you another beer and I
could say no I’m still nursing this one
or if you’re out with somebody and you
know you’ve had three glasses of wine
already and they’re just still on their
first you could say wow you’re really
nursing that glass of wine you’re really
taking your time with it so
don’t know how nursing came to be used
in that way with a beverage taking your
time drinking really slowly but it is
one of the meetings meanings okay let’s
go back and see what else whoops we can
learn you know it’s sort of weird when
I’m live-streaming and I’m also trying
to control everything Oh
shrink myself down switch to the other
shot it’s hard okay here we go
every once in a while Rachel can I get
you a drink no thanks I’m still nursing
this beer this is something new this is
different from our routine looking at a
camera okay so how many of you make your
bed show of hands let me know in the
chat do you ever make your bed I’m not
great at it it’s not my favorite thing
to do so also back to what we were just
talking about someone says what does
ailment mean an ailment is just another
word for sickness and we could say you
know hey what ails you it’s a little bit
more formal it’s not it would be more
casual to say all right do you feel sick
or something like that but an ailment is
a sickness you know a sore throat he has
a stomach ailment maybe like he’s not
digesting things well or he’s just not
feeling well in the tummy in the
intestines okay most people Paolo says
almost never to making his bed so when
Pedro says his wife does it nice a lot
of people are like sometimes and so
people are like yes always oh man I’m
I’m I don’t do it very often anymore at
that phase of my life I guess I did it
because I mentioned it but no it’s not
something
do very much I wish I did I like it when
the room is nice and tidy and the bed is
made but I don’t actually do it myself
that much okay we’re gonna keep on
learning also my gosh Sawyer he was so
tiny so cute back then I just love I
just love looking at video that when he
was so small and cute chaotic chaos here
the CH makes a hard case ound it’s also
common to make a CH sound like in chest
or an SH sound like in Chicago Shh
CH makes a K in choir echo chemistry
anchor stomach Orchestra and many others
you can’t tell how a CH should be
pronounced just by looking at it
you have to know word by word this is
why spelling and pronunciation is so
tricky in English then I head down okay
so that’s frustrating isn’t it that you
can’t always know how to pronounce
something just by looking at it and that
we have all these different
pronunciations for CH I wanted to answer
a question that came through in chat
someone said what does it mean when
you’re what does it mean to major in
something when you’re talking about
studies and just a quick hello to anyone
who’s joining us we’re live and if
you’re like what’s going on we’re having
a watch party where we’re watching one
of our old lessons I’m keeping my eye on
chat and as questions and comments come
up we’re stopping the video we’re
talking I’m answering your questions so
one of the questions was we were talking
about nursing and I was saying the
different ways that that word can be
used and one of them is it’s a it’s a
degree it’s a major it’s a field of
study so if someone asked what is
nursing mean or what is major mean when
you’re talking about studies so major is
like a concentration it’s the main thing
you study at school so for example I
went to school and I studied lots of
things biology chemistry writing you
know English classes all sorts of stuff
but my major was computer sign
it’s an applied math that was the main
thing I studied when I got a degree that
was what my degree was in you can major
in English you can major in music you
can major in theater art biology
chemistry you can be a pre-med major
right so that’s how we use the word
major then there’s also the word minor
which means another thing that you’ve
studied a lot but it’s like secondary to
the major so for example I started out
college I was going to be a math major
and a music minor so I was still gonna
take a lot of music and I was gonna earn
enough credit so I was gonna take enough
credits to earn a minor but then I ended
up making it a major two so I ended up
with two majors but that’s it might be a
common thing when you’re talking to
people who are in college in the u.s.
what are you majoring in and they may
tell you oh and then I’m also doing an
art minor and that’s what that means
it’s like a chosen curriculum students
get to choose what they take but they
have to take certain classes and they
have to take a certain amount of classes
in order to earn that minor and you know
it might be something they do just for
fun or it might be something they do
because they think it could help them
get a job later to say oh well I minored
in blah blah blah
or whatever so major and minor someone
says is minor similar to undergraduate
no undergraduate is what we call college
or university it’s you’re basically it’s
four years of study and during those
four years you get a bachelor’s degree
and you major in something and you might
also minor in something okay I hope that
explains it a little bit more let’s keep
going with this lesson and see what we
learn next and I am keeping an eye on
the chat so keep it coming I love all
those heart emojis that Jaclyn is giving
me they’re sparkly hearts and I love it
all right let’s keep going
there is to have breakfast with Stoney
and David I don’t feel like cereal so
I’m gonna make an egg does anybody want
an egg no okay I used the phrase feel
like you can use this interchangeably
with want except the form of the verb
will change I feel like going to bed I
want to go to bed so with feel like we
follow it with the ing form of a verb
feel like going with want the next verb
is in the infinitive want to go wanna go
but the meaning of the two sentences is
the same this applies to the negative as
well I don’t feel like having cereal I
don’t want to have cereal but when I set
it I followed it by a noun
I don’t feel like cereal so I’m gonna
make an egg I don’t feel like cereal so
nothing else changes I don’t feel like
cereal I don’t want cereal okay the next
time you are talking about what you want
and don’t want try to practice with both
of those try to say I feel like or I
don’t feel like I feel like going out to
dinner tonight I want to go out to
dinner tonight
I don’t feel like going out to dinner
tonight I want to cook at home tonight
try using those and just get used to
using both phrases because I think it’s
nice to have more than one way to say
something depending on how you want to
express yourself okay a couple questions
coming in someone was talking about
major and they said is that the same
thing as a concentration yes that’s
probably equivalent to what you might
call a concentration where you live
someone says how can I pronounce words
that end with Edie so there are three
different pronunciations for that and I
do have a video that goes over the rules
this is one thing in American English
where we actually have rules for it so
you can probably search on YouTube
Rachel’s English
Edie endings and find that video Oh
someone says the babies are so cute
thank you I think so too
okay let’s keep going
what did we end up having for breakfast
well I can tell you stony head cereal
because that’s pretty much what he wants
every day of the week that kid loves
cereal pits Tony your mouth is totally
full so we can’t understand you so take
your time chew swallow then say what you
were trying to say
good that’s good oh it’s so cute good
daddy
okay so there was sort of some dead time
they were we were chewing chewing and it
just it made me think I don’t know I
just what do you guys like to eat for
breakfast what and who do you eat
breakfast with what is your morning
routine like as far as that goes maybe
you skip breakfast but like I said at
the beginning of this video I so wish
that more people took a video of the
first hour of their life and edit it
into a little five or eight minute thing
because I think it’s fascinating really
interesting way to see not just
culturally what happens but also what
fit the family dynamic and relationships
are like and then of course you get to
kind of see the food choices that people
make in the morning which varies so
dramatically culture to culture and I
think that’s also really interesting
keeping an eye there on your on your
comments coming in someone is wishing my
family health thank you so much cassia
says I eat breakfast with my family
wonderful lovely what’s the difference
between from and of okay that’s a big
old grammar lesson and I’m sorry I don’t
have that prepared right now okay
someone does a smoothly a smoothie and
omelet and peanut butter sandwich
that’s a lot of food you know Saturday
mornings in my house now since since
we’ve been in quarantine I’ve been
making sourdough pancakes I’ve gotten
you know pretty good at it it’s like
five or six times now that I’ve done it
I’ve figured out exactly how I want to
make the recipe I have all my tools set
up stoney loves it actually we all love
it it’s it’s tasty but do you guys
follow me on instagram because i I
posted an Instagram story about it with
just showing all the steps and yeah it
was fun so tomorrow Saturday gonna be
doing that again apple cider vinegar
I’ve heard that’s a thing that some
people take in the more
I don’t know why I assume there are some
health benefits for it and how much do
you take just like a tablespoon like one
swallow it seems like it would be
something that you do for health and
it’s not gonna fill you up
someone has sweet yam and coffee that
sounds good you know what else I want to
try for breakfast is I want to try for
the first time making croissants have
you ever made a croissant if you have
let me know in chat because I think I’m
gonna try it I think it’s gonna be my
next baking project alright let’s
continue on with the video with the
breakfast
the most common breakfast in the u.s. is
probably cereal with milk that’s what
David and stony had what do you usually
have for breakfast posted to Instagram
tagging me at Rachel’s English I love to
see this kind of thing what people eat
in different cultures let’s have
breakfast together here David’s talking
about getting together with a friend and
his kids this is a phrasal verb that
means to meet to spend time together you
could also use it as a noun
we’re having a get-together at our house
this weekend why don’t you come if you
use it with it
the meaning is different get it together
means to get organized or stabilized
after chaos for example if stony is
having a tantrum we could say get it
together stony or at a busy time in my
life lately
I missed a meeting because I totally
forgot I apologized and said I’m so
sorry I forgot I just can’t get it
together these days get together okay
that’s a good place to pause get it
together
someone is asking me in chat if I’m
going to be doing these on a regular
schedule I did I did
schedule this one like three days ago
but I didn’t share it so I don’t know
some people found it anyway I don’t know
how they
it I didn’t share it because I’m still
just working out how everything works
technically and I felt intimidated by
thinking about there being a bunch of
people on the live feed so I will
eventually I’ll get it together and I
will publish that link ahead of time and
I’ll probably even do it on a schedule
the same time every week probably but
I’ll start sharing it more in the
YouTube community tab I’ll share it to
my mailing list be sure to sign up for
my mailing list if you haven’t already
it’s the easiest way for me to get in
touch with you guys let’s see to do that
just go to Rachel’s English comm and at
the bottom something will pop up and
it’s like do you want a 10-day mini
course and you put your email in there
and then you get at it to the mailing
list but you can also follow me on
Instagram I will post about my life
classes there as well but I’m going to
get it together there I am using that
phrase I’m gonna get it together I’m
gonna get organized once I feel really
comfortable with this new live streaming
software and I’m gonna start announcing
it ahead of time and you know I decided
I was going to do it here because I’m
stuck inside all day every day that’s
not true I go on walks some but in this
strange time of kovat 19 I know you know
a lot of people are hanging around the
house more we’re less active we’re going
out less and I just wanted a way to
connect with people more so I’m planning
on doing it from May and then also
probably June and we’ll just sort of go
week by week and see see how well the
format works see how well you guys like
it but if you do find you like it and
you learn something from it then the
next week please share it with a friend
and we can get even more people here on
the live stream once I feel like I
really know what I’m doing
someone says eventually means like some
day yeah I would say that’s a good
another good word to use someday
eventually it means at some point in the
future I’m not really sure when someday
I’ll get it together eventually I’ll get
organized
that kind of thing someone says can you
explain the word huge I’m not sure if
you mean pronunciation or meaning huge H
consonant u diphthong Hugh huge jake
onson and it means very very big alright
let’s go back to our lesson
go back to breakfast time see what’s
going on there in the fat the
philadelphia breakfast table get it
together is to recover from a period of
chaos the flashing part here’s tony’s
talking about a camera that had a
blinking light did you notice that stony
can’t say there yet yeah he can’t make a
th I’ve worked with him on it several
times and he just can’t coordinate
putting the tongue tip through the teeth
I know this is a huge challenge for my
non-native students so I just wanted you
to know it takes time Stoney’s been
speaking English for over two years now
and he still doesn’t have that sound
yeah I’m interested to see when he picks
it up and breakfast just continues with
random loud noises
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the rest okay I hope nobody had the
volume too loud there because stony
still does random loud noises oh my gosh
that is one of the things this phase
with a one year old and a four year old
the volume at which they speak is so
annoying it’s like everything is shouted
mom
there’s just no regular voice there’s no
indoor voice that’s that’s what we
always try to say when we went on to be
quiet is we’ll say use your indoor voice
indoor voice please and it’s a challenge
I know that it’s a phase and that in a
few years he will have a regular
speaking voice but right now it’s just
like everything is shouting okay so I’m
just keeping an eye on the chat and I’m
seeing I’m seeing the hearts I’m seeing
the love thank you guys so much for
being here so someone says did your son
pick it up did stoney eventually figure
out how to make the th yes he did and it
was probably when he was about three
years old and I know other parents who
have a kid around that age and they’ve
said you know that it took a
surprisingly long amount of time for
their kids to start making that sound
now Sawyer who has so many words it’s
funny he’s only 18 months old 19 months
now he knows so many words way more than
your average kid his age but he still
doesn’t have that many sounds so we have
to kind of figure them out a lot of his
words sound the same but I know to him
they all have their own meaning and I if
I look at the context I can tell what
he’s talking about but he really he is
waiting for more sounds to become
available to him I’m really trying to
teach him s and this kind of thing I’ve
noticed ending consonants or something
that don’t come don’t come along
immediately it’s just beginning
consonant and vowel is what they start
at he’s now starting to put some ending
consonants on but it’s interesting to
watch how language skills evolve what
they
with how they build and that kind of
thing all right well I’m gonna keep an
eye on chat but I’m gonna go ahead and
start okay someone says I love your hair
thank you
it’s getting really long I would go get
it cut but all of the places to get it
cut are currently closed probably
reopened in June I’m not sure all right
let’s keep going with the lesson
continues with cleaning up the kids how
was get you pronounced have you noticed
that it’s really common to hear a CH in
this phrase when a word that ends in a T
is followed by you or your that T often
turns into a CH choo-choo
get you there’s no rule about doing this
or not it’s just a habit that happens
and many Americans do it a lot of the
time if you don’t do it you can do a
stop T get you get you
okay there are so many good questions
coming in and Jat hold on them let me
make myself bigger okay here we go
so someone was asking about okay what
slang words do Americans use in their
daily life you know a lot of adults
don’t use very much slang it kind of
depends on the age of the people that
you’re hanging out with but I do have a
series I did over the summer a couple
years ago summer of slang and I have I
think it’s about thirty different slang
terms and a lot of them are still used
so you can check that out
but I would I think also it’s very
important to study idioms and you know
if you’re coming to the US and you’re
going to be going to a university and
you’re going to be hanging out with a
bunch of 18 to 22 year olds they’re
gonna use all sorts of slang that I
probably wouldn’t even always understand
you have to just ask what does that mean
and then when they explain it if they
use an idiom say I still don’t get it
and just keep asking until oh you get it
also if you ever see a slang term used
and you don’t know what it means you can
ask that person or if it’s a video put
it in the comments or you can put a
comment in my video and I’ll try to
answer it for you someone says can you
speak more slowly please I will try
thank you that’s a good reminder it’s
hard for me to remember to do that I
have to admit when I’m live and I’m
thinking all these things and I’m just
like trying to get it all out I speak
too fast and you know when I do a video
I can put closed captions on subtitles
so that everyone can follow along but of
course when I’m going live I can’t do
that okay someone says what’s the
difference between boss and bus lock and
luck those are two vowels that a lot of
students get mixed up oh and I have a
video on that
I’m not even sure how to search it
actually because I have so many videos
but I can’t remember exactly what I
called that video but really I think
watching a video can help but if you
don’t hear the difference which is true
for a lot of people the main thing to do
actually is do a lot of listening
practice find a bunch of words with awe
and a bunch of words with uh
minimal pairs if you can like boss and
bus and just listen to that over and
over I have a lot of that in my Academy
and you may or may not be in my Academy
if you are definitely go to the vowels
course where you’ll find all that but
I’ve had students who said I can’t hear
the difference between all and uh or E
and a seat and sit for example and so
I’ll assign them an audio file that I’ve
created of a bunch of minimal pairs and
they’ll listen to it for a week and
without trying they hear a difference
they’ve exposed themselves to it enough
so that they start hearing a difference
and I found that when my students learn
that way when they they don’t know the
difference ahead of time and they don’t
have an idea of what it should be and
they have to learn purely through that
listening I found that actually a lot of
times they end up sounding very good
with those vowels right from the
beginning right after they hear the
difference maybe even better than
students who could hear the difference
but couldn’t necessarily produce the
difference so students who start not
being able to hear the difference that
do this intense listening practice
often end up sounding very native on
those sounds pretty quickly once their
ear sorts them out and figures out the
two different sounds they’re hearing so
minimal pairs practice I think is really
important when you’re going to English
which has a lot of vowel and diphthong
sounds from a language that might have
fewer sounds and a lot of our sounds
start to sound similar minimal pair
practice can be really important
okay someone says and what situations
can be use excuse me and sorry so you
would say excuse me if you bump into
somebody or if you need to interrupt
somebody excuse me
is anyone sitting here or that kind of
thing you could say sorry in both of
those situations - but then we also use
sorry in other situations where we
wouldn’t use excuse me like when you
need to apologize when you’ve done
something wrong sorry sorry in a way
that you wouldn’t use excuse me sorry so
excuse me for interrupting for bumping
actually I have a really fun video on
excuse me and the different ways we use
it and the way we pronounce it because
we do a pretty big reduction there so
see if you can do on YouTube do a search
on Rachel’s English excuse me and see if
it pops up it probably will someone says
do Americans understand English songs
like rap pretty easily yeah for the most
part but definitely not all songs I mean
I sometimes can’t understand what a
lyric is and I’ll go look it up
okay someone says can you say strengths
quickly strengths strengths strengths
strengths strengths I could definitely
see someone saying strengths leaving out
the th making an NG and a K sound
strengths what are your strengths
actually I think I talked about that in
a video that I did on interviewing for a
job because strengths and weaknesses are
two of the things that they might ask
you about in a job interview you can go
to youtube and do Rachel’s English job
interview I’ve actually got quite a few
videos on that topic but I’m pretty sure
I mentioned that in one of them okay
we’re gonna head back to the lesson a
lot of questions are coming in I love
this so fun to be with you guys in the
chat you guys are welcome in my chat
feed any day all right let’s keep going
Sonne you want these waffle pretzels for
your snack right
do you want one right now special treat
snack we all need a good snack every
once in a while this is not a full meal
but a little bit of food that we eat
between meals snack at our house we get
up anywhere between 6 and 6:45 Stoney
doesn’t leave for school until after
9:00 so we have a lot of time to fill up
sometimes we go out for a walk but often
we just play at home okay someone asked
about in the chat it was a question
about resonance is that the most
important hair linguistic feature to get
accurate American pronunciation that’s a
great question and on your calendar mark
let me see May 26 May 26 is a Tuesday
and I have a video coming out it’s all
about placement and resonance and how
your voice resonates in your body in a
way that will either make you sound very
American or make you sound not very
American at all and if your goal is to
sound more American and more natural
then you’ll definitely want to watch
this because when you address your
placement and your resonance of your
voice in your body then every time you
speak it’s affected so check it out I’m
excited about it I just finished editing
it today it’s gonna be it’s gonna be
good it’s a long one it’s like a
45-minute video I go through all of
these different ways of explaining it
and then we look at a bunch of students
they a bunch of videos that you guys
sent if you’ll remember back in I think
it was November at the end of 2019 I put
out a video asking for you guys to
record a dialogue for me and then I was
going to make videos for them videos on
YouTube using those as a way to teach
and both of those videos are coming out
in May and they’re really fun so part of
that placement video
me working through the videos you guys
submitted imitating your placement
talking about what you can change and
tweak to make your placement better
actually using the word tweak right now
reminds me I saw in chat a few minutes
ago someone said what does tweak mean
tweak means a small change a minor
change and sometimes just a little tweak
can make a big difference right for
example with the placement as you’ll see
a little tweak with how you use your
voice or let it resonate can make a big
difference in how you sound so that’s
the word tweak wonderful advice and
advise ok that’s a tough minimal pair
the difference is an ending s versus an
ending Z advice which is spelled with a
see e has the S sound advice but the
verb advise spelled with the letter S
that’s the Z sound the Z sound is weak
so it actually can even sound like the
letter S it’s just a very weak form of
it but those two words sound pretty
similar advise is a little bit less
common I think it might be stressed a
little bit more and also context you’ll
always know from the context what word
it is because are we using it as a verb
or are we using it as a noun
advice is the noun and advise is the
verb okay let’s finish out this video
then I’m gonna come back to chat and
answer a few more questions
and then I’m gonna shut down the live
feed because it is a Friday we’re
getting close to 5:00 and I have to go
help David with the kids he is taking
care of them right now all right let’s
keep going did you hear the you
reduction yeah yeah we’re not skipping
teeth I’m sure many parents can relate
to this when you skip something you
don’t do something that is part of a
regular sequence in this case brushing
teeth in the morning is definitely part
of our morning routine
merci merci this is an exclamation of
exasperation surprise anger or
frustration I was feeling all of those
things luckily he did decide to brush
his teeth but now we brush teeth it’s
just part of getting ready for school my
camera died after that we got stony
dressed and David took him to school
then he came home and took Sawyer while
I went to work and that is our morning
routine I hope you liked this video I
hope okay I did get Stoney to brush his
teeth I’m glad to say he brushes them
every day and I don’t even have to force
him to do it anymore someone says the
toothbrush is like mine
that’s awesome you guys have the same
toothbrush okay so thank you guys so
much for being here I’m gonna wrap it up
to wrap something up means to end it so
that I can go out and be with my kids so
let’s see this video is about one year
old so both boys are about 1 year older
now Sawyer is walking he’s big he’s big
for his age he’s walking he’s talking a
lot he has this amazing amount of curly
hair and you know it wasn’t curly in
this video it it got curly like six
months ago or something and now it’s
getting so long and out of control I
would use the word unruly he has unruly
hair it’s just like big and frizzy and
curly and we need to get it cut but like
I said nothing’s open
and I just I feel like with sharp
scissors around his head I just I’m not
I’ve never cut hair before and I don’t
think 19 month old should be my first
attempt with he’d probably be jerking
his head around a lot but yeah they’re
both they’re older they’re a lot of fun
we’re having fun
you know we just finished up week seven
of shelter-in-place so it’s a challenge
it’s very hard with the two kids but
we’re making it work we’re making it
happen I hope you guys are all staying
happy and healthy and safe out there
I know a lot of you are also in you know
shelter-in-place or others shut down
orders and it’s really different it’s a
really different way of living isn’t it
and who knows what the next phase of
normal will look like but I appreciate
you guys all for being here unruly hair
that’s right thank you guys so much for
being here and I will do another
livestream soon I’m not totally sure
when but check out my youtube channel
the community tab I will post it there
also follow me on Instagram or Rachel’s
English I will post it there and I
promise I’ll schedule it a couple days
in advance
and I think that’s it guys thanks for
being here happy Friday have a wonderful
weekend and I’ll see you