LIVE LESSON Real English Conversation
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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
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see that chat going by so if you have
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watching together or anything else post
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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