You're listening to the Rachel's English podcast, made especially for non-native speakers, where we study the way Americans really speak.

My goal is for you to listen to this podcast every week and sound more natural when speaking English and improve your listening comprehension.

Today's episode will be a little different.

This is the first ever Rachel's English podcast. In this first episode, my husband David

is going to interview me so that you can learn a little bit about who is Rachel and what is Rachel's

English. We're getting pretty conversational here.

So if you have a hard time keeping up with the conversation or understanding all the words,

you will be able to download a free transcript of this podcast.

Just visit rachelsenglish.com slash podcast.

Let's get started.

Okay.

So why are you starting a podcast? Well, I've never been a huge podcast listener and recently some friends started podcasts and as I started listening to them

to see what they're about, I realized this is a really fun format. It's a really fun way to talk about

things. I feel like in my YouTube videos, it's sort of a formal feel. You know, I'm teaching

something. Let's be serious and teach. And the podcast feels like it has room to be a lot more conversational.

And that sounds really fun to me. And after all, the people who are following Rachel's English

want to know a lot about conversational English. And so since I'm going to have a transcript

available for each podcast, I feel like we can really speak at a normal

conversational pace. And for people who are having a hard time catching all the words,

they'll have that as an option, that transcript to go back and look it up. So I guess it's

that. It just feels like a really fun way, a new way to talk about these topics.

Cool. So I wanted to know more about why do you think it's going to be fun. What about a podcast

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