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.

In today's episode, we're speaking with my friend and fellow YouTuber Vicky Hollett.

Vicki has a long history of teaching English as a second language,

and today she'll share some grammar tips and insight into American culture.

So, Vicki, could you tell everybody who's out there listening a little bit

about yourself? I know that you've been teaching English for a long time. I know that you have

published books. Can you fill in the details? Yes, sure. I'm British, British by birth. But these

days, I live in Philadelphia in the United States. And I'm a

business English teacher. Originally I was a business English teacher. And then I started writing

textbooks for Oxford University Press and Pearson. And I'm also these days a video producer. And I make videos with my

husband for the Simple English Videos channel. And that was luckily how I came to meet you, Rachel.

Yes. I've definitely been in a handful of videos on that channel, and you've been in several

videos on my channel as well.

We're very lucky to have one another so close, I think.

So how did you get into business English way back when that happened?

Well, I started off as a language teacher in

Algeria first, and then I started working in Japan, and I was working at a school that had a lot

of business English students and had the opportunity to work with them. And I felt very at home with business

English teaching because I'd grown up in a family bakery business. And I always enjoyed

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