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 answering questions from you that have come in on my

YouTube videos in the comments. I'm here with my husband David, who's going to help me answer

these questions. If you'd like a free download of the transcript of this podcast, please visit my

website, rachelsenglish.com slash podcast, and search for this episode.

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All right, let's get started with the first question, David.

Can you read it for me?

All right, this is from Martin.

He says, hey, Rachel, I'd love to ask you a quick question.

Is there an S-H-as-in-she or a C-H-as-in-in-ch-as-in-ch in the word actually or actual? Okay, this is a great question.

First of all, as I'm looking here at the comment that came in, I see that Martin has asked it and someone named Michael

has answered it and he says, I'm not Rachel, but I'm a native speaker. And then he gives a

great explanation about what he hears people say. So I just want to give a shout out to Michael and

let everyone, everyone know that everyone is free to answer questions in the comments on my channel always.

And I think that's great.

I love seeing other people chime in with their ideas.

Okay, but let's get to the question.

The question is the word actually.

So I looked it up in several dictionaries and a couple of them had just one pronunciation.

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