Welcome to the Rachel's English podcast. I'm so glad to have you here.

It's my goal that you would listen to this podcast every week and be able to understand Americans better

and to feel better about your American English accent and conversation skills.

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just visit rachelsenglish.com slash podcast and look for this episode. It's absolutely free to download.

This podcast goes with a video that just got published on my YouTube channel on a vocabulary builder video

on family relationships. David, you didn't get to see that one yet. It just came out yesterday.

No, I haven't even seen it yet. But actually, a lot of your family is in that. You're in that video.

Yeah, I remember when we shot it and it seemed like it was going to be great. Yeah, I remember the, when we shot it and it seemed

like it was going to be great. Yeah, I shot it when we were all on vacation with David's family at the

beach back in June. And we talk about things like sister, mother-in-law, cousin, and I actually

draw out a family tree. So we go over a lot of terms in that video and I will link to that video

in the show notes to this podcast. So it's not necessary to have seen it before listening to this

podcast, but it might be worth a watch. A couple of terms that I didn't go over in that video

I wanted to go over in the podcast. And I talked about cousins

and, you know, all of Stony's cousins in that video, but I didn't talk about second cousins.

So I should have taken my camera to Michigan where we were hanging out with all of my cousins.

So that meant that their children and my child were second cousins.

So second cousins are people whose parents are first cousins. And first cousins are people

whose parents are siblings. Now, if I'm talking about my first cousin, Nicole, and I'm talking about her children.

So to Stony, they're second cousins, but what are they to me?

To me, they are first cousins once removed.

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