been a difficult year and making videos here  on YouTube has truly been one of my favorite  

things about it. And to say thank you, I wanted  to extend an offer to any of you here on YouTube  

who might be interested in joining me in  my online school, Rachel's English Academy.  

Yes, it's a Black Friday deal, available to  people who've never joined the Academy before.  

Use the code THANKSGIVING5 or follow the link  in the video description. This discount will  

expire on Monday at midnight, and it gets you your  first month in the Academy for just five dollars,  

that's 81 off your first month. You can click  this video here to learn more about the Academy,  

in my words, but I also asked my students to  share about their experience in the Academy  

in their own words. And several of them made a  video for you. I'm excited that you get to see how  

cool these students are and hear what the  students' experience is actually like.  

These are people I've gotten to know  through teaching them in the live classes,  

or watching their videos and giving them feedback  in the Facebook and community groups that we have  

in the Academy. I'm so touched that they took  the time to make these videos, to talk about  

the confidence they've gained, what they've  learned, and the support they've gotten from  

our teachers and each other in our private groups.  The first one is Al. She's really active in our  

Facebook group and she talks about how knowing  the technique is helping her change her habit.

Hi guys I'm Al. I'm from Indonesia. So I always  wanted to sound like a native American speaker,  

but I didn't even know how. Whenever I watch US  TV shows or US movies, I always admire Americans.  

They speak super fast and very clear. I was  so desperate to sound like them. I found an  

accent coach and of course it was very pricey and  I simply couldn't even afford him. I was very sad  

and I didn't even know how and so I imitated  so many Hollywood scenes as many as possible,  

and of course imitating so many scenes on movies  or TV shows without knowing the technique was  

hard. Like I constantly made mistakes, and nobody  even corrected me until I found this Academy,  

Rachel's English Academy, and I can  say this Academy has been my life saver  

and I'm very happy to be here, and the teachers  are so encouraging and very expert. Um,  

they can correct my mistakes in the most specific  way, so I could, I can just change my habit,  

and of course, it's not easy to  change the habit, I'm so sure that  

um it takes time but from time to time, I can see  my improvements and now I can feel so confident  

in my English, and I really, really want you to  also feel what I feel when you speak in English.

And in this Academy, I get  access to Facebook group.  

This group is super powerful. Why? Because  the teachers and friends are super supportive,  

and I feel very safe to be myself. I upload my  homework, and I can be vulnerable sometimes, and  

I can grow as a person and as an English learner.  So come on, join us, and I'll see you soon!

I'm so happy that she's feeling confident. That's  really what makes the difference. Next is Kostas,  

who actually made this video at work, I love it,  

he's an actor who's working on perfecting his  American accent so that he can get more jobs  

acting. I got to know him when I  worked with him in a live class.

Hi guys! How are you! Um, my name is Kostas and  I'm here at work so I hope my boss won't see me.  

I just really wanted to share with you my  experience with Rachel's English Academy.  

Yes, that's, that's the reason, and um, yeah, I'm  super excited. Usually I'm not doing things like  

that, I'm quite shy, but I really want to share  with you because I, um, I really think it's worth  

it, and I really think, I really, it really helped  me. And I hope it will help you too if you do the  

right choice, um, like I did. So you know, how can  I start? So you know originally, I'm from Greece.  

And now I live in Melbourne,  Australia. I came here at 2014,  

and the only reason I came here was to become  an actor. And I did. I did became an actor and  

very quickly, I realized that one of the  biggest challenges will be to train my accent.  

You know, see, back then, I had  a really, really thick accent,  

and I remember the head of the drama school was  like 'alright Kostas, we'll have to, you know,  

work on that so you can have more opportunities  to gain auditions. So I had two choices.  

Maybe had more, but in my head it was two choices.  I could just either learn the Australian accent  

or I could just learn the American accent, but you  see, the Australian accent is really difficult for  

me, and I always, always, because of the movies,  because I have so much, so many, so much family in  

America, and because I really love American,  I love the language, I love the accent. It's  

something in it, I just love it. So I was like,  all right I'm going to learn the American accent.  

So that's how this journey begun. So I tried to  find private classes. I was like it's going to be  

face to face. What I realized was that the private  class is a very, very, very, very expensive.  

And that they were so expensive that I could  only afford maybe three a month and that was  

not for everyone. And you know, if you're an  actor, you understand like actors, they're not,  

we don't, we don't have that you know,  so much money, we don't have that, um,  

you know, luxury to spend money, whatever we want  and all stuff. So I was like I had to be very  

careful. I didn't, my pocket wouldn't allow me to  have more than two classes every four months. So  

I was like that's not gonna work,  that's not gonna work, a few hours  

every three months. So I was like, all right,  I'm gonna have to find something online. So i,  

I try to find classes, or you know, videos  or anything on YouTube and then on Google,  

I googled some, you know, American accent  classes. And I just I found one, one and a  

half. It just didn't work for me and then one day,  I just I stepped upon Rachel's video on YouTube.  

And man, it was great. It was great. And I started  training with Rachel's videos for, I think it was  

like a month, and then I just saw that you know  she has an online course. You can subscribe for  

how much a month, super affordable and then you  know it was Rachel's English Academy. That's  

the name. Rachel's English Academy. And I went  online and I subscribed to that. I signed up and  

I haven't stopped since then. I haven't stopped  since then and I'm not going to stop. I'm not  

going to stop. Because Rachel and her team, they  gave me hope. They gave me hope, and you know,  

you see back then, I would never dare to try to  do an American accent. It was, I would never dare.  

I would, I would, even if I was in a private  room, and I would try to do an American accent,  

I would just, sometimes I would cry. I would  just, you know, I would turn into a red apple.  

And I would just shut down. I would hear my voice  trying to do an American accent, and I would just  

start crying immediately because it would trigger  me that I will never become what I want to become.  

I will never be able to compete with all these  Australian actors that so easily can do American  

accent. And I would never be equal and it really,  it really hurts, it really hurts, and you know,  

when you try so hard, and you just, you don't have  someone to back you up. But when I met Rachel,  

through Rachel's English Academy, I got her  and her team to back me up. And I'm going  

to start giving you, because, I'm sorry,  I talk too much but just, I'm so excited.  

I'm going to give you some. I'm going to try to  give you the most important things why Rachel's  

English Academy helped me so much and the last  one, which is my favorite, and it's like a break  

deal, a deal breaker for me, I'm gonna leave it at  the end. So what can I say, the way the website is  

built, it's easy to navigate, and it you will  never lose, you know, you will never get lost.  

The variety of courses, great. You can choose  whatever you want. You don't like this,  

you can train with this. You don't like this,  you can train with that. You don't like that,  

well you're gonna find something else. You don't  like that something else? You're going to find  

something else. Something else. There's  no way you can't find something you like.  

My favorite is the soundboards. You literally  have thousands and thousands of phrases and  

words. You can play it, say it, play it, say it,  play it, say it. You can download it, and then you  

can just work out and then play it, say it, play  it, say it. It never leaves you. That's the great  

thing. And my favorite thing is the Hollywood  one. The Hollywood, we have the Hollywood scenes  

where you can see the scene, and then there's  subtitles, and then you can learn to play it, say  

it those phrases from the Hollywood scene. And  then you hear how a natural and real American,  

I mean a real American. You know, if it's an  action, like the way they talk you know faster  

or slower or whatever, it's great. It's  just great. And for me as an actor I can  

find some great scenes there as well. The other  thing, it's the Facebook group. It's an amazing  

community of people like me where we helping  each other. And then here's the great thing,  

you put a video on, whatever you want, and then  a teacher will give you live feedback. How great  

is that? All in the same price, no extra cost.  I love that. I love that. And then because it's  

already pretty much seven minutes video, I'm going  to give you the best one. Those people, Rachel  

and her team, they are real people. I spoke to Rachel  through a live, one of her live classes she does,  

and it was like I spoke to someone I already knew  for years and years and years. And I don't know  

Rachel, I know her through the video. She made me  feel like family. She's real, and her people, and  

her team are real. And that is important. I didn't  feel like teacher and student. I feel like a  

friend towards another friend. She's professional  and family at the same time. And I never felt this  

before. And that's the main reason I'm not gonna  leave them. Because not just I can walk in the  

room and be 'I'm here!' and I'm gonna pick up  a script, and I'm gonna do American accent. I  

know the tools, I know what to work at. I can  hear my mistake, and I can correct it. That's  

great. And the more I work hard, keep working  hard, what Rachel keeps saying I'll become,  

I'll nail it one day. One day I'll just nail it,  and I'm so close to it. I know I'm now close. And  

you know, that confidence, it comes from Rachel  and her team. So if you're serious with your work  

man, if you're serious that you want to really  learn and you're serious, join. And you know,  

I'll see you in at the Facebook group. And I  can't wait to learn from you, and you maybe learn  

from me, and we're all going to learn from the  teachers and Rachel. You know, all right, thank  

you so much. I already spoke too much. I could,  if I could keep talking, I would keep talking.  

Rachel and your team, I know you guys hear me.  Thank you so much. Thank you for your hard work.  

Thanks for everything you're doing. All right  I think I got an order, you know, actor's life.  

I need to go and make a hamburger. All right,  thank you so much, guys. Bye-bye. Bye-bye, guys.

Wonderful! Thank you, Kostas,  so much for making that.

This is Ella. She's from China and she's been  living in Canada. She's been in the Academy for  

just a few months, and joined so she could have  more organization and a system for improving.  

I love that she learned she had  to go beyond learning concepts  

about pronunciation with her mind into her body  learning through imitation to change her habit.

Hello, everyone! I'm here to talk about my own  experience with Rachel's English Academy so that  

more people can benefit from that as well. My name  is Ella and my native language is Mandarin. I grew  

up in China, and I've been living in Canada  for more than three years. I know many people  

think that if they have been living in a country  for a few years, they are going to be naturally  

good in pronunciation, but that's not the case.  Right, so I'm trying to make some efforts.

So I came across um Rachel's YouTube channel a  few months ago, and since then, I found it's a big  

treasure. So I enrolled myself into the Academy  in order to learn this in a more systematic way.

So I used to spend like 20-30 minutes a day in a  course, but recently I try to invest more time,  

like two hours because I feel it's  really worth it. It's worth it.  

So things that I love most about  this Academy is, first, the thing,  

it doesn't only teach you the  techniques, the traditional techniques,  

and about pronunciation improvement,  like vowel, consonant, diphthong,  

rhythm, etc. It also changed my mindset  because as someone who likes to approach  

new knowledge with logic and analysis, I didn't  realize that imitation is actually the key  

to learn pronunciation. Imitation is just  so much more important than I thought.  

And also like Rachel said when you try to  imitate someone, don't just use the technique to  

talk like him. Try to be him, be him. So yeah  that's really, that's really inspiring for me. And  

I also like the big support team from the Academy.  Like all the teachers in this team are awesome.  

Every time when I submit my own recording to  the Facebook group, the teacher can always  

identify my mistakes, small mistakes  that I could have never realized myself.  

And they always give me very clear and  easy to follow instructions to improve.  

Rachel also has a regular video  course with random students where she  

corrects their pronunciations over the video.  That's also very helpful because um the students  

are from all over the world, including China, so  I can easily relate myself to the Chinese students  

and see the same mistakes that I have in my in my  own speech as well, in my own speaking as well.  

I can talk more about the Academy, but it's  going to be a long video. So if you are someone  

who is trying to make a difference in your  English accent, I highly, highly recommend  

Rachel's English Academy. You are going to  love it. And also, it's very, very affordable.  

Thank you so much for watching, and  I hope this video is going to be  

helpful for you. I hope to  see you here soon. Bye-bye.

I love her dedication. Our next student  is Shikhar, who is really active in the  

Facebook group, and I've been lucky to work  with him in a live class. He's so dedicated