you're studying English, I know I, and my fellow,  native speakers can be difficult to understand.  

I struggled with this myself in college when  I studied in the Dominican Republic, and then  

after college when I studied German in Germany  for six months. I get it. So when I started  

teaching English, it was so important to me to  develop a technique to help students hear English  

differently, to be able to join conversation and  not just be stuck in written communication.

The technique involves learning a specific aspect  of spoken English with your mind, we do that through a video,  

then training that into your body with audio  exercises, and then getting feedback from teachers  

along the way. And I've been helping students with  this technique for five years now, and it works.

And to the rest of you guys like myself, keep  

working hard because it's  working, and I'm so happy.

You'll hear more from him soon.

Wouldn't you love right now to practice, say, a  tricky sound in American English or a reduction  

and then have a teacher say,  “Yes, that sounds perfect!”,  

or “Wait, that reduction still  needs to be shorter, try this?”  

The best way to feel confident speaking English  is to get help and guidance from trained teachers.  

And can you believe you get that as a part of  my online school, Rachel's English Academy?

I'm going to introduce you to these six  fantastic teachers today and show you  

how they can guide you to the materials in  my Academy for transformation and success  

in your spoken English, confidence  that you can almost not imagine.

On November 5, I turn 43. And to celebrate  my birthday, I'm offering a huge sale,  

the last one of the year, 81% off your intro  month in the Academy with the code Rachel43.  

The sale is for 5 days only, it ends Sunday,  and you can end your subscription at any time  

if you don't feel like this method  and these teachers work for you.

What's my academy? Well, this is the 30-second  elevator pitch. It's an online training ground for  

spoken English. We teach the concept, we give you  the audio to train that concept into your habits,  

and then we give you the teacher resources to  check in to make sure you're on the right track  

with your training. Hundreds of exclusive videos  and audio lessons, a method for self-training and  

self-improvement, a re-shaping of your habits and  ideas about speaking English, teacher feedback  

and support. All online, all available 24-7  for you to work on as it fits your schedule.

One of the most important things we can do  for you in the Academy is change how you hear  

English. This is Tom, one of our teachers  that you may work with in the Academy.

The idea of learning how to listen. Because I  think, if you kind of train your ear to begin  

hearing the musical quality of American  English it makes it a lot easier to imitate.

Do you recognize Tom? He's been teaching with me  

for over 10 years and he's been in my  YouTube and Facebook videos before.

If you're in my Academy, you can work  with Katie. She talks about how, with the  

method and materials in the Academy, students  start to hear things they didn't hear before.

One thing that's happened to me as I've been  working with the students from Rachel's English  

Academy is after a couple of weeks or so with the  daily practice, they come back and say “Wow! I  

can understand things in conversation  that I had no idea were happening before,  

just even little things  like reductions and flap Ts,  

some of the other things that are so  characteristic of American English.”

Isn't that fantastic? It's what makes us  unique. These are your teachers. Most of  

the work is done on your own with the best  method and materials available, but then,  

how do you know you're doing it right?  You're not doing this alone. Through our  

private groups you're with a team  of teachers but all the other students too.

This is one of our students, Al.

I've 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 make mistakes and nobody  even corrected me until I found this academy,  

Rachel's English Academy. And I can say  that this academy has been my lifesaver.

Al had the right idea, but since she wasn't  learning the language with the supercharged  

brain of a young child, she needed a little  bit more concrete information and guidance  

which is what she got in the academy.  And with that information and guidance,  

the change in students can be truly  amazing. This is our teacher Laura,  

talking about singing and noticing the  changes through student's hard work.

Sometimes I'll be working with somebody and while  we're working on something and we'll put it aside  

for now, they'll keep visiting it in their  practice time and then when I see them again  

maybe some times gone by, and they're  using it as if it's just another natural  

part of their speech now. And I love  hearing that, I love noticing that.

That's the best part. Hearing a student  speak naturally and comfortably. Now,  

because we're talking about changing a habit here,  that doesn't happen overnight. It doesn't happen  

with watching a video and learning something. You  have to add training. I wish I could do that part  

for you but I can't. It's best to sign up  for the Academy only if you have a minimum  

of 15 minutes a day to learn the tips and  tricks about what makes American English  

sound American, and the training to bring  those qualities into your own voice and body.

I asked Josh, another one of our  fantastic teachers, to talk about  

what he notices in successful students, and  guess what, it goes back to listening.

My favorite success story is  that with students in the academy  

and those for the students who really get  their ears tuned into the sound of English.  

And it really opens up the way they listen and  what they say and how they use the language.  

Sometimes students spend a lot of  time working on an individual sound.  

But once you can actually train them and get them  to actually notice that difference, it changes  

everything about the way they approach it and they  really get really, really motivated from that.

In the Academy we cover every topic  in spoken English: placement & pitch,  

melody & intonation, rhythm, all  the sounds, reductions and more.

I asked our teachers what their favorite  course is and why. This is Ms Stokes' answer.

Without question, the Stress 3 course  is my favorite. It's the place where  

you get the most bang for your buck. Your  time investment pays off so much in that  

course. I don't know a better place to  improve rhythm and just to immediately  

sound so different in terms of the prose and  thought groups, just the style of your speech.

Stress three is my personal favorite too.  

It focuses on reductions. You put in  time training, you get a huge reward.

Now let's meet Alicia, another one of  the students in my Academy. She's going  

to talk about what she thinks  transforms students the most.

The other thing that I think help students really transform in the academy is getting  

specific direct feedback from teachers.  In the Facebook and community groups,  in

one to one lessons and in Whatsapp classes.  So this combination of practicing with the  

sound boards, and then getting really  specific personal feedback from teachers  

is the winning combination to help improve  your English and help achieve your goals.

I just love the investment that  our teachers make in our students,  

and the investment that our students make  in themselves. Katie said it really well.

The Facebook and community group  students are “total badasses”.  

They post videos of themselves practicing  with the content in Rachel's Academy and  

we as teachers get a glimpse into what they are  working on, we get to help them make adjustments,  

give them feedback on how they're doing,  it's so beneficial for them. Also they are just so

encouraging and supportive of each other.  Everybody is working on the same journey,  

they maybe working on specifically different  things in the Academy but they learn from  

each other, and they get to support each other  throughout this process and it's so fun to see.

Our students uplift each other.  You sign up for the Academy,  

you get access to all the materials. The videos,  with the tips and tricks, and the audios to  

train with. Every day you can log on and step  through the method. And in the community groups,  

the students and the teachers motivate and  support each other. So now is the time,  

now is your chance to get started in the Academy  and save some money with this discount code,  

our last sale of the year, to celebrate my  birthday, another lap around the sun! Get  

access to the materials, the methods, and yes,  these teachers in our private community group  

just for students. You post a video of one of the  challenges we give you, and you get personalized  

feedback, often a video, from our teachers. The  code is Rachel43 for 81% off your first month.

What do our students think about our teachers?  

This is Kostas, he's a long-time  student, active in the community.

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, 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.

Kostas, we do have your back and I am so glad  for your successes. Since posting that video,  

he's been cast in a play where he  has to have an American accent.

Now I'm practicing this. This is a script. It's  a, it's a script for a play here in Melbourne.

I wouldn't be able to do this play  if it wasn't for Rachel and her team.

If I didn't have Rachel and her team, this  simply wouldn't be possible right now. So.  

Thank you Rachel and your team. And to the rest  of you guys like myself, whatever level you are  

at, keep working hard because it's working. I'm  so happy, that I, you know, that it's working

because now I can do this and I'm following  my dream and who knows where I'm going to be  

in a year from now. Because now I can pick up the  script and I apply everything I'm learning, I've  

learned and I keep learning. And polish my accent,  you my pronoun-, you know my punctuation, and,  

you know, I, I just know. I read and  I know how to say the word. It's,  

it's just perfect. It's wonderful. And I owe  everything to Rachel and her team. So, thank you.

Kostas, we are so proud of you. You have put  in the time, you continue to put in the time,  

you're an inspiration. A lot of my students  don't need to sound American, after all,  

accents are beautiful. They just want to be more  confident and fluent in speaking English. And  

our teachers, through our private communities,  help them. This is Ella, a student from China.

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.

The teachers can be so precise in  their feedback because we're using  

video. I really find that  so effective. This is Dave.

And then the second part about this Academy, which  is I like about, is that they have beautiful and  

caring staff. So each time I upload uh,  my video challenge on the community group,  

I usually get like a feedback within one or  two days or so, which is very efficient in my  

personal experience, in my personal opinion. Even  though this mistake are tiny or small, I think  

this is very important to me because I was able  to incorporate this moment mistakes into my daily  

speaking habits, and I think in long-term runs  has a prolonged effect in my pronunciation skills.  

So these feedbacks are very valuable and no  other classes would able to do that I say.

And you already know Al.

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,  

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.

This is Gabriella from Brazil.

Through the Facebook group, I met  my colleagues and the teachers.  

So there I can post my videos and I have fast  feedback from my colleagues and teachers.  

And actually, in my first posted video, I got  surprised when I saw a comment with a video  

from a teacher. So it was amazing because it  was a video about my improvements, about what,  

about what I was doing about that post that I  did. So it was specific for me, it was specific  

for that assignment, it was specific for that  post. So yeah, it was amazing feedback for me.

All of you students inspire us teachers to hone  our craft and keep working hard to become better  

teachers. I can't tell you how lucky I feel to be  a part of this community of teachers and students,  

all supporting one another, knowing one another,  caring about one another. It's such an uplifting  

and motivating group of people. So come  join our Academy. I want to see you there.

Tom wants to see you there.

I love the Facebook group, I love the community  group in the Academy because I think that the  

students are unbelievably brave to share their  practice with the community. And what is great,