Name: How to HACK the AMERICAN ACCENT
Uploaded: 2025-08-09T17:50:37.000Z
Duration: 13 min 17 s
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I've worked with speech recognition software when it comes to accent training.

Modal verbs - A2

It can help you with maybe half of your issues if you're struggling to speak English with full confidence.

What would it mean to you to have a trained American accent teacher coach you on your English?

Think how quickly you'd improve and how much more confidence you'd have to know you were doing it right.

Not an app, not AI, a person at the top of their field giving you easy to understand focused feedback.

Okay, but apps and AI are a lot less expensive than real people in the time of experts.

True, but when you do most of the training on your own with the right method, then you come to your coach for five minutes of intense focused personal feedback, then you're hacking the system.

You're getting an expert's advice, but you're not paying for an hour of an expert's time.

I've set up Rachel's English Academy for this exactly.

It's expert accent training, but for a fraction of the price of private sessions with a coach.

It comes with coach time, but more importantly, it gives you all the materials to work with between checking in with your coaches so you can nail it.

Get that sound, get that rhythm into your body.

We even offer a lifetime option for joining the Academy.

You pay once, you have access forever, and you work on it when you can.

No stress over keeping a schedule and wondering every month if you're really using it enough.

Get instant access to every course, American vowels, rhythm, conversation practice.

Subscriptions also come with access to our community, where you can meet online with our teachers and get personal feedback at no additional cost.

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Visit rachelsenglishacademy.com to get access to our courses, our teachers, and our community. 50 to 60% off at rachelsenglishacademy.com.

Probably the most special thing about Rachel's English Academy is the exclusive community that comes with it.

You can post to the community and get feedback from one of our teachers.

This is Josh helping a student find a great R sound after listening to a recording of him practicing.

He makes a video and the student can watch it over and over again.

He shares about the R sound and how to feel that in the chest instead of the mouth.

R consonant sound is a really deep inside the body sound.

So you can really tell what's happening with a person's placement by the way that sounds.

So if we listen to this here, these first couple of sentences, let's check out this R sound.

So if you listen here, here, here, you can hear that's a mouth sound, right?

Don't hear that chest resonance, you know, as much as you probably would expect for most native speakers.

It makes such a difference to see and hear a teacher imitating you and going back and forth between what they hear and what sounds more natural.

And this community comes with your academy subscription at no extra charge.

Now the student can go to the R sound board in the academy and use the play it, say it method to make that a habit and really anchor the sound in the body.

We find the chapter and we have our choice of lessons.

I can use the soundboard to practice each word 10 times in a row with our repetition method across, across.

This is the same method used for adults in speech therapy when they suffer a stroke and need to relearn how to speak English.

Or if it works better for me, I can download the soundboard audio in a single file with the repetition built in.

We need to make it super easy to practice speaking out loud because that's what's going to change your habit.

So as you move through the daily plan, you'll see each module has a focus.

And at the end, you'll post a challenge for teacher feedback.

This way you're able to get really focused feedback on each aspect of the American accent.

Sometimes people just want general advice on what to focus on.

Our teacher, Rachel Stokes, gave great advice recently to a new student from Iran.

Thank you for taking time to introduce yourself.

So my big piece of advice to everyone who's new in the academy is to take advantage of the slow motion on the soundboards.

So when you go to practice, start with play it, say it in slow motion, not the regular speed.

Start at half speed because you're wanting to train your ears in a new way.

You want to change the way that you're perceiving and hearing the sounds of English.

So if you're going to repeat five or 10 times, play it every time before you say it in slow motion, you will do that.

And each repetition will bring you closer and closer to your target.

Then you can go to the regular speed with more play it, say it.

Every bit of feedback you'll get from a teacher, you'll know where to go to find those lessons.

You'll go to the module or find the course, get the lesson, and everything is there for you.

All of our audio also has a slow motion version so you can get it into your body more easily if the sounds are tricky for you at the beginning.

I hope you're seeing how much our teachers care about our students.

Each teacher you'll see in this video has been on my team for years.

You get personalized video feedback from a teacher.

But what if you want to actually talk with a teacher live?

Get live feedback on a particularly tricky word or sound in the moment.

We have drop-in hours throughout the month where you can join one of our teachers in our online classroom and ask your questions directly in real time.

For example, here a student is struggling with uh, a very open and relaxed American vowel in English.

This is the uh as in the word cup, cup, cop.

And I know these two vowel sounds, distinguishing them is so tricky.

Getting a clear uh helps you sound more natural.

And here our teacher Laura helps the student find it.

And I think you can use a little more breath.

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How to HACK the AMERICAN ACCENT

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