Rachel's English Academy

1 - Eliza - Russian - Smoothing speech, IH vowel, Lowering Placement

2 - Lilia - Spanish - Lowering Placement And Pitch, R Consonant

3 - Q And A

1 - Shampa - Bengali - Flap T, FOR reduction, AT reduction, shape of stress

2 - Mika - Japanese - R vs L, FOR reduction, AT reduction

3 - Q and A

1 - Vitaliy - Ukrainian - To Reduction, Linking And Smoothness

2 - Tina - German - For Reduction, Your Reduction, R Clusters

3 - Q And A

1 - Murielle - French - Placement, Shape Of Stress, Lower Pitch, Dark L

2 - Emi - Japanese - Relaxing Uh [Ʌ], R Vs L, R Clusters, Ee Vs Ih

3 - Q And A

1 - Nina - Persian - EE vs. IH vs. EH, 'at' reduction, long words

2 - Koren - Hebrew - Schwa, smoothness, UR vowel, 'at' reduction

3 - Q and A

1 - Agnese - Latvian - Linking (My Own, Twelve Years, Etc)

2 - Yoshi - Japanese - Linking with reductions, greater pitch range, R vs L

3 - Q and A

1 - Guang - Mandarin - R Consonant, Dark L

2 - Manish - Hindi - True T, Flap T, Ur Vowel, Dark L

3 - Q and A

1 - Soliha - Uzbek - OO vowel, R consonant

2 - Andy - Vietnamese - Dark L, Ending D

3 - Q and A

1 - Soheila - Farsi - AA + N, R sound

2 - Anetta - Polish - Flap T, Linking, Placement

3 - Q and A

1 - Ella - Chinese - R consonant, Linking and Smooth Speech

2 - Elmer - Filipino - Linking and Smooth Speech

3 - Q and A

1 - Vanya - Bulgarian - Have Reduction, Simplifying Unstressed Syllables

2 - Selena - Vietnamese - Ur Vowel, Simplifying Unstressed Syllables

3 - Q And A

1 - Laurent - French - Shorter Unstressed Syllables, Dark L

2 - Maria - Portuguese - Smoothness & Linking, Reductions, -Ed Endings

3 - Q And A

1 - Jada - Thai - Connected Speech and Linking, Shorter Short Syllables

2 - Francesco - Italian - IH vowel, OH Diphthong, Dark L, Flap T, -er Ending Words

3 - Q and A

1 - Thui - Vietnamese - The R Consonant

2 - Adrian - Polish - Shortening Unstressed Syllables

3 - Q And A

1 - Weronika - Polish - The Aa [Æ] Vowel, Placement

2 - Winnie - Luganda - Ur [Ɜ] Vowel, R Consonant

3 - Q And A

1 - Zouhair - Darija - UH [ʌ] vowel, reductions to lower placement

2 - On the Academy's Method

3 - Johnny - Persian / Farsi - Longer stressed syllable with up down shape, linking and singing phrases

4 - Q and A

1 - Stephen - Igbo - Jaw drop, pitch change for clarity

2 - Tina - Russian - lowering pitch, R, L, lighter unstressed words

3 - Q and A

1 - Rie - Japanese - Shorter Unstressed Syllables, Simplifying Sounds, Dark L

2 - Elif - Turkish - More Jaw Drop, Posture When Speaking English, Relaxing The Neck

3 - Q And A

1 - Sachiko - Japanese - Clarifying R Sound, L Sound, And Other Consonants; Long Words

2 - Yoselin - Spanish - Unstressed Syllables

3 - Q And A

1 - Iryna - Ukrainian - W consonant, H consonant, -ing words, light flow of air

2 - Meng - Chinese - Uh Vs Ah, Ending N And Ng, Ih Vs Ee, Aa Vowel

3 - Haina - Haitian Creole - Uh As In Push Vowel, Shorter Unstressed Syllables

4 - Q And A

1 - Sarah - Chinese - Connected Speech, Dark L

2 - Regina - Russian - L, EE vs IH, R Consonant

3 - Q and A

1 - Elodie - French - R Consonant

2 - Liubov - Russian - R Consonant

3 - Leo - Spanish - Longer Stressed Syllables

4 - Q and A

1 - Paola - Spanish - Lowering Pitch, EE vs IH

2 - Elza - Russian - Rhythm and shortening unstressed syllables

3 - Q and A

1 - Olga - Russian - Lighter Consonants, Removing Effort

2 - Manami - Japanese - Ur Vowel, Dark L, Flap T

3 - Cristina - German - Lighter Consonants, Faster Unstressed Syllables

4 - Q And A

1 - Alex - Ukrainian - Uh Vs Ah, H Consonant

2 - Marilyn - Tagalog - Uh Vs Ah, Stress In Multi-Syllable Words

3 - Ansumana - Mandinka -  R, Vocal Fry, Pitch Change In Stressed Syllables

4 - Q And A

1 - Eyad - Arabic - Eh Vs Ih Vs Ee

2 - Lily - Chinese - Linking And Smoothness, Ee Vowel

3 - Clarisse - Fefe - Oh Diphthong, Ow Diphthong, R Vowel And Consonant

4 - Q And A

1 - Farida - Spanish - Ending N and M consonants, jaw drop, connecting words

2 - Roberta - Italian - Intonation going up for a stressed syllable, short unstressed syllables

3 - Q and A

1 - Marion - French - Stop T, Stronger R Sound, Diphthongs, Feeling A Lower Placement

2 - Natalia - Spanish - R Consonant, Dark L, Lower Placement

3 - Q And A

1 - Dinh - Vietnamese - Shorter Unstressed Words And Syllables, Linking And Smoothness

2 - Carolina - Spanish - Does Reduction, Shorter Unstressed Words, Lowering Pitch, Ending S Vs Z, Ending F Vs V

3 - Q And A

1 - Victor - Cantonese - R, Dark L

2 - Tsotne - Georgian - Placement

1 - Bo-Kai - Mandarin - Uh Vs Ah, Long Vs Lung, Ending N Consonant

2 - Katsia - Russian - Uh Vs. Ah, Eh Vowel And Eh Vs. Aa, Push Vowel

3 - Q And A

1 - Irine - Russian - R consonant, Dark L

2 - Lina - Vietnamese - R consonant

3 - Zsuzsanna - Hungarian - Smoothness and pitch change

4 - Q and A

1 - Pannapat - Thai - IH vowel, the word 'specifically', Rhythm

2 - Fabiana - Portuguese - IH vowel, OH diphthong, taking out nasality

3 - Q and A

1 - Ibrahim - Arabic - reductions, clear stressed syllables

2 - Andres - Spanish - Longer stressed syllables

3 - Patricia - Spanish - IH vowel, OH diphthong, speaking with a 'new' voice

4 - Moldir - Kazakh - Clear stressed syllables, jaw drop, UR vowel

5 - Q and A

1 - Irene - Twi - AA + NG

2 - Hanan - Amharic - Lowering pitch

3 - Ram - Hebrew - smoothness, stress

4 - Q and A

1. Myriam - German - Rhythm and linking

2. Monique - French - R, Dark L, rhythm and linking

1 - Chao - Mandarin - linking

2 - Carol - Spanish - smoothness, the American R

3 - Q and A

1 - Chiggy - Japanese

2 - Pradeep - Marathi

3 - Q and A

1 - Jiri - Czech - EH vs. AA, vertical vs. horizontal

2 - Vasyl - Ukrainian - quieter unstressed syllables

3 - Mijin - Korean - R vs L, EE vs IH, clarifying sounds

4 - Q and A

1 - Cristina - Portuguese - reductions, simplification, lower placement

2 - Silvia - Indonesian - building vocabulary

3 - Q and A

1 - Shannon - Mandarin - EE vs IH, Flap T, Dark L

2 - Josmael - Spanish - Ending Consonants

3 - Vanesa - Tagalog - Vowel Clarity, AA as in BAT Vowel, Word Stress

4 - Q and A

1 - Kristy - Chinese - vertical vs. horizontal, R Consonant

2 - Odelin - Haitian Creole-French - Dark L, long words

3 - Kyung - Korean - UR vowel, AI diphthong, IH vowel, placement

4 - Q and A

1 - Hugot - Creole, French, Spanish - UR vowel, Placement, faster unstressed syllables

2 - Sidhant - Marathi - Dark L, faster unstressed syllables

3 - Andrei - Russian - Overall Sound, EE vowel, UR vowel

4 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Alexander - Russian - placement

3 - Antonio - Spanish - EE vs IH, S as Z sound

4 - Joy - Chinese - Linking, Continuous Sound

5 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Valerie - Guin - Ending Ts, more clarity and volume

3 - Sarah - Indonesian - more clarity, volume, strength

4 - Caner - Turkish - EE vs IH, Flap T

5 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Hyslande - Creole - Pitch modulation, stress, UR vowel

3 - Jani - Tamil - peak of stress, linking, placement

4 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Georgina - Hungarian - Placement

3 - Orbel - Armenian - connection and flow, stress

4 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Marie - Georgian - Light L, Dark L

3 - Benjamin - German - Reductions, Stress

4 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Susan - Bahasa Indonesia - SH, R, [ʊ] vs [u]

3 - Iris D. - Mandarin - UR vowel, shortening unstressed syllables

4 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Husan - Spanish, Korean - pace, speaking quickly

3 - Can - Vietnamese - linking, smooth pitch change, reductions

4 - Monica - Swahili - R consonant

5 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Chihiro - Japanese - EE, IH, AY, EE vs IH

3 - Jayashree - Tamil - R Consonant, UR Vowel

4 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Ngan - Vietnamese - R, increasing speed

3 - Anna - Italian - R, IH, Placement

4 - Jaro - Dutch - TH

5 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Atanas - Macedonian - L

3 - Vlad - Ukrainian - Ending unaccented EE, shortening unstressed syllables

4 - Ajay - Hindi - UR as in BIRD vowel, shortening unstressed syllables

5 - Q and A

Aug 2020 - 1 - Intro

Aug 2020 - 2 - Balint - Hungarian - Flap T, W vs V, OO [u] Vowel, overall feeling

Aug 2020 - 3 - Ashishkumar - Gujarati - True T, R, Dark L, American Placement

Aug 2020 - 4 - Chiara - Italian - OH diphthong, IH vowel, TH, I'll reduction

Aug 2020 - 5 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Mira - Turkish - Linking, Shortening, and Simplifying

3 - Magdalena - Ukrainian - Finding American Placement, shortening and simplifying unstressed syllables

4 - Gokcen - Turkish - Fixing placement, OH diphthong, UH as in BUTTER vowel

5 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Usman - Urdu - placement, relaxing face

3 - Younghwa - Korean - rhythmic contrast, R, Dark L, World, Girl

4 - Q and A

5 - Inge - Danish - placement, relaxing throat and face, vertical vs. horizontal

6 - Wrap up

1 - Intro

2 - Suhail - Malayalam - word stress (longer stressed syllables)

3 - Jewel - Bengali - reductions, placement

4 - Ahmed - Arabic - simplifying unstressed syllables, the R consonant

5 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Kayoko - Japanese - R, L, OH, simplifying mouth movements

3 - Karen - Dutch - placement, formal vs. casual voice

4 - Roxana - Romanian - Placement, how the throat can change placement

5 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Giorgia - Italian - shortening unstressed syllables

3 - Darya - Belarusian - shape of stress, longer stressed syllables

4 - Anna - Polish - Developing your American Voice

5 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Nabil - Arabic - simplifying reduced syllables, reduction strings

3 - Kostas - Greek - mindset, visualization, placement, speed

4 - Q and A - addressing mindset and how to work

1 - Intro

2 - Olga - Ukranian

3 - Justiliano - Spanish

4 - Q&A

1 - Intro

2 - Bruno - Portuguese

3 - Mizuki - Japanese

4 - Q&A

1 - Open

2 - Winnie - Burmese

3 - Alice - Cantonese

4 - Graciline - Portuguese

5 - Close

1 - Ebru - Turkish

2 - Eman - Arabic

3 - Shikhar - Hindi

1 - Opening

2 - Alejandro - Spanish

3 - Sirinda - Thai

4 - Sergey - Russian

5 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2- Mariia K - Russian

3 - Djordje - Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian

4 - Károly - Hungarian

5 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Summer - Cantonese

3 - Elmira - Russian

4 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Karina - Kyrgyz - OO, ending EE, Light L, forward motion, releasing

3 - Vanessa - Spanish - placement, feeling, 'brightness'

4 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Sue - Telugu

3 - Qilian - Mandarin

4 - Nathalie - Vietnamese

5 - Q & A

1 - Intro

2 - Tatiana - Ukranian

3 - Ilkka - Finnish

4 - Amadou - French

5 - Walaa - Arabic

1 - Intro - Individual Needs

2- Claude - French

3 - Fabio - Portuguese

4 - Wrap, Q & A

1 - Character, Actors speaking with Accents

2 - Kosuke, Japanese

3 - Serag, Arabic

4 - Viviane, Portuguese

5 - Q & A

1 - Student Choice

2 - Roxana, Romaian - R sound, ending untressed EE, forward flow, placement

3 - Kateryna, Russian/Ukrainian - Ending unstressed EE, how to pronounce EVERY (no flap R, just 2 syllables), R

4 - Sasha, Ukranian - W vs V - Flap T-schwa-R, L-lightening contact, THR

5 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Ekaterina - Russian - AA vs EH

3 - Michael Jose - Chinese - Longer Stressed Syllables, Long words, L Consonant, linking

4 - Gustavo - Portuguese - Placement

5 - Erpu - Chinese - Flap T, R sound (not ZH), L

6 - Final Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Ivan - Russian - V Sound, AH vs UH

3 - Ryutaro - Japanese - How to Speak in Groups, UR Vowel

4 - Htay Htay - Burmese - UR Vowel, R consonant, AH vs UH

5 - Vera - Russian - S vs TH, F vs TH

6 - Nikolay - Russian - How to Work on Listening Comprehension, EE vs IH

1 - Intro

2 - Yelena - Russian

3 - Windylyn - Tagalog

4 - Satoko - Japanese

5 - Q & A

1 - Intro

2 - Shihong - Mandarin

3 - Q & A

4 - Francisco - Portuguese

5 - Yun - Chinese

6 - Q & A

1 - Lecture

2 - Shikhar - Hindi

3 - Announcement

4 - Mia - Chinese

5 - Rodrigo - Brazilian-Portuguese

6 - Jack L - Mandarin

7 - Q & A

1 - Lecture

2 - Anna - Russian

3 - What is the Dark L?

4 - Buwei - Chinese

5 - Anisya - Bahasa

6 - Q&A

1 - Intro

2 - Joshua E. - Urdu

3 - Bing - Chinese

4 - Estela S. - Spanish

5 - Q&A

1 - Intro

2 - Preshant - Hindi

3 - Jefferson - Portuguese

4 - Jacqueline - Spanish

5 - Q and A

1 - Opening

2 - Ark F - Russian

3 - Vowels and Length

4 - Ajay W - Hindi

5 - Alexander - Russian

6 - Q&A

7 - Derui W - Mandarin

8 - Q&A

1 - Intro

2 - JeeYoung - Korean

3 - Milania - Italian

4 - Albina - Russian

5 - Q & A

1 - Intro

2 - Catalin T - Romanian

3 - Iris G - Mandarin

4 - Sergey D - Russian

5 - Wrap Up

1 - Welcome and Intro

2 - Olga C - Russian

3 - Magaly L - Spanish

Lam M - Vietnamese

5 - Wrap

1 - Intro

2 - Ceci - Spanish

3 - Krishana - Mandarin

4 - Sady - French

Follow up for Sady on the Dark L

5 - Anastacia - Russian

6 - Wrap Up

1 - Opening Comments

2 - Marian S - Bulgarian

3 - What is a Vocal Fry?

4 - Priscilla B - Portuguese

5 - IELTS Exam

6 - Jingyi L - Chinese

7 - Q and A

1 - Ronald - Spanish

2 - Veronika - Bahasa Indonesia

3 - Zhanbo - Chinese Mandarin

4 - Questions

5 - Satoshi - Japanese

6 - Naya - Thai

7 - Questions

1 - Intro

2 - Hai - Vietnamese

3 - Julia - Russian

4 - Elle - Thai

5 - Meggy - French

6 - Q and A

1 - Intro and Lecture

2 - Linda - Indonesian

3 - Q and A

4 - Lílian - Portuguese

5 - Ricardo - Portuguese

6 - Q and A

1 - Intro

2 - Fei-Kai - Chinese

3 - Nadin - Russian

4 - Things we Learned

5 - Bo - Burmese

6 - Wrap up

1 - Intro

2 - Zheng - Chinese

3 - Juliana - Portuguese

4 - Saber - Arabic

5 - Q and A

6 - Takashi - Malay

7 - Q and A, Wrap Up

1 - Introduction

2 - Dhandu, Nepali

3 - Sam, Tamil

4 - Sahar, Persian

5 - Syed, Urdu and Hindi

6 - Dalia, Arabic

7 - Final Q&A

1 - Stories

2 - Intro

3 - Matheus - Portuguese

4 - Miho - Japanese

5 - Satyendra - Hindi

6 - Jack - Chinese

7 - Q&A

About this Webinar

1 - How to Make the R

2 - Kátia - Portuguese

3 - Regina - Portuguese

4 - Việt Quốc - Vietnamese

5 - Nathalie - French

6 - Teruji - Japanese

About This Webinar

1 - Max - Russian

3 - Allan - Spanish

2 - Julia - Russian

4 - Questions

5 - Syed - Hindi

6 - Questions

About This Webinar

Intro, lecture

Adda - Spanish

Olga - Estonian, Russian

Dilrukshi - Sinhala

Eleen - Chinese

Final Q & A

About This Webinar

Q and A 1

Q and A 2

Bertha - Spanish

Fady - Arabic

Jin Peng Lee - Chinese

Mikhail - Russian

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