American Accent Training Course: The Play It, Say It Method

The number one way you can improve your English  pronunciation and listening comprehension is  

through repetition, repetition,  repetition. My Academy is full of  

exercises that transform my students’ voices,  and today I’m kicking off my Fall Flash sale,  

86% off the first month in Rachel’s English  Academy for five days only. I’m going to give  

you the details of the deal and what you get in  the Academy, but first I want you to hear from my  

current Academy students. They are crushing  this coursework and getting the benefits.

Hi, my name is Arthur, I’ve been an English  teacher for about 40 years in Brazil. I’d  

like to say that through Rachel’s Exercises,  my connected speech has been improving a lot.

I love it when teachers come  to study in the Academy.

I’m professionally demanding. And I think I should  be. And I’ve taken pronunciation courses in Sao  

Paolo, in a lot of different schools, in London,  even at Harvard summer school. And I guarantee:  

no other pronunciation course has  brought me as many good results,  

and as much enthusiasm to practice,  because, it’s interesting.

I have done my best to make  this a method that works,  

but that students also want to use, and  over the years I’ve refined the courses.  

You’re getting all of my best ideas on  improving your listening comprehension,  

improving your English pronunciation and your  American accent. This is what Marwan said.

I loved it. I loved the way of practicing  the play it, say it. It wasn’t boring.  

And, if somebody asked me why  you loved it, I would answer him,  

there is no need to grab a pen or a paper  to memorize anything. Just practice.

He’s right, just practice. It’s that simple.  I tell you what to practice, when to practice,  

how much to practice, we have an amazing team  of teachers to guide your practice and support  

you. The only thing you need to do is sign up  and commit some time. Be consistent. I’ve met  

students who have completely transformed  the way they speak in 10 minutes a day.

How much time on average would you say  you've spent working on your accent?

I think every day, 10 minutes.

That is not much guys, that is not much.

When you sign up for the Academy, you immediately  get access to all the courses. You can dive in  

wherever you want: vowels, rhythm, the most  common words, reductions. Or you can follow  

the daily plan and let me suggest what to work  on. We have an excellent staff that responds to  

emails quickly, and a team of teachers waiting  to listen to your daily plan challenges and give  

you personalized video feedback. Can you believe  you get personalized video feedback from teachers  

as a part of your subscription for just $37 a  month? But not even your first month, because  

for these 5 days you pay just $5 for your first  month, saving 86%. Use the code FALL5 by Sunday!  

Sign up! Get in there! If you sign up and you love  it, email us during your first month and ask how  

you can switch to an annual plan to save even  more. And if you try it and you don’t love it,  

just email us in the first 30 days and you can  get a full refund. So you get all the courses,  

over 500 video s and thousands of audio  files to train with. You get live classes  

with me once a month, you get a community group  where you can get feedback from our teachers.  

And in these courses, you get the method  and the materials you need to change your  

habits. To speak English effortlessly,  without worrying about pronunciation.

Put in your time, and you’ll see improvement.

Through Rachel’s Exercises, my connected  speech has been improving a lot. As a result,  

my students’ English has been improving a  lot, too. Can you imagine? I get better,  

they get better. I even downloaded  some of the most common words,  

and they repeat it after Rachel and Tom. And  usually, teenagers are really bored, and they  

don’t like repetitions, and they loved it.  And they can notice that they get better too.

And you might even enjoy yourself and  make some friends as you unlock the  

differences between your native  language and American English.

So, in the time I’ve spent working with Rachel’s  English Academy, I have seen a huge improvement  

with my pronunciation. The way I speak English,  the way I understand English, and the way I feel  

the language just feels completely different  now than I felt just a few months ago before I  

started working with the Academy. Getting feedback  from teachers, working with all of the courses,  

imitating the conversations which are really  great because you get a lot of audio and a lot  

of materials to imitate real conversations between  native speakers. And that’s really amazing.

That has really helped me to get a better  accent, and most important, to feel more  

comfortable when I’m speaking English, and to  feel confident with the way I speak English.

Remember, this is a subscription.  You’re automatically charged every  

month or every year, until you  cancel. You can cancel at any  

time. Most students stay between 6 and  7 months. But some stay in much longer.

This is Dave who has been studying with me for  over 3 years. He asks such great questions,  

and our team is always available to support  him. He says, “Now that I've been working in the  

Academy for three years, I feel a huge difference  in my spoken English when I'm having conversations  

with my colleagues and clients. I would encourage  other people to join the Academy because the  

staff are very supportive and extremely  patient with you to pinpoint your mistakes.”

The way you’re training in the Academy, you  can’t get it from a book, you can’t get it  

from a video. You can learn ideas that way,  but you won’t change a physical habit that  

way. I’ve actually found that my students  start sounding better and more natural when  

they use my repetition method without me even  needing to tell them what to change. Through  

this method of listening and repeating, their  bodies figure it out. Their ears figure it out.

Hi, I’m Chichiro, and I’m a student of Rachel’s  English Academy. I would recommend other people  

to join this Academy because they have so  many useful resources, including helpful  

teachers. After joining this Academy, I would  recommend that you take part in WhatsApp class,  

where you have to submit your assignment  almost every day. That way, you can build a  

habit of practicing your English pronunciation  almost every day with other community members.

When you’re an Academy student, you can sign  up for our premium learning experiences. These  

are only available to Academy students,  and they include one-on-one lessons,  

in-depth evaluations, and a WhatsApp  class with daily assignments and feedback.

I’ve been going to the USA since 1980. In  fact, I’ve just arrived from New York City  

and Washington DC, and could notice how much  better my ears are. My speech organs too. Now,  

at the hotel, for instance, I would practice  with Rachel and Tom the most common words for 20,  

25 minutes before I left the hotel, and  my muscle memory worked better. My speech  

organs worked better, just as if I had  exercised at a gym. Not at an Academy,  

you see? I had the impression that when  you practice the most common words before  

you are sent out into the day, when the day  embraces you, you are much more prepared.

So, I would definitely recommend Rachel’s English  Academy to anyone who’s trying to get a better  

pronunciation and to improve their accent. Because  it has really worked for me. After working with  

things like placement and stress, which are  concepts that I had no idea of before joining  

the Academy but have a really big impact in your  pronunciation when you start working with them,  

that has really helped me to get better  pronunciation, which is everything that I  

ever wanted to speak a little bit more clear and  to be able to be understood by native speakers.

I noticed my improved pronunciation  since I started working in the Academy.  

Not only my speaking has improved, even  my listening skill has improved. Thank you  

Rachel. Thank you for everything. And really,  I would encourage other people to join the  

Academy because they will find something  here they wouldn’t find anywhere else.

The Academy has been producing results  that no other course, no other school,  

no other exercises, because, I get  up, and I feel like practicing the  

most common words. In a nut shell,  I highly recommend Rachel’s Academy.

So, that’s it from me, and I hope  to see you soon in the Academy.

If you have any questions, please comment  here, or you can email us. And make the time,  

take the chance, this will be the  last pronunciation course you’ll  

ever take. That’s it, and thanks  so much for using Rachel’s English.