The most important thing about your Accent

[@rachelsenglish]

WANT EVEN MORE ABOUT THIS?? www.RachelsEnglishAcademy.com ^^^^^ AND LIVE CLASSES! ^^^^^

[@abbygilbert8480]

Hello Rachel! Hope you're doing great. I'm looking for one on one American Accent classes. I'm from India. I'm an artist and a calligrapher. I struggle with voice overs in my KZbin videos. Could you please guide me?

[@lovefordnb]

I adore your work Rachel, I just have the impression that you speak so much during your student's practice time that she hardly has any chance to actually practice 🤓 it's like you speak 98% of the time and she speaks only 2...

[@alib9516]

Rachel , thanks for your efforts .. Would you explain how to say " regularly" in a normal and fast way It's definitely so hard to say Thanks in advance ❤

[@evelisecarvalho8027]

Oh my God! You’re the best teacher when it comes to pronunciation and intonation. As I started studying English by myself when I was nine, I was lucky enough to get all those nuances from the very beginning. Unfortunately most teachers aren’t that lucky and aren’t able to teach their students. When I listen to you, I feel like becoming a coach to those guys because learning a language involves so much more and most aren’t aware of that. Love you, Rachel.

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks for this great feedback, it's always great to hear positive things Evelise!

[@ThatJapaneseActress]

I’m a native Japanese speaker, and I feel like I finally found my American voice! My voice gets much much deeper when I speak English compared to Japanese and I used to feel like I was “faking” it 😂 but probably that’s my right placement in English! Thank you for amazing videos always! ✨

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome and thanks for sharing @ThatJapaneseActress!

[@LalMuhammadAfzali-md5gs]

@@rachelsenglish when I memorize new vocabulary after two minutes I forget it how should I memerize words and never forget it

[@ybt595]

One Very helpful tip, guys. As we can notice, American Speakers try to produce sounds with their lips, but people like us who never had this habit try to speak by making sounds by moving our Jaw, and that is what causes the placement issue. So, when you speak, try to produce the sounds from the lips and you will see your voice is automatically coming from the chest. Please try. I hope it helps!

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks for sharing @yasht8197!

[@undeadmfk]

Gorgeous, professional and straightforward. This is by far the best English teaching channel on KZbin. Thank you for sharing your work with us.

[@rachelsenglish]

You're very welcome Singularity! Thanks for this great feedback.

[@GopalSharma-jc2jp]

Thanks, teacher for this amazing lesson. I'd try doing the Mellow exercise and work on lowering down my placement. Stay always happy and positive my favorite teacher.

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks so much @GopalSharma-jc2jp!

[@raisingelephant]

What a marvelous video! It's rare to learn so much in so little time. Thank you, Rachel! ❤️👏

[@rachelsenglish]

Glad you liked it Roberto!

[@ФедорШ-ц1ф]

Thank you Rachel for your work. You're the best teacher.

[@rachelsenglish]

You're very welcome @user-rz9mc9dc9d!

[@Vaniapsyche]

Very very interesting...I'm brazilian and I speak Portuguese, Spanish and English ...I always noted my voice sounds high in spanish, in English is like middle but in portuguese is low ❤❤❤❤ Really good explanation. My husband is a ESOL teacher and I'm a interpreter he work at the same school with foreign kids ❤❤❤ Thank you so much for the video!

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome and thanks for watching @Vaniapsyche!

[@melquiadesdiaz5458]

Hi teacher , I'm from Cuba I'm excited with your outstanding English lesson, I appretiate the time and interest you have to take us to the Next level. My best regards.👍🏽

[@rachelsenglish]

Glad to hear that Melquiades! It's always great to hear positive things.

[@MikiyasYohanis-ww5ce]

I don't know How to thank You for all your lessons,Please keep it up 👍👍💙💙💙💙💙💙

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks @MikiyasYohanis-ww5ce!

[@franciscojose6496]

That's exellent channel pure english pure information again and again congratulations pure energy teacher Rachel

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks a lot @franciscojose6496!

[@lizeth987]

RACHAEL YOU ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD 🌎🌍 always surprise me how detailed person you are💗 people can understand me better and I have more confidence Thank you for everything and for your Talents beautiful human being, greetings from Mexico ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@rachelsenglish]

Hello there and thanks for your support @lizeth987!

[@ramzy-6566]

Thank you so much. Mrs. Rachel..

[@rachelsenglish]

My pleasure @ramzy-6566!

[@eustaquiozambrano2974]

Thanks so much for helpping you too. Have a wonderful Day. ☺👍

[@rachelsenglish]

You too @eustaquiozambrano2974

[@jameso4053]

Thank you so much, Rachel! You are a great teacher!

[@rachelsenglish]

You're very welcome @jameso4053!

[@nowymail]

"living" "i" in my language is pronounced like "ee", and I think it's true for many languages. Closer to English "i" is our "y" sound. People often don't realize the difference, they try to stick to their own language's sounds. As a kid I wasn't taught proper pronunciation and how important it is. And I was wondering why people abroad had difficulties with understanding me. This channel has helped me the most.

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks for sharing @nowymail!

[@adeliak8222]

Never thought about it! Thank you so much for sharing your ideas.

[@rachelsenglish]

My pleasure @adeliak8222!

[@sergeipetrov5572]

Hello, Rachel! Thanks a million for the lesson and a new exercise! I liked it a lot! Comparison with music is very helpful!

[@rachelsenglish]

Thank you @sergeipetrov5572!

[@gamessongs2762]

Great video. Thanks.

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome @gamessongs2762!

[@YounglaKwon]

Thank you for this video, Rachel! This is what I have been looking for!! There is no approach like you to remove the accent from other language. I totally could understand you because I am a singer. The same mechanism can apply for singing! Thank you so very much!!

[@rachelsenglish]

You're very welcome and thanks for sharing @YounglaKwon!

[@ashy-ho]

Oh my god, that is a thing I found when I heard locals talk; I'm glad someone finally gave some tips for that.

[@afernunes]

Thank you for sharing!

[@rachelsenglish]

My pleasure @fernunees!

[@ingridmarianarodriguez8539]

THE MOST LOVELY LESSON I'VE EVER TAKEN. Rachel CRACK ! 🖒😁😘😘😘😘

[@EnglishforGood-pw7bt]

Rachel, you are amazing!

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks a lot @EnglishforGood-pw7bt!

[@FecundoArrabales666]

Hats off to you again! 👏👏👏👏

[@marvelouss719]

I love your channel and my English is British Caribbean. Besides, your explanations answer my questions about why folks who were born and educated in the US speak differently from British Caribbean English.

[@rachelsenglish]

You welcome and thanks for sharing @marvelouss719!

[@charlesleonard5663]

Wow, Rachel, you are a really good teacher!

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks a lot @charlesleonard5663!

[@josetimoteo7984]

You are fantastic. Very good.

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks a lot @josetimoteo7984!

[@user-soon300]

this is great lesson i really appreciate ❤and you are really the best teacher

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks a lot @user-soon300!

[@lizeth987]

ENLIGHTENING

[@Yasmina-Ivette]

Very useful, Rachel Thank you ❤

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome @Yasmina-Ivette!

[@flaviooliveira6999]

I totally agree with those instruments comparisons, mainly because the voice is considered a musical instrument because it produces musical sound, vibration, and tone quality, making it unique, nobody speaks or sings exactly like another person, so my voice changes when I speak English. I try to keep to my voice like as if I just had woken up, I study and still keep studying English for more than 2 decades, always look for improvement, because even native speakers learn new words and expressions depending on the area, or field that interest them the most.

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks for sharing @flaviooliveira6999!

[@robertsutkowski3170]

Thank You

[@rachelsenglish]

You're very welcome @robertsutkowski3170!

[@vladimirzunic9152]

You either have a new microphone, or you've changed something about your audio. This is such a change. I can finally enjoy your videos to the fullest.

[@rachelsenglish]

Glad to hear that @vladimirzunic9152!

[@soheyla6138]

You are fantastic!

[@hannakharchuk]

Thank you for informative video!

[@rachelsenglish]

My pleasure @hannakharchuk!

[@englishforever]

Here is a tip that I give my students about the i sound in Portuguese. It only sounds iiiii in Portuguese when it is the stressed syllable of a word(grita, minta, brita, pinta, ITA). When is is NOT the stressed syllable it is a schwa. Ta-da! For instance, Itália, igreja, hospital, limpar) See? It's not an iiiiiiii. In English, take something as a rule of thumb, the letter i DOES NOT sound like iiiiiiiii. Then, you memorize the exceptions: Police, pizza, taxi, megazine, machine. There are a few,

[@mohidilmadrahimova9501]

Thanks a bunch. Ir is very useful for me

[@rachelsenglish]

Great!

[@agripinamuniz3711]

Great class!

[@rachelsenglish]

Thank you @agripinamuniz3711!

[@edwinscheibner7941]

Thank you.

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome @edwinscheibner7941!

[@soaraddie1918]

I knew about that quite early in my years of learning English as my first "English teachers" were Americans. Some of them said to me that if I didn't sound English, it would be difficult for me to get integrated or to make friends with Americans at school or university. I tried very hard and succeeded However, that doesn't mean that I sound American at all when I speak English now. The success was just for some first words in a sentence. I lost control of how to shape my throat, nasal tract, my tongue, my lips...for the rest of the sentence. Nevertheless, I must say that it is possible to train to sound like American voice but to keep sounding like that for a long time can be a great effort unless you mix with American or English people every day..

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks for sharing @soaraddie1918!

[@nguyensu3851]

I really enjoy your English video & also happy Halloween 🎃

[@rachelsenglish]

You too @nguyensu3851!

[@lorenomenezesdasilveira]

You're great, l love your wide scope approach 🌹🌹👌👌

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks a lot @lorenomenezesdasilveira!

[@coyotech55]

Those are good points. I know when I was learning Russian (I'm an American), my jaws hurt! Russian has many sounds formed in the lower jaws and neck, not as high as we do in English. On the other hand, some South American ladies were helping me with my Spanish accent and pointed out that Spanish is done more from the lips and the front of your mouth, not from the back like in English. In Hebrew I needed to speak more forcefully, bringing air from lower down to make it sound better, and not do the dark L, or the American R. Speakers of Hindi, even with excellent grammar and vocabulary can have a hard time being understood in English because the accent and rhythm of Hindi is far different than English.

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks for sharing @coyotech55!

[@coyotech55]

@@rachelsenglish My French teacher told me that in French there's no difference between the ee like in eat, and the i like in "it". Of course that's an important difference in English. But it's because French is in the front of the mouth, the nose and the lips, too. So try saying "wheel" at the front of you mouth, with a full final "L" ... you get "will", and can't do "wheel" that way.

[@YounglaKwon]

Thanks!

[@rachelsenglish]

Wow! Thanks a lot @YounglaKwon! I appreciate it! :)

[@spatongue]

Wow, this video rocked my world! I always sucked at music, but that analogy was fascinating and useful. It made me wanna speak English like a flute player. (The only Piccolo I knew was from Dragon Ball anyway so...) I gotta work on my language tunes! Thanks a bunch for the lesson! 🎶📚

[@rachelsenglish]

You're very welcome @spatongue!

[@devikarnair6191]

Thanks for your video❤

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome @devikarnair6191!

[@devikarnair6191]

❤​@@rachelsenglish

[@Fatmasorour-s3c]

You are the best ever at English and I love you very much and I learn a lot from you❤. There is a very, very important question: Do you stand with Israel or Palestine?

[@businesswomanhalima9828]

over the top as always ❤😊

[@rachelsenglish]

I appreciate it @businesswomanhalima9828!

[@johnibat]

Thanks...🙏

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome @johnibat!

[@rachanajangir3394]

Hi Rachel, how have you been ? Can you please tell me about the 5 longest English words that are really required to be added in our vocabulary. Please let me know about it !!

[@rachelsenglish]

The most important would be tough to say, but here are some vocabulary learning playlists I've made! www.youtube.com/@rachelsenglish/search?query=vocabulary

[@Cristype1diabetic]

I'd like to work for your staff, but I am still intermediate level 😢. Your classes are awesome.

[@مازنعبدالزهرههاشمالجزائري]

Thanks my teaxher❤❤❤❤

[@rachelsenglish]

My pleasure @user-ym1eu6pj9z!

[@diakonrai8472]

It's like the singing technique. I mean the sound that born in to a stomach, or something like that.

[@englishforever]

And one more thing that I have noticed in your student's voice that I also notice in my students' is the length of the vowels. I've heard her first sentence and I can say she's latina. Rachel, you have a video talking about syllable stress and you said that stressed syllables are looooooong and hiiiiiiigher than the other one. I've started paying attention to that since than, and, guess what? Bullseye for you.

[@englishforever]

I work with English in a place where the European culture is really a thing. Some of my students learned German or Italian as their first language. No problem. But, as we can see in the video, languages use different muscles.

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks for sharing @englishforever!

[@Harsh-em5hs]

👋 Rachel,,Its great pleasure for me to watch your video thats help us improve our speaking and learning skills ,i humble request to you please make video regards call centre ❤❤❤ watching from incredible India

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks a lot @Harsh-em5hs!

[@LeelooMinai]

I would like to caution about using sympathetic vibrations as cues to the audible resonant changes in sounds produced - people will feel those vibrations in various parts of their body for simingly similar sounds. It's kind of like trying to learn how to steer a car not by observing the road, by listening to the sound of some tool rattling in the trunk on each turn - it's an indirect and unreliable method. It's tempting to think that this is universal and reliable across everyone, but it just tends to obfuscate and misdirect from what those students should be really doing, that is training their ears to asses and alter the sounds they produce directly.

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks for sharing @LeelooMinai!

[@أحمدالدسوقي-ت9س]

Hi :) I hope you're fine. I pronounce the "st" cluster in the word "gist", which has the transcription /dʒɪst/, by keeping the tongue behind the bottom front teeth. Specifically, I transition from the /dʒ/ sound to the /ɪ/ sound by moving the tongue from the roof of the mouth to the back of the bottom teeth, then I generate the /st/ cluster without moving the tongue tip to the roof of the mouth, which means that I use the middle of the mouth to produce both of the /s/ and /t/ sounds. I do it that way because I feel it is more efficient and requires less tongue movement. In my case, the tongue will have two positions for the entire word: 1. the first position is for the /dʒ/ sound 2. the second position is for the /st/ cluster. I repeat the same tongue posture for the /st/ cluster regardless of its position in the word. what is your take on that?

[@rachelsenglish]

Hi, I think this sounds like a reasonable option. I just tried it myself, and found that the correct sound was possible with this approach. It wouldn't be my first choice since it feels less natural to me, but it can work if it feels good for you!

[@bloodeagle2945]

Video suggestion: Consonants combinations that are hard to pronounce. I'm struggling with the transition between multiple consonants where you have to touch the roof of your mouth and teeth, also Z.

[@Kilan-Ashraf-Mohammed-Sweden]

Hello my best teacher! Thank you and good luck for your beautiful work for the help and I like👍 and I want to watch your videos Activities and challenges for lessons on topics American International English Language Education Videos. 💻🧑‍🎓👨‍🎓👩‍🎓

[@rachelsenglish]

You're very welcome @Kilan-Ashraf-Mohammed-Sweden!

[@Jps277]

Subscribed! Thanks Rachel Rachel. Are you offering holiday promos for new academy members?

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks for subbing @Jps277! Yes there will be a sale soon so watch out!

[@Jps277]

@rachelsenglish hooray! I'll be checking the space. Thanks for all you do for American English Learners!

[@Atit-820]

I disagree that the sound in spanish is like a small musical instrument. The sounds in spanish are marvelous and beatiful and full of emotions. Remember, it`s is a romance language. It demostrates the americans english speakers lack of knowledge, about this beautiful language. The spanish is a more precise for explain complex concepts and tenses, respect to the english. (said this by language experts). Gramatically, the english is somewhat less evolutionated language respect the spanish. Spanish has influence of empires like: Greeks, Romans, Azteqs, Mayas, Incas and arabs mainly

[@youssefbenatti1599]

Thank you for your amazing job, please what about arabic speaker, the commun mistake of pronunciation? Thank and keep going your interesting lessons 👍💐

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks for the suggestion @youssefbenatti1599!

[@englishforever]

See? Now that I am recovering from my second COVID, I can go down like that with my voice.

[@rachelsenglish]

I hope you get well soon @englishforever!

[@Malvitima0]

I thought that Picollo was a character name from Dragonball, never imagined it's a instrument.

[@dnm6790]

I am a person who stutters since my childhood. So, practicing speaking is very difficult to me.

[@pirate596grl]

Thanks for video 😊 Please more videos about placement and accent ❤ My sound being higher again during the conversation When I'm speaking with lower pitch. what can I do

[@rachelsenglish]

You're welcome @pirate596grl!

[@СейфСергиенко]

Thanks 🙏💞 Beautiful beautiful lady 🙏

[@zraikdk]

❤❤❤

[@SO-be3dv]

👍

[@df7ap000]

Hello Rachel

[@rachelsenglish]

Hi there @df7ap000!

[@englishforever]

OMG - PLACEMENT - I have asked some doctors if they know what that is, and they said,"No idea." Why? Because we have nasal sounds in Portuguese from Brazil. For Spanish speakers, it should be less hard. After all, they do not have nasal sounds in Spanish. I can't remember any.

[@thiagotorresbr]

Ñ E.g.: Mañana

[@vladimirzunic9152]

2:51 You beat Mariah Carey here.

[@thefanofhighflyers5173]

❤️❤️👍👍

[@mus90w]

Good video😊

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks for watching @mus90w!

[@sstgloball]

Hi subscribed ,you r amazing mam

[@rachelsenglish]

Thank you @sst1115!

[@mohabuleenhaneen8315]

Hi Rachel.. *How can I enroll myself in your course.. please guide me*

[@rachelsenglish]

Hi @mohabuleenhaneen8315! You can join here: www.rachelsenglishacademy.com/

[@motivated5468]

My real problem is distinguishing between the dark l and the regular one in two-syllable words like "really" "pillow" and the words like these ones... I don’t know what to do... I think it has ruined my pronunciantion...

[@CoryPchajek]

Look at different Chinese speakers. CBC, ABC will have very different accents from Hong Kong Chinese or China Chinese. The CBC, ABC and BBC will have been speaking a lot more English and their faces will even LOOK different from their Chinese counterparts.

[@annachekmareva7872]

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[@sandracarli1110]

Gosh, I didn't know that 'bass' is pronounced like 'base'! 😅

[@ImashiNimnadi]

ooh nice pronunciation😀😀

[@rachelsenglish]

Thanks @ImashiNimnadi!

[@vladimirzunic9152]

2:47 Spaniards just won't let go of that type of L sound (fLute in this case).

[@phanvandieu7334]

never think speaking involves physics

[@tungnguyen2349]

do you have any Vietnamese student

[@rachelsenglish]

Yes, many!

[@fredericroy]

5:19 Hello, am I the only one, not to find the link of the video "Placement"?

[@rachelsenglish]

Sorry about that @fredericroy! It's already there. Thanks for noticing! :)

[@sardarmohammad-hc1oj]

Hi sweetie teacher my English is not good my English language is very slowly. Can you help me to me

[@rachelsenglish]

Hello and welcome @sardarmohammad-hc1oj! I have a playlist for you! kzbin.info/aero/PLrqHrGoMJdTRwaQFCCDp4G88yX5D3gOdP

[@kostyat6812]

E.g. why in word episode letter o sound ou but not schwa?

[@rachelsenglish]

Good question! Words with specific suffixes like -ode often keep a regular pronunciation for the suffix part of the word, and this one happens to use the OH diphthong.

[@kostyat6812]

@@rachelsenglish How can you get used to such a terrible spelling of words. Why won't all Americans rise up against it. I am used to the perfect spelling of words in my language. it is impossible to get used to the lawlessness in writing English words.

[@amanditabautista]

Rachel you are great but i think you should let students talk and practice more . You speak 99.9% :(:(.

[@mohamadbadie3743]

How to pronounce the final ed in studied

[@rachelsenglish]

Hi! I recommend using YouGlish.com to look up those words and listen to how native speakers say them!

[@BARBIE....26]

, sorry I haven't been watching U..more...💜

[@rachelsenglish]

No worries @BARBIE....24!

[@KaptainCanuck]

I would say that, in reality, there is no such thing as a "U.Sican accent. There are many accents, which are a part of a dialect, in N. America.

[@savitathakur7697]

My board English exam

[@merakli2022]

Kind of funny sounds

[@SunDay-d2g]

can I have some ❤

[@PebbleLab]

when I copy Trump's mouth shape to speak English ,it makes me more American style.

[@michalskoczen]

I finally know why southern Europe languages sound so annoying :)

[@mohameda5157]

ms rachel can you tell me plan to ur channel i dont konw which video i start ❤‍🩹💘💥

[@rachelsenglish]

Hello and welcome @mohameda5157! I have a playlist for you! kzbin.info/aero/PLrqHrGoMJdTRwaQFCCDp4G88yX5D3gOdP