🎯 My recommendation FOR YOU specifically

Based on your goals (clarity + American accent + C1):

Step-by-step:

1. ✅ Finish Rebecca (Udemy)
2. ➜ Add Rachel’s English (for natural flow)
3. ➜ Add daily shadowing (your TV system)

 

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🧠 Final conclusion

• Your course (Rebecca) = top-tier globally
• It is NOT inferior to expensive programs
• The only missing piece = feedback + real speech training

👉 Fix that → and you’ll get real accent transformation

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🏆 BEST ways to get real feedback (ranked)
🥇 1. Human pronunciation coach (gold standard)
Examples:

teachers from italki
accent coaches from Rachel's English Academy

🥉 3. Self-recording + comparison (very powerful if done right)

This is what advanced learners use.

How:

1. Take a sentence (from your TV show)
2. Record yourself
3. Compare with original

Focus on:

• stress
• melody
• timing

👉 Not just sounds!

👉 Verdict:
Free + extremely effective (but requires discipline)

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🧠 4. Shadowing with correction loop (this is YOUR best option)

You already do shadowing — good.

Now upgrade it:

❌ Basic shadowing:

• repeat → move on

✅ Advanced shadowing:

1. listen
2. shadow
3. record
4. compare
5. repeat until match

👉 This = real training

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⚠️ Methods that DO NOT work well (important)

❌ Just watching videos

❌ Just repeating words

❌ Just learning phonetics

👉 Why?
Because:

You don’t know what you’re doing wrong

🚀 My honest recommendation for you

Based on everything I know about your learning style:

👉 Start with:

• Rebecca course (foundation)
• • recording yourself (mandatory)

👉 Add:

• BoldVoice or ELSA (for daily feedback)

👉 Later:

• occasional human feedback (not even weekly — even monthly helps)

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🧠 Final truth

If you do:

• course ❌
• without feedback ❌

→ slow progress

If you do:

• course + feedback + shadowing

→ you will actually change your accent