Advices – 5 (Chat GPT): Accent
🎯 My recommendation FOR YOU specifically
Based on your goals (clarity + American accent + C1):
Step-by-step:
- ✅ Finish Rebecca (Udemy)
- ➜ Add Rachel’s English (for natural flow)
- ➜ 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:
- Take a sentence (from your TV show)
- Record yourself
- Compare with original
Focus on:
- stress
- melody
- timing
👉 Not just sounds!
👉 Verdict:
Free + extremely effective (but requires discipline)
🧠 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:
- listen
- shadow
- record
- compare
- repeat until match
👉 This = real training
⚠️ 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)
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- recording yourself (mandatory)
👉 Add:
- BoldVoice or ELSA (for daily feedback)
👉 Later:
- occasional human feedback (not even weekly — even monthly helps)
🧠 Final truth
If you do:
- course ❌
- without feedback ❌
→ slow progress
If you do:
- course + feedback + shadowing
→ you will actually change your accent