5 Days to a Better Accent (Udemy.com)

Improve your Pronunciation Quickly & Easily

( 73 Reviews )

Created by: Nicole Kaup

Produced in 2017

What you will learn

Speak English more clearly & confidently

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Overall Score : 90 / 100

Course Description

This 5 day mini-course is for the advanced English language learner. Each day, there is a short video lesson on one important aspect of accent reduction, followed by 2 practice assignments. The lesson and assignments should take about 30-60 minutes per day to complete. At the end of the 5 days, you will know the most important things to focus on for clearer speech and have several easy strategies for practicing on your own.

If you are missing opportunities because of your accent, this class will change that for you. Join now and experience the confidence and success that comes from speaking clear, intelligible English. Who this course is for:
Non-native English speaking professionals & university students

Time: 1.5h

Instructor Details

Nicole Kaup

4.5 Rating
73 Reviews

Nicole Kaup is a professional ESL (English as a Second Language) instructor and accent reduction specialist. She is a native English speaker with19 years experience teaching adults from all over the world. She has taught at colleges, universities and in intensive English programs in the U.S. and in China. She has also worked privately with foreign born professionals, including engineers, doctors and business people. Her degrees are in teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), foreign languages and business, in addition to advanced training in American English pronunciation, accent reduction techniques and teaching methodologies. She speaks Spanish fluently and has a working knowledge of Portuguese, German and Mandarin as well.

Reviews

4.5

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By Mohamed Farahat on 4/26/2020

awesome

By Sue Thomas on 3/1/2020

Rubbish. Not for me

By Victoria Fineberg on 1/7/2020

The course covers important topics but the it's hard to learn from it:
(1) There is no handout with the key concepts. I had to stop the video and copy (re-type) information from the screen.
(2) Singing along is a good idea, but it's hard to understand the words without looking at the lyrics. But looking at the lyrics defeats the purpose.
(3) Some phrases used in the course would make good exercises to repeat 6 to 10 times. But the instructor has made only pauses for us to diagnose a specific mode of speech. Rewinding and re-listening is not easy, because you can go to the desired place exactly. For example, you may have noted that good material is at the 4min 33sec mark, but you can't choose this point on the course display.

By Filipe Vizentim on 1/6/2020

Aulas didticas, com timas dicas para adquirir uma melhor fluncia no Ingls. Ponto negativo que o curso curto, poderia ter mais tpicos contedo como phrasal verbs e idiomatics expressions por exemplo.

By Cisano Giraldo on 11/23/2019

Course was short, but very productive.

By William Brasileiro on 7/3/2019

Great course. Excellent and usefull exercises!

By siva raman on 11/25/2018

Her teaching was quite good and very easy to go through the phase for the course

By Marcos Ferreira da Silva on 11/23/2018

excelente explicaao

By Ama Danesi on 11/19/2018

I found this to be a well-paced and fun course. Immediately applicable to everyday situations and settings, unlike other classes that over-emphasize single vowel/consonant sounds rather than helping the learner achieve better global/overall communicating skills and intelligibility.
Thanks!!

By Rachel on 11/17/2018