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Get Rid of your Accent Part One (Udemy.com)

English Sounds of Received Pronunciation

Created by: Olga Smith Linda James

Last updated September 2019

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What you will learn

  • Three hours of video instructions and demonstrations with Linda James, a top British speech tutor, and her student Olga Smith
  • Useful insights from Olga Smith about difficulties with English sounds that students have and explanations how to overcome them
  • Lessons that teach you how to produce all 43 sounds of Standard (British) English
  • Tried and tested drama school method for accent reduction
  • Pronunciation rules to make your speech grammatically correct
  • Detailed descriptions of difficulties in pronunciation for speakers of world languages with recommendations

How it compares

Against the other 535 rated Udemy courses in Language Learning on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 64% of them
  • Reviews155#410 of 536 by number of reviews
  • Length3 hoursshorter than 69% of them
  • Last updatedSeptember 2019earlier than 84% of them

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Course Description

Are you tired of being asked to repeat yourself? Is your strong accent dragging you down? This course is based on more than 25 years of teaching experience. We have been helping hundreds of people to get rid of their accents and become confident communicators. All our courses, books and apps are very practical and to the point, they are focused and contain 10% of theory and 90% of practice.

This course teachers you how to speak without an accent. During this course students will learn all sounds of Received Pronunciation (RP).  RP was called in the past the Queen’s English, Oxford English or BBC English. Today, RP is simply a neutral pronunciation of educated Southern English; it is also called Standard English. RP is associated with good education, high class and success. This course will provide you a short cut to a more valuable enhanced image, which in turn will open doors to greater opportunities.

Content of the course
This course consists of 42 private video lessons and three lectures. Linda James, one of the top speech tutors in the UK with over 25 years of experience explains and demonstrates how each English sound is formed in the mouth. Her student, Olga Smith tries to produce the sounds and then Linda offers very effective exercises for Olga. The atmosphere of a private lesson is wonderful. Olga highlights to Linda main difficulties that different nationalities have with particular English sounds. Linda offers very useful tips which cannot be found in books or apps.

Together, Linda and Olga have co-authored several international bestsellers in the series the Get Rid of your Accent. The popularity of their books led to creating accompanying apps. Lesson numbers in the video course, books and apps correspond to the same sound. Audio books are available on Audible, paperback books and e-books on Amazon.

This video course is designed to support our existing apps and books in the series "Get Rid of your Accent" with a demonstration of speech organ positions, providing a total solution for accent reduction on line.

The main benefits of this course to students
1. You will have fun learning English sounds in the atmosphere of a private lesson.
2. You will get useful tips and techniques for accent reduction which are unique to this course.
3. You will learn pronunciation rules that make your speech grammatically correct.
4. The course is adapted for smartphones, tablets, and computers, allowing you to study at any time, anywhere.
5. If you are taking private lessons, the course makes your lessons more effective and helps you to save money on a number of lessons you take.

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Instructor Details

Olga Smith Linda James

Linda James, Royal Academy of Music Diploma of Education, Speech and Drama; International Phonetic Diploma from London University

Linda is a trained phonetician with over twenty years of experience in teaching Speech in London drama schools. She is also a trained actress and has worked extensively in both theatre and television, including BBC sitcoms such as "Only Fools and Horses", "Keeping Up Appearances" and many others. Linda taught many foreign professionals accent eradication. She developed a very practical and useful method that really works.

Olga Smith, BA in Languages, MBA from Nottingham University

After her MBA, Olga worked in Boots Healthcare International, Siemens and British American Tobacco. She felt that her strong Russian accent was holding her back. Olga finally managed to neutralise her accent, thanks to her lessons with Linda. They co-authored several international best-sellers in series "Get Rid of your Accent" and developed eight accompanying apps . Olga now runs Accent Reduction courses for diplomats and professionals.

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Reviews

4.7

155 ratings on Udemy

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By Michael Rowland-Hill on 8/8/2025

I'm an English as a Foreign language teacher and I've recommended this course to several of my students. I've also used it to help my wife, who's Romanian, improve her English accent. Linda is a wonderful teacher with a beautiful speaking voice and Olga a great student who asks important questions. I would highly recommend this course to anyone. It's even helped me improve my speaking voice!

By Anna Lubinska on 8/24/2024

I love the course, helping me a lot! I just wish that there would be short recordings on the app as well. It's so much easier to see the position of the mouth and tongue than to read about them, but all in all a great course! Thanks so much!

By Osaretin umheni on 1/4/2024

I love the fact that this course was done in a conversational manner that involves a former student and the teacher.

By Yolanda Nunez on 9/28/2023

I have the app too but it’s great and to see on video how to make the sounds and some of the exercises

By Katja on 10/30/2022

How they explain the difference between the sounds is incredible helpful. The have great chemistry which makes to course more enjoyable

By Pradeepan A on 6/21/2021

I don't have a copy of the printed book. So a kind of subtitles would be very helpful to understand the examples.

By Joan Mauel Cruz Aguilar on 1/1/2021

As a native spanish speaker, this course really helped me to acquire and improve a natural rp accent, I'm thankful to you ladies.

By Julie Chan on 6/15/2020

Thank you so much for the videos!! I enjoy watching them on my iPad and I am finding this course extremely useful. :)

By jorge Aceves on 10/8/2019

for me its very clear and understanding, these ladies are so cool i will learn a lot

By Karina doig on 7/30/2019

Great lessons Linda, the course is enjoyable, helpful and gave me lots of tips to improve my pronunciation

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Overall Score : 94 / 100