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Learn to Read English: American English Adult Phonics (Udemy.com)

English Phonics lessons for correct pronunciation and learning how to read.

Created by: Chris Hintsala

Last updated June 2022

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What you will learn

  • Learn how to read English
  • Learn how to pronounce English with an American accent
  • Learn how to speak correctly
  • American English Phonics

How it compares

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

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 25% of them
  • Reviews319#328 of 536 by number of reviews
  • Length10.9 hourslonger than 77% of them
  • Last updatedJune 2022earlier than 67% of them

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Course Description

This is one of the best multi-level (5 levels) phonics courses available. It will teach you not only how to correctly pronounce every sound and letter in the English, but also how to read naturally. You can watch as I show you tips and tricks on how native speakers make each sound.
This course will also teach you how to read effectively. You will learn how to read from level 2 with basic sentences and then stories.
Each lesson is about 10 minutes and perfect for someone to study every day. Each lesson builds on the lessons before so you can use what you have learned. Sentences and stories use words from the lesson and words from past lessons.
This phonics course is also special because it was made for adults and teens. There are no songs or playful animations made for children. This is a fun course designed for older students that want to learn to read and speak correctly with an American accent.
This course follows the phonics curriculum that I teach to my students at my school. You get the same curriculum but on a one-on-one level where I teach you directly in each video.
Learn the correct sounds.
Learn how to move your tongue and mouth easily.
Learn how to read.
Learn English with a clean and clear American accent.

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Instructor Details

Chris Hintsala

I have been an English ESL teacher for over 10 years. I have taught thousands of students how to read, write, speak and listen in English. While teaching I started making YouTube videos to help teach people English. They have been very successful and now I want to bring this experience and expertise to you. I have over 5,000 students there and have been able to teach English to all of them. Most successfully starting at Phonics level and going all the way to advanced writing.

Now I want to offer a more comprehensive set of lessons here. I want to teach English in the way I have been developing for years. A simple approach without all of the rules that make learning a language hard and boring.

I have a Master's degree in Business Administration as well as many other Bachelor's degrees from other universities. I enjoy learning and meeting new people.

I am excited to teach you!

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Reviews

4.5

319 ratings on Udemy

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By Tracy Bryant on 8/5/2026

TODAY IS MY FIRST day using this ,and l just want to say thank you .l'm 27 years old ,and this is helping me learn how to read .it means so much to me because my dream is to improve my reading and go back to school. lm taking it one step at a time, and l'm proud of myself for starting. thank you for creating something that's giving me hope and helping people like me.

By Monu Sharma on 12/4/2025

it's just waste of time and money and the crazy stuff this same video are available on youtube

By Clara Lee Peng Peng on 5/20/2025

Teacher is great, very encouraging, positive and makes the whole experience of learning phonics fun and light-hearted. I was hoping that there will be more technicalities used in grouping of sounds as I plan to teach this in a school. I am not sure about the difference between Jolly Phonics, Letter Land and Montessori.

By Dharani Saravanan on 3/22/2024

I struggled a lot to get the phonics correctly, but his calm and slow-paced teaching method helped me to get it correct quickly. I would suggest anyone who wants to correct their pronunciatoin this as the first step.

By Frédérique Q on 1/3/2023

This phonics lesson was AMAZING. It will be a great foundation for listening, reading, speaking and writing well. I'm very happy to learn it with a funny and cool teacher. Now, I would like to continue in the same way for learning to read different levels. Thanks for teaching.

By Daniela Jimenez Santiago on 6/3/2021

This course was really helpful to improve my pronunciation even though I have an advance english level. I could realize that I had some mispronunciation mistakes and this course helped me to correct them. I highly recomend it, especially if you are starting to learn the language. Besides Chris is an excellent teacher and so funny.

By Melina Gonzalez on 11/23/2020

This course is perfect for anyone whose native language is not English and wants lo learn how to read and recognize American English sounds naturally, no more memorizing. Everything is taught in a very natural an intuitive way. The course is very easy to go through and Chris is a wonderful teacher, you can tell he really loves sharing his knowledge and has a talent for education and people. My only request would be I would love to see some more new courses focusing on deepening and testing our new acquired skills, like reading for the IT professionals, or for the science fields, tips from Chris on how to reduce different accents, anything he considers can help us improve our accent .

By Tomoki Igarashi on 10/4/2020

His lectures have always been patient and polite. I felt that it was very effective for repeated learning because I could review it somewhere even if I skipped it a little or forgot it. Thank you for such a wonderful lecture!

By Avishay Kadouri on 8/6/2020

Chris was a great instructor! Because of his lessons I now speak more confidently English and I speak it more correctly. i think everyone who wants to speak english well, like a native one, needs to take this course! Thank you Chris for spectacular course! It really helped my English!

By Gelli Sriniwas on 6/23/2020

Patience is virtue. Mr. Chris Hintsala has a full of patience in teaching students. I like the way he taught, and its worth for any student who learns from him. Thanks for every thing and having taught for the online programs like Udemy. Appreciated. Gelli Sriniwas Hyderabad, India

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Overall Score : 90 / 100