It's not a secret that I started studying phonetics back in uni and it was the outdated version of a British accent. That course did provide me with a solid foundation but I had to stand up for myself a lot due to some teachers being resentful of my predisposition to an American way of pronouncing things. I was obsessed with sounding native-like for many years and would tirelessly practice every single day, however it's taken me around a decade to polish my pronunciation and eliminate that mixture of an accent I acquired unintentionally. Today I'm proud to say that I sound as American as a non-native speaker possibly can.

✅ How I started teaching it to others.

One of my ex-students turned to me for help. He was working for an American company and his English was already rather advanced. However, every time he had work meetings, people would struggle to understand him or he would fail to make out what they were saying to him. During his business trips in the states he would experience even more embarrassment when people in coffee shops wouldn't understand his order. He also wanted to become more fluent. That's how I began to teach phonetics to him and studying it even more profoundly myself along the way. Throughout the 5 years I've been solely focusing on helping others with their accent, I've developed my own strategy and style, upgraded my courses multiple times, improved my explanations, came up with handy techniques and subsequently mastered my own accent.