Sam

Sam is ideal for obtaining a British accent (RP). His postgraduate education in phonetics and phonology makes a difference. He explains how you should locate the tongue, jaw etc. to produce the required sound and is ready to demonstrate MRIs of natives pronouncing it. When I couldn’t grasp how to do a so-called happy-tensing, he taught me spectrograms and formants to let numbers speak for themselves. It helped a lot. Sam speaks multiple languages. It is fascinating to discuss their differences with him and view my native language from a non-native perspective.

lessons with Sam always bring lots of fun and knowledge

Today we went over the grammar point 訳じゃない. As usual, Sam is great at breaking down language concepts and getting me to think outside of my existing ways of thinking.

I've taken the English Pronunciation lesson and left satisfied. Sam is very knowledgeable and provided a good feedback on how I can improve. His knowledge in Russian is especially helpful if that's your mother tongue, as Sam has an insight into what leads Russians to speak with imperfections and how to approach that. Having looked into English phonetics and various accents myself before, I could feel Sam's passion for languages and how much experience he has. He's been very kind and assisted when the technical difficulties occurred. If you want to improve your pronunciation, then I couldn't recommend Sam's lessons enough!

Thank you for our lessons, Sam! You give me the feedback I needed. Now I know specific problems I need to work on! It is very valuable for me.

A great trial lesson!