Hadar Shemesh · Education

The InFluency Podcast

The InFluency podcast is your go-to resource for learning, speaking and teaching English. Hadar Shemesh is a pronunciation expert and fluency coach with thousands of students around the world, though she herself was an intermediate speaker of English once. In this podcast she will share her best strategies for learning English, speaking English with confidence and mastering the American accent. Discover how becoming fluent has everything to do with acquiring the right mindset, setting goals and learning how to overcome challenges. Hadar will also share her teaching philosophy and techniques to support English teachers looking to help their students become fluent.

Episodes

519. Rediscovering your identity in English: Interview with my student, Valentina

12 Jun 2026

40m

515. American English Pronunciation: The T Sound in Kitten, Button, and Manhattan

19 May 2026

13m

514. LISTENING and SHADOWING practice with The Devil Wears Prada 2 | FAST ENGLISH

12 May 2026

13m

513. 5 Great Ways to Practice English (When You're Tired of Everything Else)

05 May 2026

12m

512. The #1 Strategy to Improve Your Pronunciation Fast

29 Apr 2026

24m

511. From afraid to speak to expressing herself fully in English | Real Student Story

24 Apr 2026

52m

510. Stop overthinking, start speaking faster | Impromptu speaking

21 Apr 2026

11m

509. She hit rock bottom in English, then rebuilt everything

14 Apr 2026

47m

508. Not making progress in English? Here's what might need to change

07 Apr 2026

11m

507. Do you know the different ways to pronounce 'CH'?

31 Mar 2026

506. Read out loud with me! Practice vocabulary, pronunciation and connected speech | The Housemaid

24 Mar 2026

31m

505. Why "don't you" turns into "donchu" in spoken English: American English Pronunciation

19 Mar 2026

11m

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The podcast episode focuses on the phenomenon of fusion or coalescence in English pronunciation, where two adjacent words merge into one sound. It highlights specific instances where the sounds of "t" followed by "y" blend into "ch," as in "can't you," and "d" followed by "y" merge into "j," as in "did you." The host e...