In music, portamento is the smooth glide from one note to the next. Separate sounds become one voice.
In Italian, it also means how you carry yourself into a room — your energy, your presence.
That's why we chose it. For twelve weeks, we will train both: how your sounds flow into one voice, and how you carry yourself when you speak English.
You give presentations. You answer the email. You get through the meeting. And still, something doesn't land. People ask you about the thing you just explained. They nod — and turn to someone else for the answer.
They understood your words. They didn't receive you.
The people you work with now learned to understand your accent and your way of talking. It took them months.
The new stakeholders, the promotion panel, the client who has never heard you before — won't give you months.
The world hears more than your words. It receives who you are as you speak. It hears your voice, your rhythm, and your hesitation. If you're insecure and trying to hide it, people hear the insecurity anyway. You can speak louder, but it simply becomes loud insecurity.
This isn't a grammar problem. And it's bigger than your accent. It's how you sound, and how you build what you say in the right-now moment.
Both are trainable.
Why every day
“I'm Alex's student. I see him once a week, and my English has changed — you can hear it in my before-and-after video below. But I know exactly what would have happened if I'd seen him every day: the patterns I still struggle with would already be gone.”
Once a week gives you insight. Every day gives you momentum and a new, trained default.
Patterns don't change because you understood them. They change when someone catches them every day — until you start catching them yourself.
That's why Portamento runs Monday to Friday, for twelve weeks.
American accent coach & actor
Alex is a native Spanish speaker. Today he acts in American and Spanish films, in Los Angeles and Madrid, and runs his own film studio in Madrid. No one can tell English isn't his first language. He has mastered the skill you want — which is why he can show you, sound by sound, how to build yours.
Creator of the Unscripted Method
Natalia isn't a native speaker either. She built her English in Kazakhstan and Russia, surrounded by people who didn't speak it, and today people ask her which state she's from. For over eleven years she has trained advanced speakers in clarity and spontaneous speech — saying what you mean so it lands the way you meant it. She is also Alex's student.
Neither of us was born with this voice. Both of us trained it. That's exactly what we'll teach you to do.
November 16 – February 12
One week with Alex. One week with Natalia. Twelve weeks, alternating.
Alex's weeks are about the sound. Vowels, consonants, rhythm, melody, vibe. You learn to hear how you actually sound — to a native speaker, and to the world.
Natalia's weeks are about the message. Natalia helps you take the new sounds into the real world — into the things you already say every day.
How you sound today. You hear your English the way a native speaker hears it — maybe for the first time.
Your self-introduction. We rebuild how you introduce yourself — and you use what you heard in week one.
Vowels. The sounds that change your accent the most.
How you talk about your work. A clear structure — and the new vowels in sentences you actually use.
Consonants. The sounds that make your words clear and easy to follow.
Your pitch. What you do, why it matters, and why someone should listen — said clearly.
Holiday week. No sessions.
Rhythm. Stress and linking — how English glides from one word to the next.
The things you say every day. Meetings, updates, answers — now with the new rhythm.
Melody. Intonation that sounds sure, warm, and natural.
Unscripted answers. The questions you didn't prepare for — and how to answer them clearly, in the moment.
Vibe. Everything together: how you sound when you're fully yourself in English.
Your final recording. You say it all again — and we compare it with day one.
You won't rehearse dialogues about airports or do a shadowing exercise with random videos. You'll practice the sentences your career and your life already run on.
Monday to Friday
60 minutes. Live. 5 pm CET.
And while someone else takes their turn, you're learning too — hearing a pattern in another voice often teaches you your own faster than hearing it in yours.
Every session closes the same way: revision, self-evaluation, and a clear answer to one question — what got better today?
Can't make it live? Every session is recorded. Watch it, bring your work to the next session, and we'll listen to it there.
On day one, you record. On the last day, you record again.
Then we break both recordings down for you — every vowel, the rhythm, the melody, the patterns. You don't have to take our word for it. You'll hear it in your own voice.
That's how we measure 50% better. With your recordings.
Before you apply, come and see what's possible.
Join us live. Volunteers get coached in real time — and you'll hear their vowels change in a single meeting.
Watch what happens when someone finally gets the feedback no one has ever given them — and actually uses it. See what a voice is capable of.
Then imagine sixty sessions of that.
5 pm CET · 60 minutes · free
7 pm Moscow · 4 pm London & Dublin · 11 am New York · 10 am Texas · 8 am Los Angeles
Portamento is for people who are building a life in English.
You've lived abroad for years and discovered that living there didn't change how you speak. You're up for a promotion or a new project. You feel stuck — and you don't know how to practice differently.
You're changing jobs, and you'll have to introduce yourself again to people who don't know you. Your current team learned to understand you. Nobody ever asked you to change, so you never had to.
You teach English and want to charge more. To charge more, you need to become more — to model a level your students can't find elsewhere, and attract the ones who want excellence, not just a passed test.
If you recognized yourself, keep reading.
Our private sessions start at $175 an hour. In Portamento, you get sixty live sessions with both of us — less than $50 a session.
Everything in Standard, plus:
Monthly payment is an installment plan for the full twelve weeks, charged automatically — not a subscription you can pause. There are no refunds. If you're certain, pay in full and save 15%.
8 seats. Enrollment closes Friday, November 13 — or when the seats are filled.
Sixty seconds in English: introduce yourself the way you would to someone new at work.
Alex gives you his top three recommendations — exactly what stands between the voice you have today and the voice you're capable of. Natalia gives you her feedback on clarity, accuracy, and the energy in your voice.
If Portamento is right for you, you'll receive your enrollment link, and your $100 is credited to your tuition. If it isn't the right fit, we refund the fee in full.
Questions? Text us on Telegram. No sales call needed.
Portamento isn't about accent. It's about what happens after you speak. If people ask you about what you just explained, if they nod and stay unsure, if their attention drifts — there's a reason, and it lives in how you sound and how you build what you say. We'll show you exactly what's happening, how to change it, and which exercises to do. We'll do them together, so you can continue on your own.
You'll sound like yourself — clearer, steadier, easier to receive. Alex teaches the American sound, and you'll learn exactly how it works, so sounding more American becomes a choice you can make. The goal is that people hear you, not your effort.
Very few people can, every single day. Sessions are recorded. Standard members watch the replay and bring their work to the next session. Private Weekends members send their work the same day and get feedback that day.
Because a sound check is real work: Alex and Natalia listen to every second of your recording and write your feedback. The fee is credited to your tuition if you enroll and refunded in full if Portamento isn't the right fit. It also tells us you're serious — the same way your voice note tells us who you are.
Monthly is an installment plan for the full twelve weeks, charged automatically. Paying in full saves 15%. There are no refunds either way.
Yes. Prices are available in dollars and in rubles.
You already use English at work and in daily life. Portamento works on how you sound and how your message lands — not on vocabulary or grammar basics.
Monday, November 16 to Friday, February 12. Monday to Friday, 5 pm CET. One week off for the holidays: December 28 to January 1.