Hi, I am Eleonora
I graduated from a linguistics university (Moscow State Linguistic University) as a translator, and then made a deliberate move into tech and startups. I use English every day: at work, when travelling, and in everything I watch and read.
Since 2020 I have worked on computer vision projects — I know this technology from the inside and understand both what it can and what it cannot do.
I trained my British pronunciation on a course with professional accent coaches. What took me there was a lack of confidence: I was embarrassed to sound unclear and tensed up whenever people did not follow me. What annoyed me most, though, was the chaos in my own speech — an American R would slip into one word and a British one into the next. What I needed was a single clear reference for sounding professional.
Why an articulation trainer, of all things
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I badly miss the practice myself.
The course with the coaches gave me an excellent foundation, but pronunciation is muscle memory. Without constant training the speech apparatus slides back into its old habits fast. To be honest: even now, well after the course, I still have no convenient tool for keeping my sounds in shape day to day. This project is one I am building for myself as well.
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Practising between lessons, or entirely alone, is hard.
If you learn purely on your own from videos and textbooks, the written theory of articulation melts your brain and is difficult to put into practice. Working with a coach is wonderful, but lessons happen only once or twice a week — and pronunciation needs work every day. Between sessions you are left alone with a mirror, guessing by feel whether you rounded your lips enough or turned your tongue far enough. There is nowhere to get objective feedback at that moment.
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Pronunciation gets in the way even when the English is flawless.
In tech I see brilliant specialists at B2–C1 being asked to repeat themselves every single day. It is not a gap in their knowledge, not their grammar, not their ability to build a sentence. The sounds they make simply do not physically match what the listener is expecting to hear. That is a purely mechanical problem of articulation, and it has to be solved separately from the rest of learning a language.
Which is where the BClear Lab mission comes from
To help people find a clear voice and reach their goals with confidence — whether that is an international career, a move abroad, or speaking on a stage.
None of this takes iron willpower. It takes a short daily practice in which you can see straight away, and understand straight away, what exactly to correct. That is the tool we are building now.
I will happily tell you the rest in person
Leave your email and we will write when access opens. Or simply message me on Telegram if you have a question about pronunciation.