Native Fluency & Accent
Real American English — the sound, the rhythm and the idioms of how the language is genuinely spoken today.
Native English Teacher · Storyteller
JosephRedder.
/ˈdʒoʊsɪf ˈrɛdər/
native English · South Dakota, USA
I teach English the way it's really spoken — as story, rhythm and human connection.
A native speaker, storyteller and copywriter who has spent his life decoding how language actually works — from brand voice and everyday conversation to a 3,500-year-old script. “I suppose now I decipher things.”
01 — The Teacher
Language isn't a set of rules. It's how people tell each other who they are.
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Joseph is a native English speaker from South Dakota who is, in his own words, “a very human copywriter obsessed with telling your stories.” He teaches English the way real people actually speak it — naturally, with rhythm and meaning, not memorised rules.
Years of work in mental-health support and youth care taught him the real skill behind teaching: patience, and the ability to meet a person exactly where they are. He teaches the way he writes copy — by treating you like a person, not a lesson plan.
And he genuinely loves language — enough to spend his spare time deciphering ancient scripts. That obsession is exactly what he brings to a beginner: the belief that any language can be decoded, one honest sentence at a time.
Native
English · South Dakota, USA
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Years helping people grow
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Year-old script he decoded
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Crafts of communication
02 — What he brings
A native ear, a storyteller's craft.
Storytelling
He teaches English as narrative and connection — because we remember stories, not grammar tables.
Copywriting & Persuasion
How to say things so people actually feel them. Words that land — in an email, a pitch or a conversation.
SEO & Brand English
Practical, real-world English for the digital world — the language of the internet, marketing and modern work.
Translation & Learning
A lifelong language learner himself — he knows the struggle from the inside, and teaches with real empathy.
Decipherment
He literally decodes ancient writing systems. Making the unfamiliar suddenly make sense is his favourite thing.
03 — The path
A career built on understanding people.
2021 — nowSioux Falls, USA
Residential Assistant
Southeastern Behavioral HealthCare
Daily human communication, care and careful documentation in a behavioural-health setting — the patience, empathy and clarity that quietly make a great teacher.
2019 — 2020Youth care
Youth Engagement Specialist
Abbott House · rehabilitation centre
Directed daily groups and structure for young people aged 12–18 — guiding, encouraging and tracking real progress. Teaching, in everything but name.
2017 — 2020Support & care
Direct Support Professional
Lifequest
Taught everyday-life skills and built gentle daily structure for adults with cognitive differences — teaching at its most patient, one small win at a time.
OngoingWords & language
Copywriter & Language Researcher
Storytelling for brands · ancient-script research
Brand voice, SEO and digital copy — plus a published computational decipherment of Linear A, the 3,500-year-old script of Minoan Crete.
04 — Credentials & curiosities
Trained in science, devoted to language.
B.S., Pre-Medicine
Python · Programming
Research · Decipherment of Linear A
Core skills
05 — The Decoder
Real English, decoded.
The phrases native speakers actually use — and what they really mean. This is the everyday code Joseph helps you crack. Hover or tap each one.
/01Break the ice
/02A piece of cake
/03Hit the books
/04Under the weather
/05Cost an arm and a leg
/06Bite the bullet
Phrase 01 · decoding…
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Break the ice
To say or do something friendly so people relax and start talking — especially when they've just met.
Native exampleHe told a little joke to break the ice, and suddenly everyone was chatting.
06 — Selected highlights
Words, decoded and written.
“Copywriting is just writing the way real people communicate with each other in person.”
The same belief runs through his teaching: if it wouldn't sound natural out loud, it isn't worth memorising.
— Joseph RedderA Functional Decipherment of Linear A
A computational-typology and Anatolian-morphology approach to a 3,500-year-old undeciphered script from Minoan Crete. Published on Zenodo.
Research paperYears in behavioural health & youth care
Half a decade meeting people at their most vulnerable — the deepest possible training in patience, listening and clear communication.
2017 → todayPython · Programming
Data analysis, loops and conditional logic — the toolkit he used to take a computational run at an ancient language.
Codefinity, 2023Storyteller · SEO · Brand marketer
Real, working English for the modern world: the words that sell, rank, explain and connect.
Ongoing
07 — Say hello