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Hey everyone, it's Hadar.
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Thank you so much for joining me.
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Today we are going to talk about how to do the best possible shadowing exercise.
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If you have no idea what a shadowing exercise is, then you are in for a treat because it's really one of the best ways to improve everything about your English.
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And if you've been doing this for a while, then you might want to stick around as well because you'll learn the biggest mistakes English learners make when doing the shadowing exercise.
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And also I'm going to give you a few tips on how to improve it and optimize it.
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Because I love efficiency.
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If you're already practicing, it might as well work really, really well for you.
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And this is what this video is all about.
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But before that, if you are new to my channel, then hello.
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My name is Hadar.
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I'm a non-native speaker of English and I am here to help you sound confident, clear, and and proud when speaking English.
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Now, pride is not something that you hear, but it's something that you feel when someone else is speaking.
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And I want you to be very, very proud of your English because it's your second language or third or fourth, and you should be very proud no matter what the outcome is.
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Now, if you want to find out more about how I can help you, then I highly recommend that you visit my website, hadarshemesh.com.
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Or you can also follow me on Instagram at hadar.accentsway, where I share a new piece of content every single day.
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So I have a feeling that you're going to like it.
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I'm going to put all the links below this video.
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Now let's talk about the shadowing technique.
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The shadowing technique is basically you shadowing someone else speaking, meaning you're repeating what they are saying.
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Now, you can also call it the imitation exercise, or as I like to call it, the echoing exercise, where you're just like echoing what someone else is saying.
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Now, before we get into how to do it and how to avoid the biggest mistake, the reason why it's so good is because first, it helps you develop intuition.
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What does that mean?
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It helps you understand things in English on a deeper level.
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A level that is not logical or intellectual, but you feel it in your body.
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You feel the rhythm of the words and sounds.
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And there are things that you can't put in words, or you can't find a logical explanation to why something sounds the way it does.
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And when you're imitating someone, it's like when you're singing along or humming along with a melody, you're tapping into different layers that usually don't exist when we just think of the language as spoken language.
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or words.
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So that's the first reason.
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The second reason, it can help you understand and listen to sounds in a way that you usually don't listen to, especially if you're paying attention.
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You also start noticing things like melody, intonation, rhythm, all of which are very, very important when communicating in English.
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And they give you that extra sense of confidence and ability to express yourself and how you're feeling and your attitude towards things.
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Now, if you're only focusing on the words and sentences, then you're losing a lot of the elements that we have in normal speech.
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Things that we don't think about, but we feel and hear when other people speak.
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And this is why imitation exercises are really, really cool.
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Also, it's something that you can do on the go while you're driving or doing the dishes or walking your dog.
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So it's a very efficient exercise that you can, you know, leverage basically any situation when you're doing something and you don't have a lot of people around you into a practice opportunity, which is also a plus.
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Now, before we talk about the biggest mistakes learners make when doing these shadowing exercises, I want to talk about how to do it.
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Okay?
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And I want to give you a few tips on how to do it.
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So the first is to just play the audio and then echo the person you're listening to or shadow the person you're listening to.
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Right?
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So basically you're not pausing, you're not doing anything.
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You're just repeating it a split second after then.
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Now, at the end, I'm also going to give you a few tips on how to optimize this exercise.
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But for now, I want you to know that this is the first option that you have, right?
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And this is something that you can do on the go as you're driving your car or doing the dishes.
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Because I have worked a working class job.
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A working class job.
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I have waited tables in restaurants.
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I have ridden the subway.
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I have ridden the subway.
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I have walked the streets.
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I have walked the streets.
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In New York City.
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In New York City.
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The second option is when you are more concentrated, seated at your desk or on your couch, and ideally you might want to have the script of the speech that you are shadowing, and what you want to do is to play a line, pause, and repeat.
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Okay?
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So basically, you play a line, then you pause, and don't wait till the end.
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Like, you can take a short chunk and then pause, and then repeat.
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I started doing this because...
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I started doing this.
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I started doing this because...
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I started doing this because...
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I was having...
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I was having, I was having this incredible response.
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Response.
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Now, the advantage of this exercise is that you can go deeper, you can pay attention to more things because you're more focused and concentrated.
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You have more time to listen to things, to repeat it.
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So, this is a great way to go deeper.
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But the advantage of the first option is that you can do it anytime and pretty much anywhere.
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Well, not really anywhere, because if you do it while you're at the dentist or, you know, just at the bank, that would be a little weird or in the middle of a very important meeting.
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So maybe then you shouldn't be doing the shadowing exercise.
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I mean, you know, it's just a suggestion.
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Now, the biggest mistake you might be making when doing a shadowing exercise is that you do not set an intention as to what you're paying attention to and trying to improve.
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The idea of the shadowing exercise is not just a copy-paste or become a parrot of someone else, okay?
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No, the idea is to try to follow someone else's speech pattern, voice, intonation, rhythm, melody, and sounds.
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Yes, great.
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But also, you want to improve specific things and you want to pay attention to it.
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The brain filters out a lot of information as you're listening to other people and as you're speaking.
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When you're just repeating someone on autopilot, you're missing out a lot of information when your brain is not paying attention to specific things.
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So, you know, you're just repeating it, but you might not be repeating some of the key sounds that are important to you.
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Or maybe you're not paying attention to that intonation shift that could be beneficial for you to use more, right?
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Because you filtered it out.
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You did not listen to it.
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Because you're listening to other things.
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You're very focused on getting the words right, right?
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Or you're, you know, thinking of vocabulary or maybe something else, or maybe you're doing other things and you're really not concentrated and you have no intention as to what you're trying to improve.
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So my biggest piece of advice would be to always set an intention as to what it is that you're trying to improve in addition to doing the shadowing exercise and all the benefits that I've discussed at the beginning.
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And to that we'll add, you know, vocabulary and flow and connected speech and all of these great things that, you know, are added value when you're doing these shadowing exercises.
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But you want to set an intention.
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You want to know what you're listening to and what you are trying to change.
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So for example, if you're working on distinguishing between the sheep-ship vowel pair, right, then when you're listening to someone else during those imitation exercises, you want to detect every time they use either the tense E or the lax E.
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Or especially when they're using tricky words that could be, you know, either or like cheap chip or least list, right, minimal pairs.
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So you want to be mindful of that because when you're mindful of that, so for example, you say, I'm gonna, I'm gonna listen closely to these two vowel sounds, then you will notice it.
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All right?
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When usually if you're not setting an intention, you're less likely to notice it.
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And then when you notice it, you're more likely to do it.
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And when you're focused on getting it right, that's when you start to change things.
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That's when you start to rewire your brain.
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That's how you start to get rid of old pronunciation habits or speaking habits.
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And you start to acquire new ones.
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Not that there is anything wrong about how you used to say it, but if it affects your clarity and you're self-conscious about that pronunciation, then you can shift only with intention and repetition.
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So paying attention to those things and making sure that you're saying them is going to significantly improve the quality of your practice.
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Now, it's not just about sounds.
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It could also be intonation patterns.
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So let's say you want to improve or vary your intonation patterns when speaking English.
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So maybe you might want to pay attention to how this person ends their sentences, whether it's going up or going down.
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You want to pay attention to the stressed words only and see how they're being stressed, whether they're prolonged or maybe that person raises their pitch.
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Right?
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And then you want to imitate just that.
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Now, of course, you're imitating a whole lot of other things, you know, No words, connected speech, different sounds, but you're paying attention to stressed words.
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You're paying attention to the intonation pattern at the end of sentences.
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This is gold, because when you do, you might actually make a change in how you say things.
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And that change will stick if you say it enough times.
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Now, before we wrap up, I want to give you a few more tips on how you can optimize your shadowing practice.
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First, it's very important that you select a person that speaks in a voice that you like and even love that resonates with you.
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That you want to master a sound similar to their sound.
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Why?
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Because if it's someone that has a voice that you don't like, or that doesn't give you all these great feelings and emotions, then you might be practicing it with a slight resistance, and that is not very effective or practical.
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So you definitely want to find someone that you love their voice.
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Second, remember that you can slow down the pace.
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If it's really fast, or if you're not paying attention to all the things, then slow it down and play it at half the speed or 75% of the speed.
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You can do that with podcasts.
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You can do it with YouTube videos.
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It's super easy.
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You just go to the settings at the bottom and then change the speed of the video or audio.
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And it allows you to pay attention to more things.
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And I have encountered this type of harassment right in the subway in New York City.
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Another thing, and I've mentioned it, is to make sure that you have the script ready.
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So you can see the words in front of you.
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You can even put it on a Google Doc and then edit it, right?
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Maybe highlight words that are stressed, or divide the sentences based on thought groups.
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So you can do a lot of things with the text.
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You can underline words that are more challenging.
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You can highlight sounds that are more challenging for you so you can pay attention to it.
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So working with a script is great if you have the time, if you're not driving.
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Because, you know, don't work with a script when you're driving.
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It's not very safe.
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Now, one more thing you can do to optimize your practice is to record yourself shadowing the person.
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So for example, you play the audio, you pause, you repeat, and you record the whole thing.
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And then you listen to the recording.
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I know it sounds like a lot, but again, if you do that, you will gain so much more out of it that you would actually need to practice less to get the same results.
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Listen to me, I know.
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So you play it, you repeat it, you record the whole thing, and then you listen to it and you look for the differences.
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Because a lot of times when you listen to something from the outside, when it's not inside your head, you notice a lot more things.
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Okay?
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So, recording yourself would be the last thing.
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And again, I want to repeat how important it is to set an intention.
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You can even write it down or put it on a post-it.
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R's, word endings, stressed words, reductions, right?
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All of that good stuff that you want to pay attention to.
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Now, the last thing I want to add is don't be afraid of repeating the same phrase or paragraph or part of the video.
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You don't have to do the entire video or the entire podcast episode.
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No, you can take one paragraph and do it again and again and again.
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Now, don't try to do a lot.
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You can do less, but be very thorough.
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So you can take one paragraph and just listen to it and shadow it again and again and again and again.
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Quality, not quantity, my friends.
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Quality, not quantity.
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Okay, that's it.
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My question to you is, do you like to do the shadowing practice, right?
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And do you do it?
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Is it a part of your English practice routine?
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Let me know in the comments.
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And if you haven't yet, I invite you to join the Influency Community where we practice together on video and we do a lot of shadowing techniques there.
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There's been a thing recently where community members have been shadowing my videos and it's the best thing I've ever seen in my life.
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Because it's like me speaking with so many different other amazing voices and they're doing an incredible job.
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So a shout out to all the Influency Community members for your amazing job doing the shadowing practice.
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And if you're not a part of the Influency Community, then what are you waiting for?
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Join us.
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I'm going to post a link to it in the description below.
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All right, that's it.
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Thank you so much for watching.
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Don't forget to connect with me on Instagram at hadar.accentsway, and subscribe to my channel if you haven't yet.
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Have a beautiful, beautiful rest of the day, and I'll see you next week in the next video.
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Bye!
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为何要通过这个视频练习口语？
学习英语的过程中，口语表达是至关重要的一环。通过shadow speak的技术，您可以在模仿他人说话的过程中提升自己的发音与流利度。这种方法不仅能帮助您理解英语中的节奏和旋律，还能让您在无形中积累词汇与语感。视频中提到，以模仿的方式进行练习，您可以在开车、洗碗或遛狗时进行，无需占用您额外的时间。这意味着看YouTube学英语是个灵活且有效的选择。
语法与表达在语境中的应用
- 模仿练习（shadow speech）：模仿他人讲述的内容，迅速跟上音频的节奏。
- 直觉理解：在视频中提到的“发展直觉”有助于加深您对英语的理解，不再是单纯的逻辑分析。
- 注意声调和节奏：在进行模仿时，您会无意中注意到英语的语调与韵律，这对口语表达极为重要。
- 情感表达：模仿不仅是语言学习，更是感受和表达情感的过程，这样能增强您的口语自信。
常见的发音陷阱
在练习提高英语发音时，某些单词或音调可能会对初学者造成困扰。例如，元音的发音及其在不同单词中的变化常常是学习者的盲点。此外，语速过快可能导致发音不清，影响对方理解。因此，在模仿时，建议您放慢语速，确保每个音节都清晰可辨，这样将有助于您在雅思口语练习中更有效地表达自己。
总之，通过视频学习与模仿，您可以在不知不觉中提升自己的英语口语能力，无论是在听力理解、发音还是语调的运用上。不断练习，您会感受到明显的进步，以及与他人交流时的自信。
什么是跟读法？
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧，最初开发用于专业口译员的培训，并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大：您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同，跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性，语调，节奏，连读，听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。
如何在ShadowingEnglish上有效练习
- 选择您的视频： 挑选一段语音清晰、自然的YouTube视频。TED演讲，BBC新闻，电影片段，播客或雅思口语范例都很好。将URL粘贴到搜索栏中。从较短的视频（短于5分钟）以及您真正感兴趣的内容开始——兴趣是最重要的导师。
- 先听，理解上下文： 第一次听的时候，将速度保持在1倍速并仅仅倾听。还不要尝试重复。专注于理解其含义，收集新词汇，并注意讲话人如何强调单词，连读声音及使用停顿。
- 设置跟读模式：
- 等待模式：选择
+3s或+5s——在每句话播放完毕后，视频会自动暂停以便您有时间大声重复它。如果您想完全控制并在每次重复后由您自己点击下一步，请选择手动。 - 字幕同步：YouTube字幕有时会在音频前或后略微出现。使用
±100ms使它们完美对齐以助您准确跟读。
- 等待模式：选择
- 大声跟读（核心练习）： 这是真正发生改变的一步。当一个句子播放出来立刻——或在暂停期间——大声、清晰且自信地重复出来。千万不要只是张张嘴：要模仿说话者的准确节奏、重音、音高和连读。力求听上去就像说话者的影子，而不仅是逐字背诵。使用重复功能多次练习同一个句子，直到感觉自然为止。
- 提高难度： 当练习段落变得相对舒适后，就去挑战自我。将速度增加至 <code>1.25x</code> 或甚至 <code>1.5x</code> 以训练高速语言反射。或者将等待模式调整为 <code>关闭</code> 以进行连续跟读——这是最进阶同样收益最大的模式。持续的每日15–30分钟的练习将可以在几周内产生可见的效果。