Shadowing Technique in English: are you wasting your time?
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Do you use shadowing when practicing English?
Shadowing is one of the best ways to improve your English speaking skills as it helps improve pronunciation, intonation, and vocabulary. It can also help you improve unconsciously things like rhythm, stress, grammar, and more.
Sounds like fun, no?
But, it can also be a WASTE OF TIME!
Without proper guidance, it’s easy to fall into the trap of practicing it in an ineffective way! And then you won’t be seeing the results you COULD be seeing.
👉 If you’ve been using the shadowing technique for a while, in this episode you’ll discover the biggest mistake people make when shadowing, and also learn a bunch of other tips to optimize your practice 💪
👉 If you have no idea what shadowing is - this video is definitely for you as you’ll learn about one of the best practice techniques, and how to do it right!
🔥🔥I collected a list with all the best apps and resources for shadowing, for you! You can get it here bit.ly/shadowingEng 🔥🔥
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The key moments of this video:
00:00 - Intro
01:39 - Why shadowing is good for you
03:53 - How to shadow
06:32 - The biggest mistakes in shadowing
10:52 - Tips on efficient shadowing
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I'm still amazed when you say that you're not native speaker, you're so good. Thanks for yours videos.
I thought she was native.
Its crazy how you said that your a non native speaker, i think you have some of the clearest english ive ever heard
I do it every day and sometimes can't stop lol. I've fallen in love with a great orator (Jason Silva) and it's been improving not only my English but also my life in all respects. Hadar, thank you for sharing these brilliant pieces of knowledge with us. Thank you for being my teacher!
I like him too 😻
@@olgaosipova613 yeah! He's ingenious, isn't he?
I love him! Thanks for the idea. He's also one of the the most articulate people Ive heard. He thinks and speaks in full, brilliant sentences.
Love Jason Silva!
can you please provide a couple of samples of how this has improved your life? thanks. i lack confidence due to my accent.
In case any learners are not sure, Hadar says she is not native but her English is ABSOLUTELY impeccable. I honestly thought she was native. Her fluency, clarity, enunciation, etc, are better than many native English speakers.
in brief: In this video, Hadar discusses the benefits of the shadowing exercise and how to optimize it for improving English language skills. Shadowing involves repeating what someone else is saying, helping learners develop intuition, understand sounds, and notice elements like melody, intonation, and rhythm. The video provides tips for conducting shadowing exercises, such as playing the audio without pausing or playing a line and pausing to repeat it. Hadar stresses the importance of setting an intention when doing shadowing exercises to focus on specific improvements. To optimize shadowing practice, Hadar suggests selecting a speaker whose voice resonates with the learner, slowing down the pace of the audio, using a script to follow along, and recording oneself shadowing the speaker. Repeating the same phrase or paragraph multiple times can also be beneficial. She encourages viewers to share their experiences with shadowing exercises in the comments section and invites them to join the InFluency community for more practice.
You again, GPT?
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In brief: 1 kilometre text Lol
Thank you so much for the summary.
Thank you very much
I like shadowing; the steps are: Concentrate or pay attention, choice addequate voice, slow the velocity recording, work with script, compare own voice, focus in specific paragraph, quality no quantity. All right.
I've been doing shadowing for almost half of a year now and the person I picked for my practicing was Matthew McConaughey recently I've noticed many native speakers started to tell me that I have a very specific flow to my accent and my vowels and just the way I talk sound very US southern that's it's almost impossible to guess where I'm from as they told me so this shadowing thing really does work 😆
Your English is perfect! You sound just like a native speaker! You are so amazing and such an inspiration to us all! ❤
I agree that this Mimicking/Echoing/Shadowing is a helpful technique in improving your English, more specifically your sound production. I used to use this when I was still learning the sound of the language. Actually, I still do once in a while, especially when I feel like I am losing the sound. Thanks for the video, Ms. Hadar.
Hello Teacher! Thank you for awesome advice. It's great that nowadays we have the opportunity to use such great techniques as shadowing. I try to do this exercise as often as I can and, to be honest, I'm in love with this method! Sometimes I feel that I hit the wall, but your videos and videos by other passionate english teachers or learners inspire and encourage me to boost my skills. Thank you a lot for your work!
Hello Hadar :) I used to follow all these tips when shadowing, but what I noticed was that I was always being stressed and tired of doing things consciously, so I changed tactics and stoped forcing myself to do the shadowing technique intentionally, instead I started using English as if it were my native language and whenever I came across a spectacular sentence I would shadow it for fun.
Self-taught is something so important and it's what can make you go further and further and, finally, achieving some of your goals. I've learned a lot from youtube videos and youtube teachers. I always remind my students of how important is studying every day and immerse yourself as much as you can in the target language. Being restless is essential.
I do like this exercise! Basically, it works for me. In addition, it helps me to memorize things in English (songs, scenes, monologues and so on). And, it's simply exciting to think about the what, the who, and the why behind each shadowing exercise. I usually make a decision about this based on smth that I've heard or seen or thought or even dreamed! So, there's real intention and motivation every time I do the shadowing... Now, I'm trying to work more systematically... Thanks a lot for these practical tips, Hadar! Recording is gonna be my next upgrade 😉
Your "shadowing technique" is convincing from the start and gives us everything we need at all levels to learn good fluent English. Thanks, VM Hadar!
Hell yeah, I thoroughly enjoy doing shadowing and that's exactly what I am here. So many thanks for hitting another home run with this amazing lesson.
I've been doing shadowing exercises on and off for the past few years to improve my English speaking but didn't find it to be very efficient. There are 2 main takeaways from this video that I think could be a game changer for me: 1) Practice with intention 2) On/Off method with recording. I hope these 2 tips can help me practice with more focus and see improvement. Thanks Hadar!!
Wholeheartedly this is such a great teacher I'll practice English with you all the time every single day
i love the way you share to everyone, your energy. thank you so much.
Your videos provide the best insights for learning English efficiently. Great work
Hadar, you are just incredible because you gave us a tool to practice without having someone to talk to. Of course, for anyone of us, there is nothing better than hiring a coach.
I love shadowing technique , that's why I was doing it while listening to you now- I really like your voice, accent and charisma.
Gracias Hadar, por todos los Tips, que nos has dado. Te prometo que intentaré ponerlos en práctica con mucho empeño.
I really enjoy listening to your videos ! I lived 20 years in the US and now I am teaching English in Brazil! Your videos are so helpful. Thank you.
Could you practice with me
Que bonitos y grandes Consejos Profesora , te lo agradezco muchísimo!!
I often practice shadowing, and I agree with you that is a good way to learn English. Your video is wonderful, thank you for sharing.
Your English level is an inspiration for all of us who want to learn this language and need some guide and need to see what we are capable of, thank you.
This video is more useful than a full class. I agree with you. ty
Hi Hadar, You are a really amazing English coach. I love your philosophy when it comes to teaching us the basic idea on how to improve it
As always, I'm definitely spellbound by your incredible videos, Hadar 👍👍you're such an inspiring teacher, an energetic person, who never stops encouraging English learners to always optimize and elevate their English at all costs.. I wish I could be as fluent, confident and natural in English as you are 🙏😍😀
yes I am into shadowing practice .
You're just amazing Hadar and I often recommend your videos to my friends!
This channel deserves millions of subscribers. Thanks Hadar for your effort!! I would love to imitate your voice.
Excellent! Thank you your tips!
I can't do this exercise while I'm driving, because it takes my attention. Sometimes I need to think more, and I could crash my car and injure other people. Sure, I'm beginner... maybe about some months/years for now I can do it, when English will be more naturally for me. Now, only when I wash dishes, to help my grandmother with household chores.
Excellent advice, as always!
A great great mastery of speaking and communicating, to the point. Thanks for all that
I admired you after this video I’m an Iraqi married woman who suffered a lot to achieve her goal in studying English literature but now I’m in third grade and looking forward to speaking fluently
First of all, you deserve a big like because of your explain for us how to know the technique of shadowing and that very important for people who learn english to practice 😘😘😘
I think, learning 2-3 gr structures and then shadow them in the context is the best practice ever. And you don't need many audios for that. And also its very helpful if one learnt the audio by heart
I really love learning with you ! Probably the best in the world 🌎
Thank you Hadar, I´m on my way trying to improve my English. I truly hope to be so fluent as you are.
Thank you for the video Hadar !! Actually, I was doing this technique while watching your video, and it's amazing practice, I liked it !!
I have never tried shadowing before but wanna and will be starting it from tomorrow on. Thank you Hadar I love your accent and did not think that you are a non-native english speaker
Thank you very much Hadar! You're absolutely a legend.
Now I'm gonna add it to my habits, it's the first time I watch a video focused on shadowing technique... Thanks for sharing your knowledge
This is the best!!! I needee a video like this because I always thought that I was missing something on my shadowing exercises!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 and just to say something on the first tip... well... for me, it's your voice!!!♥️
I'm trying to learn English and I loved your explanation about shadowing. I will put into practice all of you explanations. Thank you
Yes, I try to do shadowing as my learning English .Thank you so mouch for your essential class that helped me a lot.
Yes, I really like shadowing. And it's part of my daily practices, however, some days I don't have time to study.
Thank you for this wonderful tips!!
Really, really, really encouraging.
Hello yes this practice is my favorite one and I have improved a lot since I’ve started to do that every day Thank you for sharing and teaching these great tips and advice. I have learned a lot from your videos and I appreciate it
Hi Hadar, I'm not a native speaker also, and i still learning English now. Thank you for your sharings, it's useful.✌ I totally agree that shadowing is a very effective method to practice speaking skills, and it can train the listening skills too. It's an amazing way, you will feel that you are progressing pretty much.
Hadar , thanks so much for your precious advices .
Shadowing you would be an excellent exercise already! I just love your accent and pronunciation!
So helpful lesson ! Thanks for sharing this.
you are absolutely amazing and energetic! thanks a lot for your recommendations. i am going to use this shadow technique ❤
It’s amazing idea to learn. This is exactly what I needed!!! Thank you 🙏🏻
Hi Hadar. I am impressed with your enthusiasm. I will start following you and practicing shadowing. You convinced me with your energy, enthusiastic way to push students improve English.
I haven't done or heard of this idea before. But looking forward to starting the shadowing exercise tomorrow. Thanks for sharing.
I didn't have a clue about the playback speed feature!!! That's incredibly helpful, thank you so much Hadar for sharing all these enlightening tips with us
Excellent advices to improve our English. I love it
Thanks for bringing gold tips, I believe I'll use this video to practice shadowing
Thank you very much, Hadar. Going to implement it right away. Special thanks for the tips at the end.
Another excellent video for us. Thanks a lot dear Hadar 🥰🌸
thanks a lot for these pretty overqualified tips that are extremely different from the others, bec These are more focused on the natural learning habits and technics rather than vocabulary and grammatical issues. I really appreciate 🙏
Thank hadar for your clear pronunciation !
Really needed it. Thanks for the vid ❤
Thank you so much for this class. It will help me to improve my technique in shadowing.
Thank you so much Hadar. It's my pleasure to learn new things from your video. Hope you keep sharing good things like this.😊
Actually, I'm not passionate about the showing technique however I watched this video and I've changed my mind...it was really useful, I'm grateful!
Well, this is actually quite beneficial. The thing is, a lot of people incorporate this stuff into their day-to-day, and make an attempt to sort of get better at English - or whatever laguage it is. In these moments, you emerge, and bring light into these people's eyes. And finally, shadowing is great technique is a resounding tech if used right! You can certainly make some progress in 1 month time if you apply everything as said in the instructions. Oh, too much said. Have a nice day, this tech is totally worth it!
Thanks 😊 🙏 for everything you do it for us ❤
انت شاطرة جدا و فعلا فيديوهاتك بتفرق معايا
Thanks for sharing Hadar.
Shadowing is the best thing ever, especially at higher levels when you have more awareness of what exactly you’re doing, or work with a tutor🔥
Oh my god, this is the best video ever! I needed it so much. Thank you for sharing this great video!!!!
After watching your video ,I got a lot of things about shadowing. I will try as these tips. Thanks Hadar.
This is one of best tips you shared. Lot's of love Hader
I will try to shadowing you. Love you Hadar, you're the best. Thank you for your teachings
Yes i love to do the shadowing technique!!! It's straight fire!!! 🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️
Awesome tips. Thanks so much! 👏👏
Hey, Hadar. I have always loved your voice. Thank you for this video. My students will love it. They'll certainly love your voice as well.
Thank you so much for the tips for a good shadowing, Dear Teacher!!! I'll use them!!!
I am Vietnamese. And I feel your video is so good. Thank you so much.
Amazing tips thank you teacher Hadar🙌
Adoro seus vídeos.
Wonderful exercice!
THANKS SO MUCH. THOSE TIPS ARE VERY IMPORTANT! it really helps! I agree that recording your own voice is an important part. It's just like we write our IELTS essays.
Listening and Speaking are very important for us. 🙏❤🙏
Hello teacher!!! You have a very good diction. Even speaking quick, I can understand you very well, using the tecnique that you teach. I speak French, Italian, Spanish and trying speak english. I have very difficult with the listen. Each every single day I do progress. I'm loving your class. Thank you so much.
Thank you for your very important lessons. I liked a lot the shadowing practice
Yes I like doing shadowing exercise
Hi Hadar! Thanks for this video, I've used your videos for shadowing exercises too!
No words....tremendous❤️
Great amazing teacher! Thank you!
Amazing video! Thanks so much! I need these tips! I'm just practicing with your podcasts.
Excellent tips for pronunciation and fluency in the language.
i have been doing shadowing for the past 4-5 months....and i have been shadowing every single video- from -" hello ,my name is hadar to .......i will see you in the next week in the next video.Bye." i do it with every single expression..and im so proud of my progress. I'm 75% fluent in american accent. Being an immigrant i can relate to Hadar and she is an angel in disguise. WOW. God Bless U ,Hadar. Much love. :)