How to Shadow Efficiently & Practice English Speaking (tips for every level)

Shadowing can be one of the most powerful ways to improve your speaking, your pronunciation, your accent, but only if you do it right. In this video, I'll walk you through exactly how to shadow depending on where you are in your language learning journey. Whether you're just starting to focus on pronunciation and learning all the sounds of English, or whether you're already deep

into accent training and working on sounding more natural and fluent. Welcome back to my channel, or if you're new here, hi, I'm Veronica. On this channel, I share everything I've learned or am still learning about language learning to help you achieve your fluency goals and speak with more confidence. If you want to support my work, make sure to check out my

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Veronica's Weekly Vibes. I don't spam. I only share my own updates, my own personal stories. So, if you want to join my growing community of over 40,000 people there, make sure to sign up by using the link in the description. Okay, so let's begin our conversation and talk about why shadowing works. Shadowing did work for me personally in an amazing way. Like one of the

reasons why I have the accent, the pronunciation I do right now is exactly because of shadowing is because I decided to intentionally practice and work on my pronunciation. So shadowing is when you repeat after a native speaker in real time. So you kind of act like an echo. That's why it's called shadowing. Like you're being their shadow. As the speaker talks, you speak along a few seconds