Shadowing practice
Practice & Exercises
5 min
Shadowing is a speaking practice method: listen to a short piece of speech, then repeat it aloud while copying its rhythm and phrasing.
Shadowing practice
Shadowing is a speaking practice method: listen to a short piece of speech, then repeat it aloud while copying its rhythm and phrasing.
Try shadowing with a video
- Choose a short video segment with speech you can mostly follow.
- Listen once with subtitles if they are available.
- Play the segment again and speak along just after the speaker.
- Repeat the same segment until the rhythm feels more comfortable, then move on.
What to listen for
- Where words join together.
- Which word receives the strongest stress.
- How the speaker pauses between ideas.
Use the playback and subtitle controls available for that video. Start with short segments to avoid turning the practice into memorisation without understanding.
