English Speaking Practice | How to improve your English Speaking and Fluency: SHADOWING

English Speaking Practice: How to improve your English Speaking and Fluency: SHADOWING
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What is shadowing? I define it as 'training for English fluency'. shadowing is a good way to improve your pronunciation, accent and speaking as well as rhythm. It gets your mouth moving, and your ears paying attention to English.

Regardless of whether it's the best way to improve English speaking or not, to get good at speaking English you're going to have to do some hard work.

And shadowing is no different.

People often come to me asking how can I improve spoken English? Do I need people around me to practise?

The answer is no.

This lesson is going to show you how to learn to speak English NOW, even if you don't have anybody to speak with.

Understand that speaking has to be learnt physically.

It is important to get a lot of English speaking practice. Actually, speak English. Actually, move your mouth. If you don't move your mouth when you learn, pronunciation will be hard. Which means speaking will be hard.

There is a problem ...

If you don't live in an English speaking country, you'd probably say ...

"But this isn't an English speaking country -- how can I get a lot of English speaking practice?'

I don't mean "English conversation practice".

I mean the same type of practice that gets you good at riding a bike. Raw, repetitive practice.

English speaking practice. Training your mouth to speak English easily, and fluently.

English speaking practice is much easier than you probably think.

You don't need other people to practice your English speaking skills.
Just use your listening materials!

The important part is the CD, but the book also has an important use.

A summary of the shadowing technique I describe in the video:

- Listen to the book as many times as you can.
- Read the book and check any words you don't know in your dictionary.
- Listen to the book again.
- Listen and read (out loud!) the book together. Practice section by section until you get really good at it.
- Shadow the CD without the book.

It's a really good idea to record yourself doing this too, so you can tell where you're making pronunciation mistakes.

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[Zimba]

i speak with the voices in my head all the time

[ineedmysyq]

Shadowing is SOOO great for any language! Daily 10 minute long shadowing results in a drastic advancement!

[Dianaimd]

It's funny how I'm always trying to improve my fluency by shadowing videos and now I find out it is actually a technique used by many. Great video!

[croket]

U guy know what, i practice my speaking by imagine some cool situation and talk with myself like in a deep voice or sth :)) Sometimes it freaks my mom out :))

[skateever]

I wasn't born in an english country but I know how to speak english. I was confident enough so I applied to a customer service job in which we only handle emails. Worked for 1 year and 4 months and I was good at it. I thought my english was perfect so I never practice it, nor speak it. Even as I write this statement, you notice that I barely get mistakes.

Now I transferred to a company, still customer service but this time we handle calls from actual Kiwis. Was interviewed by the trainor and it was the WORST day of my life. My voice was shaking, I couldn't express my actual thoughts and my statement was redundant and made less sense by the moment. Thankfully, I was still hired but they told me to practice my english speaking very well.

Thank you for this video. Will surely save me from being unemployed.

[foxfire]

i can understand and can write english in a good level, but whenever it comes into actual speaking, i always stutter and make a mess. this looks like an effective practice technique thank you very much! subscribed!

[saviomoraes]

I am a native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese. When learning Argentinian Spanish, I used this technique. Actually, I took a simultaneous translation course from Portuguese into Spanish. I can assure you, guys, it's absolutely helpful! Thanks, Julian!

[leiladias]

I'm studying English at the age of 2 and today I was discouraged. I read texts with audios until I can repeat them, I thought I was going the wrong way. but now that I've seen this video I've been more excited. thanks!

[knowledgeentertainment]

I tried this method, it is really amazing, it improves your pronunciation in no time, it makes you fluent

[nazarenovallejos]

to be honest, this is the best thing to practice any languages you desire to learn. It's very strong, you'll get powerful audio, powerful reading and powerful speaking. All three together in one place. The best

[ptholome]

I actually work with another English USA teacher and I was practicing repeating his lessons in the way you are showing us here. Shadowing you call it, so I agree with you and think this is a great way to try to improve our acent, intonation and how to speak better, even to understand better what natives people tell us.

[DOliver]

Thank's for share this information.
God Bless You!!!
From Brazil.

[けろっぴー-rk]

I'll try this wonderful method to improve my English😊
from Japan🇯🇵

[jennguyen]

Thank you so much for helping me improve my English speaking.It works for me, I practice every day!

[JForrestEnglish]

Great video Julian. As a native speaker, I agree that shadowing is a great exercise. I used this a lot when I was learning my second language, and I found it very useful! :0

[anytimechannel]

I just love your technique how to learn English.Very useful for me, thanks a lot :)

[belutamaramontoyacadillo]

I will definitely try this technique, I want to become more confident in my pronunciation.

[fiorelasantur]

My teacher gave us this interesting video, I really like it, it's interesting. Thank you so much! by the way, it's a good explanation.

[Sergio-htbt]

This technique is derived from Callan Method which is great! I began practicing "shadowing" when I studied Italian and wanted to apply The Method to the language other then English. This is the best way I know to recommend. Thank you, Julian, for your videos!

[jem]

Hello my name is Dawson. I'm from Myanmar. I've been learning English since when I was attending in International school. I realise that my English speaking was not that good so I just learn it from the course book pdf and I can't even understand English that much in other subjects. I don't know how to express my feeling in English when I was having a conversation with my friends, teachers and other people. Later on when I saw this shadowing technique It is a lot useful for me and I feel like I am in right way learning English speaking skills and listening. Thank you very much for sharing this technique, I do appreciate a lot. I am glad to subscribe and join your courses. Thanks and kindly regards!