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197. Shadowing Technique in English: are you wasting your time?

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Shadowing Exercises: Setting an Intention

You want to set an intention. You want to know what you are listening to and what you are trying to change. So, for example, if you are 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. Or especially when they are using tricky words that could be either or like cheap chip or least list. Now it is not just about sounds, it could also be intonation patterns. And then of course you are imitating a whole lot of other things, you know, no words, connected speech, different sounds,. But

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