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

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The Benefits of Shadowing Exercises

The idea of the shadowing exercise is to try to follow someone else's speech pattern, voice, intonation, rhythm, melody and sounds. When you are just repeating someone on autopilot, you are missing out a lot of information when your brain is not paying attention to specific things. My biggest piece of advice would be to always set an intention as to what it is that you are trying to improve.

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