Can't Speak Fluently? Try "Shadowing" 🗣️ | English Every Day 🇺🇸 (A2-B2) — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hi friends. Welcome back to English
2. 0:03everyday, where I speak slow,
3. 0:06understandable,
4. 0:08and easy English so that you can learn
5. 0:11English
6. 0:13everyday. Today, we are talking about
7. 0:16how to improve your speaking and your
8. 0:19pronunciation,
9. 0:20how you speak. This is a very popular
10. 0:23method called shadowing.
11. 0:26And it's very simple. I will tell you
12. 0:28today in a few minutes.
13. 0:30And you can even try it right now
14. 0:34with me in this video. All shadowing is
15. 0:38is following along with a native speaker
16. 0:42or a speaker of English with an accent
17. 0:46that you like. Shadowing is very easy.
18. 0:49You watch a video
19. 0:52or you listen to an audio, you listen to
20. 0:55something,
21. 0:56and you follow along, or you copy the
22. 1:00speaker.
23. 1:01So, for example, let's try now. I'm
24. 1:04going to say a sentence, and then you
25. 1:06say it after, okay?
26. 1:09Hello. Welcome to English everyday.
27. 1:13Hello. Welcome to English everyday.
28. 1:16And that's it. When you watch a video,
29. 1:18sometimes you have to pause, you have to
30. 1:19stop the video, and repeat.
31. 1:23Or if you have a text of the video, if
32. 1:26you have the transcript, then you can
33. 1:28read along
34. 1:31with the speaker, meaning read at the
35. 1:34same time as the speaker. And this is
36. 1:37very, very, very, very helpful for
37. 1:41speaking because, well, you speak a lot,
38. 1:44and you speak in a natural rhythm.
39. 1:48Because these are sentences that are
40. 1:50error-free,
41. 1:52and they come from the mouth, and they
42. 1:54are spoken by native speakers.
43. 1:58So, me for example in this case. As you
44. 2:01know, every text and transcript is
45. 2:04available in our community,
46. 2:07meaning that I share them all with you
47. 2:10in the link below. And with that text or
48. 2:13transcript, you can read the words at
49. 2:16the same time that I'm speaking them.
50. 2:20So, that we speak at the same time.
51. 2:23And you
52. 2:25copy how I speak. I have an American
53. 2:28accent. So, if you want an American
54. 2:30accent, just follow along with the
55. 2:33words, meaning repeat after me or speak
56. 2:37at the same time as me.
57. 2:40And that's all that shadowing is. So,
58. 2:44if it is hard for you to say a few words
59. 2:48or to speak fluently without stopping to
60. 2:52think or
61. 2:54let's say, you make a lot of errors when
62. 2:57you speak, you say the wrong things when
63. 3:00you speak, then try shadowing. Of
64. 3:03course, I think that you should shadow
65. 3:05me because I post a video every day for
66. 3:09you along with the text and transcript
67. 3:12so that you can shadow just for 5
68. 3:15minutes every day and that makes a huge
69. 3:18difference, meaning that it helps you a
70. 3:21lot, speak more fluently and confidently
71. 3:25and help your pronunciation
72. 3:28be more understandable. That is
73. 3:31everything for today. Thank you all very
74. 3:34much for listening
75. 3:36and watching and I will see you all
76. 3:40tomorrow. Peace.