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This is a pretty common thing to do when there is a global conference and a speaker is giving a presentation. The interpreters are usually in a room somewhere listening to the speaker with their headphones, and then doing this near instant interpretation into a microphone that other people are listening to.

This book was actually created for students who want to improve their Japanese. The shadowing technique is uniquely suitable for helping people improve their spoken pronunciation and their ability to speak the language fluently.

The earlier ones are intended for beginners to utilize so that they can begin getting used to this method. As you continue using it and improve your abilities, you can move on to the more advanced types of shadowing that are harder, but produce better results.

Then once you have done those two steps for all of the sentences on the page, I would recommend that you start your 10-minute shadow session using whichever of the five levels of shadowing is most appropriate for you.

This way of learning language looks like it really can work, I guess it is just hard work anyway. I am interested in Asian languages, especially Chinese. Although I do not think that I will ever visit the beautiful and wealthy country, but I would still like to learn enough to be able to read descriptions of China-made products. Sometimes when goods come directly from China, you can find English or Russian which I speak fluently. My question is, is it a good tool and how long does it take to reach some progress? Thanks.

I can say that this shadowing book does a great job on #1 and giving you a format that is efficient at moving the information from the book and into your memory. It is hard at first, but becomes easy as you practice repeatedly (like most things).

Amazing Review Nick! The shadowing book and CD combo actually works on the principle of listen and learn. I like how this book and CD works. Like you said, first lift the heavier products and later, get so used to it that them seem lighter than before. I myself always thought of Japanese as a very tough language, which is why I was never good at learning it.

At least, that was my experience of language learning in college. Something like The Shadowing Technique is so great because it really forces you to speak the language and you therefore get really good at using it.

The next logical step after shadow walking was shadow stretching (this is the year of fitness for Adam!) For me, shadowing is more suited as an active sport, and it took me a while to understand that. I still do shadowing with slightly active tasks, like cleaning, but it really shines where you actually are moving.

Maybe its time to start using this technique.

Actually I read your previous post about shadowing but I havent tried it yet because I thought it was kind of boring. But it seems it has good effects so I will give it a try.

Why Shadowing?

"I want to be able to speak Japanese easily!", "I want to speak fluently!" We believe that there are many Japanese language students who share these desires. Another opinion that we often hear is, "I understand what people say to me, but I can't speak myself". Shadowing acts as a bridge between understanding what you want to say in your mind and being able to actually say it out loud promptly and fluently. To express this differently, Shadowing is a training method that raises ability from intellectual understanding to practical application. This difference can be compared to knowing the theory of how to swim and actually consciously experiencing how to move your arms and kick your legs in the water.

The results of applying the Shadowing method

1) Shadowing is quite an intensive learning method where you listen and speak at almost exactly the same time. If you practice Shadowing for even a short period of time every day you'll be able to process Japanese at a higher pace and soon you'll be able to practically use and apply the learned dialogues. When learning a new language of course you'll have to learn its grammar and vocabulary, but generally speaking, you'll soon find that by using the Shadowing learning method, in a very short time you'll become able to process Japanese at a higher speed and also see improvements to your listening and reading skills.

Everyone agrees this is difficult, but I suspect it is a lot more difficult for some people than others. Those of us who have very poor short-term memory or lack a certain kind of vocal extroversion can find Japanese shadowing pretty much impossible.

Using Anki to shadow Japanese is even more unorthodox. We are not going to be using it as an SRS tool at all. The only role it plays in Harmonizing is that of a box for throwing up random sentences spoken by Japanese speakers plus text of what they are saying and a convenient one-button method of having them repeat the phrase as many times as you want.

Once you have this it becomes easier to pick up what Japanese speakers are saying because your brain is not (or at least is rather less) trying to do what it has been trained to do for years, to translate all vocal noise into English-like sounds. It has become viscerally aware of another kind of spoken rhythm.

Though Koichi suggests shadowing every day for a few months to see benefits, I didn't do it that often. Studying grammar and vocabulary is a much a better use of my time. Why do it at all then? Keeping my nose in flashcards and grammar books means my speaking ability decreases (and my fear of speaking increases). So I use shadowing as a kind of stretching exercise to remind my brain and tongue what it feels like to speak Japanese. It also works well as a warm-up before situations where I know I'll need to speak, such as language meet-ups and Japanese cultural events.

If you're advanced, finding language shadowing material is not hard. Grab an audio book or download a podcast, you're not limited by level. For material under the intermediate threshold, here are some of the best resources I've found:

There are videos for each section with subtitles in Japanese and English, but those aren't very useful for shadowing. The good stuff is in the articles, which have Japanese passages with audio buttons next to them.

Unfortunately, the audio doesn't auto play from sentence to sentence, nor is it easy to scrub through and hear the piece I'm having trouble with. Also, there's no translation for the Japanese articles, though that isn't necessarily a downside. The lack of English definitely forces me to try and understand the sentence because there's nothing to fall back on. If I ever jump on the HiNative train, Hirogaru sentence translations would be a good thing to have native speakers check.

EtoEto Kuma is one of the best Japanese shadowing experiences available (and I'm not just saying that because I work for Tofugu). The material is created by native speakers and spoken in native Japanese. I can toggle English translations on and off, the audio is easy to scrub through, and it's fun to shadow because I get to speak like a Japanese person, not a narrator or storyteller. EtoEto Kuma shines because it's actually made for shadowing. So the content is set up to shadow with much more than the other two resources I mentioned.

However, by repeating to the point where you can repeat the dialogue with ease without needing to look at any text, you will have effectively internalized the dialogue and you will find yourself using it in actual conversation without even realizing it. Effective shadowing does not require memorization, but does require enough practice to force the structures and vocabulary used in the sentences into your head.

I own both of these books, and I find the dialogues in them to be incredibly useful. Plus, these are made for shadowing specifically, so you should have no trouble getting started if you decide to purchase them. The conversation example in this post was taken from the beginner-level book.

The real problem is finding just the right shadowing material and putting it into a format that is easily consumable and repeatable. Any chance you could do an in-depth post on how to streamline this process?

Both male and female speakers engage in the dialogues, so there are different tones and cadences to use for shadowing. The downloadable audio that comes with the book makes it ideal for car trips or work commutes.

Taking into consideration these concerns in implementing shadowing in language classes at an Australian university, for the present study, it was decided to conduct shadowing as a homework assessment so that students could fully concentrate on the input of the model audio with a minimum of interference to his/her own output, which is expected to bring positive side effects in alleviating speech apprehension and fear of evaluation in front of the teacher and peers.

In implementing shadowing practice in the second language teaching context, Kadota and Tamai (Kadota and Tamai 2004) recommend the following six shadowing steps: 1) listening: listening to the audio without the script, and trying to roughly grasp the content and the speech style; 2) mumbling: shadowing without the script, focusing on the heard sound rather than reproducing pronunciation; 3) synchronized reading (content understanding): shadowing with the script, focusing on the meaning of the script; 4) prosody shadowing: shadowing focusing on prosodic features, such as stress, rhythm, intonation, speed, and pause; 5) synchronized reading (difficult points): shadowing with the script, focusing on the parts listeners find difficult; and 6) content shadowing: shadowing focusing on the content without reading the script (p. 62). This set of shadowing steps has been widely referred to by teachers and researchers (Hamada 2012; Kyo 2012; Saito et al. 2011, etc). It is suggested that the level of shadowing script ideally should include 2 or 3 unknown vocabulary items in every 100 words; and that it be presented at the speed that learners can listen and grasp the general meaning, which is the proximal level of i-1, where they can feel comfortable in shadowing (Kadota 2007, p. 236). This recommended difficulty assumes content shadowing, the final shadowing step focusing on the understanding of the content meaning, in that it limits the least number of unfamiliar words, at moderate speech speed. However, the shadowing materials for the present study were developed in order to target the mastery of prosodic shadowing, focusing on the accuracy of the speech production. Therefore, the shadowing materials in this study included more than a few unknown vocabulary and grammar expressions; while the degree of unfamiliarity may largely vary depending on the language proficiency level of each student. As for the shadowing model audio speed, gradual speed progression method was employed. The main purpose of this method is to ascertain that all the students have become familiar with shadowing practice at relatively slow speed, and then to gradually adjust them to the moderate and then faster speed on a weekly basis, with the aim to be at a native-like speed at the end of the study period. In doing so, instead of using commercial audio materials (e.g. textbook CDs), the teaching instructor, who is a native Japanese speaker, recorded the model audio himself, in order to flexibly adjust the speech speed to suit best this study design. be457b7860