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A year of shadowing. Mixed results.

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Everyone recommends shadowing and nobody says what it is for, what does it actually improve?

A year of it, and the caveat in the third comment is the one I wish I had read first: my pronunciation improved a lot and my speaking speed did not move at all.

They are different skills. Shadowing trains the mouth to produce sounds you have heard. Retrieving a word under time pressure is a separate problem and it only improves against a person waiting for you to finish the sentence.

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