A very useful habit that I stumbled on almost by accident is that of “shadowing,” in which one listens to and speaks along with native audio. This is one of the highest leverage practices you can adopt to sound more like a native speaker. Back in 1991 when I made my first trip to Japan, my friend Matt who was living in Nagoya at the time had one of these Sony IC-Repeat cassette players. It had the ability to take an audio sample from the tape up to eight seconds long, then endlessly loop it, repeating it until you were ready to move on.
Shadowing
Shadowing
Shadowing
A very useful habit that I stumbled on almost by accident is that of “shadowing,” in which one listens to and speaks along with native audio. This is one of the highest leverage practices you can adopt to sound more like a native speaker. Back in 1991 when I made my first trip to Japan, my friend Matt who was living in Nagoya at the time had one of these Sony IC-Repeat cassette players. It had the ability to take an audio sample from the tape up to eight seconds long, then endlessly loop it, repeating it until you were ready to move on.