Shadowing Practice

Shadowing is a learning technique where you listen to a text in your target language, and then repeat it aloud right after the speaker, so that you become his/her shadow.

You play the video, and after one sentence or two you pause it to repeat the words that you just heard with a minimum delay. You can do this as you sit down, stand or walk around the house... the point is that you repeat the exacts words in the exact same manner (tempo, intonation, nuances, etc.) as the speaker.

So, here's my proposal to get started in this new technique: Become the shadow of Patch Adams. Patch Adams is an American physician, social activist, clown, and author whose ideas were featured in a famous Hollywood film (Robbin Williams starred in it). Do no more than 2 minutes of his speech at a time.

"I want a world where no one alive can remember what the word war means..."