Shadow: Speak Like a Native

Struggling to speak English as well as you understand it? Shadow trains you with shadowing: you listen to a native speaker and repeat right after them, copying their rhythm, stress and intonation. You practise with any clip you like: upload a video, paste a YouTube link, record a voice note, or type your own text. Shadow cuts it into phrases, pauses for you to repeat, and records you so you hear how close you sound.

Shadowing is a proven language-learning method. It trains your ear and your mouth together, so you build real speaking fluency instead of memorizing rules.

Drop in any clip you love (a scene from a show, a YouTube video, a podcast, a voice note, or one of the built-in lessons) and Shadow breaks it into short phrases you can loop and master.

HOW IT WORKS
• Pick any clip from your phone or paste a YouTube link
• Shadow transcribes it and splits it into phrases
• Loop a phrase, repeat after the speaker, and record yourself
• Play both voices side by side to hear the difference
• Drill hands-free: the audio keeps playing with the screen off

ASK SHADOW, YOUR COACH, IN THE APP
Stuck on how to say something? Ask in your own language and get the English a native would really use, with two or three ways to say it and what each one brings with it. Paste a sentence you wrote and see it rewritten the way people actually speak. Hear every answer in a British, American or Australian voice, see the phonetics under the words, and save the good ones straight into your practice.

MAKE YOUR OWN MATERIAL
• Paste any text and hear it read back, line by line, in the voices you pick
• Turn any phrase into voiced examples in different situations
• Generate dialogues and monologues to shadow, in the accent and voice you pick
• Film yourself next to the original and export it

WHY SHADOWING WORKS
Reading and grammar drills don't make you fluent. Speaking does. By copying native speakers out loud every day, you train the exact sounds, melody and pacing of natural English. Over time your pronunciation sharpens, your accent softens, and the words you only recognized start coming out of your mouth automatically.

WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH SHADOW
• Improve your English pronunciation by repeating after native speakers
• Reduce your accent by matching real native sounds and intonation
• Rehearse a speech, a presentation or an interview answer until it is yours
• Build spoken fluency with short, focused daily practice
• Save your favorite phrases and drill them in collections you make
• See the phonetic spelling under any line, British or American
• Quiz yourself on your own phrases, with the hardest words blanked out
• Keep today's phrase and your bonsai on your Home Screen with the widget
• Track your progress and keep a daily streak

LEARN A SPEECH BY HEART
Paste your own text and Shadow reads it back and cuts it into phrases: a wedding speech, a conference talk, lines for an audition, the answers you want ready for an interview. Repeat each phrase until it comes out without the page, then hide a word at a time and say it from memory.

MADE FOR
Intermediate and advanced English learners who can already read and understand English but want to speak more fluently, sound more natural, and finally talk like a native. And anyone with something to say out loud from memory: a speech, a script for a presentation, lines for acting, the answers for an interview.

Your clips and recordings live on your phone. To transcribe a clip or to voice a phrase, Shadow sends that audio or text to be processed and gets the result back. We do not store it and we do not sell it.

Turn the English you hear into the English you speak. Start shadowing today.