TryShadowing
English shadowing with real-life conversations
11 followers
English shadowing with real-life conversations
11 followers
Listen to a real-life conversation, repeat each line right after you hear it, and get your pronunciation scored word by word.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
We built TryShadowing because most English learners can read and listen well, but freeze when they have to speak. The fix that actually works is shadowing: listen to a real sentence, then say it straight back — again and again.
TryShadowing turns that into a daily habit:
🎧 500+ real-life conversations, A1 to C2 — ordering coffee, airport check-ins, job interviews, IELTS answers
✨ Karaoke-style highlighting so you never lose your place
🎙️ Word-by-word pronunciation scoring, right in your browser
✍️ 1,500+ dictation lessons, Say It (see a sentence in your language, produce the English), 73 grammar points with built-in practice, and ~7,000 words with spaced repetition
It's free to practise every day, no download needed. Premium removes the daily limits. Our Android app is on its way, iOS next.
Learners in 100+ countries use it today — we'd love your honest feedback: what would make you practise speaking every single day?
love the dual approach with shadowing and dictation, that combo really clicks for me. one thing that would help a lot is letting us upload our own audio clips or podcasts to shadow, so i can practise with content i actually care about instead of just yt videos.
finally something that actually uses youtube as a real learning tool instead of pretending caption-clicking counts as study. the dictation being scored word by word is genuinely useful, feels way more honest than those apps that just give you a vague percentage at the end.
would love to see a difficulty filter so i can pick videos by speaker speed or accent, the bbc clips are a bit fast for me but ted talks feel just right
The word-by-word dictation scoring is such a clever idea, but it would be way more useful if you could slow down longer sentences and tap the tricky words to hear them broken into smaller chunks, then your dictation logic kicks back in for the slower audio.