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| Martien Heptaglot Senior Member Netherlands martienvanwanrooij.n Joined 7107 days ago 134 posts - 148 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, Spanish, Turkish, Italian, French Studies: Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Swedish, Arabic (Written) | Message 1 of 35 15 June 2005 at 5:37am | IP Logged | ||
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I saw the word "shadowing" in several topics and replies but it is not very clear from the context what it means. Could anybody give me an explanation (or a link to a place where it is explained :) )
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| lola Groupie Joined 7154 days ago 63 posts - 65 votes | Message 2 of 35 15 June 2005 at 5:59am | IP Logged | ||
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Find the links to the topics on shadowing here
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| Martien Heptaglot Senior Member Netherlands martienvanwanrooij.n Joined 7107 days ago 134 posts - 148 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, Spanish, Turkish, Italian, French Studies: Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Swedish, Arabic (Written) | Message 3 of 35 15 June 2005 at 6:50am | IP Logged | ||
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Iola thank you for your answer but I am afraid it doesn't make it very clear for me yet because there are a lot of topics that discuss shadowing but I cannot find a description of wat they mean with it. Does just mean something like imitate conversations or learn dialogues from a language method by heart? I don't like asking questions when the answer can be found somewhere in a forum thread or on the web but a (short) explanation would be very welcome :)
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| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7105 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 4 of 35 15 June 2005 at 7:21am | IP Logged | ||
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Martien,
Shadowing is repeating either silently out loud parts of a dialogue as you listen to them. I used to do this with my Linguaphone courses before I found out it had an "official" name. Andy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Nephilim Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 7147 days ago 363 posts - 368 votes Speaks: English*, Polish | Message 5 of 35 15 June 2005 at 7:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Shadowing is very good because it helps you to get the spound profile of lexical chunks - regardless of your level.
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| Martien Heptaglot Senior Member Netherlands martienvanwanrooij.n Joined 7107 days ago 134 posts - 148 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, Spanish, Turkish, Italian, French Studies: Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Swedish, Arabic (Written) | Message 6 of 35 15 June 2005 at 8:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you Andy it is perfectly clear now :)
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| lola Groupie Joined 7154 days ago 63 posts - 65 votes | Message 7 of 35 16 June 2005 at 6:43am | IP Logged | ||
Ardaschir explained it in the first topic you could find at the end of the link I gave you. Are you sure you read them? Any way, I'm glad you got the answer now. It is a useful concept. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Martien Heptaglot Senior Member Netherlands martienvanwanrooij.n Joined 7107 days ago 134 posts - 148 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, Spanish, Turkish, Italian, French Studies: Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian, Latin, Swedish, Arabic (Written) | Message 8 of 35 17 June 2005 at 4:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Iola, all the info I got - thanks to your link - was indeed very useful but somehow I didn't get a clue about the exact meaning of the term, so both your list with all the forum items and the short description by Ardaschir were very helpful. It turns out that I often do so when listening to language tapes. I cannot do it when walking in the woods because I don't possess a walkman or mp3 player but since I live alone I often shadow while washing dishes, cooking etc :) Thanks anyway Edited by Martien on 17 June 2005 at 4:14am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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