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| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5378 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 1 of 46 07 March 2014 at 7:13pm | IP Logged |
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How valuable would it be to shadow an entire novel at an intermediate level?
I am at a low B2-ish level and am trying to find more ways to improve and have thought about simply shadowing a lengthy novel I like. I have tried it out a bit and I'd likely need to slow down the audio a bit. Would it be helpful or would I be better off just spending the time reading and watching TV in Spanish? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4524 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 2 of 46 07 March 2014 at 10:16pm | IP Logged |
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I don't see why it would be less useful than only listening to the audiobook, and I
usually spend a lot of time on those at the intermediate level. Try it and report back to us, would be interesting to see your results. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4831 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 3 of 46 07 March 2014 at 10:38pm | IP Logged |
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Did you have any particular novel in mind, and is it rich in dialogue?
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| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5378 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 4 of 46 08 March 2014 at 12:20am | IP Logged |
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I am thinking of shadowing Atlas Shrugged. The issue is that the regular audio is 60 hours and I would probably have to play it at 50% speed in order to shadow it and properly pronounce the words. That means it would be about 120 hours of audio. I only have about 40-60 minutes a day to dedicate to Spanish so 120 hours would be a four month committment.
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| Lizzern Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5912 days ago 791 posts - 1053 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 5 of 46 08 March 2014 at 12:47am | IP Logged |
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Maybe try doing it for a week or two and see if you feel like doing the same thing for 4 months is good use of your time. That might clarify things a bit :-) I'm sure you'll have a clearer idea of whether it's beneficial for you.
(I thought you were supposed to shadow at full speed though...) Liz 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4710 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 6 of 46 08 March 2014 at 12:49am | IP Logged |
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Why shadow?
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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7208 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 7 of 46 08 March 2014 at 2:17am | IP Logged |
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One of the benefits I find from shadowing is that it helps me to focus on the story.
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| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4692 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 8 of 46 08 March 2014 at 2:24am | IP Logged |
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Shadowing always helps me will prosody and oral fluidity. But I think it really only works at full speed...
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