10 things I never do when learning a language - Steve Kaufmann

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Feeling stuck in your language learning journey? You might be making one of these 10 mistakes:

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Thank you, very helpful. What is shadowing?

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Repeating what you listened to and trying to replicate the accent. The more advanced form is recording yourself and comparing that to the original

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Ah, ok. So is the emphasis on trying to replicate the accent? Or should we not repeat phrases at all? I always repeat the phrases out loud when in LngQ sentence mode. However, I am pretty sure that my accent comes from copying native speakers here in Colombia. But, anytime you speak your target language yo are going to have some kind of accent. In fact, learning how to accent Spanish is critical to being understood. So I am not sure I understand the reasoning here.