Hey guys, welcome back to my channel.
This is a brand new video where I talk about my experience of doing shadowing every single day, if you're new here, I was doing this challenge like 30 day challenge, so I was practicing my speaking skills for a month and I was doing it mainly using shadowing technique and And I did it just because I really wanted to check out this technique, to check out this method and to you know, learn whether it's worth it, whether it is impactful and effective.
And today, in this video, I'm going to give you feedback and some insights of this whole journey and this whole experience.
So let's get started.
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It's called 30-day challenge practice I think so and start with the day one and every single day from that day, you need to do at least something in order to improve your speaking skills.
It can be shadowing, which i'm doing in these videos, or it can be anything else, but it has to be, but it has to be connected with and related to you know speaking.
So that's very interesting challenge and i think it can.
It will definitely affect your language.
So more about that further.
First and foremost, i want to remind all of you, if you haven't seen the video number one, which is like intro to the challenge why did i start this challenge?
The idea of you know doing this challenge came to me like several years ago i think it was in 2020 or 2022 and i was actually pretty serious about it because back then, i felt like i already have like a good level of english, but i lack practice.
I lack, you know, speaking experience, so speaking practice.
So that's why i thought like if i don't do something in order to improve my speaking, i will always feel insecure about my current level, And I remember that I was looking for different platforms sources, you know, learning a lot about it, watching different videos, trying to figure out what to do in order to improve my English.
And there were like pretty popular videos on YouTube back then where different YouTubers you know English learning YouTubers they would give this like 30-day plan on how to improve your English.
And I would think like, okay, I need to do this.
I need to try this like for 30 days, and maybe I'll do it in the format of challenge and maybe I'll launch a whole YouTube channel based on this challenge.
But I didn't.
I didn't, unfortunately.
So this idea was just put off by me and i didn't do anything this year.
I was determined to do it just because i had this idea once.
But i changed the plan.
I was like okay, i will do 30 day challenge, but now, like for now, the more relevant thing for me is to try out some new methods and techniques, which i knew about, but i just didn't do anything with them, you know.
So lately i've been hearing a lot of you know shadowing all youtubers that i know spoke about this method.
They would say that if you don't have an opportunity to practice your english speaking skills, then it definitely can help you to practice your english speaking on your own without any outer help and Hearing.
That was pretty tempting for me.
I was like okay, what is shadowing?
And i gotta be honest, i've heard of this shadowing method years before, but only this year i've been hearing about it more and more.
Like i don't know.
People would just show how they do it on camera and everyone would preach about this.
You know, like everyone would promote this method and i would like think okay uh, years before i was pretty much convinced that this is not something that i want to do, But this year I was like okay, actually I watch a lot of content in English.
Every single day, I watch at least one video in English.
And most of the times, this video is like 30 minutes long.
And I'm not kidding, guys.
That's true.
And I was like okay actually, actually it has some sense.
You know, if i just watch and repeat, that might be pretty much impactful, i guess, because i already do that, like when i watch something and i like some sentence or phrase, i try to repeat after the speaker.
So it sounded like pretty meaningful for me this year and my perspective on this method just changed fundamentally.
But again, the only obstacle that I had on my way was my laziness, my lack of discipline.
So I was like, okay, how can I force myself to actually try out this method?
And then the idea of 30-day challenge came up again.
I was like, oh right, i can do this 30-day challenge, but it can be related to shadowing technique so i can launch my youtube channel and i can try out this technique and it also can help other people who are interested in learning english and working on their speaking skills.
I gotta tell you the genuine will of forcing myself and also helping others, and also i just you know, for years i had this idea of wanting to have my own youtube channel and i just didn't know how to you know how to tackle it, where to start, what to do, and and all of it together combined just led me to actually kicking off my own youtube channel, which we are on right now.
I want to to remind you how it was at the very beginning of our journey.
It was very difficult for me.
I did not expect it to be that difficult and hard and i did not expect it to, you know, be so powerful in terms of working on your muscles.
My jaw would be so exhausted after that practice that I was like, okay, well, that is powerful.
That's something that I should definitely continue doing.
And with each time it was easier and easier and easier for me to shadow people, different people with different pronunciation, with different diction, with different intonations, with different accent, even do you remember?
So i tried it out and during the process, i remember thinking okay, Whenever I wanted to do the practice, I would think of a person who I would love to shadow.
That was something very natural for me.
Like, I was like, okay, I'm going to shadow a video.
I'm going to do the video, which I like.
I'm going to shadow someone whose speech I like.
And throughout this whole challenge, I would tell you this thing rule number one please shadow people who you really like.
I'm not telling, i'm not talking about personality per se, i'm just saying peop speech, like those people whose speech is flawless clear, understandable.
I also have mentioned in those videos that i I'm trying to pick up some good phrases and words while I'm shadowing people because well, usually when I watch something, I always do that.
If I hear some new word or phrase which I think is pretty much useful and handy, I would think okay well, I'll try to memorize it.
I'll try to write it down and work with it later on.
And for those of you who watched all videos, you remember that I had this notebook and I would write down all the new words and phrases and later on, i will work on these phrases and words, making up some different sentences with them, trying to, you know, role play, dialogue with my own self and yeah.
So this is very useful for you guys, if you want to, you know, if you want to like, get the most of it out of it.
So don't neglect this factor.
This is very important in reaching your vocabulary, expanding it.
Um, this is one of the parts of shattering technique, So never be lazy to pay more attention to this.
And now finally, let's talk about the impact of this technique on my English.
Does it actually change your speaking?
Does it actually improve it?
So guys, that's very interesting question because for me, i am already pretty much fluent and i know that you can't notice the changes in my speech because while i was speaking in front of a camera telling something to you, you kind of noticed that my speech is pretty fluent, even though i make mistakes, i stop from you know, time to time I'm not that eloquent, a lot of my language is very passive, but still I am pretty fluent.
So that's why it's pretty much difficult to actually register the changes and notice the changes.
But the only person who can give you that feedback is me.
The only person who can actually evaluate this whole experience is me.
And what I can say is that shadowing is powerful 100%.
It does change the way you're speaking. although it doesn't change it fundamentally so what do i mean by that as i said in my very last videos any daily practice can be impactful any daily practice can make changes so i believe that if it wasn't for shadowing or it was for any other method or any other tool or source i would definitely feel changes just because i had practice i practiced my english every single day and when you interact with the language on a daily basis of course it has some huge impact on your english but it's not that much noticeable you know like it's not something that completely changes the way you speak but you feel it a bit by bit you just feel that now it's easier for you to say some things now it's just easier that's it now your pronunciation is better now you're more you know you're able to articulate better and this is something that i have noticed even though i haven't noticed like fundamental changes even though it didn't impact on my speaking you know in the super way it didn't level up my english and i'm still on the same level but i feel how just daily practice made some changes and I just listed them, you know, like pronunciation, articulation, speech flow more fluent do i recommend to do shadowing guys hi yes i do i recommend you to use this technique and this method i hope that you don't assume that just doing only shadowing can make huge changes that's not true but as any practice if you do it on daily basis if you do it every day and if you do it very intentionally you will see the results eventually and that is true not only on the flow not only on your fluency but also on your you know like vocabulary it will affect everything but you need to be consistent and that's the tricky part of it because while we all know that there are so many sources platforms stuff that you can use to practice your speaking or any other aspect of language but we most of us don't do it why because the same reason we're not disciplined enough we're not we're lazy let's be honest most of most of us are so for me shadowing is just one of these methods which is pretty suitable for people who are lazy so whenever you're watching something in english do shadowing this is the easiest way to work on your english that's why i highly recommend to use it just only because of that to be honest like one of the reasons is like i think you can find other methods and techniques which are more impactful and powerful and effective and can make like huge changes in your speaking but they need more effort but shadowing is just a lazy way to actually work on english and to actually speak every day So that's why I highly recommend to use this method.
Again, for those who are lazy, perfect.
Just perfect.
Shadowing is perfect method.
And what I want to say at the end is that I'm proud of myself, of course.
I'm happy that I finished this challenge, but I'm not satisfied with the results, I gotta be honest.
Just because, you know, I think I imagined too much when I was starting it.
I was thinking like if I do this for 30 days, it will make a huge difference in my English.
But no, it didn't, and it's pretty logical, and i know how language works.
It takes time.
It just accumulates.
Every little effort that you make, every little practice that you did, it just accumulates it.
Within some time you'll see the results.
That's how it usually works.
But still, when you're doing something like that, you just really want to see like quick results, like like huge outcome.
Um, and it's not it's, it doesn't work that way.
So that's why i can't say that um, these 30 days changed my english completely, but it definitely changed it a little bit, or maybe not a little bit.
I'm just not objective here.
I think i'm pretty subjective here because i had like a high expectations and that was a mistake.
But overall, shadowing was very interesting part of this journey and i definitely will implement this method in my further practice.
I will do it.
Actually, as i said before, i watch a lot of youtube, so i'm gonna do it in a lazy way.
Every time when i watch something.
If i feel like that, i will try to shadow people, because now i know how it works and now i know how to do that And it's easier for me to do it.
So why not, right?
If it can actually be helpful, which can actually be helpful.
I know that now.
So again, I did 30 day challenge.
I finished my 30 day challenge.
I completed this challenge successfully.
And I tried out shadowing method and i gave you all of this feedback, which was which is like real, and you actually can go to my very first videos, to these videos that i've made throughout this challenge, and watch them and see and observe how it was going and make your own conclusions.
So that's for me, guys.
From now on, i'm gonna make different videos about how to improve your English.
I also gonna do some practice, I also gonna try some new methods and I also gonna film all of that and post it and upload it on YouTube, and I hope that it can be helpful.
It will be helpful for you and it also can change your speaking and my speaking, and we can do it together.
I have a lot of ideas.
I have a lot of like, little projects that I want to do with you guys.
So stay tuned.
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