shadoco - 英語リスニングシャドーイングアプリ

ALC PRESS INC.

About this app

Solve your English listening comprehension problems with shadowing.
shadoco is a learning app that trains your English listening skills using "shadowing," a technique also known as simultaneous interpreter training.
With five steps per lesson, anyone can easily practice shadowing.

■ Recommended for those who:
・Can't understand native English because it's too fast
・Know words and phrases, but can't understand them when spoken
・Want to improve their listening skills for TOEIC or English conversation
・Haven't seen improvement with passive listening
・Want training that can be continued in short bursts, even with a busy schedule

■ Why "speaking aloud" improves listening comprehension
Shadoco is a training method where you repeat the spoken audio like a shadow. Sounds you can correctly reproduce become sounds you can understand. By learning the connections and omissions of sounds, rhythm, and intonation through muscle memory, English, which previously only sounded like "chunks of sound," will begin to sound like meaningful words.

■ A 5-Step Learning Method to Prevent Frustration
Shadoco is highly effective, but it can be difficult to do immediately. Shadoco breaks down each lesson into five steps, gradually training your ears.

STEP 1 | Listening Without a Script
First, focus only on the audio without looking at the text. Check how it sounds to you.

STEP 2 | Understanding the Meaning of the Audio
Listen while checking the English and Japanese translation sentence by sentence, connecting the sounds with the meaning.

STEP 3 | Repeating
Speak after the example audio. The AI ​​checks whether you can reproduce the sounds you heard.

STEP 4 | Overlapping
Speak while looking at the script, perfectly overlapping with the example audio. Get used to the speed and rhythm of native speakers.

STEP 5 | Shadowing
Finally, cover the script and follow along relying only on the sounds you hear. By this point, the English in that lesson will be "understandable English."

■ AI Visualizes "Ability to Understand"
In Steps 3-5, the AI ​​analyzes the recorded audio. Sounds that are not correctly heard cannot be pronounced correctly. Therefore, the pronunciation scoring results directly lead to the identification of listening weaknesses.
• In addition to the overall score, pronunciation, fluency, rhythm, intonation, etc. are evaluated from multiple angles.
• Words that were reproduced and words that were not are color-coded on the script.
• Comparison of phonetic symbols for each word allows you to see at a glance which sounds you cannot distinguish.
• Includes AI comments that highlight key learning points.

■ Features for Ease of Continued Learning
• Playback speed can be finely adjusted from 0.5x to 2.0x. Start at a speed you can understand and gradually increase to native speed.
• You can set the playback interval of the audio for each step, allowing you to practice at your own pace.
• Switch between displaying English/Japanese scripts to gradually adjust the load.
• Check vocabulary with a word list for each lesson.
• Automatically saves learning records such as learning time and completed lessons. Seeing your progress motivates you to continue.

■ How to Use
・An account is required to use this app (please log in with the account provided by your company/organization).
・Please allow access to your microphone to use the recording function.
・We recommend using earphones or headphones.

Just listening won't change your hearing. You need to speak aloud to hear.

Make shadowing a habit starting today with shadoco.

■ How to Use (For Corporations and Organizations)
・This app is a service for English language training for companies and organizations. Login with an account issued by your company/organization is required to use it.
・Individual customers cannot create a new account using this app alone.
・There are no in-app purchases. Usage fees are based on the contract with your company/organization.
・Please allow access to your microphone to use the recording function.
・We recommend using earphones or headphones.
・An internet connection is required to save learning records.

■ For Those Considering Implementation in Corporations and Organizations
For consultations regarding implementation in employee training and language education programs, please contact us using the information below.

Contact Us: https://form.run/@alc-asu

■ Terms of Service & Privacy Policy
Terms of Service: https://user.alc-unlimited.com/n/terms-of-service
Privacy Policy: https://www.alc.co.jp/policy/privacy/

Operating Company: ALC Co., Ltd.
https://www.alc.co.jp/

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