Shadowing

[indigo atlas]

I want to improve my speaking through shadowing. It's a method where u copy what the person says. It's not quite matched with normal content so I ask here.
The requirements are that I should know what they are going to say before they read so subtitles cannot work.

[lament quest]

Look into #language-parents

Btw if you have the subtitle file you can usually just open it in notepad and see all the subtitles

[bronze folio]

Are language parents used for that??

[lament quest]

Im not super familer with the details but I believe they are used for that and chorusing.

[indigo atlas]

I see. I hadn't thought about it that way but can I download YouTube subtitles since animes don't work.because animes are weird.

I want to do it with youtube because it's easier to do but I can't quite use transcripts as well because I am not that good at kanji. Maybe i should give up shadowing and speaking for now and and focus on other things.

Any suggestions??

[lament quest]

I have never done this myself but there are websites that can do it. I wouldn't use it on auto generated subs though.

As for whether to focus on things I think it would depend on your overall ability. Can you go to #stage-selection and pick a stage.

[indigo atlas]

Thanks. I hadn't seen that yet. I'll check it out.

[lament quest]

The official suggestion is to wait till 3a to start output practice, a lot of people start earlier at like 2c for instance though. The goal with waiting for a while before speaking is 1) to try to make sure that your comprehension is high enough when you're talking to someone so that you can actually have a real conversation with them and 2) because once you have more of a foundation in the language you will have more vocab and a stronger intuition for what is and isn't grammatical in Japanese. That will make speaking easier.