Say it out loud. Every word scored.

Shadowing is listening to a line of real speech and saying it back straight away, copying the rhythm and the sounds rather than translating. It works because you train your mouth against a model instead of studying rules about it, and because you hear the gap between the two immediately. Lang Shadow supplies the material, the pause for your turn and the scoring, so the comparison is not just your own impression.

Speak out loud against real English and get something objective back. In Lang Shadow that means picking a Short, a scene or something you needed to say yourself, saying it, and reading the score on every word. You never need a partner or a scheduled lesson, which is the usual reason speaking practice stops.

Every line you say comes back with three numbers and a colour on each word. The numbers are accuracy, fluency and rhythm; a word at 80 or above is green, 50 to 79 is orange, and under 50 is red. Tap a red word to hear it said properly and see which sound inside it let you down, and the line also marks where two words should have run together and where you should have paused.

Real English Shorts and full podcast episodes with transcripts, not scripted textbook audio. A Short plays each line, then stops and waits for your turn and scores what you say; any line can drop to 0.8x or 0.6x, and every line has a translation under it. Podcasts come with the complete transcript, play as video or audio only, keep going in the background while you walk or cook, and have a sleep timer.

Yes. The Sounds tab has a quick check: say one sentence or one word and it is scored word by word for accuracy, fluency and rhythm, with the sound inside each weak word named and what you said instead of what you meant to say. Anything else you say in the app is a check too: a line from a Short, your line in a role play scene, or a sentence you typed yourself in How to Talk and read aloud. Free gives you 2 sentence checks and 2 word checks a day, each one in full; Plus gives you 50 of each.

Yes — that is My voice, a mode you switch on rather than a tab. Record your lines, turn My voice on, and the clip plays back with your takes where the original lines were. It works in Shorts, podcasts and role plays, and hearing yourself where a native speaker used to be is the fastest way to notice the rhythm you flattened, which no score on its own tells you.

Yes — that is the How to Talk tab. Say or type what you need in your own language and it comes back in English, in the tone you choose (natural, casual, professional, confident, storytelling, for kids or IELTS) and at your level. You read it out loud line by line, each line is scored as you go, and you can film yourself saying it and watch it back later.

Yes, for the part of the test you cannot revise from a book: saying it out loud. How to Talk has topics for IELTS Speaking Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 and an IELTS tone, so you can build an answer from what you would say in your own language, then read it aloud and be scored on pronunciation, fluency and rhythm. It is not an exam course and it does not give you a band score; the same practice helps with TOEIC Speaking, but there are no TOEIC-specific topics.

Yes, one sound at a time, which is how an accent actually changes. The model is General American, and the app colours all 41 American English sounds by how you say them, so you can see which few are holding you back. Open one and you get a clip of the mouth making it, where the tongue and lips go, words to try it in, and a note on the mistake speakers of your language usually make. The aim is not to erase how you sound; it is to be understood the first time.

They are every sound American English is made of: 12 vowels, 5 diphthongs and 24 consonants. Lang Shadow uses the General American set, where ɝ (as in bird) and ɚ (as in teacher) stand in for the r-coloured vowels of British English, which is why the count is 41 rather than the 44 often quoted. Every one of them has its own page in the sound guide on this site, with how to make it and a clip of the mouth.

Yes — that is Role Play. You pick a scene in an everyday place — home, food, shopping, travel, the doctor, work and school, or on the phone — and say your lines from the scene out loud while Emma plays the other person. Every line you say is scored. It is scripted scene practice, not an open-ended chat with an AI tutor.

Shorts and Podcasts are the real English you shadow and listen to. The mic button in the middle opens Role Play, scenes you say out loud, and How to Talk, which turns what you wanted to say into English you can read aloud. Sounds is your pronunciation: a map of all 41 sounds coloured by how you say them, a quick check on any sentence or word, and Train your ear. Profile holds your account, your plan and your settings.

They are kept with the sentence they came from. Tap any phrase in a transcript and you get how to say it, what it means and an example in your own language, and one tap on the bookmark keeps it.

Every line you say is scored the moment you say it, and your 41 sounds in the Sounds tab change colour as they improve. The scores behind them are folded over your last 30 days, so they show how you speak now rather than everything you have ever recorded. With Plus, a weekly pronunciation report tells you which sounds are now clean and which to keep practising.

You will hear the difference on a single line the first day; the colours across your 41 sounds move over weeks, not hours. The learners who move fastest are not the ones who practise longest in one sitting, but the ones who say a few lines most days — which is why anything you practise in a day keeps your streak going.

The difference is what you practise on. Pronunciation apps mostly drill isolated words and set phrases; course apps teach through exercises and written dialogue. Lang Shadow scores you on real material — Shorts, scenes and the things you actually need to say — with the same word-level scoring everywhere, so listening, drilling and talking are one loop rather than three separate apps.

Both, because you choose what you shadow. A beginner starts with short, slow Shorts, drops any line to 0.6x and reads the translation under it; an intermediate or advanced learner shadows full podcast episodes and works on rhythm and the few sounds still holding them back. How to Talk writes your English at the level you set, and the pronunciation checker scores the same way at every level.

Five minutes a day is enough. Open the app, say a few lines out loud, close it: there is no lesson to sit through and no course to finish. Anything you practise that day keeps your streak, and with Plus a day you miss is frozen instead of lost.

Yes. It explains in over 120 mother tongues, including Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, French and Russian, and the notes on each sound name the mistake speakers of your language usually make. You set yours once during onboarding, and from then on every line — a Short's subtitle, a podcast transcript, a phrase you saved, the lines in a role play scene — carries a translation beside it. English is what you are learning; your own language is how everything is explained.

Yes, you can practise every day for free, with no card: 2 sentence checks and 2 word checks a day, each scored in full — every word, the sound you missed, and what you said instead — plus 30 Shorts, 30 podcasts and 10 role plays. Plus is for when you want more checks: 50 sentence checks and 50 word checks a day, a weekly pronunciation report on which sounds are clean and which to keep practising, the Pro voice and a streak freeze. Plus is priced for your country — see the price in the App Store or Google Play — with monthly, 6-month and yearly plans. Cancel any time.

They are processed for pronunciation scoring and discarded by default; the takes My voice plays back are kept on your phone. Lang Shadow does not sell or share your data, and you can delete your account and everything attached to it at any time in Settings. Full details are in the privacy policy.

Yes. Cancel through the App Store or Google Play, the same way you manage any other subscription. You keep Plus until the end of the period you already paid for, and nothing is charged after that.

iPhone on iOS 15.5 or later and Android 7.0 or later, with one account across both. An internet connection is needed for new content, transcripts, pronunciation scoring and role plays, because scoring runs on our servers.