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A.J.
An important tool to improve the ability to be understood (and to understand), is to improve pronunciation of words and the prosody of the sentence (melody, intonation and emphasis). Shadowing can lead to significant improvements, both for beginners, intermediate and advanced learners. I propose direct support in Lingq for shadowing.
Shadowing needs the following things:
* I need to be able to indicate the chunk I am shadowing in page mode.
* For listening, I need to play a chunk repetitively.
* I need to listen to the sound, without seeing the text. That way I can focus on remembering both text, pronunciation and prosody.
* I should be able to switch seeing the text on or off.
* As time stamps are currently on sentence level, the chunks will be on sentence level as well. A chunk contains one or more sentences.
* I need to record my voice and play back my recording. That way, I can compare my recording to the original spoken text.
* I would like every action to have a keyboard shortcut, so I don't have to grab the mouse every few seconds.
Keyboard shortcuts would be:
  1. Indicate start and end of a chunk, which can reside on the same page or on the next page.
  2. create a recording of the chunk (start and end of recording)
  3. Switch the text visibility on or off.
  4. play a chunks' original sound.
  5. play my recording.
I appreciate any feedback on this proposal or queries if it is not clear.