NoaLingua Glossary
Shadowing
Shadowing is repeating speech aloud immediately after hearing it, in the same rhythm and intonation as the speaker.
It was developed for interpreter training and adapted by language learners because it exercises listening, pronunciation and prosody at once — you cannot shadow a sentence you did not parse.
The practical difficulty is mechanical rather than intellectual: doing it properly means playing a line, pausing, repeating, and rewinding, over and over. Most people give up on the scrub bar long before they give up on the technique.
In NoaLingua Ctrl+H automates the loop on any video: the sentence plays, the video stops itself, and you get a countdown pause that is deliberately longer than the sentence, because producing a foreign sentence takes longer than hearing it.
Where this shows up in NoaLingua
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Try it on the next video you were going to watch anyway.
Free, with every feature. No account, nothing to cancel, and your deck stays on your machine.
Add to Chrome — Free Add to Chrome The Chrome Web Store still lists this as LinguaCue — same extension, rename in progress.- Free, and not a trial Every feature on the free plan — both PDF modes, shadowing, all 30 practice formats.
- No account, no email Nothing to sign up for and nothing to cancel. There is no login screen at all.
- Two dropdowns to set up Pick what you are learning and what you want translations in. That is the whole setup.
- Your words stay yours Export to Anki, CSV, a spreadsheet or a full JSON profile — free on every plan.