Speak Shakespeare: Shadowing

Work on your English pronunciation word by word with Shakespeare's Sonnets. A narrator reads a line of a Shakespeare sonnet. You read it back, and the moment you finish the app shows which words you pronounced correctly and which ones need more work. The text stays open on the screen the whole time. This is not memory work: nothing to recall, nothing hidden. You work on the sound of each word and the flow of the line. The reference reading has already passed the same check. Every recording is tested before release, so you can work toward a standard the narrator has demonstrated. HOW IT WORKS Pick a sonnet and hear it read straight through, not spliced together line by line. Read the line aloud. When you finish, you see at once which words you pronounced correctly. Take it a line at a time, or a stanza at a time. Neither is locked behind the other. Return to any passage as often as you need. There are no penalties for attempts and no deadline: it counts when every word is pronounced correctly. Play your own take back and hear yourself against the narrator. WHAT IT IS FOR English pronunciation, practiced word by word on the best-known verse in the language. Shadowing: read just after a voice to practice rhythm and intonation. Keeping every word clear through the end of a long line. Simply hearing the sonnets read, if that is what you came for. YOUR SCORE Earn points the first time you complete a new line, stanza or whole sonnet, plus a little on each day you complete something new. The score grows with newly completed material, so it records how much of the book you have truly finished. Join the Game Center leaderboard if you want to compare your progress with other readers. All 154 sonnets are recorded in Shakespeare's original order and arranged in six parts. Together they form a complete course of reading aloud, with a last page you can actually reach. Part of the book is open from the start. A single purchase unlocks the rest permanently. There is no subscription. The text is Shakespeare's, in modernized spelling from Project Gutenberg, and it is in the public domain.