SOFA vs Shadow

Shadow a day. Decide for yourself. Not sure what you want to do after high school? Most students aren’t — because they’ve never actually seen the job. SOFA helps you change that. SOFA connects you with real companies for short, in-person job shadowing experiences — usually just 1–3 hours. You sign up. You show up. We handle the rest. For Students No guessing. Just real exposure. • See what different careers are actually like — in real workplaces • Meet professionals and ask real questions • Explore everything from skilled trades to STEM to business and leadership • Get clarity before committing to a path For Schools Shadow-day programs, without the coordination. • Students sign up directly for real company experiences • Request private days with specific companies • SOFA handles scheduling, emails, consent, and waivers Every company is vetted. Every student has a profile. Every experience has a plan. You nudge students — we handle the rest. For Companies Show students what the work actually looks like. • Post a shadow day — students sign up directly • Host a small group for a few hours • No complicated setup SOFA handles logistics, student profiles, and consent — so your team can focus on the experience. SOFA simplifies and scales real-world career exposure across an entire city — from skilled trades to STEM and leadership roles. One day can change how you see your future. Download SOFA and open the door.

Shadow is how people actually learn to speak a language: by listening to a native speaker, saying it back, recording yourself and hearing the difference. Bring in anything you want to sound like — a YouTube video, a podcast, a voice note, a song, a scene from a movie. Shadow transcribes it, splits it into phrases you can repeat, and loops them until the words come out without thinking. ASK SHADOW — YOUR COACH, IN THE APP Stuck on how to say something? Ask in your own language and get the English a native would really use, with two or three ways to say it and what each one brings with it. Paste a sentence you wrote and see it rewritten the way people actually speak. Hear every answer in a British, American or Australian voice, see the phonetics under the words, and save the good ones straight into your practice. Then practice them. A ten-round daily session is built from your own saved phrases and the mistakes that keep coming back — answered out loud or typed, and marked one answer at a time with your own words next to the correction. SHADOWING, PROPERLY • Phrase-by-phrase looping with the pauses you choose • Record yourself over the original and compare, line by line • Pitch and rhythm shown side by side, so you can hear what's different • Phonetic transcription under any line • Fold away an ad, a laugh or a line you'd never say, and the drill walks past it • Save any phrase and drill it later, in collections you make MAKE YOUR OWN MATERIAL • Turn any phrase into voiced examples in different situations • Generate dialogues and monologues to shadow, in the accent and voice you pick • Film yourself next to the original and export it BUILT FOR REAL LIFE • Light and dark, following your phone or pinned to one • Works offline once a clip is in • Apple Watch remote for your phrase drills Whether you're preparing for a meeting, moving countries, or just tired of being understood but not sounding like yourself — Shadow is the practice that gets you there.