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Shadowing · A2–B2 · iOS & Android

You know the words.
You still freeze.

One short dialogue a day. You hear a line, the mic opens by itself, and you say it back out loud. Then you see, word by word, where your rhythm went wrong.

The SpeakGOAT score screen: each word marked good, unclear or missed. The GOAT, the SpeakGOAT mascot, in gold sunglasses.
LINE 3 OF 10 MAYA Running late · B1
Them · 0.85× · 168 wpm
READY
You · try 2 of 3
Stress goes on wait, not have. You missed for. 86GREAT

One try, start to finish. The line stays still. Words light up in time with the speaker, the mic opens by itself, and your score is back in seconds.

Your time

Six minutes of app.
Five of them are you talking.

No hearts, no gems, no stress. Every step below shows how long it really lasts, and the session ends while you still want more.

4 dialogues, 45 linesA2 → B1 → B2US accentsES · HE · PT-BR translations
Listen mode: the dialogue moves past the reading spot with a translation underneath. Shadow mode: a beep, then your turn to say the line. The score screen: each word marked green, amber or red.
One session

Pick, listen, shadow, see.

Then the lines you found hard come back on their own, days later. As real lines, not flashcards.

0:10

Pick

Today gives you one dialogue. It picks by your level, a topic you haven't done this week, and the lines you need to review.

0:45

Listen

One full pass in Listen mode. The text moves with the voices, a translation is one tap away, and nothing stops.

5:00 · THE MAIN PART

Shadow

The line plays, the mic opens, you say it back. Word colours in 300 ms, your full score in 3.5 seconds. Three tries a line, five at most, and a low score never stops you.

0:20

See

Lines done, your best line, the line to practise, and one thing to fix tomorrow.

+1 DAY

Return

The lines you found hard come back after 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 days, ready to say again.

The score

Every word right,
still wrong.

You didn't have to wait for me
clear unclear missed

You said all seven words, and a native speaker may still say "Sorry?" Prosody is the score for rhythm and stress. It catches this, so we show it first.

Accuracy92
Fluency81
Completeness86
Prosody74
Why this, not another vocabulary app

Shadowing is old, tested
and hard on your own.

Every choice below comes from a research paper. If there is no paper, we don't make the claim.

THE METHODFoote & McDonough, 2017

It helps in speech you never practised

Sixteen learners shadowed recorded conversations ten minutes a day, four days a week, for eight weeks. Native listeners found their new, unpractised speech easier to understand and more fluent. A session here has the same shape: ten minutes, one short dialogue between two people, your voice over it. Our dialogues are our own, written for SpeakGOAT and voiced by AI.

THE TRY LIMITShiki, Mori, Kadota & Yoshida, 2010 · Hamada, 2020

Three tries, not thirty

Saying the same line again stops helping after four or five tries. So each line gives you three tries, five at most, and then you move on.

THE SCORE WEIGHTSWhitworth & Rose, 2025 — 44 studies

Rhythm is the gain. Single sounds aren't.

The review finds clear gains in how easy you are to understand and in rhythm, but no clear result for single consonants and vowels. So the score puts rhythm first, and we never promise to fix your /θ/.

Price

Free is a real plan.

No ads, ever. No password account.

Free

$0
  • One full session a day, every day
  • Listen and Shadow on every dialogue
  • Your whole first session scored in full, then five lines a session
  • 10 review lines a day
  • Two streak freezes to get you started

Pro

Coming soonPRICE SHARED AT LAUNCH
  • No daily limit. Shadow as long as you want
  • Every line scored in full, not just the first five
  • Prosody: the rhythm and stress score
  • Half speed on any line you keep missing
  • 20 review lines a batch
Before you ask

Fair questions.

How good does my English have to be?

A2 to B2. Roughly: you understand a lot when you listen or read, but you get stuck when you have to speak. Every dialogue has a level, and Today picks from yours.

Does my recording leave my phone?

Sometimes. Your phone turns your speech into text, on the device when it can, otherwise through Apple or Google. We may also send a recording to Microsoft Azure to score your pronunciation. When you talk to Goat, your recording goes through our server to OpenAI to turn it into text. We don't keep it. See our Privacy Policy.

Is there a free trial?

The annual Pro plan has a 7-day free trial, if your App Store or Google Play account can get one. To finish setup, you start the trial, subscribe or restore a purchase. If your subscription ends, you can keep using SpeakGOAT on the free plan, which has daily limits.

Do I need to be alone to use it?

You need to be somewhere you're happy to talk. Headphones and a normal speaking voice are enough. No classroom, no partner, no one waiting for you.

What are the translations in?

Spanish, Hebrew and Brazilian Portuguese, on every line, tap to show.

Why not just listen to more English?

Listening trains your ear. Shadowing trains your mouth. That gap is why you understand everything and still freeze.

Early access

Say it like
the GOAT.

Ten minutes a day. Four dialogues to start: 45 lines, A2 to B2, US accents, with Spanish, Hebrew and Brazilian Portuguese translations. Tell us where to send the app.

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