Pronunciation practice
Practice pronunciation with sentences that are actually yours
Most shadowing practice hands you someone else's script. Here, anything that ends up in your journal — a line you wrote, a translation you pasted in, text pulled from a photo, a page you saved with the extension, or what the cat said back to you — can become something to shadow instead.
Shadow sentences from your own life, not a stranger's script
Most pronunciation practice hands you a script somebody else wrote for nobody in particular — a stranger's sentence about a stranger's trip to the airport. It has nothing to do with what you actually said, or heard back, five minutes ago.
LingoMeow closes that gap by pulling the practice material from your own journal — a line you wrote, a translation you pasted in, a caption pulled from a photo, a page you saved with the extension, or something the cat said back to you. You choose what's worth practising; there's no fixed syllabus deciding it for you. Turn that exact sentence into audio, and shadow it at your own pace.
What a session looks like
- Turn a line into audio. Pick a voice, generate it, and it's ready to play back.
- Swap which side plays first. If the line has a translation, choose whether you hear the language you're learning or your own first — whichever order makes it easier to follow along.
- Adjust the pace. Speed, voice, and the gap between repeats are all yours to tune in settings, so the rhythm suits the sentence, not the other way round.
- Go full screen when you want the whole screen for it, with nothing else competing for attention.
Making a new recording costs a credit. Listening to one you already made never does.
The Vinyl Shelf
Every piece of audio you generate lands on your Vinyl Shelf — a running record of everything you've turned into sound. Open it any time, pick something, and play it back, download it, or clear out what you don't need. Nothing here is graded or timed; it's just where the recordings wait for you.
Languages you can shadow
English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Chinese — Simplified or Traditional. Whatever language a line is written in, that's the voice it plays back in.
Also in the same book
The lines you shadow come from the same journal and the same chat — nothing here is a separate exercise bank. Write a page, chat with the cat, or look a word up, and any of it can end up as something to shadow next.
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What does "shadowing" mean here?
Shadowing is reading or speaking along with an audio recording, right as it plays, to pick up the rhythm and sound of a language rather than just its spelling. LingoMeow turns a real line from your journal into audio — something you wrote, translated, pulled from a photo, or saved from the web — so you're shadowing something that actually came up, not a textbook's.
Where does the audio come from?
Almost any note in your journal can become audio with a tap: something you typed, a translation you pasted in, text lifted from a photo, or a page you saved with the browser extension. A conversation with the cat works too, once you've turned it into a listening passage. Pick a voice, generate it, and it's ready to play, slow down, or repeat.
What if the line has a translation too?
You can swap which side plays first — the line you wrote, or its translation — whichever order makes shadowing easier for that sentence.
Is it free?
Yes. Generating audio uses one credit; the free plan gives you one a day, and anything you've already made stays on your Vinyl Shelf to replay for free, as many times as you like. Pro adds ten downloads a day, Max twenty, for taking the audio with you.
Which languages can I shadow?
English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Chinese — Simplified or Traditional. Eleven in all, following whatever language your line is written in.