Mimic: Shadowing and Dictation

Practice English speaking and improve your pronunciation with shadowing. Mimic splits real videos into sentences: you listen, repeat, and get a pronunciation score for every word, so you know exactly what to fix.

Pick a video in the app or paste a YouTube link, and Mimic turns it into English listening, shadowing and dictation practice, with subtitles translated into your own language. You can also learn Spanish, French, Japanese or Chinese.

🗣️ ENGLISH SHADOWING WITH WORD-BY-WORD SCORES
• Listen to a line, say it back, and get your pronunciation score instantly
• Every word turns green, amber or red, so you see exactly what to fix
• Try again until every word is green, then move to the next line
• Practice your weak words one by one
• Improve your accent, intonation, rhythm and speaking fluency

✍️ ENGLISH DICTATION PRACTICE
• Type what you hear, sentence by sentence
• Easy, Normal and Hard levels, from filling a few blanks to free typing
• Each dictation shows the words you missed or misspelled
• Daily dictation trains your ear for fast, natural English

🎧 LISTENING PRACTICE WITH BILINGUAL SUBTITLES
• Karaoke-style subtitles follow the video, one full sentence per line
• See each line translated into your native language (50+ languages)
• Slow any line down to 0.5× or speed it up to 2×
• Loop a sentence until you catch every word

✨ AI EXPLAIN: GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY AND SLANG
• Tap any line for a breakdown in your own language
• Translation, key vocabulary, grammar points and what to learn next
• Save explanations to your Notes and review them anytime

🤖 AI ENGLISH TUTOR
• Ask your AI tutor what a phrase really means, or when to use it
• It knows the video and the line you are practicing
• Open it from its own tab or right from the practice screen

📖 TAP-TO-LOOK-UP DICTIONARY
• Tap any word in the subtitles to see what it means
• Save words to build your own vocabulary list

🔥 A DAILY SPEAKING HABIT
• Set a daily shadowing goal and keep your streak going
• Save videos to your library and playlists
• Hand-picked videos for every level, from beginner to advanced

WHAT IS SHADOWING?
Shadowing is a technique interpreters and polyglots use to improve speaking and pronunciation: you listen to a native speaker and repeat right after them, copying their sounds, stress and rhythm. It trains your listening and speaking at the same time. Mimic adds the missing piece, feedback, so you know whether you really said it right.

WHO IS MIMIC FOR?
✓ Learners who understand English but freeze when they speak
✓ Students preparing for IELTS speaking, TOEFL or TOEIC, or for DELE, DELF, JLPT and HSK
✓ Anyone working on clearer English pronunciation and a more natural accent
✓ People who would rather learn from vlogs, podcasts, talks and interviews than from textbooks

LANGUAGES
Learn: English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified)
Translations and AI explanations: 50+ native languages

MIMIC PRO
Mimic is free to use with daily limits. Mimic Pro gives you:
• No ads
• Unlimited shadowing practice
• Unlimited AI explanations and AI tutor replies
Choose monthly, yearly, or a one-time lifetime purchase.

Good to know: Mimic works with videos that have subtitles (captions) in the language you are learning. Speech scoring works best in a quiet place. Mimic is not affiliated with or endorsed by YouTube or Google.

QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK?
Found a bug or have an idea? Email us at brightbytelab@gmail.com and we'll get back to you.

Recent changes:
Mimic — first release!
• Shadowing: speak along with real videos, word-by-word feedback
• Dictation: type what you hear to train your ear
• Listen along with the transcript, loop or slow any line
• AI Explain: vocabulary & grammar in your language
• Tap a word to see its meaning
• Learn English, Spanish, French, Japanese or Chinese
• Now in English, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Spanish, Indonesian, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Turkish & Chinese
Questions? brightbytelab@gmail.com