Mimic was designed to assist teachers and students by augmenting classroom and textbook ESL training via hours of casual conversation practice with native speakers available for free on any mobile phone. To become conversationally fluent, students must learn and become comfortable with the fundamental sounds and rhythms of a foreign language, which cannot be easily achieved by textbooks alone.
Mimic is the next best thing to a language immersion program. With the Mimic program, students can listen to the speakers and imitate what they say, exaggerating the sounds as they improve their prosody and automaticity of English. Users can choose to explore videos by select actors or subject matter, such as Future Events, General Conversation, Greetings/Introductions, Idiomatic Expressions, Likes/Dislikes, Making Plans, Past Events, Requesting Help or Uncertain Events.
Students should be encouraged to practice at their own pace and in whatever style feels comfortable to them, but emphasis should be on finding quiet time to listen and mimic a lot. Prosodic conformance and good conversation skills will only come from hours of exposure to the English language and Mimic is the ideal product for making it easy, fun and free. “With Mimic, we wanted to create a product that was both engaging and entertaining, that could teach complex grammar and expressions in a simple, easy-to-grasp manner that didn’t feel like you were studying,” says Wayne Clifford, CEO & Founder.
