It really upsets me that I have to explain myself regarding my goal but here is my obligatory explanation: “I know sounding like a native is almost impossible and it is something you shouldn’t place a huge amount of focus on and I am willing to settle for just ‘a very good’ accent if I have tried and tried and I can’t reach a native accent, but I would still like to get as close as to native as possible. It is not a crime to work on my accent especially given the fact that I am making significant progress in more important parts of language learning such as listening, speaking, writing, etc.”

Moving on.

I want to better my pronunciation skills and I thought of shadowing native content.…