Conversational English

I had been studying English using mostly CNN articles and audio since my entrance to the university was promised, that was around December, and other classmates had still entrance exam, I of course, couldn't showoff that I've done. I had so much free time, I went to driving school and also I started crash course of English. The method I used was basically effective. However, there was some drawbacks in retrospect.
The method is "Shadowing" which learners follow the audio without looking script, just use your ears and mouth. This is really hard for beginner, but once you get used to, you'll find it is really effective. Being able to shadow means you can listen and understand the script at that rate of speed, and also your mouth is able to move at that speed. Notice that it doesn't mean you can speak. But in order to speak a lot, you first have to make your mouth available to the native speed. After that, you can have a lot of practice to say something you want to tell.
But, I recently noticed that using CNN was a little not practical to me. Because the content is one-sided, only anchor is speaking, it is a speech and not conversation. In practical point of view, what I have to get is mostly conversational English, of course I also speech English, but I think this element will be naturally followed after getting conversational English. Not the other way around. Therefore, I recently started using script that is conversation, so that I can learn how to ask and response, and also some casual spoken expressions. And I also found that it is so much easier to memorize the script using these materials. This is because of the nature of human, interactive story is easily seep into the memory, because that is a key of survival of human.