Shadowing Brené Brown
The Power of Vulnerability — Storytelling with humour and feeling — great for copying natural intonation and pauses.
- Level: B2
- Accent: American (Texan)
- Length: 21 min · 270 lines to practise
- Timing: Sada measures how far behind the speaker you are on every line
Brené Brown — The Power of VulnerabilityStart from the beginning
The first lines: press any line to practise it
- 0:16 So, I'll start with this: a couple years ago, an event planner called me because I was going to do a speaking event.
- 0:22 And she called, and she said, "I'm really struggling with how to write about you on the little flyer."
- 0:27 And I thought, "Well, what's the struggle?"
- 0:30 And she said, "Well, I saw you speak, and I'm going to call you a researcher, I think,
- 0:34 but I'm afraid if I call you a researcher, no one will come, because they'll think you're boring and irrelevant."
- 0:41 And I was like, "Okay."
- 0:42 And she said, "But the thing I liked about your talk is you're a storyteller.
- 0:46 So I think what I'll do is just call you a storyteller."
How to practise this talk
- Press a line from the list; it opens in Sada ready to go.
- Listen once, then press Record and say it with the speaker (Shadow) or after them (Repeat).
- Open Compare to see every word, and go again until they are all green.
- Finish one minute a day, and Sada shows your first try against your latest.