Shadowing Celeste Headlee
10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation — A radio host’s perfectly clear voice, and advice you can use in English conversations right away.
- Level: B1
- Accent: American
- Length: 12 min · 160 lines to practise
- Timing: Sada measures how far behind the speaker you are on every line
Celeste Headlee — 10 Ways to Have a Better ConversationStart from the beginning
The first lines: press any line to practise it
- 0:12 All right, I want to see a show of hands:
- 0:14 how many of you have unfriended someone on Facebook because they said something offensive about politics or religion,
- 0:21 childcare, food?
- 0:25 And how many of you know at least one person that you avoid because you just don't want to talk to them?
- 0:32 You know, it used to be that in order to have a polite conversation,
- 0:36 we just had to follow the advice of Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady": Stick to the weather and your health.
- 0:41 But these days, with climate change and anti-vaxxing, those subjects -- are not safe either.
- 0:47 So this world that we live in,
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.