Shadowing Chris Lonsdale
How to Learn Any Language in Six Months — Five principles for learning a language fast, and one of them is exactly what shadowing trains.
- Level: B1
- Accent: New Zealand
- Length: 18 min · 227 lines to practise
- Timing: Sada measures how far behind the speaker you are on every line
Chris Lonsdale — How to Learn Any Language in Six MonthsStart from the beginning
The first lines: press any line to practise it
- 0:00 Transcriber: Translate TED Reviewer: Allam Zedan
- 0:10 The people in the back, can you hear me clearly?
- 0:13 OK, good.
- 0:15 Have you ever held a question in mind
- 0:19 for so long that it becomes part of how you think?
- 0:25 Maybe even part of who you are as a person?
- 0:28 Well I've had a question in my mind for many, many years
- 0:32 and that is: How can you speed up learning?
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.