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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

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  1. 0:00 Transcriber: Translate TED Reviewer: Allam Zedan
  2. 0:10 The people in the back, can you hear me clearly?
  3. 0:13 OK, good.
  4. 0:15 Have you ever held a question in mind
  5. 0:19 for so long that it becomes part of how you think?
  6. 0:25 Maybe even part of who you are as a person?
  7. 0:28 Well I've had a question in my mind for many, many years
  8. 0:32 and that is: How can you speed up learning?

How to practise this talk

  1. Press a line from the list; it opens in Sada ready to go.
  2. Listen once, then press Record and say it with the speaker (Shadow) or after them (Repeat).
  3. Open Compare to see every word, and go again until they are all green.
  4. Finish one minute a day, and Sada shows your first try against your latest.

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