Shadowing Dan Pink
The Puzzle of Motivation — A lawyer-style argument, delivered with energy — clear structure and strong stress on key words.
- Level: B2
- Accent: American
- Length: 19 min · 257 lines to practise
- Timing: Sada measures how far behind the speaker you are on every line
Dan Pink — The Puzzle of MotivationStart from the beginning
The first lines: press any line to practise it
- 0:13 I need to make a confession at the outset here.
- 0:15 A little over 20 years ago, I did something that I regret,
- 0:21 something that I'm not particularly proud of.
- 0:25 Something that, in many ways, I wish no one would ever know, but here I feel kind of obliged to reveal.
- 0:34 In the late 1980s, in a moment of youthful indiscretion, I went to law school.
- 0:45 In America, law is a professional degree: after your university degree, you go on to law school.
- 0:50 When I got to law school, I didn't do very well.
- 0:55 To put it mildly, I didn't do very well.
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.