Shadowing Daniel Levitin
How to Stay Calm When You Know You’ll Be Stressed — Practical advice in calm, clear speech — a good first TED talk to shadow.
- Level: B1
- Accent: North American
- Length: 12 min · 148 lines to practise
- Timing: Sada measures how far behind the speaker you are on every line
Daniel Levitin — How to Stay Calm When You Know You’ll Be StressedStart from the beginning
The first lines: press any line to practise it
- 0:13 A few years ago, I broke into my own house.
- 0:16 I had just driven home, it was around midnight in the dead of Montreal winter, I had been visiting my friend, Jeff, across town,
- 0:23 and the thermometer on the front porch read minus 40 degrees -- and don't bother asking if that's Celsius or Fahrenheit,
- 0:30 minus 40 is where the two scales meet -- it was very cold.
- 0:34 And as I stood on the front porch fumbling in my pockets, I found I didn't have my keys.
- 0:40 In fact, I could see them through the window, lying on the dining room table where I had left them.
- 0:45 So I quickly ran around and tried all the other doors and windows, and they were locked tight.
- 0:50 I thought about calling a locksmith -- at least I had my cellphone,
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.