Shadowing Elizabeth Gilbert
Your Elusive Creative Genius — A writer’s warm, flowing storytelling — long sentences to practise breath and rhythm.
- Level: B2
- Accent: American
- Length: 19 min · 241 lines to practise
- Timing: Sada measures how far behind the speaker you are on every line
Elizabeth Gilbert — Your Elusive Creative GeniusStart from the beginning
The first lines: press any line to practise it
- 0:13 I am a writer.
- 0:14 Writing books is my profession but it's more than that, of course.
- 0:18 It is also my great lifelong love and fascination.
- 0:22 And I don't expect that that's ever going to change.
- 0:25 But, that said, something kind of peculiar has happened recently in my life and in my career,
- 0:32 which has caused me to have to recalibrate my whole relationship with this work.
- 0:37 And the peculiar thing is that I recently wrote this book,
- 0:40 this memoir called "Eat, Pray, Love" which, decidedly unlike any of my previous books,
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.