Shadowing Ivan Joseph
The Skill of Self Confidence — A sports coach on building confidence — energetic, clear and motivating.
- Level: B1
- Accent: Canadian
- Length: 13 min · 218 lines to practise
- Timing: Sada measures how far behind the speaker you are on every line
Ivan Joseph — The Skill of Self ConfidenceStart from the beginning
The first lines: press any line to practise it
- 0:00 Transcriber: Jaime Ochoa Reviewer: Elisabeth Buffard
- 0:06 In my past life as a soccer coach,
- 0:08 once you won a national championship, everyone wants to come play for you.
- 0:12 Really not true.
- 0:13 Once you paid them $ 25,000 a year in scholarships, everybody wants to come play for you.
- 0:18 And parents would always come to me and they'd say: "Okay, my son or my daughter wants to come play at your university, what is it that we have to do?
- 0:26 You know, what are you looking for?"
- 0:27 And being the Socratic professor that I am, I say, well, what does your son or daughter do?
How to practise this talk
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- 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.