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Shadowing Josh Kaufman

The First 20 Hours — How to Learn Anything — How to get good at any skill in 20 hours — including the language you are shadowing. Clear and practical.

  • Level: B1
  • Accent: American
  • Length: 19 min · 242 lines to practise
  • Timing: Sada measures how far behind the speaker you are on every line
Josh Kaufman — The First 20 Hours — How to Learn AnythingStart from the beginning

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  1. 0:00 Transcriber: Gustavo Rocha Reviewer: Marssi Draw
  2. 0:09 Hi everyone.
  3. 0:11 Two year ago, my life changed forever.
  4. 0:16 My wife Kelsey and I welcomed our daughter Lela into the world.
  5. 0:23 Now, becoming a parent is an amazing experience.
  6. 0:27 Your whole world changes over night.
  7. 0:30 And all of your priorities change immediately.
  8. 0:33 So fast that it makes it really difficult to process sometimes.

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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