Shadowing Patrick Winston (MIT)
How to Speak — A legendary MIT lecture on speaking and presenting. An hour long — shadow it one minute a day.
- Level: C1
- Accent: American
- Length: 64 min · 761 lines to practise
- Timing: Sada measures how far behind the speaker you are on every line
Patrick Winston (MIT) — How to SpeakStart from the beginning
The first lines: press any line to practise it
- 0:19 PATRICK WINSTON: The Uniform Code of Military Justice
- 0:23 specifies court martial for any officer who sends a soldier into battle without a weapon.
- 0:30 There ought to be a similar protection for students because students shouldn't go out into life without the ability to communicate,
- 0:38 and that's because your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak,
- 0:43 your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas, in that order.
- 0:50 I know that I can be successful in this because the quality of communication,
- 0:57 your speaking, your writing, is largely determined by this formula.
- 1:01 It's a matter of how much knowledge you have, how much you practice with that knowledge,
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.