Shadowing Shawn Achor
The Happy Secret to Better Work — Very fast and very funny. A challenge for advanced learners who want to keep up with real speed.
- Level: B2–C1
- Accent: American
- Length: 12 min · 162 lines to practise
- Timing: Sada measures how far behind the speaker you are on every line
Shawn Achor — The Happy Secret to Better WorkStart from the beginning
The first lines: press any line to practise it
- 0:15 When I was seven years old and my sister was just five years old, we were playing on top of a bunk bed.
- 0:21 I was two years older than my sister at the time -- I mean, I'm two years older than her now --
- 0:26 but at the time it meant she had to do everything that I wanted to do,
- 0:29 and I wanted to play war.
- 0:31 So we were up on top of our bunk beds.
- 0:33 And on one side of the bunk bed, I had put out all of my G.I. Joe soldiers and weaponry.
- 0:38 And on the other side were all my sister's My Little Ponies ready for a cavalry charge.
- 0:42 There are differing accounts of what actually happened that afternoon, but since my sister is not here with us today, let me tell you the true story --
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.