Shadowing Susan Cain
The Power of Introverts — Gentle, measured speech — a comfortable talk if fast speakers overwhelm you.
- Level: B2
- Accent: American
- Length: 19 min · 224 lines to practise
- Timing: Sada measures how far behind the speaker you are on every line
Susan Cain — The Power of IntrovertsStart from the beginning
The first lines: press any line to practise it
- 0:15 When I was nine years old, I went off to summer camp for the first time.
- 0:19 And my mother packed me a suitcase full of books, which to me seemed like a perfectly natural thing to do.
- 0:25 Because in my family, reading was the primary group activity.
- 0:30 And this might sound antisocial to you, but for us it was really just a different way of being social.
- 0:35 You have the animal warmth of your family sitting right next to you, but you are also free to go roaming around the adventureland inside your own mind.
- 0:43 And I had this idea that camp was going to be just like this, but better.
- 0:50 I had a vision of 10 girls sitting in a cabin cozily reading books in their matching nightgowns.
- 0:57 Camp was more like a keg party without any alcohol.
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.