Shadowing Tim Urban
Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator — A funny, relaxed talk about the "instant gratification monkey". Natural conversational pace with lots of everyday expressions.
- Level: B1–B2
- Accent: American
- Length: 14 min · 171 lines to practise
- Timing: Sada measures how far behind the speaker you are on every line
Tim Urban — Inside the Mind of a Master ProcrastinatorStart from the beginning
The first lines: press any line to practise it
- 0:12 So in college, I was a government major, which means I had to write a lot of papers.
- 0:19 Now, when a normal student writes a paper, they might spread the work out a little like this.
- 0:23 So, you know --
- 0:26 you get started maybe a little slowly, but you get enough done in the first week that, with some heavier days later on, everything gets done, things stay civil.
- 0:35 And I would want to do that like that.
- 0:38 That would be the plan.
- 0:39 I would have it all ready to go, but then, actually, the paper would come along, and then I would kind of do this.
- 0:48 And that would happen every single paper.
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.