adrs
Member
- Joined
- May 11, 2009
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Spanish
- Home Country
- Spain
- Current Location
- Spain
Hi all!
I've recorded myself reading a piece of a text called "Symplify your life", which you can read below.
It would be very grateful, if you, native english speakers, could just have a look at it, and tell me how I sound speaking in English.
Thanks so much.
Here's the link: http://www.goear.com/listen/f5b346d/adrs1-adrs1
And here goes the text:
Years ago, a cigarette commercial asked if you were smoking more, but enjoying it less. That describes the way many of us live today. We are doing more, but enjoying it less. And when that doesn't work, we compound the problem. In our frantic search for satisfaction, we try stuffing still more into our days, never realizing that we are taking the wrong approach.
The truth is simple, so simple it is hard to believe. Satisfaction lies with less, not with more. Yet, we pursue the myth that this thing, or that activity, will somehow provide the satisfaction we so desperately seek. C.B Piper, in this devastating book, "The Harried Leisure Class", described the futility of pursuing more. His research found that as income rose, people bought more things to occupy their leisure time. But, ironically, the more things they bought, the less they valued any of them. That was more than twenty years ago, and his prediction seems more accurate every year.
I've recorded myself reading a piece of a text called "Symplify your life", which you can read below.
It would be very grateful, if you, native english speakers, could just have a look at it, and tell me how I sound speaking in English.
Thanks so much.
Here's the link: http://www.goear.com/listen/f5b346d/adrs1-adrs1
And here goes the text:
Years ago, a cigarette commercial asked if you were smoking more, but enjoying it less. That describes the way many of us live today. We are doing more, but enjoying it less. And when that doesn't work, we compound the problem. In our frantic search for satisfaction, we try stuffing still more into our days, never realizing that we are taking the wrong approach.
The truth is simple, so simple it is hard to believe. Satisfaction lies with less, not with more. Yet, we pursue the myth that this thing, or that activity, will somehow provide the satisfaction we so desperately seek. C.B Piper, in this devastating book, "The Harried Leisure Class", described the futility of pursuing more. His research found that as income rose, people bought more things to occupy their leisure time. But, ironically, the more things they bought, the less they valued any of them. That was more than twenty years ago, and his prediction seems more accurate every year.
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