Pratique du Shadowing: 28 May 2026 - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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Why is it that babies are so good at learning new languages,

but us as adults really suck?

I'm Peter, a neuroscience student here at Stanford University,

and today I'm going to explain why that's the case.

So a baby's brain is at a maximum level of neuroplasticity.

Neuroplasticity basically just means the brain's ability to adapt and change and learn new information.

And so a baby's brain is at a maximum level of neuroplasticity because,

put simply, it hasn't really had to make a choice about what information it deems necessary

and which information it deems useless and

so it's going to be able to pick up a language super quickly

because it's really able to adapt super quickly

and that's why as we've all noticed

and probably done ourselves a baby is able to literally just pick up a language by being around it

which I find super cool

and the reason this doesn't really work for us as adults is

because our brains have become

so much more efficient we have been able to prune out the information

that we deemed useless and oftentimes that information is learning new language

or the tools it takes to learn a new language because our brain says we've already learned one language,

we're able to communicate, that should be enough, shouldn't it?

But that makes it really difficult when it comes to us trying to learn a new language in adulthood.

So now I'm going to share some neuroscience grounded facts on how to make that process easier.

So I have three main tips for this.

The first one is that exposure is so much more important than rote memorization.

This is because we still have those same circuits we had as a baby to learn our first language through exposure.

They're just a lot less useful than they were back then,

or we're just not as good at those things as we were back then.

We can still tap into those circuits and be able to learn the language a little bit quicker.

And this is also because our brain just loves pattern recognition,

and we're going to get that pattern recognition by learning through exposure.

So you can turn on a podcast,

turn on a movie, something like that,

and that will speed up the process.

The second thing is that you should speak early even when you're not great at it.

This is because our brain learns based on mistakes.

Our brain uses these things called error-based learning circuits.

Our brain kind of creates a pattern for what it thinks it's going to expect from the world,

and it needs to make a mistake to be able to change that.

So if we're learning a language and want to change those patterns as quickly as possible,

we have to make mistakes and tell our brain

that it's doing something wrong so that in the future it can do that thing correctly.

And the final thing is kind of obvious,

but sleep is so important for memory consolidation.

So when you're learning a new language,

you are building new synaptic connections,

and those connections are going to be strengthened when you sleep.

So it's so important you're getting your eight hours all the time,

but especially when you're learning a lot of new information,

because that is how you're actually going to process it and retain it.

So those are my facts about language learning.

I hope this was helpful.

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Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : language, brain, learning, learn, pattern. Cette vidéo contient 51 phrases et 583 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 2:27. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 238 mots par minute : attendez-vous à des liaisons et à des sons réduits. 86 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais ; le reste mérite d’être vu avant de commencer.

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Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

Mot	Prononciation	Sens
exposure nom	/ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/	exposition
recognition nom	/ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/	reconnaissance
adapt verbe	/əˈdæpt/	adapter
helpful adjectif	/ˈhɛlp.fl̩/	utile, serviable
efficient adjectif	/ɪˈfɪʃənt/	efficace
suck verbe	/sʌk/	sucer
correctly adverbe	/kəˈɹɛk(t).li/	correctement
communicate verbe	/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/	communiquer
podcast nom	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	podcast, balado
strengthen verbe	/ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/	renforcer, affermir
consolidation nom	/kənˌsɑləˈdeɪʃən/	consolidation
adulthood nom		âge adulte, majorité
deem verbe	/dim/	estimer, croire
neuroplasticity nom		neuroplasticité
neuroscience nom		neuroscience

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

Mot	Prononciation	Sens
pick up verbe		soulever
speed up verbe	/spiːdˈʌp/	accélérer

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Le locuteur utilise 18 contractions et formes réduites, comme you're, we're, I'm. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

Les sons « sh » et « zh »: exposure /ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, consolidation /kənˌsɑləˈdeɪʃən/, memorization /ˈmem(ə)ɹaɪˌzeɪʃn̩/
Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, consolidation /kənˌsɑləˈdeɪʃən/, memorization /ˈmem(ə)ɹaɪˌzeɪʃn̩/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

/r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: exposure /ɪkˈspəʊ.ʒə(ɹ)/, recognition /ˌɹɛkəɡˈnɪʃ(ə)n/, correctly /kəˈɹɛk(t).li/, retain /ɹəˈteɪn/, strengthen /ˈstɹɛŋ(k)θən/

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Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?

Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.

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