Pratique du Shadowing: A Dictionary of Love - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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In our worst moments in couples, we tend to assume that our problems are unfixable, that we simply don't get on, that we're the wrong sort of people to be together.
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What we tend not to do is imagine that we have a problem of dictionaries, that our fundamental problem is that our partner and ourselves are,
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beneath the surface, following dictionary definitions that don't align.
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We're squabbling because we don't understand what the same things mean for each one of us,
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because we're using the same words and terms without realizing that each of us has an entirely different understanding of their natures.
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We imagine, as we try to live with someone else, that there isn't a gap in the way that we both define concepts like, for example, delays in answering a message,
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or leaving the bathroom messy, or spending time with friends.
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It simply doesn't occur to us, who have been wielding certain phrases and concepts one way since early adolescence,
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that we might have encountered someone who sees them very differently.
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It appears self-evident to us that a messy bathroom means a bathroom whose owner has shown us no respect,
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who is vicious, unkind, uncaring and out to harm us.
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It's totally natural, as natural as our understanding of the word chair or glass, class, that spending time with friends means a chance to rejuvenate,
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to take the pressure off a couple and achieve some necessary distance before returning to coziness once more.
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What we're forgetting in all this is the noble and arcane discipline of etymology,
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that is, the history and genealogy of language.
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It's the people we call etymologists who will carefully trace where a given word comes from.
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They will tell us, for example, that window comes from the old Norse word vindauga,
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meaning wind-eye, or that clue comes from the Greek clothos, meaning ball of thread, after that thread that Ariadne gave Theseus to escape the labyrinth.
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Standard etymology is all very well, but what we need, as much if not more of, is a form of emotional etymology,
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that is, an effort to trace back words and terms to their sources in the lives of lovers.
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Couples need to see that they're fighting very often simply because they are using the same terms in different ways.
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A habit of leaving a bathroom in a mess may not, in fact, in one's own dictionary, stem from any kind of desire to harm.
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Maybe it just emerged from a wish to escape a punishing parental figure, who while emotionally very cold, placed undue and unwelcome emphasis on etiquette and order.
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Just as in a neighbouring dictionary, the very same phrase might stand for shallowness and selfishness, for imitating the behaviour of a despised stepparent.
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It might be an emblem of disdain and cruelty.
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All this points to what we should do in our arguments.
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Before we imagine what our partner means, before we settle on an explanation that involves insult and a desire to harm,
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we should always take care to remember dictionaries.
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We should pause our fights to wonder if our partner isn't simply mad or evil, they may just have a different dictionary definition in mind.
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We need to do one another the favour of some dictionary work.
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We should ask one another what a term means and then analyse how it came to have this meaning for them.
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We may not be beyond comprehension at all.
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We may not need to split up.
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We just need to understand what is in our respective dictionaries and why.
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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon
Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau C1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « A Dictionary of Love ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : dictionary, word, bathroom, simply, term. Cette vidéo contient 34 phrases et 598 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 3:42. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 162 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. Seuls 80 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc exigeant.
Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo
Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| dictionary nom | /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/ | dictionnaire, dico |
| etymology nom | /ˌɛtəˈmɑləd͡ʒi/ | étymologie |
| messy adjectif | /ˈmɛsi/ | désordonné, désorganisé |
| adolescence nom | /ˌædəˈlɛsəns/ | adolescence |
| arcane adjectif | /ɑɹˈkeɪn/ | arcane |
| disdain nom | /dɪsˈdeɪn/ | dédain, mépris |
| etiquette nom | /ˈɛt.ɪˌkɛt/ | étiquette |
| etymologist nom | étymologiste, étymologue | |
| genealogy nom | /ˌd͡ʒiniˈɑlədʒi/ | généalogie |
| imitate verbe | /ˈɪmɪteɪt/ | imiter |
| labyrinth nom | /ˈlæb.ə.ɹɪnθ/ | labyrinthe |
| rejuvenate verbe | /ɹɪˈd͡ʒuːvəneɪt/ | rajeunir |
| selfishness nom | /ˈsɛl.fɪʃ.nəs/ | égocentrisme, égoïsme |
| shallowness nom | superficialité | |
| squabble nom | /ˈskwɑːbəl/ | dispute, guéguerre |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 11 contractions et formes réduites, comme we're, don't, isn't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, selfishness /ˈsɛl.fɪʃ.nəs/, comprehension /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/, vicious /ˈvɪʃəs/, punish /ˈpʌnɪʃ/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, etymology /ˌɛtəˈmɑləd͡ʒi/, adolescence /ˌædəˈlɛsəns/, genealogy /ˌd͡ʒiniˈɑlədʒi/, rejuvenate /ɹɪˈd͡ʒuːvəneɪt/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: etymology /ˌɛtəˈmɑləd͡ʒi/, genealogy /ˌd͡ʒiniˈɑlədʒi/, rejuvenate /ɹɪˈd͡ʒuːvəneɪt/, emerge /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒ/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, arcane /ɑɹˈkeɪn/, labyrinth /ˈlæb.ə.ɹɪnθ/, rejuvenate /ɹɪˈd͡ʒuːvəneɪt/, comprehension /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/
Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo
- Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
- Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
- Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme dictionary, etymology, messy.
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.