Pratique du Shadowing: Asking 70 Year Olds About Their Biggest Regrets in Life - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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When you think on your life at 84, what is a big mistake that you made or a big regret you have that taught you a very valuable lesson?
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Everybody thinks when they're young you get a second chance, but there is no second chances.
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Don't be stupid.
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Don't smoke, don't smoke, don't smoke.
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I have thought a lot about that since my diagnosis.
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I was going to die in three months.
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I could go on forever on the mistakes I made in my life.
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I haven't really thought about what my dreams are.
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That's a mistake.
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I should have put more thinking, more energy, more plan to realize my dreams.
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You can't worry about what other people have, what other people say, what other people think, because you're in charge.
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In this video, I'll be in Montreal, Canada, asking strangers in their 60s, 70s and 80s, some of the oldest and wisest people on the planet, about their biggest regrets in life,
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and their best piece of life advice for their younger selves.
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How old are you?
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I'm 66.
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I will turn 67 in September.
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What does it feel like to be 66 turning 67?
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The alternative was to be dead.
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I was diagnosed with lung cancer two years ago.
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Stage 4, which is serious.
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Like, I was going to die in three months.
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It was the end of the world.
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I started fixing things and throwing away useless things and cleaning my house.
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But about three, six, nine months passed and I didn't die.
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In the meantime, many people that I know have died.
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So now if I have three months, six months, I don't know.
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But every day it's a wonderful experience again.
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Life is beautiful.
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Life is wonderful to be lived and I'm so grateful to be able to keep going a little bit more.
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Everything can change, so don't wait until something arrives before enjoying your life and being grateful and love people around you.
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Is there a mistake that you made or a regret that you had won?
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I have thought a lot about that since my diagnosis.
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I think the most, the biggest mistake is not saying to my parents more frequently that I love them.
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Because they are dead now.
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And I think that it could be better if I had said more times, I love you dad, I love you mom.
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What do you think young people in general might be taking for granted, might not be realizing is as important as it really is?
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Relationships and just thinking that you have tomorrow, you know?
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It doesn't matter what you do today.
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It's just, it's nothing is long term with the younger people.
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Everybody thinks when they're young you get a second chance, but there is no second chances.
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Just scary to be 85, to know that you don't have that many more years in front of you, so you've got to make the best of it.
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You want to do more now than before, because before you had all the time in the world, and now you don't.
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My husband recently passed away, so I'm on my own, although I have my kids around me.
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How long were you together with your husband for?
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Oh my god, we would have been married 60 odd years.
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Wow.
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I got married when I was 20.
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20?
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20. Oh my god.
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20 years old.
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Yeah?
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Yeah, he passed away 5 years ago.
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You were married for 60 years?
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Yeah.
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What would be your advice for finding that?
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Like what does that person look like or what do they have?
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I don't know, we just, we were very different.
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We just clicked.
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We were always on the same page.
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He was a very good boy, and he was very calm.
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We were just easy.
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What does it feel like to be 75?
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Old.
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I was a singles competitive tennis player.
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Now I haven't been on the court for almost two years, because the body's not permitting me.
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I'm still optimistically, maybe delusional, but hoping that I'm not quite done.
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Something to get used to, and a bit of a hole in my life.
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And I do occasionally dream about playing tennis still.
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When you look back on your life at this point, is there a mistake you made or a regret that you have
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that at the time it taught you a very valuable lesson?
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I could go on forever on the mistakes, specifically business mistakes, I made in my life.
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And I can only give you a handful of the things I did right.
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In tennis, if I played somebody and won, I may or may not remember them or the match.
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If I played somebody and lost, I'll remember them and I'll remember the match very well.
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Absolutely.
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So we were saying the lesson is the mistakes are good.
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The mistakes are good and not to dwell on them and appreciate.
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Yeah.
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Appreciating is difficult.
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Appreciating what you have and being fairly content with it.
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I think you need to make those mistakes to appreciate when the good stuff happens, right?
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Absolutely.
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Yes, very much so.
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Honestly, that interview with the woman who was talking about having lung cancer, She said something that was, I think, so important for everybody here.
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Don't wait until something terrible happens to you.
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It doesn't have to be cancer, but an injury, a breakup, personal loss.
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Oftentimes, we just take life for granted until something big happens.
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And then all of a sudden, a lot of things that we've put off become super important to us.
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And like she said, the day she found out the diagnosis, she went home.
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She started talking to certain friends.
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She started cleaning up her house she started doing things she
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didn't usually do why don't you do those things every day why don't you go to a park
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and spend more time outside every single day um yeah biggest lesson
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that i think i've taken away
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so far from this video is don't put things off
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because you never know when something might happen what is one thing
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that when you were younger you put a lot of importance on
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and as you you got older you realized wasn't worth worrying about?
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Mmm.
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If I always wanted to be a scientist, and I was, but you know, in the end, it doesn't really make much difference.
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How come?
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Why do you say this?
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Well, you get to be well known, but it's just for a short while, and then things move on,
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and you realize it's just part of life.
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I see you're doing a workout in the park.
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Yes.
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Here.
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Do you do this a lot?
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Right now I'm doing at least, you know, like twice or three times a week.
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It's a kind of a secret of being in a good mood.
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It's one of the pillars of the well-being.
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Yeah.
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Absolutely.
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When you look back on your life so far, what's a big mistake that you made?
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Or a big regret you have that at the time it taught you a valuable lesson?
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I would say that I haven't really thought about what my dreams are.
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That's a mistake, you know, like I should have put more thinking, more energy more plan to realize my dreams
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because sometimes we think oh it's gonna do that later that's a regret
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that I have but it's not too late
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when did you switch well recently like maybe around
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when I was 50 now you realize you know like probably half of your life
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so it's time to you know like to not just think about the serious stuff
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but having fun
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if you could give advice to a young person based on
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what you just said what would what's your advice to them
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yeah like at least uh you know like list your dream
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make one dream a year at least yeah what is one thing
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that when you were younger you put a lot of importance on maybe something you worried a lot about
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and as you got older you realized it wasn't worth worrying about beauty beauty yeah
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you think
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that it's wow wonderful you have to take care you have
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to you have to take care of your health yeah your relationships your person of course
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but beauty is um is not
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that important see young girls very very worried doing things i said oh darling you're beautiful now
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so enjoy it there's a lot of pressure to take care of beauty
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and that's it's useless what's your advice how do you appreciate
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what you look like without needing the oh my goodness it's hard to say you need to be interested in important things,
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in relationships, in your development, intellectual development, in your personal development, your qualities as a person.
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Yeah, but you don't think you're not beautiful now.
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It's just that your perception of beauty is different.
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Has changed, yeah.
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Well, I mean, I'm okay.
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It's not important.
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I feel loved.
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That's more important than feel beautiful and not being loved.
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If you could give one piece of advice to your 25-year-old self, what comes to mind?
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What would you say to her?
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I would never say, don't take life seriously.
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Take it seriously.
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Don't listen to what other people are doing and saying and what their life is like.
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And don't wish you had that or you were like that
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or you had a relationship like this or you wish you had more money
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or you wish you had a better job or you wish my life circumstances were different, because you're in charge.
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You can't worry about what other people have, what other people say, what other people think.
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Just be your best self.
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Be a good person.
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I think once you're a good person, it comes back to you tenfold.
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It really does.
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Go with what your passions are.
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Do what you want to do.
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Just go for it.
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Enjoy the ride as much as possible.
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The journey is much more fun and greater than the destination.
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Stop smoking.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, don't smoke, don't be stupid, don't smoke, don't smoke, don't smoke.
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I smoked for a short period of time, and the doctor said that this kind of tumor is not related to cigarettes.
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But still, I should say, don't start this stupid thing.
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Yeah.
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When you look at young people today, where do you think they might be going wrong in life?
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Well, I think they're doing just fine.
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I think most people are doing just fine.
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It's never easy, but you know, I think young people are doing pretty well.
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I'm impressed.
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What impresses you about them?
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Well, it's much more difficult than it used to be to make your way in the world, right?
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There's a lot more people and the opportunities aren't there.
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So, but people still thrive.
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Young people, most of the world doesn't have an option they have to go out
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and do whatever they can do to bring in enough money to survive, pay the rent, pay food,
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etc. If you're fortunate to have an option and don't need the money desperately, then my advice is find something you really enjoy.
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And what's the old adage, if you like your work, you never have to really work a day in your life.
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Absolutely.
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Thank you so much for watching this video.
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If you enjoy it, please make sure to subscribe
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and stay tuned for many more life advice videos coming every single week on this channel.
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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon
Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « Asking 70 Year Olds About Their Biggest Regrets in Life ». Cette vidéo contient 185 phrases et 1929 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 11:07. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 173 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. 88 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc facile à suivre.
Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo
Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| diagnosis nom | /daɪəɡˈnəʊsɪs/ | diagnostic, diagnose |
| impress verbe | /ɪmˈpɹɛs/ | impressionner |
| lung nom | /ˈlʌŋ/ | poumon |
| diagnose verbe | /ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/ | diagnostiquer |
| oftentimes adverbe | /ˈɔf.ənˌtaɪmz/ | souventesfois, souventefois |
| optimistically adverbe | /ˌɑptɪˈmɪstɪkli/ | optimistiquement |
| tenfold adjectif | /ˈtɛnfoʊld/ | décuple |
| delusional adjectif | /dɪˈluːʒənəl/ | béjaune, délirant |
| dwell verbe | /dwɛl/ | résider |
| pillar nom | /ˈpɪlɚ/ | pilier, pile |
| breakup nom | /ˈbɹeɪk.ʌp/ | rupture |
| circumstance nom | /ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/ | circonstance |
| thrive verbe | /θɹajv/ | 1&2: croître, s'épanouir |
| tumor nom | /tuː.məɹ/ | tumeur |
| fortunate adjectif | /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt/ | fortuné |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| pass away verbe | décéder, s'éteindre | |
| clean up verbe | nettoyer | |
| find out verbe | découvrir, savoir | |
| go out verbe | sortir | |
| put off verbe | ajourner | |
| take away verbe | /ˌteɪk əˈweɪ/ | retirer |
| throw away verbe | rejeter, jeter |
Des phrases à répéter
Des phrases courtes et complètes de la vidéo, à réutiliser dans la conversation de tous les jours :
- How long were you together with your husband for?
- What would be your advice for finding that?
- Why do you say this?
- Do you do this a lot?
- What would you say to her?
La grammaire de cette vidéo
Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :
| Structure | Dans la vidéo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant | have thought · haven't really thought · have died |
| Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait | was diagnosed · be lived · being loved |
| Superlatifs the -est / the most … — le plus haut ou le plus bas d’un groupe | the oldest · their best · the biggest |
| Verbe + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — les verbes suivis de la forme en -ing | started fixing · keep going · started talking |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 63 contractions et formes réduites, comme don't, I'm, you're. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: delusional /dɪˈluːʒənəl/, perception /pɚˈsɛpʃ(ə)n/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: optimistically /ˌɑptɪˈmɪstɪkli/, delusional /dɪˈluːʒənəl/, desperately /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹət.li/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, intellectual /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: fortunate /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt/, stranger /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/, intellectual /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: impress /ɪmˈpɹɛs/, permitting /pəɹˈmɪ.tɪŋ/, breakup /ˈbɹeɪk.ʌp/, thrive /θɹajv/, tumor /tuː.məɹ/
- /ŋ/ final — sans prononcer de /g/ après: lung /ˈlʌŋ/, permitting /pəɹˈmɪ.tɪŋ/, fixing /ˈfɪksɪŋ/, darling /ˈdɑɹlɪŋ/
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 diagnosis, impress, lung.
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.