Pratique du Shadowing: Becoming a Podcaster - B2 Listening for High-Intermediate Students - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

Mark, you have a podcast, right?

Yes, I do.

What's your podcast about?

It's called Zen Sammich, but it's sort of about Zen.

But I also, I cast the net pretty wide.

So I talk about a lot of different topics.

Like what?

Well, I've had guests on there from MMA fighters, if you know what an MMA fighter is,

mixed martial arts fighters, to artists and musicians.

I've had a famous photographer, pretty much any kind of career field you can imagine.

How many episodes have you done so far?

Well, I've done about 46 or 47 so far.

Is it hard work to produce one?

it's a lot more work than i thought when i uh when i started the the project of doing a podcast

i thought that it was going to be turning on a microphone

and just recording people talking and that'd be it but there is

so much more to it from sound editing video editing if i

if i record the video of the of an interview uh

to marketing there there's a lot more to it than i

thought how long have you been doing it i've been doing

it for about seven months now seven months all right

and um what made you think you know starting a podcast well i originally i had a website

that was a kind of blog uh it you know i wrote articles

or i would get some people i knew to write articles for it

and from that i uh i thought well i would rather record a conversation than write an article

and and i enjoy listening to podcasts so i thought why not

so the the blog turned into the podcast

so um do you love it uh yes i i mean

it's one of the most enjoyable things i've ever done as a personal project.

Although, like I said before, it involves so much extra work.

I don't love everything about it.

I don't love marketing it, but I do love the creation part of it.

Before becoming a podcaster, what were you doing?

Well, I used to be a lawyer

and I also used to teach at a university it's a

multi -talented um personality well um i guess i just i

didn't love those things as much as i do podcasting what

other jobs have you done i've had lots of jobs over

the years i've worked in the restaurant business i have uh i've worked for a plant nursery.

I've worked at a hotel before.

But, you know, my main career type jobs were being a lawyer or being a teacher.

And I'm trying to turn podcasting into hopefully my final career.

So the experience as lawyer and teacher helping podcast?

Actually, yes.

Being a teacher, because my podcast has a sort of education element to it.

You know, I teach people about Zen.

So I certainly use some of my previous teaching skills in

terms of organizing my thoughts into what I'm going to say as a tool for how I create a podcast episode.

If you know I wanted to start a podcasting, what advice would you give me? To just do it.

I think the starting part is the hardest.

for a number of reasons one people usually hate the sound of their own voice

when they hear it recorded

because it doesn't sound the same to them as it does in their head

when they speak hearing your recorded voice it always sounds funny to people

so you have to get used to that part but

and you know it's a little nerve -wracking at first you're

a little nervous the first time you you try it

but eventually you know you get over all that stuff do you uh interview people

i do uh almost 50 50 i like half the time i interview someone

and the other half of the time it's just me i

just do a solo podcast um for solo episode how many

hours would you spend to as a preparation well i mean

from start to finish you know it's it's it's a maybe 10 hours on an episode uh

because then i'll prepare for an hour uh recording it takes not just the amount of time of the episode

but i might have to record several times and

or re -record then i have to edit it

and then of course i've got to do the marketing

so you know i'm just guessing but maybe about 10 hours for a single episode.

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.

Pratique du Shadowing: Becoming a Podcaster - B2 Listening for High-Intermediate Students - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?