Pratique du Shadowing: Bilingual Brains are Better - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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Are you bilingual?

Trilingual?

You might have a better brain than me, and you might live longer.

Hola hombres, esta tres.

That doesn't work.

That's my name is the number three.

Thanks, mom and dad.

What was I in Spanish class?

Manuel, I think?

Hola, me amo Manuel.

I don't like that either.

I think I'm just going to stick to English for now.

Thanks for tuning in to DNews, everybody it looks like bilingualism isn't just useful when you're traveling,

or when you're trying to order food at your favorite restaurant,

or if you're trying to figure out what those girls on the train are talking about across from you, and if it's your shoes.

No, it also could help you live longer.

They know this because when they tested English -speaking seniors, the ones that were bilingual answered quicker.

Without getting too deep into the technical and medical details, bilingual brains are better at switching between major tasks,

like languages, and simultaneously filtering out superfluous information.

Obviously, this is really beneficial throughout people's lives, but if you enroll children in a bilingual school, it will not only help them learn to learn,

but keep their brain agile throughout their life.

It's not the only way.

You can also exercise, do stimulating tasks, or even do the crosswords.

And they've all been shown to keep your brain spry.

Although this is the most fun, unless you want to know what 77 down is vacation destination for sandwich lovers.

Ooh, Delhi!

Ha!

You know, India, Delhi.

Now that you're all jazzed to learn Cantonese or whatever, let's have science stomp on your bilingual dreams for a minute.

After about 12 months, you begin to filter out sounds that aren't found in your language,

which is why my German friend Nina can't really do the sound very well, and I can't do the, you know, the U with the dots.

I can't do that.

They're just not part of our learning.

That being said, it is of course possible to learn new languages, but it's better to be exposed early, like before you're four years old.

If living longer isn't a good enough reason for you to learn a new language, then perhaps this will help.

Look, we're about to get real deep.

Words are just an outward expression of emotions and thoughts.

They don't really mean anything on their own unless we assign them meaning.

Design student Pei Ying Lin created this infographic of untranslatable emotions.

My favorite shortcoming in the English language is that chasm that exists between liking someone and loving someone.

You might really like them or whatever, you might adore them, but that's a little trite.

The infographic shows that Italian and Korean have a word for love that's specifically for friends, family, inanimate objects, and pets.

We have to use the same word to express romantic love to our wife

or our husband as we would express to our mom or our dog or a really nice painting.

That is insane.

Here are some other words that we don't have that show up in other cultures.

I'll probably pronounce some of them really badly.

In Japan they have a really weird one, bakushan, which has to do with a beautiful girl but only when viewed from behind.

This one is really good.

It's Filipino and it has to do with seeing something cute and wanting to pinch or squeeze it.

And it's called giggle.

In Mexican Spanish they have a word for when you feel embarrassed for watching someone else's humiliation.

That's pena ajena.

You get the picture.

So there are a lot of words that English just doesn't have that express these emotions.

So not only can you learn another language, maybe you can just learn these and that'll help you live longer.

I mean, probably not a lot longer, like a few hours.

But hey, at least you can express yourself better.

Have you ever made up a word?

I'm sure you have.

I know I do it all the time.

Leave your made up word down in the comments

and give a definition so that we can all start using your fake words and maybe they'll become real words.

So thanks for watching and ti voglio bene,

which is the Italian word for I really care about you but I don't love you like a romantic partner.

So it would be nice if we had a word in between like and love.

Thanks for watching.

I'm Trace.

See you later.

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Cette leçon d’expression orale s’appuie sur la vidéo « Bilingual Brains are Better ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : word, learn, language, bilingual, longer. Cette vidéo contient 69 phrases et 756 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 3:59. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 190 mots par minute : attendez-vous à des liaisons et à des sons réduits. 83 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais ; le reste mérite d’être vu avant de commencer.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

15 mots de la vidéo à retenir, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

Mot	Prononciation	Sens
bilingual adjectif	/baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/	bilingue
emotion nom	/ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/	émotion
romantic adjectif	/ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/	romantique
filter nom	/ˈfɪltɚ/	filtre
pet nom	/pɛt/	animal de compagnie, animal familier
badly adverbe	/ˈbæd.li/	mal, mauvaisement
insane adjectif	/ɪnˈseɪn/	dérangé, délirant
vacation nom	/veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/	vacances
jazz nom	/d͡ʒæz/	jazz
tune nom	/tjuːn/	mélodie, air
lover nom	/ˈlʌvɚ/	amoureux, amoureuse
destination nom	/dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/	destination, arrivée
shoe nom	/ˈʃu/	chaussure, soulier
simultaneously adverbe	/ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/	simultanément, en même temps
beneficial adjectif	/ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/	bienfaisante, bénéfique

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

Mot	Prononciation	Sens
make up verbe	/ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/	constituer, composer
figure out verbe		cerner

Des phrases à répéter

Des phrases courtes et complètes de la vidéo, à réutiliser dans la conversation de tous les jours :

That's my name is the number three.
I don't like that either.
They're just not part of our learning.
Look, we're about to get real deep.
Have you ever made up a word?

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 26 contractions et formes réduites, comme you're, don't, can't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

Les sons « sh » et « zh »: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, vacation /veɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, shoe /ˈʃu/, beneficial /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/
Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, simultaneously /ˌsaɪmlˈteɪnɪəsli/, beneficial /ˌbɛn.ɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, humiliation /hjuːˌmɪliˈeɪʃən/, inanimate /ɪnˈænɪmət/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

/tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: jazz /d͡ʒæz/, sandwich /ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/, pinch /pɪnt͡ʃ/, agile /ˈæd͡ʒ.aɪl/
/r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: romantic /ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/, embarrassed /ɪmˈbæɹ.əst/, adore /əˈdoɹ/, pronounce /pɹəˈnaʊns/, crossword /ˈkɹɒswɜː(ɹ)d/

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Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
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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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