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Do you feel frustrated when you get stuck in English conversations?

Ressentez-vous de la frustration lorsque vous êtes bloqué dans des conversations en anglais ?

You want to keep your conversation going but you don't know what to say or maybe you freeze because you don't understand them.

Vous voulez poursuivre la conversation mais vous ne savez pas quoi dire, ou peut-être que vous restez figé parce que vous ne comprenez pas ce qu'ils disent.

You completely forget your words.

Tu oublies complètement tes mots.

You don't know what to say.

Tu ne sais pas quoi dire.

Or they don't understand you.

Ou bien ils ne vous comprennent pas.

I'm Emma, creator of mmmEnglish, where I help millions of English learners around the world develop confidence and fluency in English.

Je suis Emma, la créatrice de mmmEnglish, où j'aide des millions d'apprenants en anglais du monde entier à développer leur confiance et leur aisance en anglais.

Today I have thirty awesome phrases to help you get unstuck during English conversations so you know what to say and you can keep your conversation going.

Aujourd'hui, j'ai trente phrases géniales pour vous aider à ne plus être bloqué pendant les conversations en anglais, afin que vous sachiez quoi dire et que vous puissiez poursuivre votre échange.

I've also made you a free PDF workbook with all of these useful common English expressions plus a quiz to help you make sure that you can use them accurately when you speak.

J'ai également créé pour vous un cahier d'exercices PDF gratuit contenant toutes ces expressions anglaises courantes utiles, ainsi qu'un quiz pour vous aider à vérifier que vous pouvez les utiliser correctement lorsque vous parlez.

The link to download it is in the description below.

Le lien pour le télécharger se trouve dans la description ci-dessous.

You'll need to add your name and your email address so that I can send it to you.

Vous devrez ajouter votre nom et votre adresse e-mail pour que je puisse vous l'envoyer.

You can also join my weekly newsletter so you never miss a lesson or a free PDF.

Vous pouvez également vous inscrire à ma newsletter hebdomadaire pour ne jamais manquer une leçon ni un PDF gratuit.

Every confident English speaker, whether they're native or non-native, uses the phrases and these strategies that I'm going to share today to help them communicate.

Tous les anglophones à l'aise avec la langue, qu'ils soient natifs ou non, utilisent les expressions et les stratégies que je vais partager aujourd'hui pour faciliter leur communication.

Native speakers use these phrases all the time because it's a really natural part of communicating.

Les locuteurs natifs utilisent ces expressions tout le temps, car elles font partie intégrante d'une communication vraiment naturelle.

We don't always know what to say and it doesn't always come out perfectly.

Nous ne savons pas toujours quoi dire et les choses ne sortent pas toujours parfaitement.

Sometimes native speakers don't explain themselves clearly and we have to use the expressions and phrases in this video to react and to keep our conversations going.

Parfois, les locuteurs natifs ne s'expliquent pas clairement et nous devons utiliser les expressions et les phrases de cette vidéo pour réagir et pour poursuivre nos conversations.

But the difference is that native speakers or proficient speakers are more likely to be confident English speakers.

Mais la différence est que les locuteurs natifs ou les locuteurs maîtrisant bien la langue sont plus susceptibles d'être des anglophones confiants.

They just know how to quickly get themselves out of trouble if they need to, if they get stuck during a conversation.

Ils savent simplement comment se sortir rapidement d'un problème si nécessaire, s'ils se retrouvent coincés au cours d'une conversation.

They know how to fix it without panicking too much.

Ils savent comment le réparer sans paniquer trop.

And this is the main difference between you and them.

Et c'est là la principale différence entre vous et eux.

You just need to know what to say in those situations to get yourself unstuck.

Il vous suffit de savoir quoi dire dans ces situations pour vous en sortir.

And there are plenty of phrases and expressions to help you in those situations.

Et il existe de nombreuses phrases et expressions pour vous aider dans ces situations.

Imagine that you've just run into someone that you know, perhaps a colleague or a professor at your university and you've just started chatting in English.

Imaginez que vous venez de croiser une personne que vous connaissez, peut-être un collègue ou un professeur de votre université, et que vous venez tout juste de commencer à discuter en anglais.

Things are going well but suddenly, you don't understand what they're saying.

Tout se passe bien, mais soudain, vous ne comprenez plus ce qu'ils disent.

They've used a couple of words that you don't recognise or perhaps it could be because their accent's not one that you're familiar with.

Ils ont utilisé quelques mots que vous ne reconnaissez pas, ou peut-être est-ce parce que leur accent n'est pas celui que vous connaissez.

So in these situations, you could say: I'm sorry, I didn't catch that.

Donc dans ces situations, vous pourriez dire : Je suis désolé, je n'ai pas bien entendu.

Could you repeat that?

Pourriez-vous répéter, s'il vous plaît ?

Maybe you just didn't quite understand what they said because they were speaking so fast.

Peut-être que tu n'as tout simplement pas bien compris ce qu'ils disaient parce qu'ils parlaient très vite.

In this case, you can ask: Could you say that again a little more slowly?

Dans ce cas, vous pouvez demander : Pourriez-vous répéter un peu plus lentement ?

Sorry, I'm not following you.

Désolé, je ne vous suis pas.

We use this when we don't understand what someone means.

Nous utilisons cela lorsque nous ne comprenons pas ce que quelqu'un veut dire.

When the meaning is a little bit unclear, if you're a little bit confused, then you can use it.

Quand le sens est un peu flou, si vous êtes un peu confus, alors vous pouvez l'utiliser.

I don't think I understood clearly.

Je ne pense pas avoir bien compris.

Could you say that again?

Pourriez-vous répéter, s'il vous plaît ?

Okay so studying and memorising these phrases is step one.

Bon, donc étudier et mémoriser ces phrases est la première étape.

But to make them your own, to make them part of your own active vocabulary, you need to practise putting them into use, using them in different situations with different people in different contexts.

Mais pour vous les approprier, pour en faire partie de votre vocabulaire actif, vous devez vous entraîner à les utiliser, à les employer dans différentes situations, avec différentes personnes et dans différents contextes.

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Tu sais que je suis une grande partisane de Hey Lady !

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Au sein de Hey Lady!, vous pouvez rejoindre des conversations quotidiennes et des ateliers réguliers pour développer vos compétences orales.

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Et tout étudiant éligible de mmmEnglish peut s'inscrire avec une réduction de cinquante pour cent sur son premier mois.

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Cliquez sur le lien dans la description pour rejoindre Hey Lady!

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Okay here's a new situation.

Bon, voici une nouvelle situation.

You're talking with someone but suddenly you forget your own words.

Vous êtes en train de parler avec quelqu'un mais soudain vous oubliez vos propres mots.

It's like every English word in your head just disappears all of a sudden.

C'est comme si tous les mots anglais dans votre tête disparaissaient d'un coup.

Or you forget what you're talking about after you've already started talking.

This is the worst because the other person that you're talking to is looking at you, waiting for you to continue.

Their full focus is on you and you've lost your words.

This happens to everyone, native speakers too.

So what can you say when you forget your words?

What's that word?

It's on the tip of my tongue.

We use this idiom to describe that very familiar feeling when the word is so close, it's so close in your mind, it's right here but you just can't get it.

So frustrating!

I'm sorry, I had a mental blank.

I can't remember the word in English.

At this point, the person that you're talking to will probably help you to remember or remind you of the word that you're looking for.

You could even say: I forgot the English word.

Do you know what I mean?

Even if you can't find the word, don't let it stop you.

Say something like: Never mind.

And change the topic.

Tell me about the new project you're working on.

Never mind, it might come back in a minute.

This will help you to change the topic and keep moving forward in your conversation.

You don't need to get stuck.

Sometimes it's not just a word that you've forgotten but you completely forget what you were talking about altogether.

When this happens to me, I just say: Hang on, let me start over.

Let me try that again.

Oh, I completely lost my train of thought.

Hopefully it'll come back to me in a moment.

You have the choice to feel embarrassed and get frustrated with yourself or you have the choice to just hit that reset button.

You just need to signal what happened to the person that you're talking to so they know what's happening but then the conversation can keep going.

Listen to what I say but also how I say it.

Notice that I'm not taking myself too seriously.

I'm using facial expression just as much as the words that I'm choosing to help communicate what's happening.

And this is a really important point.

Honesty is really important in conversation.

If someone is listening to you speak and then for some reason, you get stuck.

All of those expressions that we just went through will help you to explain what happened and it'll give some clues to the person listening so that they can help you out.

And let's be honest, it's going to happen to you a lot on your journey to English fluency and once you're fluent, it's still going to happen.

Fluency does not mean perfect.

It just means that you have all of the phrases and the expressions that you need to have successful conversations in English even when you mess up.

There are plenty of times when you just don't know what to say.

Maybe because you're not properly prepared.

Maybe you've never talked about this topic before so you have no idea what to say or how to contribute.

Or you might need a little bit of extra time to think about your answer.

It's not something that you know instantly.

And there are tons of things that we say in English when this happens.

To be honest, I'm not really familiar with the political situation in Venezuela.

If you need a little more time to think about your answer, then try: That's an interesting question.

Let me think for a moment.

That's tricky, I've never been asked that before.

I'm not sure.

Give me a second to think about it.

Just give me a second to think how to explain it in English.

All of these phrases will give you some extra time, just a few seconds so that you can take a deep breath, get your thoughts in order and think about what you're going to say next.

If you're in a group conversation, you can even direct that question towards someone else.

I need some time to think about my answer.

Does anyone else want to jump in?

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Another really common situation, especially at work, is when someone asks you to share your opinion or your ideas about something but they catch you off guard.

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You don't have anything to share with them, yet.

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If you don't know what to say in these moments, you might freeze.

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You might start searching for words and it feels like every word has escaped your head and you've got nothing to share.

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So in this situation, you can try to return the question back towards them.

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I've never thought about that before.

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What about you?

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Oh gosh, I've never been asked that before.

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What do you think?

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Or even more casually.

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What's your take?

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This does two things.

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The other person will start talking so you'll have some extra time to think about your answer but if you don't really have an opinion or an idea to share about this topic, you'll probably get some ideas from what that other person is saying.

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They might inspire you to think of something to share or to say.

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Or maybe you agree or disagree with something that they said but it's a way for you to keep the conversation going.

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What if someone asks you something that you're not entirely comfortable with?

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This can happen in a lot of different situations and it's okay to not answer a question or not talk about a topic if you don't want to.

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So I've got a few phrases to explain that you'd prefer not to answer and you want to change the topic.

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I'd rather not answer that, if that's okay, for personal reasons.

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Is it okay if we talk about something else?

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What are you doing this weekend?

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You might find yourself in a situation where you're talking but you notice the face of the other person changing.

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They don't seem to be understanding you.

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That's okay!

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It might be your fault.

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Maybe you weren't being clear.

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But it could also be them.

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Maybe they got distracted or they weren't paying attention.

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So if you feel like this is happening, you could say: Am I making sense?

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Are you following?

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Remember we used the word following earlier in this lesson.

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We said: I'm not following you.

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So it's a good one to use in the context of a conversation.

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Are you following me?

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Both of these questions are used to check and to allow the person you're talking to to ask a question if they need it.

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If you feel really confident that they are not following, you could say something like: I don't think I'm being very clear.

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Let me try that again.

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Sometimes, despite all of our best efforts, miscommunication happens.

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They haven't understood you.

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But it's totally normal, we just need to be prepared to handle those situations when they come up.

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So you can say: Sorry, I think there was a misunderstanding.

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What I meant to say was...

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This allows you to rephrase your ideas in a different way to help the other person to understand.

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You could also say: I don't think I explained myself clearly.

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Or: I think you misunderstood.

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But the important point here is that you're putting the blame on the person that you're talking to when you say that.

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It's quite rude to tell someone else that they have misunderstood you.

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It just tells them it's their fault, not yours.

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So you want to be really confident that they are the one who misunderstood if you use it.

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Notice how in the first sentence, we use the passive voice.

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There was a misunderstanding.

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I'm not specifically saying who was responsible for the problem and that's usually the best way to go.

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You either assume that it was you and apologise and quickly fix it or generalise there was a problem here.

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Okay so now you have thirty useful expressions to help you when you're stuck in English and you need help keeping your conversation going.

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If you enjoyed this lesson, make sure you give it a like, leave me a comment down below, I love to hear from you.

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I suggest that you take all of these phrases and practise using them in real conversations.

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Want to keep practising?

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You know where to find me.

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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 « Common English Phrases to Keep Your Conversation Going! ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : conversation, English, word, situation, phrases. Cette vidéo contient 159 phrases et 2082 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 14:00. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 149 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. 89 % 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
phrase nom	/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/	expression
misunderstand verbe	/mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/	mal interpréter, méprendre
frustrate verbe	/ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/	frustrer
communicate verbe	/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/	communiquer
unstick verbe		décoller
freeze verbe	/ˈfɹiːz/	geler, glacer
eligible adjectif	/ˈɛl.ɪ.d͡ʒɪ.bəl/	éligible, admissible
generalize verbe	/ˈd͡ʒɛn.(ə.)ɹə.laɪz/	généraliser, faire des amalgames
learner nom	/ˈlɜɹnəɹ/	apprenant, apprenante
miscommunication nom		mécommunication
proficient adjectif	/pɹoʊˈfɪʃ.ənt/	compétent
rephrase verbe		reformuler
workbook nom	/ˈwɝk.bʊk/	cahier d'exercice
practise verbe	/ˈpɹæktɪs/	s'entrainer, pratiquer
fluent adjectif	/ˈfluənt/	parler couramment

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

Mot	Prononciation	Sens
come out verbe	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	sortir
come up verbe		se montrer, sortir du bois
go through verbe		traverser
mess up verbe		gâcher
start over verbe		recommencer

Des phrases à répéter

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

Could you say that again?
Do you know what I mean?
What if someone asks you something that you're not entirely comfortable with?
Is it okay if we talk about something else?
What are you doing this weekend?

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	I've also made · you've just run · you've already started
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait	been asked
Possibilité avec « might / may » might/may + verbe — quelque chose de possible mais pas certain	might come · might need · might freeze
Verbe + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — les verbes suivis de la forme en -ing	started chatting · practise putting · started talking

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 85 contractions et formes réduites, comme don't, you're, I'm. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

Les sons « th »: altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, breathe /bɹiːð/
Les sons « sh » et « zh »: proficient /pɹoʊˈfɪʃ.ənt/, casually /ˈkæʒuəli/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, facial /ˈfeɪ.ʃəl/, workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/
Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, eligible /ˈɛl.ɪ.d͡ʒɪ.bəl/, generalize /ˈd͡ʒɛn.(ə.)ɹə.laɪz/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

/tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: eligible /ˈɛl.ɪ.d͡ʒɪ.bəl/, generalize /ˈd͡ʒɛn.(ə.)ɹə.laɪz/, apologize /əˈpɑləˌd͡ʒaɪz/
/r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/, misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/, frustrate /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/, generalize /ˈd͡ʒɛn.(ə.)ɹə.laɪz/

Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo

Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
Répétez phrase par phrase à vitesse normale, en reprenant chacune jusqu’à ce que votre rythme corresponde à celui du locuteur.
Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme phrase, misunderstand, frustrate.

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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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