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I don't usually try to make my books as they come out better known by putting them onto social media

but I make an exception in the case of this book which has just come out last week called Essays.

What I have learnt about myself and the world with cover with me in my woodland path.

I'm doing that because I've been surprised,

indeed enormously warmed by the reception of a few of the

key people who've been involved in the process of bringing this book to publication.

I remember it as a book

which I wrote at the suggestion of my wife shortly after Covid

when she said write down what you've learned about your life

and so on and I started to dictate some short essays

and I greatly enjoyed it

and it ended up in 240 very short essays roughly modeled on the idea

and memory of Montaigne's essays but much much shorter.

And when recently I thought I would publish it, I thought, well, this is a useful book and I want it out there.

But some of the people, several of the people who were closely acquainted with it, thought it was really special.

And so I'll indicate their views by quoting them a little bit.

But basically to tell you of the structure, it is, as I say,

a number of essays on anything that struck me as useful and interesting and quirky.

For example, under the letter L, it's alphabetical, on the leaning tower of Pisa,

on liberty, on libraries, on limited good,

on loneliness, on losing, on love, on lying.

Well that's a tiny cross section and you can see that it covers serious and less serious subjects.

So what do my colleagues and friends say about it?

Well there's a forward by our close friend Baron JC von Fetten

and he writes as a Frenchman who was a great admirer of Montaigne

that in some ways my essays are go beyond Montaigne.

They are shorter, more succinct, more accessible.

And he starts his short forward as follows.

Essays may well constitute Alan MacFarlane's ultimate contribution to human knowledge.

It is written for scholars and the wider public alike.

The book is the result of 60 years of deep anthropological research conducted across the world,

using observation as its primary method and extracting knowledge through a rigorous process of analysis and reflection.

The reader will therefore find in each essay a remarkably practical set of insights and answers.

And he ends, after decades of experience, research and reflection, and after writing dozens of books,

McFarland has succeeded in turning his analytical gaze both upon the world and upon himself.

The result is essays, a work that distils lifetime search for wisdom.

The second person who has commented was the person who edited the book,

my friend Irene Galstian, and she's written about this several times in emails,

but this is a small extract from one email.

As you become a long-time reader of these essays, their effect on you goes to a different level.

And this is where they truly shine.

Well, shine is too vigorous a word for what I am trying to describe.

It's more like a glow.

With repeated reading, these little talks are calming in a way that can't be explained by their intellectual content alone. So those are two.

And then there's a wonderful postscript by Qin Yuchen,

who is translating the book into Chinese.

And I'll just read one part of her remarkable and beautiful postface.

What the letters do for me is what these essays did when I first read them.

They come in like air from outside.

The anxiety of my generation is real enough.

The rungs, as he put it, have gone from the ladder we were all brought up to climb.

What struck me was how precisely these small essays answer that predicament.

A letter written at first light by an 80-year-old grandfather,

who is also one of the great historical anthropologists of his time,

lifts you clear of all that and sets you down somewhere higher up and further off, from which the trouble is visible in its true proportion.

Old, general, survivable, shared with everyone who has ever lived.

We are not the first age of anxiety, he says, nor will we be the last.

I know of no better remedy.

And indeed, some of these essays which have gone up onto social media like YouTube and Chinese social media

have elicited those same sentiments from people who have heard them.

So, as I say, it's on Amazon Essays by Helen McFarlane,

and I think you may share their feeling.

It's a book which has a lot of my final and deeper reflections in it,

and I'm proud that my close friends anyway, think it's really worthwhile.

Thank you.

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Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau C1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « Essays what book is SD 480p ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : essay, reflection, letter, written. Cette vidéo contient 65 phrases et 810 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 7:06. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 114 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. Seuls 79 % 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
litter nom	/ˈlɪt.ɚ/	litière
extract nom	/ˈɛkstɹækt/	extrait
admirer nom	/ædˈmaɪ.ɹɚ/	admirateur, admiratrice
alphabetical adjectif	/ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl/	alphabétique
anthropological adjectif	/æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/	anthropologique
anthropologist nom	/ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/	anthropologue
distil verbe	/dəˈstɪl/	distiller
elicit verbe	/ɪˈlɪsɪt/	susciter
enormously adverbe		énormément
postscript nom	/ˈpoʊst.skɹɪpt/	post-scriptum
predicament nom	/pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/	catégorie, classe
quirky adjectif	/ˈkwɜːki/	excentrique, original
dictate verbe	/ˈdɪkˌteɪt/	dicter
woodland nom	/ˈwʊd.lənd/	bois
loneliness nom	/ˈloʊnlinəs/	solitude

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

Mot	Prononciation	Sens
come out verbe	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	sortir
write down verbe		noter, écrire

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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	has just come · have learnt · I've been
Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chose	book which has · people who were · person who has
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait	who've been involved · is written · can't be explained

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 9 contractions et formes réduites, comme I'll, I'm, can't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

Les sons « th »: anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, worthwhile /ˌwɜː(ɹ)θˈwaɪl/
Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: alphabetical /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪ.kəl/, anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, predicament /pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/, analytical /ˌæn.əˈlɪt.ɪ.kəl/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

/tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
/r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: extract /ˈɛkstɹækt/, admirer /ædˈmaɪ.ɹɚ/, anthropological /æn.θɹə.pəˈlɑd͡ʒikəl/, anthropologist /ˌæn.θɹoʊˈpɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, postscript /ˈpoʊst.skɹɪpt/

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