Pratique du Shadowing: How I Practice English 16 Hours a Day (Without Studying) - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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I practice English 16 hours every single day living in a non -English speaking country
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and I haven't opened a grammar book in three years.
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And if you're still sitting down trying to study, that is exactly why you're stuck.
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I don't use grammar books, I don't study vocabulary, but I never stopped practicing.
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I built a system where my entire life became English without adding extra time.
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go back to studying again.
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But before I show you that, you have to see why I had to change everything.
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Two years ago, I was stuck.
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I knew the words, I understood grammar, but speaking English felt like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube in 10 seconds with someone watching.
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One night, I was at a restaurant.
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and I saw a guy, alone, an English speaker.
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And I thought, This is it.
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two years of studying this is what it was for so i walked up and said hi He smiled and said,
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Hi, how are you?
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And I froze.
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my mind went completely blank.
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I stood there for what it felt like forever.
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My throat closed, my mind was completely empty two years of vocabulary lists, two years of grammar exercises,
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two years of sitting down and trying to learn this language.
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All of it.
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gone.
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In response to three words from a friendly stranger who was just being polite.
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I walked back to my table, sat down and stared at my food.
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And I felt something that I hadn't felt in a long time.
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Like all the work meant nothing.
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Like I was never gonna get there.
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So I went home that night and I made a decision.
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No more studying.
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Because studying had prepared me for everything, except the moment that actually mattered.
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I mean, think about what studying actually is.
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One or two hours of English and then your brain goes back to your native language for the next 15, 16 hours.
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That is like trying to fill a swimming pool with a teaspoon once a week.
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It's never going to happen.
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You're not learning a language, you are visiting one.
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So I stopped visiting English and I started living inside it.
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Here's exactly how.
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So phase number one is the digital switch.
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The first phase takes five minutes and it changes everything.
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I switched my phone, my laptop, my GPS, everything to English.
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At first it's annoying because your brain fights it.
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But after a few weeks, you stop translating.
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You just understand.
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That alone adds hours of English to your day, for free, without sitting down once.
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But that is the easy part, because the real question is: what happens when you want to relax?
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Phase 2 entertainment arbitrage.
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This is where most people fail because it requires removing something comfortable.
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I deleted my native language: YouTube, Instagram, movies, everything.
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If I wanted entertainment, it had to be in English or nothing.
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And something crazy happened.
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My brain stopped seeing English as the hard option and started seeing it as the only option.
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My favorite version: an English podcast.
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Same enjoyment, but now it's practice.
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But a passive exposure is not enough.
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This is where everything changed for me.
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Phase 3: The Narrator Habit.
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I started talking to myself out loud in English.
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Walking, thinking, solving problems, everything in English.
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And it felt different immediately.
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Because listening doesn't build fluency.
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Producing the language does.
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you can fix it.
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30 days of this and the delay disappears.
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But there's a limit to how far you can go alone.
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And this is where everything starts to move way faster.
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Phase 4, real people.
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This space changed everything, not just my English.
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everything.
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I built what I called an English circle.
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People who showed up every single day, not to practice, but to live in English, together.
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And something unexpected happened that I still think about.
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I remember one specific conversation, a guy from Poland.
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We talked for two hours about our life, our work, our goals.
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And halfway through the call, I realized something.
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I wasn't thinking about English.
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I was just talking.
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And that conversation felt more real, more alive than any conversation I was having in my own language.
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Because English had stopped being practiced and became life.
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About six weeks after I started all four phases, I had a dream in English.
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And when I woke up, for a split of seconds, I couldn't remember the word for window.
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in my own language.
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I just sat there in my bed for a moment And I remember thinking, this is what I was working hard toward.
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Not a test score, not a certificate, This, waking up and feeling English from the inside.
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My brain had switched.
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English was not a subject anymore.
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It was pretty much my life.
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So you might be asking right now, But where do I find that English social circle?
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where do I find people?
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And you're right, building that English circle alone is the hardest part of the system.
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Because finding serious people, people who show up every single day and take this as seriously as you do, takes time you don't have.
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That is why I built the English Achievers Community.
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People using this exact system, showing up every single day, building their English circle together.
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The link is in the description and is free to join.
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Look, you don't need to practice 16 hours every single day, but if you apply this system, you're gonna make sure that you practice English every single day as much as you can.
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So before you leave, do one thing: go to your phone settings right now and switch the language to English.
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Or if there is anything else around you that you use every day and is not in English, change that.
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It takes 30 seconds.
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Do it before you think about not doing it.
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That small act is the line between someone who wants to become fluent and someone who will be.
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And if you want one habit that makes this whole system 10 times faster, watch the video on the screen right now.
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That is the next step.
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And it changes everything.
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See you.
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Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B2 s’appuie sur la vidéo « How I Practice English 16 Hours a Day ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : English, language, phase, felt, studying. Cette vidéo contient 103 phrases et 1025 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 6:53. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 149 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. 86 % 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

Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

MotPrononciationSens
grammar nom/ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/grammaire
vocabulary nom/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/vocabulaire, lexique
arbitrage nom/ˈɑɹbɪˌtɹɑʒ/arbitrage
teaspoon nom/ˈtiˌspun/cuillère à café, petite cuillère
fluent adjectif/ˈfluənt/parler couramment
enjoyment nom/ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ.mənt/jouissance, plaisir
stare verbe/stɛɚ/fixer, mirer
polite adjectif/pəˈlaɪt/poli
translate verbe/tɹænzˈleɪt/traduire
passive adjectif/ˈpæs.ɪv/passif
halfway adverbe/ˌhæfˈweɪ/(à) mi-chemin
disappear verbe/dɪsəˈpɪɹ/disparaître
freeze verbe/ˈfɹiːz/geler, glacer
blank nom/ˈblæŋk/préforme
podcast nom/ˈpɑdˌkæst/podcast, balado

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

MotPrononciationSens
sit down verbes'asseoir
show up verbeapparaître, se montrer se pointer
wake up verbe/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/se réveiller

Des phrases à répéter

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

  • Hi, how are you?
  • You're not learning a language, you are visiting one.
  • At first it's annoying because your brain fights it.

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 16 contractions et formes réduites, comme you're, don't, gonna. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

  • /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: grammar /ˈɡɹæm.ə(ɹ)/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, arbitrage /ˈɑɹbɪˌtɹɑʒ/, translate /tɹænzˈleɪt/, disappear /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/

Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo

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

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.

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