Pratique du Shadowing: How to Be Disgustingly Articulate And Well Spoken - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

How do you articulate your thoughts clearly without overthinking every single word?

You know that moment when you're talking halfway through your sentence and you don't even know what point you're trying to make?

Hi, my name's Vin.

I've coached millions of people to improve their communication

and the three frameworks I'm going to share with you in this video will help you sound well-spoken

and more articulate in professional and personal conversations.

And I'll break it into the three most common scenarios that play out for most people.

The first is when you do know your stuff, but you can't explain it simply.

The second is when you don't know much about what's being discussed, but you don't want to come across completely clueless.

And the third, which is the most common scenario, especially at work, is when you actually do know the answer, but the pressure of being in front of your peers

and your leaders causes your brain to scramble and then you go blank.

I used to think, oh, articulation?

That's a speaking problem.

Well, it's not.

Messy words come from messy thinking.

So the real skill isn't just learning how to talk better, it's learning how to think more clearly.

And when you're put on the spot, frameworks will help you think more clearly so that you can sound more well-spoken and articulate.

So let's start with scenario one, which is when you're actually knowledgeable on the topic but you can't articulate well.

When I run my communication classes and workshops, a large portion of my students fall into this specific category.

They're engineers, doctors and lawyers, they're highly knowledgeable individuals But when I ask them the reason why they joined my class, the number one reason I hear is Finn,

I struggle to explain my ideas clearly You've probably been in

this scenario as well You're trying to explain the topic you know well, but you overcomplicate it You go in circles

and you can slowly start to see the other person look more and more confused And the worst part is, you leave the conversation thinking Maybe,

maybe I don't understand my topic as well as I thought I did But here's what's actually going on.

You know your topic well because you've studied it a lot, but you can't explain it to someone well because you haven't explained it a lot.

That's all that it is.

Learning and explaining are two completely separate skills.

You've done thousands of hours of one and almost none of the other.

That's why the world is full of wonderful experts who actually can't teach.

They struggle to pass on their knowledge to others without boring them or losing them.

So before I share with you the framework, the key point I I want you to take away here is that the best teachers,

the best explainers, they have mastered the art of distillation.

They're able to distill the complex and make it simple for you to understand.

In other words, they've learned to take their messy thoughts and deliver it in a clear and concise and coherent way.

So when I want to learn how to explain anything better, here's the framework work that I use.

It's a simple four-step loop.

The first part of it is capture.

After that you've got structure, then after that you've got practice,

and then finally you've got iterate, and then it's back to capture all over again, therefore being a loop.

Let's start with capture number one, which is what?

It's writing.

And I know the second I say writing half of you are checking out now, but stick with me here because this is what helps you think about something more clearly.

When a thought is in your head, it's floating around, it's jumbled, it's disjointed, and it's all over the place.

And it's almost impossible to shape something you can't see.

But the moment you write it on paper or you type it into a document, you're forced to turn the feelings into words.

And now the thought is sitting there right in front of you where you can actually look at it.

The art of writing is the art of making your thoughts visible.

And to give you a real example, every single week I share a newsletter to my email subscribers called The Weekly V.

We've actually got two million readers and we get a 50% open rate week to week and that's just crazy.

But the reason this happens and the reason why I do it is

because it forces me to capture my thoughts

and then write about my experiences in a way that becomes helpful to our readers.

So here are the two steps to get your thoughts into writing.

The first one is just ask yourself what's the one thing I want to get better at explaining

and then once you've got that topic the second thing is well write down how you currently explain it.

Write it out exactly as you would explain it

and at first your writing and explaining might not be in the optimal order

but that's what the next step is for

structure

because once you get all of your thoughts about a specific

topic down on paper you can now see the pieces

and go oh i shouldn't say

that first i should have said this first actually they need

to understand this before any of that's going to make sense

you can only put the puzzle together once you can see the puzzle pieces so now

that you've written out how you currently explain the specific topic

look at the puzzle pieces doesn't make sense is it too

long is it easy to understand is it too much jargon is there an analogy a metaphor or simile

that you can use to simplify it give yourself permission here to play add some new pieces reorder the pieces

so it'll be engaging enough and simple enough that even a teenager could understand then the next step is what separates

great thinkers from great speakers

because without practice without you saying it out loud all of

your brilliance your knowledge your ideas it just stays on the page

so here's what i want you to do turn on your camera it could be your phone just hit record

and start talking through the idea with the new structure

that you've written down

and as you practice this out loud you'll get a sense

of what it feels like in your mouth quite literally

and as you do that you'll be able to identify where things flow where they don't

when i'm scripting and writing these youtube videos for example the moment i sit down

and practice saying it out loud i can immediately pick up the parts

that don't logically flow well

and the more you do this the better you'll get at simplification

because that's what great communicators do and the final step here is iterate

and what i mean by this is you now have to listen back to the video you just recorded

and ask yourself was it clear was it concise was it coherent identify where the explanation gets too complex

or messy and then you go back to capture

and you start the whole loop again this might mean making it shorter changing some of the pieces restructuring again

and sometimes it means throwing out the whole damn thing

and chucking it in the bin starting from scratch this is the work required

if you want to be an influential communicator this is the practice required

That's how you stop being the expert that nobody understands and you start becoming the expert that everybody understands.

And by the way

if you want to learn more frameworks to improve your ability to articulate well especially

when you're put on the spot make sure you click the link in the description

or you can scan the QR code that's on screen for

my free two-hour training where I'm going to teach you three powerful communication frameworks to filter your thinking through

so that it helps you come across more well-spoken.

So check it out it's completely free.

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Now the next scenario is the complete opposite.

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This is where you're in a conversation and then the topic changes to one you don't know much about.

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What should you do in this scenario?

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Should you pretend you know and then fake it?

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Or should you just say, I don't know?

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These are two great questions.

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Let me tell you what I do.

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Number one, I name what I know.

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Number two, I name what I'm still working out.

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And then number three, I ask a question that moves the conversation forward.

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Let me show you what that sounds like.

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So what do you think about all this AI stuff?

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Do you think it's going to take over everyone's jobs?

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What I know is that AI has gotten scary good at the narrow and repetitive stuff.

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The tasks that follow really clear rules and the part that I'm still trying to work out myself is where's the limit?

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Because every time I try to get it to do something difficult, it often fails.

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And can I ask what's your take?

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Do you see it as a tool that replaces just tasks

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or do you think it's gradually going to replace people in their roles?

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Maybe it's going to replace That's your role, Peter.

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No, no, no, don't get me wrong.

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I'm not going to fire Peter and replace him with AI.

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Why?

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Well, because can AI warm my seat for me every morning before I get in?

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Can AI make me my coffee exactly how I want it at 8am on the dot

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when I arrive in the office and place it in my hand the moment I snap my fingers?

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Didn't snap my fingers, Pete.

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Mate, that was premature.

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Did you catch what happened in the skit though?

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Even though someone asked me to speak on a topic that I didn't know much about, I was still able to come across articulate, thoughtful and competent by following the framework I shared right here.

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Now here's an unexpected thing you can do that will increase your relatability, likability and even respect.

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This is for when you get asked the question and you don't know the answer.

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In these moments, contrary to popular belief, it's actually okay to say I don't know.

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One caveat here though, you must have previous to this question already have demonstrated value and credibility.

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If these things have already been established and you say the words I don't know, it humanizes you.

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I've done this before in my workshops.

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I don't know the answer to that

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and I believe it's very important for me to clearly state that when I don't know.

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So again, I'm not qualified to answer that.

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That's actually a good answer.

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Oh, okay.

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I thought it was shit.

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I used to believe that saying I don't know would make people respect me less

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but like you saw in the video because I've already added value that morning

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when I said the words I don't know in a situation where I actually didn't know people respected me more

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and there's another benefit it takes an enormous amount of pressure off you

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when you know you can say I don't know

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because most people walk into a client meeting a presentation

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or a conversation with their boss believing they need to have an answer for everything but

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when you give yourself permission to say I don't know you're

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no longer try to beat chat gpt you can slow down acknowledge what you do know

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and because of this framework here you can now explain it clearly

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which increases credibility so that

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when there's something you don't know saying i don't know doesn't

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ruin your reputation in actual reality it increases the trust

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and respect that people have for you because they know when you don't know you're not going to outright lie to them.

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And now for the final scenario, one where we are all too familiar with.

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This is when you know your stuff, but when someone asks you a question, the pressure of being in the spotlight and needing to answer in the moment causes you to go completely blank.

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And this has happened to me more than most people on the biggest stages around the world, so I feel qualified to give you some real advice here.

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It's like when you accidentally open all the browser tabs in one click, causing your browser to lag.

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Same thing with your brain when someone asks you a question and all of your thoughts fire at once.

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Damn it Peter, that wasn't a coffee click.

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You've got to hear the difference.

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Learn to hear the difference.

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That's a coffee click.

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That's a click for emphasis.

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Come on mate, get it together.

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Now as I was saying, all your thoughts just fire at once

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and then as a result your brain can't decide which one to grab and where to start.

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And from the outside, it makes you look incompetent if you freeze for too long.

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So then as a result you feel the pressure to speak

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and then you start speaking your thoughts out loud causing you to go in circles and ramble.

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This is the framework you need to remember in those moments and it's called POP.

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P-O-P.

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And the first one stands for pause.

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I know how counterintuitive this feels because again you feel like you should respond immediately.

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Wrong click Peter.

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But you feel like you should respond immediately to show how knowledgeable you are.

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But that doesn't work.

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What you need is to take a couple of seconds to think about your response before giving it.

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And you'll be surprised how giving yourself an extra moment

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or two to think actually helps you get more clarity on your thoughts.

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And you might think this is weird, but trust me, it's only weird if you make it weird.

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Watch this example of me at one of my workshops where someone's asking me a question.

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I want you to count how many seconds I paused for while I was thinking.

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Are there any stories you have yet to share with us

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that you would really like to share that would kind of nurture a part of your heart?

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Gosh.

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Now, did I come across awkward?

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Did I come across like I was panicking and freaking out and freezing?

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Or did I come across as if I was someone who was putting a lot of thought into their response?

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That's the power of the pause when you do it confidently.

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And you know what?

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Even though I took that long to pause, guess what happened after that?

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Have a look at this.

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Would you all mind having a chat amongst yourselves for just a couple of minutes

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while I really sit and think with this?

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Is that okay?

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Okay, I'll just sit and have a think.

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No kidding.

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Yes, that's right.

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I asked for more time because I have confidence that if you give me an extra two minutes, I'm going to be able to give you an incredible amount of value in my response.

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Now, the next part of the framework is O.

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And what does O stand for?

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It stands for one thought.

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Begin your response with the sentence, the one thought that comes to mind is.

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What this does for you is that it forces your brain to focus just on one point to share

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instead of trying to share every single point that comes to mind.

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And by doing this, it allows you to respond faster because of the focus and not get stuck in analysis paralysis.

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This is what causes people to freeze and worse, ramble, oh, it's the worst.

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And what this does for the listener is it tells them you've actually got a lot of thoughts on this, but you're deliberately selecting one to share.

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And the final P is proof.

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Once you've shared your thought, you now back up that thought with an example.

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It could be a story, a result, an observation, a statistic.

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This helps solidify and add more credibility to the thought that you just shared.

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Now, let me give you an example.

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Vin, I'm curious, what are some clever ways for us to get our YouTube subscribers to hit subscribe?

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Any ideas?

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Hmm You know what?

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The one thought that comes to mind is

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that we can create a skit where we passively speak to

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the audience about the importance of why they should subscribe Let me give you an example

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because when we do it directly to the camera people tend to resist

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because they don't want to be told what to do

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That's why we should indirectly through a skit speak to their subconscious to get them to subscribe I mean it's subtle, it's clever, it's completely invisible.

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They're not gonna notice it.

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Yeah, you mean you mean just like this right?

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No, you idiot.

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That's way too obvious.

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You know what to do.

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You see POP POP is one of the many frameworks that exists to help you articulate your thoughts more clearly.

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So if you want to learn more of my favorite communication frameworks, make sure you check out the free training I mentioned earlier in the video.

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It's in the description and the QR code is here.

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It's going to help you create more structure and clarity every time you speak.

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So here's my challenge to you this week.

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Pick a topic you know a lot about and take it through the first framework.

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Capture it, write it down, everything that comes to mind.

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Then when your thoughts are visible, restructure it, remix it, add stuff, mix it all around.

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Most people stop there.

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But without the next step of practice and reading your thoughts out loud, you'll never be able to explain anything simply and articulately.

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And finally, iterate.

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That's how you start practicing the habit of thinking and speaking clearly.

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You can't do one without the other.

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And I want to leave you with this message.

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If you can't communicate clearly right now, and if you don't see yourself as a great communicator right now, I want you to remember how you currently communicate is just a series of behaviors

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that you can improve over time by practicing the things you learned in this video.

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You're not stuck with the way you communicate.

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So don't be so attached to who you are in the present

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that you don't give the future version of you a chance chance.

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I'll see you in the next video.

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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette vidéo contient 249 phrases et 3150 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 15:55. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 198 mots par minute : attendez-vous à des liaisons et à des sons réduits. 87 % 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

15 mots moins courants de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

topic /ˈtɑpɪk/ (nom) — sujet, thème. A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest.
scenario /sɪˈnɛəɹioʊ/ (nom) — scénario. An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events.
articulate /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/ (verbe) — articuler. To make clear or effective.
capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/ (verbe) — saisir, capturer. To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
pause /pɔːz/ (nom) — pause. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
messy /ˈmɛsi/ (adjectif) — désordonné, désorganisé. In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
loop /luːp/ (nom) — boucle. A length of thread, line or rope that is doubled over to make an opening.
communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/ (verbe) — communiquer. To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/ (nom) — atelier. A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
freeze /ˈfɹiːz/ (verbe) — geler, glacer. Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/ (verbe) — abonner, s'abonner. To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).
puzzle /ˈpʌzəl/ (nom) — énigme, mystère. The state of feeling confused or mystified because one cannot understand a complicated matter, a problem, etc.; bewilderment, confusion; (countable) often in…
credibility /kɹɛd.əˈbɪ.ɫɪ.ti/ (nom) — crédibilité. A reputation impacting one's ability to be believed.
knowledgeable /ˈnɑ.lɪ.d͡ʒə.bəl/ (adjectif) — savant, instruit. Having knowledge, especially of a particular subject.
finger /ˈfɪŋɡɚ/ (nom) — doigt. A slender jointed extremity of the human hand, (often) exclusive of the thumb, and the corresponding part, irrespective of including a thumb, in many other…

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

come across (verbe) — avoir l'air de. To change sides; to cross over to work for the opposition.
look at (verbe) — regarder. To observe or watch.
think about /ˈθɪŋk əˌbaʊt/ (verbe) — penser à, réfléchir à. To ponder.
check out (verbe) — mater, regarder. To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
put on /ˌpʊt ˈɒn/ (verbe) — mettre, enfiler. To don (clothing, equipment, or the like).
ask for (verbe) — demander. To request; to order.
back up (verbe) — reculer. To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
come on /ˌkʌm ˈɒn/ — allez. Come along with me; join me in going.

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 95 contractions et formes réduites, comme don't, you're, you've. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

Les sons « th »: thoughtful /ˈθɔːtfəl/, thinker /ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/
Les sons « sh » et « zh »: capture /ˈkæp.(t)ʃɚ/, workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, explanation /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/, presentation /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/
Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: articulate /ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.leɪt/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, credibility /kɹɛd.əˈbɪ.ɫɪ.ti/, knowledgeable /ˈnɑ.lɪ.d͡ʒə.bəl/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/

Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo

Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme topic, scenario, articulate.

La grammaire de cette vidéo

Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :

Structure	Dans la vidéo
« Used to » used to + verbe — une habitude ou un état passé qui n’est plus vrai	used to think · used to believe
Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant	I've coached · You've probably been · you've studied
Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chose	third, which is · one, which is · someone who was
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait	being discussed · been established · be told

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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

Prononciation à surveiller

Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo

La grammaire de cette vidéo

Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?