Pratique du Shadowing: How To Know Yourself - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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Bye you Bye you Many of us are wandering the earth,
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accomplished in many ways, capable of fulfillment at many points,
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but with a fundamental wound that stops us from becoming who we truly might be.
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We don't quite know who we Oh.
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It isn't, of course, that we can't remember the basics of our biographies.
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We're unsure around two things in particular: Firstly, we don't have a stable sense of what we're worth.
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And secondly, we don't have a secure hold on our own values, or judgements.
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Without knowing who we are, we tend to have particular trouble coping with either denigration or adulation.
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If other people decide that we are worthless or bad, there will be nothing inside us to prevent us from swallowing their verdicts in their entirety,
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however wrongheaded, extreme or unkind these might be.
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We'll be helpless before the court of public opinion.
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We'll always be asking other people what we deserve before seeking inside for an answer.
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Lacking an independent verdict, we also stand to be unnaturally hungry for external praise.
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The clapping of an audience will matter to us far more than would ever be wise.
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We'll be prey to rushing towards whatever idea or activity the crowd happens to love.
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We'll laugh at jokes that aren't funny, uncritically accept undeserving concepts that are in vogue,
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and neglect our truer talents for easy, popular wins.
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We'll trail public opinion slavishly, constantly checking the world's whims rather than consulting an inner barometer in order to know what we should want,
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feel and value.
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We need to be kind on ourselves.
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No one is born with an independent ability to know who they are.
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We learn to have an identity because, if we're blessed, in our early years, someone else takes the trouble to study us with immense fairness,
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attention and kindness, and then plays us back to us in a way that makes sense and that we can later emulate.
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years and use as a defence against the distorting verdicts from hurried or ill -intentioned others.
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Knowing who one is, is really the legacy of having been known properly by somebody else at the start.
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This early identity building tends to unfold with apparently innocuous but life -saving small steps.
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"That must really have hurt," a parent might say in response to an upset, thereby validating an infant's own feelings.
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Or "It's okay not to feel happy on your birthday," the parent might say at another point,
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delicately upholding an infant's less typical response to certain events.
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Ideally, the child isn't just known, he or she is also interpreted as likeable.
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A good parent offers generous interpretations.
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They're on the side of the child
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and are always ready to put the best possible gloss on moments of ill temper
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or of failure which forms the basis upon which resilient self -esteem can then later emerge.
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Now, that's the ideal, but it can, of course, go very wrong and often does.
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A parent may offer mirroring that is out of sync with the reality of the child.
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"Look, who's such a happy little boy or girl?" a parent might insist, when actually the opposite is clearly the case,
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thereby badly scrambling the child's ability to connect with their own emotions.
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Or the parent might only lend the child a very harsh, punitive way of interpreting itself,
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repeatedly suggesting that the child is ill -intentioned or no good.
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Or the parent may simply not show very much interest in the child, focusing themselves elsewhere.
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so that the child grows up with a feeling that not only is it not worth cherishing, but also because it hasn't been adequately seen and mirrored,
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that it doesn't even quite exist.
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a feeling of unreality is the direct consequence of emotional neglect.
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Realizing that we lack a stable identity is a sobering realization.
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But we can, with a fair wind, start to correct the problem at any point.
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We need to seek out the help of a wise and kindly other person perhaps a good psychotherapist, someone who can study us closely,
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mirror us properly, and then validate what they see Through their eyes, we can learn to study, perhaps for the first time,
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how we really feel, and take seriously what we actually want.
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We can, by being witnessed generously,
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more often learn to take our own sides and feel increasingly solid inside trusting ourselves more than we trust the crowd,
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feeling that we might be able to say no,
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not always swaying in the wind and feeling that we are in possession of some of the ultimate important truths about us.
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having come to know ourselves like this, we will be a little less hungry for praise, a little less worried by opposition,
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and a lot more original in our thinking.
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we will have learned the vital art of both knowing and befriending who we, really are.
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Our Know Yourself cards can help us to better understand the deepest, most elusive aspects of ourselves.
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Follow the link now to learn more.
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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon
Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau C1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « How To Know Yourself ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : parent, feeling, ourselves, learn, verdict. Cette vidéo contient 58 phrases et 843 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 5:45. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 146 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. 82 % 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 :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| verdict nom | /ˈvɜː.dɪkt/ | verdict |
| validate verbe | /ˈvæl.ɪ.deɪt/ | valider, justifier |
| neglect verbe | /nɪˈɡlɛkt/ | négliger |
| interpret verbe | /ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/ | interpréter |
| thereby adverbe | /ðɛɹˈbaɪ/ | ainsi, de ce fait |
| adulation nom | /ˌæd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/ | adulation |
| barometer nom | /bəˈɹɑ.mə.tɚ/ | baromètre |
| delicately adverbe | /ˈdɛlɪkətli/ | délicatement |
| denigration nom | dénigrement | |
| distort verbe | /dɪsˈtɔːt/ | déformer, distordre |
| elusive adjectif | /ɪˈl(j)u.sɪv/ | évasif, insaisissable |
| emulate verbe | /ˈɛm.jʊ.leɪt/ | émuler, imiter |
| fulfilment nom | /fʊlˈfɪl.mənt/ | accomplissement |
| innocuous adjectif | /ɪˈnɑkjuəs/ | inoffensif |
| likable adjectif | /ˈlaɪkəbl̩/ | aimable, sympathique |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Sens |
|---|---|
| see through verbe | voir à travers |
La grammaire de cette vidéo
Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :
| Structure | Dans la vidéo |
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| Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait | is born · been known · isn't just known |
| Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant | have hurt · hasn't been · have learned |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 18 contractions et formes réduites, comme we'll, don't, we're. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « th »: thereby /ðɛɹˈbaɪ/, worthless /ˈwɜːθ.ləs/
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: adulation /ˌæd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/, slavishly /ˈsleɪvɪʃli/, cherish /ˈt͡ʃɛɹɪʃ/, realization /ˌɹɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, accomplish /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: adulation /ˌæd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/, barometer /bəˈɹɑ.mə.tɚ/, delicately /ˈdɛlɪkətli/, undeserving /ˌʌndɪˈzɝvɪŋ/, unnaturally /ʌnˈnæt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəli/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: uphold /ˌʌpˈhəʊld/, helpless /ˈhɛlplɪs/
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: adulation /ˌæd͡ʒəˈleɪʃən/, unnaturally /ʌnˈnæt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəli/, cherish /ˈt͡ʃɛɹɪʃ/, emerge /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒ/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: interpret /ɪnˈtɜː.pɹɪt/, thereby /ðɛɹˈbaɪ/, barometer /bəˈɹɑ.mə.tɚ/, befriend /bəˈfɹɛnd/, resilient /ɹɪˈzɪl.jənt/
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 verdict, validate, neglect.
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.