Pratique du Shadowing: Japan's Anti-Procrastination Café - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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This is the world's first anti-procrastination cafe.
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And of course it's in Japan.
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All of the coolest stuff is in Japan.
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In this cafe, once you enter, you aren't allowed to leave until all your work is done.
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You write out all of your goals for the evening and choose one of three difficulty levels.
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Level 1 is a verbal confirmation with the staff upon leaving that you completed everything you set out to do.
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So, it's pretty simple and honestly it seems quite easy to get out of doing the work in this one.
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You can just lie whenever you're leaving, just lie to the staff like, yeah, I got my work done.
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That's by design though, this is the easiest difficulty.
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Level 2, which is normal difficulty, sees a staff member check in on you every hour.
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And finally level 3, the hardest difficulty, has staff members frequently standing directly behind you and applying pressure.
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That one seems a little excessive, but hey, I mean, if you've got a deadline for tomorrow and you work well under pressure, you gotta do what you gotta do.
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Customers pay around about 85p or a little over a dollar every 30 minutes, and with that they get Wi-Fi and charging ports for their laptops.
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Interestingly though, there are no food products to buy at all.
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The only beverages are self-served tea and coffee that come at no extra charge.
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Which you might really need, because the owner is so committed to you finishing your work, that he will keep you there even if it means staying past cafe opening hours.
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But apparently the people of Tokyo really love this place, and is incredibly effective at helping them achieve their goals.
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Could this really be the answer to the world's procrastination problem?
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I'll just have to see for myself.
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Okay, so maybe I don't have the budget to just go to Japan and go to one of these actual anti-procrastination cafes, but what I'm going to do is experiment to see how this actually works.
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I went to my local cafe with an excessively long to-do list
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and I was not going to leave until I completed everything.
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Let's see just how effective these anti-procrastination cafes really are.
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Okay, so I just got out of there, I actually got everything I wanted to get done, done, to a really high quality, much faster than I thought I would.
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So I got it done faster than I thought I would, and to a higher quality than I thought I would.
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Now at this point these cafes probably seem amazing, and you're probably wishing you had these in your local area, but there is a caveat here.
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You see, I've tried sitting down for other big work sessions before in other cafes
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and libraries as I'm sure most of you watching have as well, but I wasn't nearly as productive.
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With the difference being, every time I've done it before, I was doing work that I just didn't care about, I just didn't naturally enjoy.
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Whereas this time it was something I was genuinely passionate about, YouTube.
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People are always looking for a quick fix and a hack for procrastination, and sure those things can work in the short term,
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but in the long term you're always going to struggle if you don't actually enjoy your work at all.
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But hey, even the most passionate workers procrastinate sometimes, so these cafes are perfect if you're just looking for that little bit of extra incentive to meet the deadline.
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And who knows, maybe one day Tokyo won't be the only city to have their local anti-procrastination cafe.
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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 « Japan's Anti-Procrastination Café ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : cafe, procrastination, difficulty, anti, staff. Cette vidéo contient 34 phrases et 615 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 3:18. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 187 mots par minute : attendez-vous à des liaisons et à des sons réduits. 84 % 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 |
|---|---|---|
| procrastination nom | /pɹəʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ | procrastination |
| café nom | /ˌkæˈfeɪ/ | café |
| passionate adjectif | /ˈpæʃənɪt/ | passionné |
| deadline nom | /ˈdɛdˌlaɪn/ | date butoir, date limite |
| caveat nom | /ˈkæviɑt/ | avertissement |
| excessively adverbe | /ɪkˈsɛsɪvli/ | bien trop, beaucoup trop |
| procrastinate verbe | /pɹoʊˈkɹæs.tə.neɪt/ | procrastiner |
| interestingly adverbe | de façon intéressante | |
| beverage nom | /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/ | boisson, breuvage |
| verbal adjectif | /ˈvɜː.bəl/ | verbal |
| incentive nom | /ɪnˈsɛntɪv/ | intérêt, motivation |
| confirmation nom | /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/ | confirmation |
| genuinely adverbe | /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/ | authentiquement, réellement |
| excessive adjectif | /ɪkˈsɛsɪv/ | excessif |
| productive adjectif | /pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/ | productif |
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 tried · I've done |
| Superlatifs the -est / the most … — le plus haut ou le plus bas d’un groupe | the coolest · the easiest · the hardest |
| Comparatifs -er than / more … than — comparer deux éléments | faster than |
| Présent continu am/is/are + -ing — ce qui se passe en ce moment | you're leaving · you're probably wishing · are always looking |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 19 contractions et formes réduites, comme you're, didn't, don't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: procrastination /pɹəʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, passionate /ˈpæʃənɪt/, confirmation /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: procrastination /pɹəʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, excessively /ɪkˈsɛsɪvli/, procrastinate /pɹoʊˈkɹæs.tə.neɪt/, confirmation /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: beverage /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: procrastination /pɹəʊˌkɹæs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, procrastinate /pɹoʊˈkɹæs.tə.neɪt/, beverage /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/, confirmation /ˌkɑn.fəɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, productive /pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/
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 procrastination, café, passionate.
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.