Pratique du Shadowing: My Method for Learning Languages from Scratch - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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Hi, Steve Coffin here.
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Today I'm going to talk about,
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I often get this question like,
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how do you start a language from scratch?
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What is your process to learn a language?
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By the way, if you enjoy my podcast or at least videos about language learning, please subscribe.
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Alright, how do you start from scratch?
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Obviously right now I'm focusing on four Slavic languages.
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I've studied all those four languages to varying degrees before.
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So I'm not starting from scratch.
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In fact, the last language I started from scratch,
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I guess was Ukrainian, but I had had Slavic languages before, Romanian maybe.
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How do I start from scratch?
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All right, let's say I was going to study Turkish.
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All right.
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Or Arabic, and I do intend to do that one day.
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I would go out and buy a starter book.
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A starter book is like a teach yourself,
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assimil, colloquial, any of those.
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It almost doesn't matter.
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I just find it's comfortable to have a book,
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a little book, that gives you a bit of an overview of the language.
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There's typically, you know, 20 or 12 chapters that introduce some aspects of the language in each chapter.
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They have a dialogue, some audio, some explanations.
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And I kind of go through them predominantly to get a sense of the language,
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to read some
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and to get an overview of the grammar not expecting to
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remember much it's just kind of an introduction get my feet wet
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so to speak then as soon as I could I would
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get into interesting content how soon I can get into interesting content will depend on the language
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but I would start trying and I would do it at LingQ obviously
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because there I can look up every word I can I can't say words,
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I'm used to that.
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That's my favorite sort of learning environment.
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But my sort of modus operandi is to get into a situation where I can listen and read.
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Because listening in combination with reading is so powerful.
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And so for an initial six months or so, I would only...
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And so then people say,
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well, how can you listen to things you don't understand?
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I get that all the time.
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How can you listen if you don't know the words?
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Obviously, when you start out,
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you have to listen to short bits of content because you don't understand.
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And you have to listen to content where you have the transcript.
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And again it should be 30 seconds long because you're going to be looking up words,
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you're going to be struggling,
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you don't understand, you're in that early process of discovering the language.
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But to listen to something you have to have the transcript so that you can look up the words.
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Alright?
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Also, listening and reading go together.
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Why?
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we listen to something that has been recorded.
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Alright, that's a record.
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It's an audio record of something that someone said.
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But writing is a written record.
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Before they had, you know,
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tape recorders or mp3 files,
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all they had was writing.
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That was the only way to record what was said.
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And the writing is a visual representation of the words.
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I find that I need both.
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If I just hear it, I won't remember it.
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Not a chance.
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If I'm talking to my tutor and she gives me a new word in Ukrainian,
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if I don't see it written down,
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I haven't got a chance of remembering that word.
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But if I hear it often enough and see it often enough,
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that's the visual representation, if I combine the two,
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I have a chance of accumulating those words.
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So in order for that to work in the initial period,
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which might be one, two,
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three months, you've got to listen more than once to the same content.
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And so that's what I would do.
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Therefore it has to be short.
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And you have to, even though the content is boring,
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it's the challenge of trying to make sense out of this new language that makes it interesting enough,
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stimulating, challenging enough that I can actually listen over and over because I'm still not getting certain parts of it.
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Even though I've read it and I've looked up the words and I've kind of pieced together what it means,
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when I listen to it, it's still a blur.
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So therefore there's that challenge that keeps you focused.
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You're going to listen to it again,
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read it again, and also in the beginning I'm more likely to review words
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and phrases using my flashcards or other of the activities that we have at LINC,
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closed tests or multiple choice or whatever,
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to try to somehow, because I have to very sort of intensively work this stuff because it's so new to me.
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Now gradually as I progress,
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and remember again, I'm listening to content that's short,
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for which I have the transcript.
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And hopefully it's relatively easy because it's designed for beginners.
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And you can get
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that out of your beginner book you can find lots of
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such content at LINK for different languages some languages have more than others
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and then but as early as possible I want to get to interesting content
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because after a while it becomes boring to listen to stuff that's essentially boring
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so I have to move to a stage where I am now motivated by my interest in the content.
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And for me very often that means books related to the history of the country where the language is spoken.
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And then it continues.
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It's that combination of the the sound and the visual representation of the words repeated, repeated, repeated.
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Now some people say well you should you know try
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and first learn the most important 1000 words of the language they will show up anyway that you needn't worry about
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the main thing is is to get hooked hooked on the
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language get enough of a start with the beginner material
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that you've got a bit of a toehold on more interesting material
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and initially it's a tough grind but i find that in
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that early period where it's very difficult and i'm looking up a lot of words,
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I'm excited by the fact that I'm actually reading and listening to authentic material that turns me on.
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Wow, look at me.
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Now I've got say a Turkish newscast with transcript and I'm listening to it,
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not really understanding it, reading it,
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listening again, but it's real stuff.
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And then sort of without even realizing it,
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all of a sudden, three months later,
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I'm able to understand more and more of these podcasts or whatever they might be.
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And then as I'm getting more and more of the meaning,
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then I try to notice expressions
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or words that are kind of key words for the meaning or key words that I would like to use.
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And so I think it's useful once you are comfortable with the meaning
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that you try to focus on certain expressions when you notice them, certain phrases.
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All right.
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The great thing about listening is you can do it wherever you are.
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I find that and I've said this before,
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if I just sit down and listen, I lose focus.
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However, if I'm listening while driving,
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if I'm listening while doing the dishes,
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then I seem to be able to focus in better on the meaning.
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And once you are able to kind of get the meaning fairly well,
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that's the time when you start focusing in on expressions and phrases so that you notice it here,
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you notice it there, and pretty soon it starts to become part of your vocabulary.
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Now, different people start speaking at different times.
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I, if I were doing Turkish,
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I would imagine that my initial period with the beginner material might be three months because it's a totally different language.
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Then I might go another three,
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four, five months with a lot of listening and reading,
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getting into more and more interesting content.
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And then I would need to start speaking because when you start speaking,
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you see things that are missing.
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You get a report back hopefully from your tutor,
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which I can import into LingQ.
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And this increases your attentiveness so that when you're listening,
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you're listening for some of the things that you have had difficulty with.
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And as you progress, you're able to speak more.
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But even when I'm speaking a lot,
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like right now with my Ukrainian,
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because I'm doing four languages,
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I'm doing Ukrainian for six weeks,
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then I'm going to do maybe Polish and maybe Czech.
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So I'm speaking once a day, an hour a day.
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That's a lot.
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I think it's sufficient to do it once or twice a week.
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That's all the speaking you need in order to kind of maintain that level of focus when you're listening and reading.
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and basically that's what I do.
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If I have dedicated learning time I sit down with my iPad and I read and I create links.
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The listening ends up being the biggest part of my learning activity
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because I can do it whenever I want but that basically is what I would do.
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So when I undertake Turkish or Arabic when I get around to doing
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that I would expect that it would take me a year on you know So using mostly listening time,
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maybe 45 minutes a day,
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an hour, another half hour with my iPad on link.
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On that basis, I would think within a year,
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I would be able to present to you some videos of me speaking Turkish.
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That's for the future.
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Anyway, that's a brief description of how I go about learning languages.
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I hope this was of interest and I'd be interested in answering any questions.
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Bye for now.
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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 « My Method for Learning Languages from Scratch ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : language, word, listening, listen, content. Cette vidéo contient 165 phrases et 1645 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 9:47. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 168 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. 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 |
|---|---|---|
| beginner nom | /bəˈɡɪnɚ/ | débutant, débutante |
| transcript nom | /ˈtɹæn.skɹɪpt/ | transcription |
| bore verbe | /boɹ/ | ennuyer, barber |
| tutor nom | /ˈtjuːtəː/ | tuteur |
| accumulate verbe | /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/ | accumuler |
| colloquial adjectif | /kəˈloʊ.kwi.əl/ | familier, parlé |
| flashcard nom | /ˈflæʃˌkɑɹd/ | carte mémoire, flashcard |
| intensively adverbe | intensivement | |
| newscast nom | journal télévisé, téléjournal | |
| toehold nom | /ˈtəʊhəʊld/ | prise |
| dedicate verbe | /ˈdɛdɪˌkeɪt/ | consacrer, vouer |
| blur verbe | /blɝ/ | estomper, brouiller |
| motivate verbe | /ˈmoʊ.tɪ.veɪt/ | motiver |
| stimulate verbe | /ˈstɪm.jəˌleɪt/ | stimuler |
| recorder nom | /ɹiˈkɔɹ.dəɹ/ | enregistreur |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Sens |
|---|---|
| end up verbe | se terminer, se finir |
| go out verbe | sortir |
| go through verbe | traverser |
| show up verbe | apparaître, se montrer se pointer |
| sit down verbe | s'asseoir |
| write down verbe | noter, écrire |
Des phrases à répéter
Des phrases courtes et complètes de la vidéo, à réutiliser dans la conversation de tous les jours :
- What is your process to learn a language?
- Alright, how do you start from scratch?
- How do I start from scratch?
- That's my favorite sort of learning environment.
- How can you listen if you don't know the words?
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 studied · has been recorded · I've read |
| Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait | has been recorded · was said · is spoken |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 48 contractions et formes réduites, comme I'm, you're, I've. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: accumulate /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/, colloquial /kəˈloʊ.kwi.əl/, predominantly /pɹɪˈdɒmɪnəntli/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: transcript /ˈtɹæn.skɹɪpt/, bore /boɹ/, starter /ˈstɑɹ.tɚ/, flashcard /ˈflæʃˌkɑɹd/, recorder /ɹiˈkɔɹ.dəɹ/
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 beginner, transcript, bore.
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.