Pratique du Shadowing: Practice: Letting the Feeling Come Closer - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

Création de la leçon...
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Come and join me for a few minutes in a practice that I call Looking Under the Hood of Your Suffering.
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It's probably gentler than you expect.
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I'm not going to ask you to fix anything, or to feel better, or to make any feeling go away.
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Settle in, in any way that you feel comfortable.
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You don't need to close your eyes unless you'd like to.
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Take one breath and let it out.
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and let the day just set itself down for a moment.
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There's nowhere else you need to be right now.
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Now bring to mind one feeling that you've been keeping at a distance.
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something you've been a little too busy or a little too stoic to actually let yourself feel.
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You don't have to name it perfectly.
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Just let the feeling come a bit closer and give it some room.
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See if you can find where it lives in the body.
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Sometimes a feeling that we've been holding off shows up as a tightness in the chest,
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a heaviness behind the eyes, a knot in the stomach, a tension in the jaw.
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you're not trying to change it or push it away, you're just getting curious about it.
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Where is it?
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And what does it actually feel like?
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Stay with it a little longer than feels natural.
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Notice whether the feeling holds steady or shifts as you watch it.
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Whether it grows or softens or moves,
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you don't have to do anything to it, you're simply keeping it company.
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And notice, if you can, that you are still here.
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The feeling is here, and so are you, and there's room for both.
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this feeling is not a flaw or a failure to be calm it's part of being alive
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and you are strong enough to hold it
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now slowly let your attention widen back to the room around you
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The next time you catch yourself walling a feeling off,
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telling yourself, I'm fine, it's nothing, you might look under the hood instead
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and let the feeling come a little closer just Just for a moment to see what it has to tell you.
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And when you're ready, return gently to the rest of your day.

Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette vidéo contient 31 phrases et 369 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 4:45. Le locuteur parle lentement, environ 78 mots par minute, ce qui laisse le temps d’imiter chaque son. 89 % 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 :

  • curious /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/ (adjectif) — curieux. Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
  • stomach /ˈstʌmək/ (nom) — estomac. An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
  • nowhere /ˈnoʊ.(h)wɛɹ/ (adverbe) — nulle part. In no place.
  • settle /ˈsɛtəl/ (verbe) — régler. To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
  • steady /ˈstɪdi/ (adjectif) — lisse. Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.
  • breathe /bɹiːð/ (verbe) — respirer, inspirer. To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.
  • tension /ˈtɛnʃən/ (nom) — tension. The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other.
  • gentle /ˈd͡ʒɛntl̩/ (adjectif) — gentil. Tender and amiable; of a considerate or kindly disposition.
  • knot /nɑt/ (nom) — nœud. A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its…
  • flaw /flɔ/ (nom) — défaut, fissure. A crack or breach, a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion.
  • heaviness /ˈhɛvɪnəs/ (nom) — lourdeur. The state of being heavy; weight, weightiness, force of impact or gravity.
  • soften /ˈsɑfən/ (verbe) — adoucir. To make something soft or softer.
  • stoic /ˈstoʊ.ɪk/ (adjectif) — stoïque. Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas.
  • tightness (nom) — étroitesse. The quality or degree of being tight.
  • widen /ˈwaɪdn̩/ (verbe) — s’élargir. To become wide or wider.

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

  • go away (verbe) — partir, s'en aller. To depart or leave a place.
  • show up (verbe) — apparaître, se montrer se pointer. To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 13 contractions et formes réduites, comme you're, don't, I'm. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

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 curious, stomach, nowhere.

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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