Pratique du Shadowing: Russians are terrified about their airports closing - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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Very soon, every single airport in Russia could look exactly like this one here in Ukraine.
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But though flights taken off, nothing landing.
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And Putin is terrified of this scenario.
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That's why he responded within an hour of Ukraine announcing that they were going to do this.
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And just to imagine how much chaos this could actually cause, the only reference that can really be compared to something like this would be the 2010 Iceland eruption.
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And if you remember, the absolute chaos that caused.
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Imagine that, but the volcano doesn't stop erupting.
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So I want to spend this video sitting here telling you exactly what it would look like
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if the runways in Russia were to look like this.
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So the first thing I want to start with is the sheer scale and the size of Russia.
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A country that spans 11 time zones doesn't work without planes
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because it's such a big country it's impossible to get around otherwise.
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And I've seen a lot of people as well saying well Russians can just get trains wherever they want to go.
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Most freight in Russia they're not very well maintained, they're actually very at capacity anyway, they're pretty rubbish, a lot of them are pretty much broken.
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And it's in a lot of ways the same for the roads in rural Russia as well.
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To be honest, there's almost no way to really get around that country, unless you want to go back to the days of horse and carts.
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So this is absolutely off limit.
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But just to give you the full context of all this, Zelensky earlier this week said that the skies over Ukraine are no longer safe
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and that he warned the civil aviation authorities around the world of that situation.
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He basically said, look, Russia is at war.
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We're flying our drones into Russia, Russia are flying their drones back into Ukraine.
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And so Russia should be treated the same way that Ukraine is right now.
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And if you look at these maps here of Ukraine since 2022, there's a blank spot right now that shows there's no air traffic over it.
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And that looks like that's going to be extended over Russia.
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And actually, it's a pretty reasonable thing to warn these insurance companies and these airliners that it's unsafe to fly over Russia.
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And look, a lot of people think that this is some sort of warning
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that Ukraine are going to start shooting down civilian aircraft.
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And what Zelensky actually means by that is Ukraine are going to increase the amount of drones that they're using.
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They're going to fly them deeper into Russia.
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They might even have them circle certain airports.
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They're not going to be crashing into civilian airplanes.
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It's actually what Russia did with MH17 and denied it and tried to cover it up.
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And also, this didn't actually start this week.
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About 10 days ago, I was invited as part of a press pool to speak to Zelensky.
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And I asked him if he was going to do this.
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I think I was the only person in the room that predicted this would happen.
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And that's because months ago within Zelensky's team, there was a plan to use AI systems to use swarms to do something to airports.
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And I wanted to clarify what that was.
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Zelensky didn't answer.
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He said it was something he didn't know about.
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Clearly, he did though.
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But I kind of knew that they were up to something.
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I kind of knew that this was still in the works
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because the 40-day operation that Zelensky launched quite recently has already come to an end.
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That was to try and force Russia to peace.
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Russia hasn't done that.
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Russia has actually intensified their attacks every single hour.
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There's another air alert in Kyiv every minute.
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This morning, I woke up to cabs exploding here in Odessa, which is pretty unprecedented.
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So Russia have escalated things beyond belief since the 40-day operation started and ended.
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And it looks like this is Ukraine's now response to that.
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So first, let's start with the numbers.
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Last year, Russia had about 109 million passengers in 12 months.
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About 81 million of those were domestic.
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That is about 300,000 passengers every single day, a huge volume.
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Now, remove the planes.
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You've got a serious problem.
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I've written down just how long this is going to take.
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So Moscow to St. Petersburg by train, just about doable, about three hours, three and a half hours.
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There's not that many trains, but you can do it if you really want to.
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But Moscow to this region, about 24 hours.
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That's when things start to get really tricky and the trains get a lot worse the further out you go.
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And now Moscow, maybe to somewhere here, by plane, about eight hours.
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By train, six and a half days.
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That's more of an expedition than a commute at this point, which means if you've got a business, say in Siberia, say you've got a factory and you've got a headquarters in Moscow, you've got to send out an engineer instead of it taking a few hours,
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it's going to take over a week and
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that engineer is going to become a Christopher Columbus style explorer trying to get there.
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And that doesn't work when you're trying to do business at all.
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Also take away the planes.
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You decimate almost every single holiday destination inside Russia.
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Again, 81 million domestic flights is a huge number of Russians going from A to B.
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And all these destinations here all along the Black Sea, they are going to go out of business.
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All those holiday destinations, all those resorts are going to be pretty upset, pretty decimated.
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The local economies are going to be decimated as well.
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That's a huge part of all of this.
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Again, the Russian economy is going to take a huge hit to this.
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And economy aside, look how angry Russians going to be about this.
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Look how furious they were at their plans being cancelled when Crimea was closed for business this summer, when Brovdi made it impossible to get there.
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They were screaming and crying saying that they couldn't go to the beach anymore, that they couldn't go to Crimea.
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And that was just one region that was just Crimea.
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Imagine if the Russians can't go on holiday anywhere in Russia.
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Total disaster.
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And this process has already started.
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There's already been flights cancelled minutes after Zelensky announced this.
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And yes, there's still air traffic over Russia.
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But what's probably going to happen here is a domino effect.
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You're probably going to have insurance starts to rise, certain airlines start to get nervous, premiums start to increase, perhaps pilots stop showing up.
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And that is the beginning of how this sort of thing starts to escalate, where prices start to go up, where chaos starts to ensure.
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And honestly, it seems like a real possibility.
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And I don't think every single airline are going to immediately start pulling out, especially the Russian airlines that are controlled and owned by the Russian government.
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The Russian government do not give a shit about their population.
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They don't care that civilians could die, they'll just blame Ukraine anyway.
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So they're going to force their airlines to stay open as long as humanly possible.
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But international airlines will probably start to go first, the ones that fly from places like this, from Dubai, from Singapore, from Istanbul, a huge number of flights.
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If you look at this graph here, it shows the top 10 flights to and from Russia internationally, the top two are in Turkey, which is a NATO country, by the way.
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So it's pretty insane that they're facilitating such a sheer volume of air traffic in
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and out of a country that is at war with the largest country in the whole of Europe.
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But that's an entirely side point.
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And again, this is so unbelievably unprecedented
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that it's impossible to actually measure just the sheer scale of destruction this will cause to the Russian economy.
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But what we can do is look at examples from the past of
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when flights have been disrupted and try to use that as a gauge of how this could look in the future.
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So last year, July 2025, there were 485 flights cancelled and Russian industry estimates put that at 20 billion rubles and that was for a day.
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Imagine that every single day, not just for weeks, but for months.
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Actually, the only scenario that can possibly be compared to what this would look like in Russia is the volcano, the one that we can't pronounce, that erupted in 2010.
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But yeah, remember the headlines every single day, the tourism that was decimated, the holiday destinations that couldn't cope with it, the airline industries that almost went entirely bust.
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Imagine that without it ending.
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That's probably the closest thing we possibly have to this.
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But Ukraine doesn't have to destroy Russia's aviation.
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It just has to destroy the confidence in its aviation.
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That's how insurance works.
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That's how these policies work.
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That's how costs work.
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That's how flights start to get cancelled.
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That's all that needs to happen here.
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The bigger point to all this is that Russia tried to make life totally unbearable here in Ukraine.
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They tried to make cities unlivable.
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They tried to destroy ports, energy, infrastructure, and now Ukraine are fighting back.
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They've finally developed their own techniques, their own tools, their own drones to hit Russia where it hurts, without permission.
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And a big thing to note right now is
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that Russians are going to be preparing probably one of their biggest pieces of propaganda ever to try
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and convince the world that this is some sort of escalation, that this is some sort of terrorism right now, because they know how devastating this could be.
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And there's something vital to remember when you're reading that propaganda.
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And that is that Russia started this war.
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Russia made it so that every single runway in Ukraine looked exactly like this, not just since 2022, but since 2014.
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And Donbass runways like in Kramatorsk, the city I was just filming in, haven't had a single flight take off since the war started there.
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If Russians don't want their airports to look like this, then all they have to do is stop the war that they started.
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And then you can fly wherever you like.
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You can go on any business trip you want.
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You can go on any holiday you want.
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You can do whatever you like.
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All you have to do is leave Ukraine.
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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon
Cette vidéo contient 132 phrases et 1770 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 8:01. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 221 mots par minute : attendez-vous à des liaisons et à des sons réduits. 85 % 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
15 mots moins courants de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
- airline /ˈɛɹˌlaɪn/ (nom) — compagnie aérienne, ligne aérienne. A company that flies airplanes to transport people and goods.
- destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/ (nom) — destination, arrivée. The place set for the end of a journey or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.
- cancel /ˈkæn.sl̩/ (verbe) — annuler, résilier. To cross out something with lines etc.
- drone /dɹoʊn/ (nom) — faux bourdon. A male hymenopteran (ant, bee, hornet, or wasp), whose sole primary function is to mate with the queen.
- chaos /ˈkeɪˌɑs/ (nom) — chaos. The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
- aviation /ˌeɪ̯.viːˈeɪ̯.ʃən/ (nom) — aviation. The art or science of making and flying aircraft.
- sheer /ʃɪɚ/ (adjectif) — transparent, diaphane. Very thin or transparent.
- runway /ˈɹʌnweɪ/ (nom) — podium, passerelle. A defined, narrow section of land or an artificial structure used for access.
- compare /kəmˈpɛɚ/ (verbe) — comparer. To assess the similarities and differences between two or more things [“to compare X with Y”]. Having made the comparison of X with Y, one might have found it…
- passenger /ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ (nom) — passager, passagère. One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew.
- wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/ — où, là où. Regardless of the place in, at or to which.
- announce /əˈnaʊn(t)s/ (verbe) — annoncer. To give public notice of, especially for the first time; to make known.
- civilian /sɪˈvɪl.jən/ (nom) — civil, civile. A person following the pursuits of civil life, especially one who is not an active member of the armed forces.
- scenario /sɪˈnɛəɹioʊ/ (nom) — scénario. An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events.
- warn /woɹn/ (verbe) — avertir, alerter. To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc.
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
- go on /ˈɡoʊˌɒn/ (verbe) — continuer. To continue in extent.
- look at (verbe) — regarder. To observe or watch.
- take off (verbe) — enlever, ôter. To remove.
- fight back /faɪt bæk/ (verbe) — contre-attaquer. To defend oneself by fighting.
- go up (verbe) — monter, s'élever. To move upwards.
- pull out (verbe) — se retirer. To withdraw; especially of military forces; to retreat.
- show up (verbe) — apparaître, se montrer se pointer. To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically.
- take away /ˌteɪk əˈweɪ/ (verbe) — retirer. To remove something and put it in a different place.
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 38 contractions et formes réduites, comme they're, you've, doesn't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, aviation /ˌeɪ̯.viːˈeɪ̯.ʃən/, sheer /ʃɪɚ/, destruction /dɪsˈtɹʌkʃən/, expedition /ɛkspəˈdɪʃən/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, aviation /ˌeɪ̯.viːˈeɪ̯.ʃən/, unprecedented /ʌnˈpɹɛsɪdɛntɪd/, infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, terrorism /ˈtɛɹəɹɪzəm/
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 airline, destination, cancel.
La grammaire de cette vidéo
Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :
| Structure | Dans la vidéo |
|---|---|
| Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait | is terrified · be compared · should be treated |
| Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant | I've seen · has already come · hasn't done |
| Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chose | Odessa, which is · point, which means · Turkey, which is |
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.