Pratique du Shadowing: Santana's Acid Trip - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

Now, Carlos, I know you've told this story a million times, but I have to ask.

It's been reported that every time you look at your performance at Woodstock and the Woodstock documentary, you either flinch or avert your eyes.

Why?

What is it about that performance that makes you do that?

Well when we landed, we were in this helicopter and I never seen so many, it was like an ocean of hair and teeth and arms

and when we landed the first person that I saw was Jerry Garcia and he says, what time are you going to go on?

I said, apparently two bands after you and he goes, well they make yourself comfortable, it's like 12.30 in the afternoon,

we're not going to go on until like 1 in the morning.

And I go, oh, I guess we're going to go around 3 o'clock in the morning.

Yeah, in the meantime, you want some of this?

And I was like, sure.

You know, I just did the math between now.

Yeah, I'll be fine by then.

What was it?

It was acid.

It was LSD.

And so I went, and as soon as I took it,

it was like, everything became another dimension.

And then I see this phase coming and saying, if you don't play now, you're not going to play at all.

You need to go on right now.

And I'm like, oh my God.

okay, you know, I thought I had six, seven hours to recuperate from because, you know, it's kind of like a roller coaster.

You know, you go through this.

And so I said, okay, take a deep breath.

And I discovered a mantra back then without even knowing, God, please help me.

Help me to stay in tune and in time.

And I promise I'll never do this again.

Sure.

So I went up there and so when I started playing, of course, the guitar neck,

the neck and the guitar started wavering, you know, like a snake.

And I was like, oh, uh-oh.

So I just started making faces because I was trying to keep it tame, you know, I was trying to keep it from slithering all over the place.

When I first saw the movie, Jimi Hendrix lady took me to see it.

He had left that morning for Maui.

So she says, hey man, what are you doing?

I says, oh, you know, just got a day off.

Well, go unpack your stuff and come.

I want to take you to this movie.

What movie?

I says, what's that?

What's that?

They made a movie?

Yeah, wait till you see it.

We saw it last night with Jimmy and when you guys came on, you guys freaked him out.

I go, really?

He goes, he loves your energy, man.

He loves your performance and he's like,

so you know it's such a beautiful badge of honor that someone so imperial like Jimi Hendrix would dig our performance.

I feel really grateful because it takes a lot of courage to go in front of 550,000 people

at the peak of this mine expensive,

kind of like a shaman going through from, anyway.

Fortunately it was successful.

It was more than successful.

I mean, it was masterful.

I know you're a modest guy, but you stole the show.

I give the credit to God, man, because that's what I keep praying for.

Always, just like with diligence, please, please, please.

I trusted that my fingers knew where to go and what to do.

What I was calling up to make the connection was with my spirit and God, so that God would say,

okay, take a deep breath, take a deep breath, and I'm going to guide you, navigate through all this mind hallucination stuff.

Because, you know, it's, and then I began to really like it.

I used to do it here in New York a lot.

But I thought you promised God you wouldn't do it again.

You didn't keep your promise?

Well, I didn't do that specific acid.

You know, I took some other, like, a mezcal and any peyote and other kind of stuff.

Actually, nowadays, I don't think people are, maybe under supervision, I'm not endorsing it,

but I would say that even Cary Grant under supervision needed to, because when you take it, it's also like a snake shedding all beliefs.

You know, under supervision, it's actually very therapeutically healing for you.

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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B2 s’appuie sur la vidéo « Santana's Acid Trip ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : performance, movie, supervision, breath, deep. Cette vidéo contient 69 phrases et 748 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 4:43. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 159 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. 82 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais ; le reste mérite d’être vu avant de commencer. 12 de ses 69 phrases sont des questions : un bon entraînement pour l’intonation interrogative et les réponses courtes.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

Mot	Prononciation	Sens
supervision nom	/ˌs(j)uːpəˈvɪʒən/	supervision, surveillance
flinch verbe	/ˈflɪnt͡ʃ/	broncher, sursauter
hallucination nom	/həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/	hallucination, illusion
peyote nom	/peɪˈjoʊti/	peyotl
shaman nom	/ˈʃɑːmən/	chamane, chaman
slither verbe	/ˈslɪðɚ/	ramper, glisser en ondulant
therapeutically adverbe	/ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk.li/	thérapeutiquement
unpack verbe	/ʌnˈpæk/	déballer, dépaqueter
mantra nom	/ˈmɑn.tɹə/	mantra
diligence nom	/ˈdɪlɪd͡ʒəns/	diligence
tame verbe	/teɪm/	apprivoiser, domestiquer
endorse verbe	/ɪnˈdoɹs/	soutenir, approuver
navigate verbe	/ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/	naviguer
fortunately adverbe	/ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/	heureusement, par bonheur
dimension nom	/daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/	dimension

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

Mot	Sens
go through verbe	traverser
go up verbe	monter, s'élever

Des phrases à répéter

Des phrases courtes et complètes de la vidéo, à réutiliser dans la conversation de tous les jours :

What is it about that performance that makes you do that?
I says, what's that?
You didn't keep your promise?

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 15 contractions et formes réduites, comme I'm, didn't, don't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

Les sons « th »: slither /ˈslɪðɚ/, therapeutically /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk.li/, mathematics /mæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪks/
Les sons « sh » et « zh »: supervision /ˌs(j)uːpəˈvɪʒən/, hallucination /həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/, shaman /ˈʃɑːmən/, dimension /daɪˈmɛn.ʃən/
Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: supervision /ˌs(j)uːpəˈvɪʒən/, hallucination /həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/, recuperate /ɹɪˈk(j)uːpəˌɹeɪt/, therapeutically /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk.li/, fortunately /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

/h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: hallucination /həˌluːsɪˈneɪʃən/, heal /ˈhiːl/, helicopter /ˈheliːˌkɔptə(ɹ)/
/tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: flinch /ˈflɪnt͡ʃ/, diligence /ˈdɪlɪd͡ʒəns/, fortunately /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/, badge /bæd͡ʒ/
/r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: recuperate /ɹɪˈk(j)uːpəˌɹeɪt/, therapeutically /ˌθɛɹ.əˈpju.tɪk.li/, mantra /ˈmɑn.tɹə/, endorse /ɪnˈdoɹs/, fortunately /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/

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 supervision, flinch, hallucination.

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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