Pratique du Shadowing: Simon Sinek on Avoiding Burnout and the Modern Work-Life Balance - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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The question is how do we take care of the health of our people
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so we can continue to perform over the long term?
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Two lumberjacks every morning, they go to work at the same time.
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Every day they end work at the same time.
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And every day one of the lumberjacks disappears in the middle of the day for about an hour.
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And every day the lumberjack
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that disappears for about an hour in the middle of the day chops more wood than the other lumberjack.
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This goes on for months.
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And then finally the guy who works all day, he stops.
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He says, I have to ask you, every day we start at the same time.
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Every day we stop at the same time.
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Every day you go away for about an hour in the middle of the day, and every day you chop more wood than me.
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Where do you go away for that hour?
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And the other lumberjack looks up and goes, Oh, I go home and sharpen my act.
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And I think it's one thing to enforce people taking vacation, but I think we don't even do a good job of that.
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There's a huge difference between taking a vacation and telecommuting from the beach.
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And I think where we get it wrong is where we allow people to dial in in the morning
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and miss breakfast with their family when they're on vacation.
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or we expect them to be on the call when they're sitting by the pool.
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That's not a vacation.
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That's telecommuting from just a foreign place.
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And so I think work-life balance is becoming a more complicated thing to understand
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and achieve because of this world we live in where now distributed workforces are now a thing where you can work remotely.
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And how and when people work and even what the definition of a full-time job is, is all changing.
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and I've been forced to challenge my own beliefs.
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So I used to be very, very strict that once you leave the office at the end of the day, I don't want to hear from you,
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and don't you dare send me an email on the weekend because you should be with your family.
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There was always going to be exceptions and rare circumstances, but on balance, I was pretty dogmatic about it.
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And I came across some research recently.
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There's a company called Water Cooler, which I help, that tracks sort of everybody's work It's kind of amazing stuff they do.
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And what they discovered is that people who never engage on weekends
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or evenings actually have high propensities to quit and very low engagement scores.
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People who work too much at nights and on weekends burn out very quickly.
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But there's this little sweet spot where people who want to work the occasional night, do a little bit of work on the occasional weekend,
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actually have the best performing and actually the happiest employees, the reason they work on the occasional night and weekend is because they care.
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And so it really flew in the face of what I used to believe.
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So now I tend to sort of take a step back and I just want to make sure people aren't overdoing it.
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But vacation is different.
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I expect people to disconnect when they're on vacation because I need them to sharpen their acts.
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I also expect people to speak out if they need a break.
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And the way to do that is for me to lead the way.
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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 « Simon Sinek on Avoiding Burnout and the Modern Work-Life Balance ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : vacation, lumberjack, weekend, hour, occasional. Cette vidéo contient 41 phrases et 594 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 2:53. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 205 mots par minute : attendez-vous à des liaisons et à des sons réduits. 87 % 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
Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| lumberjack nom | /ˈlʌm.bɚ.d͡ʒæk/ | bûcheron |
| occasional adjectif | /əˈkeɪʒ(ə)nəl/ | occasionnel |
| sharpen verbe | /ˈʃɑɹpən/ | affiler, affûter |
| telecommuting nom | /ˈtɛləkəˌmjuːtɪŋ/ | télétravail, travail à distance |
| chop verbe | /t͡ʃɑp/ | hacher, découper |
| disappear verbe | /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ | disparaître |
| disconnect verbe | /dɪskəˈnɛkt/ | débrancher, déconnecter |
| dogmatic adjectif | /dɔɡˈmæt.ɪk/ | dogmatique |
| overdo verbe | /ˌoʊvɚˈdu/ | en faire trop, trop cuire |
| propensity nom | /pɹəˈpɛnsɪti/ | propension, tendance |
| circumstance nom | /ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/ | circonstance |
| remotely adverbe | /ɹɪˈmoʊtli/ | à distance |
| distribute verbe | /dɪˈstɹɪbjuːt/ | distribuer |
| dial nom | /ˈdaɪ.əl/ | cadran |
| workforce nom | /ˈwɝk.foɹs/ | main-d'œuvre, personnel |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Sens |
|---|---|
| come across verbe | avoir l'air de |
| speak out verbe | se prononcer, s'affirmer |
La grammaire de cette vidéo
Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :
| Structure | Dans la vidéo |
|---|---|
| « Used to » used to + verbe — une habitude ou un état passé qui n’est plus vrai | used to be · used to believe |
| Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chose | guy who works · people who never · People who work |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 8 contractions et formes réduites, comme don't, they're, aren't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: occasional /əˈkeɪʒ(ə)nəl/, sharpen /ˈʃɑɹpən/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: occasional /əˈkeɪʒ(ə)nəl/, telecommuting /ˈtɛləkəˌmjuːtɪŋ/, propensity /pɹəˈpɛnsɪti/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: lumberjack /ˈlʌm.bɚ.d͡ʒæk/, chop /t͡ʃɑp/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: sharpen /ˈʃɑɹpən/, disappear /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/, propensity /pɹəˈpɛnsɪti/, remotely /ɹɪˈmoʊtli/, distribute /dɪˈstɹɪbjuːt/
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 lumberjack, occasional, sharpen.
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.