Pratique du Shadowing: The Art of Slowing Down - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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They say it's not enough to be busy.
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Question is, what are we busy about?
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That is something I've been considering quite a lot recently.
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The past few months have taught me a lot about slowing down.
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Not like I really had a choice, but still.
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On some days, I feel overwhelmed, thinking I'm not doing enough, and at the same time, feeling like everyone else is doing so much more.
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But is it worth doing other things if it means doing more, even if it's not really what you want to be doing?
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I wrote that question down and now I don't know if it makes sense.
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Well, hopefully you get what I mean.
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Anyway, the other day I thought it was finally time to do some things I've been putting off for a while.
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I have so many photos piling up and something needed to be done about it.
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My mom always made albums, so I figured I should start making them too.
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I came across some pictures from four years ago.
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It was the first time I ever traveled alone halfway across the world.
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And it's funny because I felt like I needed to get away from everything to figure everything out.
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I remember going there for as long as I possibly could.
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It was the first time I was just with myself and no one else.
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It was lonely, some days.
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That's weird because I think I'd be a totally different person if I didn't do that.
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I think I spent a lot of my young adult life looking for answers and a life outside myself.
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Always chasing, always wanting more.
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Only a couple of years later to find out that the real peace is being content in the everyday stuff.
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And that the small things that happen every day matter more than the big things that happen every once in a while.
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So much has changed since then.
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But in a way I feel like I'm there again.
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Taking it day by day, observing what things actually matter to me and where I would like to go from here.
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When you're an artist, a photographer, a filmmaker,
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everything we make feels like it has to be amazing to the point where we almost get afraid to make mistakes.
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And we lose that sense that sense of play that we had in the beginning.
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But I think I found some freedom in slowing down.
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I want to be able to remember the everyday trivial things, you know?
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Not pursuing anything grand, but just living through the small moments that I know I'll eventually miss over time.
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There's a quote from C.S.
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Lewis, It's funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
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I guess it's a good reminder that we don't always have to stick with what we know, and We have the choice to change things if we're not happy with it.
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If we did it before, then we'll survive if we do it again.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is, all we can do is give ourselves the time we need.
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The break we need.
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From people, from work, to figure things out.
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Maybe to remind ourselves what really matters. Who matters.
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Maybe just to slow down, because we're going a thousand miles an hour and don't really know where anymore.

Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette vidéo contient 41 phrases et 566 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 4:24. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 129 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. 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

13 mots de la vidéo à retenir, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

MotPrononciationSens
everyday adjectif/ˈɛvɹiˌdeɪ/usuel
chase verbe/t͡ʃeɪs/poursuivre, chasser
remind verbe/ɹəˈmaɪnd/rappeler à
photographer nom/fəˈtɑ.ɡɹə.fɚ/photographe, photoseur
pursue verbe/pɚˈsu/poursuivre
lonely adjectif/ˈloʊnli/seul
pile nom/paɪl/monceau, tas
reminder nom/ɹɪˈmaɪndə(ɹ)/rappel
halfway adverbe/ˌhæfˈweɪ/(à) mi-chemin
observe verbe/əbˈzɜːv/respecter, observer
trivial adjectif/ˈtɹɪv.i.əl/trivial, anodin
filmmaker nomcinéaste
overwhelm verbe/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/abreuver

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

MotSens
slow down verberalentir, décélérer
come across verbeavoir l'air de
find out verbedécouvrir, savoir
look back verbese remémorer
pile up verbeamonceler, empiler

La grammaire de cette vidéo

Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :

StructureDans la vidéo
Present perfect continu have/has been + -ing — une action commencée avant et toujours en coursI've been considering · I've been putting
Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenanthave taught · has changed

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 15 contractions et formes réduites, comme don't, I'm, I've. 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 everyday, chase, remind.

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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