Pratique du Shadowing: The Stoic Lesson of Marcus Aurelius' Crumbling Statue - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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Okay, so there's a story about how they're restoring the famous Marcus Aurelius column in Rome.
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If you don't know about the column,
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it's a masterpiece of sculpture and carving depicting the 14 years that Marcus Aurelius spends at war with the Marco Mani tribes.
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And they put up this 94-foot column in his honor that still stands to this day.
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There's actually a stoic lesson in this because,
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yes, 19 centuries later, a monument to his accomplishments still stands.
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And even though it's a little worn down and needs some restoration,
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you might say that this disproves Marcus's reminders and meditations that posthumous fame doesn't last and no one will remember him.
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But I actually think the fact that it's still there is precisely the point.
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Because if you look at the top of this column,
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there's not a statue of Marcus Aurelius on top.
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It's actually St. Paul.
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In the 16th century, Pope Sixtus V decides to take the monument to Marcus Aurelius and reuse it for his own purposes.
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And in the end, that's what Marcus Aurelius' greatest accomplishment becomes,
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a pedestal for somebody else.
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And that is what Marcus is saying.
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That's what history does to all of us,
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even those of us famous enough to be remembered for one year or one century or 1,000 years.
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History takes us and it remixes and reuses us.
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It perverts us and undermines our legacy.
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It contradicts us, it absorbs us,
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and it uses us for our own purposes.
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On a long enough timeline,
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everyone's will and legacy is ignored.
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Their graves are lost and obscured.
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Their memory is written over.
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And we should remember this before it's too late.
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And let's say it didn't happen.
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Let's say it was still shiny and gleaming.
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Why would that matter?
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He says in meditations, Meditations people who are excited by posthumous fame forget
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that the people who remember them will die soon too and
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that those After them in turn until their memory passed from one to another like a candle flame
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Gutters and goes out and then he says suppose that that actually wasn't true.
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Perhaps you are remembered forever He says what good would that do you?
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He says I don't just mean when you're dead
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But in your own lifetime what use is praise except to make your lifestyle a little more comfortable?
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He's trying to remind himself that reputation,
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fame, impressing people, that doesn't matter.
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Who you are as a person,
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that's the only thing that counts.
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Who you are as a person to the people around you.
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Did you do good with the resources that you had?
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It's like the Shelley poem about Ozymandias, right?
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The statue falling over in the desert,
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two legs, the head there laying in the sand.
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A colossal wreck, he says, boundless and bare even though this person was so powerful and important in life,
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very little of it remains.
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Now this is not the state of Marcus Aurelius' monument.
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You can go see it, it's still standing there.
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I've seen it myself.
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And yet, the same stoic lesson is actually there if you look for it.
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Okay.
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So if he's saying that being remembered is not important,
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that posthumous fame is worthless,
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what is he saying that does matter?
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Well, he does address this in meditations too.
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He says, forget everything else.
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Keep hold of this alone and remember it.
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Each of us lives only now, this brief instant.
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The rest has been lived already or is impossible to see.
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The span we live is small,
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small as the corner of earth in which we live it,
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small as even the greatest renown,
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passed from mouth to mouth by short-lived stick figures,
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ignorant alike of themselves and those long dead.
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He's saying that all you have is this moment.
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All you have is who you are in this moment,
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creating some enormous legacy that other people get to live in,
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focusing on impressing people who you will never meet.
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What good will that do you?
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He's saying what matters is that you do good now,
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that you live a good life,
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that you live a good life as a good person.
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That's what Marcus Aurelius is striving to do in meditations.
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And the irony is in not caring about posthumism,
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in not caring about his accomplishments lasting,
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in just trying to be a good man,
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to concentrate on what he has to do as he writes in meditations,
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to fix his eyes on it,
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reminding himself that his tax is just to be a good human being and to do it,
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he says, without hesitation, to speak the truth as he sees it,
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with kindness and with humility and without hypocrisy,
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in that, ironically, he does create a real legacy and we are still talking about him today.
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Sometime around the year 170 AD,
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the most powerful man in the world sat down to write.
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His name was Marcus Aurelius.
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And miraculously, these writings survived.
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And within them are some of the greatest and wisest insights ever put down.
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Sometimes these insights are really obvious.
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They jump out off the page at you,
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but other ones you have to return to.
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You have to understand the deeper context.
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You have to understand what he meant,
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where he was coming from,
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why he would have been saying this to fully understand him.
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Sometimes you're just not old enough yet.
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Sometimes you just haven't read it enough times,
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which is why over the last couple of years,
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we developed this deep dive into Marcus Realizes Meditations.
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We really struggled to come up with a title for it,
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but we just call it How to Read Meditations.
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a guide, a course, a challenge,
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a companion for understanding one of the most important works ever put down in any language,
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in any era, by any person.
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How do you take the insights from 2,000 years ago from one of the most impressive people to ever live
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and apply them to your daily life?
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And we'd love to have you join us.
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We're digging into it here in the month of March.
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Mark Stavilius was born in March.
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We're calling it Mark Stavilius Month here at Daily Stoic.
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And we'd love to have you.
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And you can join us,
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sign up right now at dailystoic.com slash meditations.
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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon
Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau C1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « The Stoic Lesson of Marcus Aurelius' Crumbling Statue ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : Marcus, meditations, Aurelius, sometime, column. Cette vidéo contient 114 phrases et 1060 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 5:53. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 180 mots par minute : attendez-vous à des liaisons et à des sons réduits. 82 % 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
Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
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| posthumous adjectif | /ˈpɑs.t͡ʃə.məs/ | posthume |
| stoic adjectif | /ˈstoʊ.ɪk/ | stoïque |
| accomplishment nom | /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/ | accomplissement |
| monument nom | /ˈmɑnjʊmənt/ | monument, mémorial |
| reuse nom | /ɹiːˈjuːs/ | réemploi, réusage |
| impress verbe | /ɪmˈpɹɛs/ | impressionner |
| statue nom | /ˈstæt͡ʃu/ | statue |
| boundless adjectif | /ˈbaʊndləs/ | illimité |
| colossal adjectif | /kəˈlɑsəl/ | colossal |
| contradict verbe | /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈdɪkt/ | contredire |
| depict verbe | /dɪˈpɪkt/ | représenter, décrire |
| disprove verbe | /dɪsˈpɹuv/ | réfuter, infirmer |
| miraculously adverbe | /məˈɹækjələsli/ | miraculeusement |
| pedestal nom | /ˈpɛdɪstəl/ | piédestal |
| renown nom | /ɹɪˈnaʊn/ | renom, renommée |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Sens |
|---|---|
| come up with verbe | inventer, imaginer |
| go out verbe | sortir |
| put down verbe | médire |
| put up verbe | placer |
| sign up verbe | inscrire |
| wear down verbe | fatiguer |
Des phrases à répéter
Des phrases courtes et complètes de la vidéo, à réutiliser dans la conversation de tous les jours :
- Let's say it was still shiny and gleaming.
- Did you do good with the resources that you had?
- You can go see it, it's still standing there.
- He's saying that all you have is this moment.
- What good will that do you?
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 | be remembered · is ignored · are lost |
| Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant | I've seen · has been lived · haven't read |
| Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chose | people who are · people who remember · people who you |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 15 contractions et formes réduites, comme doesn't, don't, we'd. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: meditation /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/, accomplishment /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/, hesitation /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: accomplishment /əˈkɑm.plɪʃ.mənt/, miraculously /məˈɹækjələsli/, hesitation /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/, humility /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/, hypocrisy /hɪˈpɑkɹəsi/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: hesitation /ˌhɛzɪˈteɪʃən/, humility /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/, hypocrisy /hɪˈpɑkɹəsi/
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: posthumous /ˈpɑs.t͡ʃə.məs/, statue /ˈstæt͡ʃu/, sculpture /ˈskʌlpt͡ʃɚ/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: reuse /ɹiːˈjuːs/, impress /ɪmˈpɹɛs/, contradict /ˌkɑn.tɹəˈdɪkt/, disprove /dɪsˈpɹuv/, miraculously /məˈɹækjələsli/
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 posthumous, stoic, accomplishment.
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.