Pratique du Shadowing: The US-Canada border splits this road down the middle - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

I'm not allowed to cross this road because this is the town of Stansted, Canada.

On the other side of the street is Derby Line, USA.

And the border between the two countries runs right down this, Rue Canussa.

For the local residents, that can be inconvenient.

I lived here all my life, so 63 years.

Today you cannot cross over the line and visit your neighbors like years ago.

If you want to cross, you have to report that custom.

You know, I used to cross every day.

And now I probably cross once a week because I come down to the post office over here.

To go through the border, basically they ask you a passport, they go inside, I guess they look at if you have a record or not, they look at your registration of your car,

about a couple of minutes and you're going through.

I'm a dual citizen, so I'm American and Canadian, so it's easier.

This is a place where the idea of a border as a solid, easy to understand line gets a little bit fuzzy.

The road doesn't run at exactly the same angle as the border, not precisely.

The official line is that this is Canada and that's the USA, but both countries' maps show the road as being entirely in the US just here and entirely in Canada up there.

The houses are definitely in separate countries, but the road?

It's not quite as clear.

And in practice, if I was driving, I'd be okay.

Even on that side of the road, I am considered to be still in Canada, as long as I don't stop and walk up to an American house.

It's fair to say that there's a little bit of leniency here

if you're just nudging the border by a few centimeters or if you're on that side a couple of inches. But

while I was setting up my camera here the police turned

up lights flashing to move along those bikers you saw earlier

who were admiring the view from the other side of the road.

It all seemed in good spirits but they had crossed the border.

Well the library is part on the Canadian side part on the American side but But you stay on the Canadian side, you stay on the sidewalk, and you go through the front door and it's permitted.

On Canooset Street, there's a sidewalk on the Canadian side.

So back years ago, it was tolerated that people on the American side could cross over and walk on the sidewalk.

So basically, it's a little dangerous to walk on the side of the road.

And now today, well, it's not tolerated no more.

I think the rules hasn't changed much, but they're more enforced.

When you cross, they ask you more questions than they used to, you know, years ago.

Before, you went through the border and you knew most of the custom officers

and they used to wave to you, you know?

In 1783, this section of the Canada-US border was set at the 45th parallel, a line of latitude.

Slightly inaccurate measurements were accepted by both countries.

So it was locked in.

But as for this specific road, there are local stories about drunk surveyors and pranks, but no one really knows.

Thank 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 « The US-Canada border splits this road down the middle ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : border, road, cross, Canada, Canadian. Cette vidéo contient 39 phrases et 556 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 2:48. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 199 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 14 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

Mot	Prononciation	Sens
sidewalk nom	/ˈsaɪdwɔk/	trottoir
tolerate verbe	/ˈtɑ.lə.ɹeɪt/	tolérer, supporter
inconvenient adjectif	/ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/	incommode, inconvenant
leniency nom	/ˈliːni.ən(t)si/	indulgence, clémence
surveyor nom	/sɚˈveɪ̯.ɚ/	arpenteur, arpenteuse
latitude nom	/ˈlætɪtud/	latitude
inaccurate adjectif	/ɪnˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/	imprécis
fuzzy adjectif	/ˈfʌzi/	flou, confus
prank nom	/pɹæŋk/	farce, tour
enforce verbe	/ɪnˈfoɹs/	renforcer
admire verbe	/ədˈmaɪɹ/	admirer
passport nom	/ˈpæspɔɹt/	passeport
measurement nom	/ˈmɛʒ.ə.mənt/	mesure
precisely adverbe	/pɹɪˈsaɪs.li/	précisément

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

Mot	Prononciation	Sens
go through verbe		traverser
set up verbe	/ˌsɛt ˈʌp/	mettre en place, installer

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 cross · used to wave
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait	was tolerated · was set · were accepted

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 11 contractions et formes réduites, comme I'm, you're, doesn't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: inconvenient /ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/, leniency /ˈliːni.ən(t)si/, inaccurate /ɪnˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

/r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: tolerate /ˈtɑ.lə.ɹeɪt/, inaccurate /ɪnˈæk.jə.ɹɪt/, prank /pɹæŋk/, enforce /ɪnˈfoɹs/, admire /ədˈmaɪɹ/

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 sidewalk, tolerate, inconvenient.

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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