Pratique du Shadowing: True Love Debate | Alex Yeandle | Opposition (2/6) - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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I now look to Alex Yeendall, St Hugh's College, to open the case for the opposition.
Je donne maintenant la parole à Alex Yeendall, du St Hugh's College, pour développer l'argumentation de l'opposition.
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Mr President, thank you very much.
Monsieur le Président, merci beaucoup.
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Thank you very much
Merci beaucoup
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and it of course goes without saying how honoured I am
et il va bien sûr sans dire à quel point je suis honoré
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to have been given the opportunity to speak in this debate and I'm incredibly grateful to yourself, I'm incredibly grateful to our guests,
d'avoir eu l'opportunité de prendre la parole dans ce débat, et je suis incroyablement reconnaissant envers vous-même, je suis incroyablement reconnaissant envers nos invités.
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but primarily I'm incredibly grateful to the members in the chamber tonight for giving me an audience to talk to.
mais avant tout, je suis incroyablement reconnaissant envers les membres présents dans la salle ce soir de m'avoir accordé l'occasion de m'exprimer.
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The motion before us this evening is one that can be explored through a wide variety of academic disciplines.
La motion qui nous est soumise ce soir peut être explorée à travers un large éventail de disciplines académiques.
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We could consider the neuroscience of what love is in a materialist sense we could, if you like, recognise the slight irony that we would be analysing chemistry with chemistry.
Nous pourrions considérer la neuroscience de ce qu'est l'amour au sens matérialiste, nous pourrions, si vous le voulez bien, reconnaître la légère ironie que nous serions en train d'analyser la chimie avec de la chimie.
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We could consider psychological explanations of why we love the people we do, and what qualities it is that makes them attractive to us.
Nous pourrions envisager des explications psychologiques sur les raisons pour lesquelles nous aimons les personnes que nous aimons, et sur les qualités qui les rendent attrayantes à nos yeux.
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Finally, perhaps, we might consider the sociological and philosophical questions, whether we all love in the same way,
Enfin, peut-être, pourrions-nous envisager les questions sociologiques et philosophiques, à savoir si nous aimons tous de la même manière,
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whether love is something that actually has a sense of intrinsic value, value or instead whether the relationships we hold with others are nothing more than an expression of the society in
si l'amour est quelque chose qui possède réellement une valeur intrinsèque, ou si au contraire les relations que nous entretenons avec les autres ne sont rien de plus qu'une expression de la société dans
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which we live.
dans lequel nous vivons.
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Now as a PPE student you will probably expect me to stand here
Maintenant, en tant qu'étudiant en PPE, vous vous attendez probablement à ce que je me tienne ici
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and talk a lot about a lot of different subject areas each of which I don't really know anything about.
et parlent beaucoup de plein de domaines différents dont je ne connais vraiment rien.
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Um...
Euh...
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But of course that in itself would not be doing our motion any justice.
Mais bien sûr, cela ne rendrait pas justice à notre proposition en soi.
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For instead I wish to speak of why true love is something that we can reform,
Car je souhaite plutôt parler de la raison pour laquelle l'amour véritable est quelque chose que nous pouvons réformer,
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of why it is something that we of course need to tweak and clarify and make sure that we understand, but it is something
de la raison pour laquelle c'est quelque chose que nous devons bien sûr ajuster et clarifier et nous assurer que nous comprenons, mais c'est quelque chose
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that has the genuine power to be one of the greatest prizes of our short existence on this planet.
qui a le pouvoir authentique de devenir l'un des plus grands prix de notre brève existence sur cette planète.
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And of course, as Freya mentioned, I am not going to make any attempts to skirt over the fact that true love, in the way that perhaps we intuitively understand it,
Et bien sûr, comme Freya l'a mentionné, je ne vais pas tenter de passer sous silence le fait que l'amour véritable, tel que nous le comprenons peut-être intuitivement,
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perhaps in the way we have been taught as children or in Disney films, is a perfect conception of what true love is.
peut-être de la manière dont on nous l'a appris enfant ou dans les films Disney, est une conception parfaite de ce qu'est l'amour vrai.
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Instead, I want to argue why an amended true love, a true love that is fit for the 21st century, fit for modern consumption, is one that can be a benefit to the entire world.
Au contraire, je veux expliquer pourquoi un amour véritable amendé, un amour véritable adapté au XXIe siècle, adapté à la consommation moderne, est un amour qui peut bénéficier au monde entier.
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As an idea in our minds and as a predicate of our entire worldview,
Comme une idée dans notre esprit et comme un prédicat de l'ensemble de notre vision du monde,
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I wish to demonstrate to you tonight why abandoning the ideal of true love would be deeply damaging to humanity's progress, its well-being and its future.
Je souhaite vous démontrer ce soir pourquoi abandonner l'idéal du véritable amour serait profondément préjudiciable au progrès de l'humanité, à son bien-être et à son avenir.
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Firstly, however, it falls upon me to introduce the proposition speakers for tonight's debate.
Tout d'abord, il me revient cependant de présenter les orateurs de la proposition pour le débat de ce soir.
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You've already heard from Freya Dixon van Dijk, a second year human sciences student from St John's College.
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And as you will have discovered listening to her, Freya is a very eloquent public speaker.
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What you might not know, however, is that for all her talk about true love, Freya was in fact an avid reader of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series.
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And I have it on good authority from one of Freya's close friends that, and I quote, she used to skip through the books to get to the kissing scenes.
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Now if you find yourself talking to Freya at some point after this debate, you may well end up talking about the topic of her gap year.
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And all I will say is this, I'm not sure if there are any romantic tales within that one gap here, but to draw upon a very old meme, I'm sure it would still be a better love story than Twilight.
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So, secondly, you will hear from Professor Amy Webb, a seasoned writer and speaker in the field of love and data.
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Amy has written award-winning books and currently lectures at New York University, but she is equally well known for her fascinating TED talk entitled How I Hacked Online Dating,
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explaining her transition from a lack of dates and romantic interest, relatable, to her eventual success in finding a partner.
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Now I must confess, Mr President, that as I was researching Professor Webb in preparation for tonight's debate, I came across this TED talk and I thought that sounds interesting,
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I'm going to start watching it only to realise it was a talk I was very familiar with already.
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Lastly you will hear from Professor Simon Blackburn, is a world-renowned emeritus professor of philosophy at the other place.
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Simon has spoken at events across the globe,
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he has written influential books and has been published in some of the most prestigious journals in his field.
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And whilst of course my knowledge of philosophy as a subject area is as nothing compared to his,
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we do perhaps have one more surprising activity in common.
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You see in 2014 before starting an interview with OXTEW, the Oxford University student newspaper.
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Professor Blackburn remarked, could we do it over some wine?
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There is nothing like a drink after the adrenaline rush of giving a talk.
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Professor, I will see you for President's drinks in the Gladstone Room later tonight.
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Mr President, these are your speakers and they are indeed most welcome.
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So, to move on to the crux of my argument itself, the first point that I wish to make this evening is
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that if we are to blindly follow the proposition's case and to abandon the ideal of true love altogether, we need to be crystal clear about exactly what it is that we are abandoning.
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And here we run into perhaps a slightly interesting notion, in that the proposition was more than happy to point out the problems with one interpretation of true love,
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but seemed to take this one interpretation as being static or unchanging or rigid.
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And this is something that I wish to challenge.
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You see, I think old-fashioned conceptions of true love, even of love in general, can of course run into problems when confronted with a modern, progressive society.
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I'm not here to defend a clichéd, patriarchal, heteronormative, impossible illusion of love.
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And you see, the notion that true love is about a man marrying a woman, you know, they buy a nice house, they go and live in the suburbs, the man works, the wife stays at home,
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they retire, they get a nice pension, they live in a home, they die.
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That is not what I am talking about here this evening.
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This is not at all valid with the lives that we leave today, and and neither should it be.
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And we can progress on a deeper level.
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There's this constant implicit assumption that true love has to be this one person, that once you meet your one true love,
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you'll be completely perfect for each other for the rest of time until the day you die.
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No, the person who is perfect for me today is by
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no means necessarily the same person who's going to be perfect for me in 50 years time.
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The short 20 years that I have been on this planet has taught me that people change.
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Indeed, the short few terms I have been on Oxford Union Committee has taught me that people change.
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So I appreciate that so far I have spent a lot of time giving you broad, general arguments, and I haven't actually given you my own definition of true love.
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But I will, of course, get onto this now.
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So for me, we have to start from here.
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that true love is about recognition that nobody, absolutely nobody, is perfect.
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Perfect with somebody else or perfect by themselves.
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Nobody is perfect.
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It's about the idea that there is somebody who can improve us.
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It doesn't have to be one person, but there has to be somebody existing on this planet Earth who can make us a better person, somebody who can make us happier.
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True love is about the idea that this can be reciprocated, that both parties can end up benefiting from each other whilst perceiving one of the greatest emotional feelings known to mankind.
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And again, critics will say, as the proposition already has, that our perception of love is perhaps nothing more than a selection of hormones drowning our brains.
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Hormones that can be fabricated in a laboratory and fed to us down dark alleyways in brightly coloured little pills.
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But this is, I believe, quite frankly besides the point.
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It is, you know, a feeling of true love is a symptom of something else that is going on.
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It is a necessary but not sufficient condition.
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It is one part of a far greater human puzzle.
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You know, it is Aristotle who says love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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And whilst maybe two as a numerical value could be questioned, the general point here is, I think, quite beautiful.
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Humans are quite clearly social animals by the way that we see and we think,
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and by ourselves we can only understand a tiny fraction of what we could with somebody else.
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True love has this remarkable ability to open our eyes to the world in a way that nothing else can.
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To put this another way, we must build our conception of true love around our lives rather than building our lives around our conception of true love. Of course.
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We must be brave, bold, unafraid, radical in constructing a true love that is fit for the 21st century.
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But be in no doubts that voting with the proposition this evening does not allow you to do that.
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Voting with the proposition this evening is saying, that's it.
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We give up.
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We are abandoning it as an ideal because we do not want to try and fix and reform.
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We do not want to make our lives better.
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We simply want to pretend the problem doesn't exist, brush it under the carpet and go on being miserable.
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So you may ask, what is the point of fixing this concept if there are problems with it already?
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And the point is this, walking away from one of the most powerful emotions known to man
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and the implicit norm that we ought to embrace it is, I believe, akin to abandoning a core tenet of the imperfect perfection of being human.
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Quite simply, abandoning one of the most fundamental things about being ourselves.
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A belief in true love is not just about how we view our potential partners, but about how we view our existence as human beings and the worldview that subsequently defines it.
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We have the power to shape not just our own happiness, but to shape the driving forces and inspiration between cultures and people the world over.
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So that said, whether you view yourself as the deepest and the deepest of romantics,
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or whether you view yourself as the most rational of economic agents, whether you think with your heart, whether you think with your head, whether you think with some other organ of your body,
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the ideal of true love has practical purposes
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that I think make it an irrefutable goal for every human being on this planet.
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If you walk through the nose door and vote with the opposition at the end of tonight's debate, let me be absolutely clear
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that you are not signing up to committing the rest of your days searching for a Disney princess style happily ever after, nor you committing yourself to scrolling through thousands upon thousands upon
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thousands of oxloves desperately searching for the faintest whiff of your name.
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You are instead making a gesture, a strong, bold gesture that in a world teetering with misery, with pain, with suffering, with rampant nationalism,
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with climate change, with Brexit, with Donald Trump.
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There is something that we can hope for, that we can salvage and that we can hold onto.
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Mr President, if I may, I would like to finish with a quote tonight.
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Of all people, it is Friedrich Nietzsche, the philosopher, who says, There is always some madness in love,
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but there is also always some reason in madness.
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In echoing these sentiments, honourable members, I would urge you to vote with the opposition this evening.
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Thank you very much.

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Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau C1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « True Love Debate ». Cette vidéo contient 113 phrases et 2053 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 11:35. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 177 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.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

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

MotPrononciationSens
abandon verbe/əˈbæn.dən/abandonner
proposition nom/ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/proposition
conception nom/kənˈsɛpʃən/conception
implicit adjectif/ɪmˈplɪsɪt/implicite, tacite
worldview nomvision du monde
hormone nom/ˈhoɹmoʊn/hormone
gesture nom/ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃɚ/geste, signe
madness nom/ˈmæd.nəs/folie
alleyway nom/ˈæ.li.weɪ/coursive, couloir
blindly adverbe/ˈblaɪndli/à l’aveuglette
brightly adverbe/ˈbɹaɪtli/clairement, précisément
compose verbe/kəmˈpəʊz/composer
eloquent adjectif/ˈɛl.əˌkwənt/éloquent
emeritus adjectif/ɪˈmɛɹɪtəs/émérite
fabricate verbe/ˈfæb.ɹɪ.keɪt/fabriquer

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

MotSens
end up verbese terminer, se finir
come across verbeavoir l'air de
give up verbese rendre
point out verbepointer

La grammaire de cette vidéo

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

StructureDans la vidéo
Phrases conditionnelles if + proposition, will/would + verbe — une condition et son résultatif I may, I would like
Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenanthave been taught · You've already heard · has written
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le faithave been given · can be explored · have been taught
Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une choseone that can · person who is · somebody who can

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 13 contractions et formes réduites, comme I'm, doesn't, don't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

  • Les sons « sh » et « zh »: proposition /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/, conception /kənˈsɛpʃən/, nationalism /ˈnæʃ(ə)nəˌlɪzəm/, illusion /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/, fraction /ˈfɹæk.ʃən/
  • Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: proposition /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/, emeritus /ɪˈmɛɹɪtəs/, heteronormative /ˌhɛtəɹoʊˈnoɹmətɪv/, irrefutable /ˌɪɹɪˈfjuːtəbəl/, materialist /məˈtiːɹɪəlɪst/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

  • /h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: hormone /ˈhoɹmoʊn/, heteronormative /ˌhɛtəɹoʊˈnoɹmətɪv/, inhabit /ɪnˈhæbɪt/
  • /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: gesture /ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃɚ/, eventual /ɪˈvɛn.t͡ʃu.əl/, rigid /ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd/, prestigious /pɹɛˈstiːd͡ʒəs/
  • /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: proposition /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/, hormone /ˈhoɹmoʊn/, brightly /ˈbɹaɪtli/, emeritus /ɪˈmɛɹɪtəs/, fabricate /ˈfæb.ɹɪ.keɪt/

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. Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
  3. Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme abandon, proposition, conception.

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