Pratique du Shadowing: What is Emotional Intelligence? - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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Emotional intelligence is the quality that enables us to confront with patience,
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insight and imagination the many problems that we face in our affective relationship with ourselves and with other people.
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The term emotional intelligence may sound odd.
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We're used to referring to intelligence just as a general quality, without unpicking a particular variety a person might possess.
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and therefore we don't tend to highlight the value of a distinctive sort of intelligence
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which currently does not enjoy the prestige it should.
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Every sort of intelligence signals an ability to navigate well around a particular set of challenges mathematical, linguistic, technical, commercial.
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When we say that someone is clever but add that they've made a mess of their personal lives
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or that they've acquired a fortune but are restless and sad, or that they are powerful but intolerant and unimaginative,
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we're pointing to a deficit in what deserves to be called emotional intelligence.
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In social life, we can feel the presence of emotional intelligence in a sensitivity to the moods of others,
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and in a readiness to grasp the surprising things that may be going on for other people beneath the surface.
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Emotional intelligence recognizes a role for interpretation and knows that,
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for example, a fiery outburst might be a disguised plea for help, or that a long political rant may be provoked by hunger,
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or that concealed within a forceful jolliness may be a sorrow that has been sentimentally disavowed.
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In relation to ourselves, emotional intelligence shows up in a scepticism around our emotions, especially those of love, desire,
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anger, envy, anxiety and professional ambition.
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The emotionally intelligent refuse to just trust their first impulses or the inherent wisdom of their feelings.
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They know that hatred may mask love, that anger may be a cover for sadness and
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that we are prone to huge and costly inaccuracies around whom we desire and what we really want.
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Emotional intelligence is also what distinguishes those who are crushed by
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failure from those who know how to greet the troubles of existence with a melancholy and, at points, darkly humorous resilience.
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The emotionally intelligent appreciate the role of well-handled pessimism within the overall economy of a good life.
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intelligence isn't an inborn talent.
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It's always the result of education.
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Specifically, education in how to interpret ourselves, in where our emotions arise from, in how our childhoods influence us,
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and in how we might best navigate our fears and our wishes.
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In the ideal society, it would be routine to be taught emotional intelligence from the youngest age, before we'd had the opportunity to make too many mistakes.
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It's because we have, until now, not taken emotional education seriously enough that our species has grown ever more technically adept
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while retaining the level of wisdom of our earliest days with catastrophic results.
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We are now evolved monkeys with nuclear weapons.
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It appears that the fate of civilization depends on our capacity to master the mechanisms of emotional education before it's too late.
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An emotional education means something far beyond just normal education as we've conceived of it to date.
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Though it should ideally include courses in every year of school or college, emotional education is more than something that should just take place in classrooms, at the hands of teachers,
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and come to a halt around the age of 21.
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One, the central vehicle for the transfer of emotional intelligence is culture, from its highest to its most popular level.
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Culture is the field that can ritualize and consistently promote the absorption of emotional intelligence.
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The lessons might be embedded in a tragedy or a TV series, a pop song or a novel, a work of architecture or a YouTube film.
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We can envisage the entire apparatus of culture as a subtle mechanism designed to point us towards greater emotional intelligence.
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We will never progress as a species, and will indeed grow into ever greater, technologically armed menaces to ourselves,
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until we've accepted the challenges and opportunities of properly educating ourselves in emotional intelligence.
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Our technical intelligence is great of course.
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It's led us to tame nature and conquer this planet.
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But a wiser, saner future for the human race must depend on a capacity to master
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and then seductively teach one another the rudiments of emotional intelligence while there is still time.
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Thank you.

Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette vidéo contient 46 phrases et 722 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 5:25. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 133 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. Seuls 78 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc exigeant.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

15 mots moins courants de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

  • anger /ˈæŋɡə/ (nom) — colère, ire. A strong and unpleasant feeling of displeasure, hostility, or antagonism, usually combined with an urge to yell, curse, damage or destroy things, or harm…
  • wisdom /ˈwɪzdəm/ (nom) — sagesse. An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
  • intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/ (adjectif) — intelligent. Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
  • mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/ (nom) — mécanisme. Any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.
  • depend /dɪˈpɛnd/ (verbe) — dépendre. To be contingent or conditioned; to have something as a necessary condition
  • emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ (nom) — émotion. A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.
  • navigate /ˈnæv.ɪ.ɡeɪt/ (verbe) — naviguer. To plan, control and record the position and course of a vehicle, ship, aircraft, etc., on a journey; to follow a planned course.
  • lesson /ˈlɛs.ən/ (nom) — leçon. A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided.
  • anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/ (nom) — anxiété, inquiétude. An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some uncertain event.
  • hungry /ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/ (adjectif) — affamé, avoir faim. Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
  • refer /ɹɪˈfɜː/ (verbe) — référer. To direct the attention of (someone toward something).
  • ideal /aɪˈdi(ə)l/ (adjectif) — idéal. Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
  • mood /muːd/ (nom) — humeur, mauvaise humeur. A mental or emotional state, composure.
  • architecture /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/ (nom) — architecture. The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.
  • refuse /ɹɪˈfjuːz/ (verbe) — refuser. To decline (a request or demand).

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 9 contractions et formes réduites, comme they've, we're, we've. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

  • Les sons « th »: beneath /bɪˈniːθ/, mathematical /ˌmæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/
  • Les sons « sh » et « zh »: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, relation /ɹɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, interpretation /ɪnˌtɜːpɹəˈteɪʃən/
  • Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/, mechanism /ˈmɛk.ə.nɪ.zəm/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, architecture /ˈɑː.kɪˌtɛk.t͡ʃə/

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 anger, wisdom, intelligent.

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 have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenantthey've made · they've acquired · has been
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le faitbe called · may be provoked · are crushed
Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chosethose who are · those who know

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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