Pratique du Shadowing: Why a Walk in the Park Can Save Your Life - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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Imagine that we've been in the apartment by ourselves since the previous evening, and now, at the start of the weekend, it's 11 in the morning.
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A succession of small bits of bad news have been coming in over the past 24 hours.
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Someone's unhappy with our performance at work.
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A customer complained about our attention to detail.
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We have a traffic fine to pay.
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The milk is off.
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A friend is accusing us of not caring enough about them.
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And then, the final straw, someone we very much hoped to see for dinner, cancelled on us abruptly, with an unconvincing excuse about their mother.
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We try to keep the different strands separate, but eventually, in the stillness of the small living room, they coalesce into an overwhelming impression.
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We're not very worthy.
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There's something wrong with us.
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We're ugly inside and out.
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We've been like this since the start.
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No one likes us.
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We're going to die alone, unhappy and mediocre.
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The impression is stronger than we are.
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We curl into a ball and can't hold back a tear, which rolls onto and is absorbed by the grey-green sofa.
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Ten minutes pass, then another twenty.
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Finally, we can't take it any longer.
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We have to pull ourselves out of the spin.
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So, with a newfound urgency, we grab our jacket, run downstairs and head for the nearby park.
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This expanse of green was laid out by a group of enlightened planners and municipal engineers a few generations ago.
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There's an inner and an outer circle, a small fountain, a playground and a statue of a man who pioneered research into bees.
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More importantly, the park has very little idea of us.
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It hasn't heard of our place of employment.
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It doesn't have any views on our romantic life.
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It couldn't care less whether we're alive or dead.
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And the ignorance, far from crushing us further, has an immediate soothing effect.
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A grand oak tree that's been sitting patiently in this spot for 150 years at least, has priorities blessedly far from our own.
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It's pulling nutrients from the soil, it's showing its freshest, newest leaves to the sun.
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It's providing a nesting place for robins and an athletic park for grey squirrels.
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The indifference is not nature's alone.
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There's a person in scrubs on a break from the nearby hospital, sitting on a bench with a flask of tea.
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They might later be fixing up catheters on the children's ward or ministering to a dying nonagenarian.
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To their left, a little boy is playing tag with his father.
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His joyful screams are unabashed.
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It's a game, but something very serious, about love and self-esteem and having a home, is also being exercised.
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Overhead planes, perhaps heading back from Singapore or Madrid, are locking onto the final approach beacons at the airport to the west.
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In the distance, a line of uncomplaining pylons is bringing in electricity from the coast to power hair dryers and video games.
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Our strange, extraordinary, pathetic species in all our glory, complexity and mundanity.
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With all this in view, it suddenly seems not to matter quite so much that we may or may not be a wretch, that a lover has let us down.
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Heaven knows they might have their reasons and we aren't perfect either.
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or that we should, in all fairness, probably make more of an effort with our career.
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The individual ego diminishes.
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We let ourselves dissolve into a wider realm.
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What happens to us no longer has to be the measure of everything.
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We are, in part, also the trees, the houses, the clouds overhead, the pigeon who has come to peck at a leftover sandwich,
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and the young boy now being hugged tightly by his dad.
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Our ultimate fate ceases to concern us so tightly.
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What does it matter quite so much what we're worth or where we end up?
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We rejoin the ocean from which we've been in frightened exile for too long.
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None of the elements that have helped us to recover our balance care to articulate a theory of existence.
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They may have one nevertheless.
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The oak tree has its own distinctive silent take on love, achievement, success and power, as do the clouds,
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the robins, the squirrels and the contrails.
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Each one of them is whispering very quietly indeed, matter less, forget more, open your heart, let go of your resentments, surrender.
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We can be so much happier
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when we manage for a time to still the clamour of the I and live less intimately with ourselves,
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when we stop insisting that everything that happens to us must say something profound about us, when we can wear our fate more lightly.
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We may end up alone, we may be foolish, we may be sad.
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None of it, the park tells us, might matter too much anyway.
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We'll cope, after all, perhaps we'll go to the cinema alone tonight, or have a drink on the terrace.
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We haven't just taken a walk, we've had a covert philosophy lesson.

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Cette vidéo contient 63 phrases et 840 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 5:01. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 167 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. 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 de la vidéo à retenir, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

MotPrononciationSens
cloud nom/ˈklaʊ̯d/nuage
fate nom/feɪt/destin, destinée
impression nom/ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/impression
robin nom/ˈɹɑ.bɪn/rouge-gorge, rouge-gorge familier
unhappy adjectif/ʌnˈhæpi/malheureux, triste
overhead nom/ˈəʊvəˌhɛd/frais généraux
tightly adverbe/ˈtaɪtli/fermement
squirrel nom/ˈskwɪ.ɹ(ə)l/écureuil, écureuille
lesson nom/ˈlɛs.ən/leçon
element nom/ˈɛləmənt/élément
silent adjectif/ˈsaɪ̯lənt/silencieux, se taire
romantic adjectif/ɹoʊˈmæn(t)ɪk/romantique
soil nom/sɔɪl/sol, terre
ugly adjectif/ˈʌɡli/laid, moche
priority nom/pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/priorité

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

MotSens
end up verbese terminer, se finir
fix up verberéparer

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 courshave been coming · that's been sitting
Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenantwe've been · hasn't heard · has let
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le faitis absorbed · was laid · are unabashed

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 18 contractions et formes réduites, comme we're, we've, can't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

  • Les sons « th »: worthy /ˈwɝ.ði/, nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/, athletic /æθˈlɛt.ɪk/, pathetic /pəˈθɛtɪk/, catheter /ˈkæθɪtɚ/
  • Les sons « sh » et « zh »: impression /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/, crush /kɹʌʃ/, succession /səkˈsɛʃ.ən/, foolish /ˈfuː.lɪʃ/, diminish /dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/
  • Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: electricity /ɪˌlɛkˈtɹɪsɪti/, priority /pɹaɪˈɒɹɪti/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, nevertheless /ˌnɛvɚðəˈlɛs/, municipal /mjuˈnɪsɪpəl/

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 cloud, fate, impression.

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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