Pratique du Shadowing: Why You Always Forget English Words (Science Explains) - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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So, you learn a new word, and then a week later you forget it.
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Sound familiar?
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Unfortunately, this is one of the most frustrating things about learning a second language.
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You read a word in the dictionary somewhere, you read it in an article, you hear it on YouTube, you write it down, and then a week later you forget it.
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You can't remember it.
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You know it's there somewhere in the back of your head, it's on the tip of your tongue, but you just can't remember it.
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This is so annoying, it's so frustrating, because it feels like you're never going to expand your vocabulary.
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It feels like whatever you do, you just can't remember new words.
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And whatever you learn is useless because you just forget it.
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In today's video, I'm going to talk to you about why this happens.
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And I'm going to give you some scientifically backed strategies to help you remember new vocabulary.
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So here's the thing.
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The most common advice you'll get on learning new vocabulary is simply to repeat something 10 times, 20 times, 30 times, and then you'll remember it.
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It's called rote repetition.
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Now, to be honest with you, this is a horrible strategy.
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You're not going to memorize something you write 10 times on a sheet of paper.
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It's simply impossible.
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And if you try to memorize vocabulary this way, you're actually fighting against your own brain.
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See, your brain isn't designed to retain information in this way.
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And this isn't just me espousing some made-up theory.
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This is actually scientifically proven.
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See, in the 1880s, a German psychologist by the name of Hermann Ebbinghaus decided to test this theory.
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And what he did was he created a bunch of nonsensical combinations of letters.
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And he attempted to memorize those combinations of letters
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and what he found was as each day went on he remembered less
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and less so the more time that passed the less he actually remembered
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and the key here is that what he did in his experiment was completely nonsensical
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and by nonsensical I mean there was no emotional connection which we'll talk about in a moment.
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Now this is called the forgetting curve.
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Herman Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve and it shows you
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that you're not going to remember most of what you learn if you just write it out, if you just try to remember it and there's no connection to you.
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Your brain isn't a hard drive, it's a web of connections.
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Anytime you learn something new you need to connect it with something else that matters to you.
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This is called emotional anchoring.
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An anchor is what keeps the ship or the boat from moving.
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The anchor is attached to the seafloor.
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It anchors the boat and prevents it from sailing away.
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And what you need to do is anchor vocabulary into your brain.
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And the best way to do this is through emotional connection.
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Emotions are super strong.
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You remember emotions.
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I think back to 10 years ago, maybe something that happened to you 10 years ago.
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You might not remember exactly what happened or you might not remember the exact details, but you'll remember how you felt.
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You'll You'll probably remember whether you were happy, you were sad, you were angry, you were disappointed, you were jealous.
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You won't remember the details, but you'll remember the emotion.
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So if you can do this with vocabulary, you're going to be so much more likely to remember what you learned.
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And in doing so, you are going to war with Mr. Ebbinghaus's forgetting curve.
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Your brain is actively fighting against that tendency to forget words.
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Words stick with you when they matter to you personally.
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Now recently we had a student in one of our programs who mentioned that she learned the word kibble.
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Kibble, it's a weird word, kibble.
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Kibble is essentially pet food.
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It's dog food.
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It's the hard little pellets that your dog or your cat or your rabbit consumes.
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It's called kibble.
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Now this isn't a word that most people use on an everyday basis.
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So naturally, if you just see it once, you might search the definition online and you might try to remember it, but you're probably not going to be able to.
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You're probably going to forget this word.
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And this was the case with the student who came to us with this.
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She saw the word once, then she forgot it.
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Well, two months later, she got a pet cat.
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And now suddenly this pet cat came into her life and she had to feed the cat.
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So what did she buy?
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She bought kibble.
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She bought kibble to feed the cat and the word popped up again in her life, the word kibble.
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But now she had a much easier time to remember this word because it actually meant something to her.
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She was excited to have the cat.
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She was nervous to have the cat.
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She felt emotion when she saw her cat, when she thought of her cat, when she fed her cat, when she did anything with her cat.
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The cat meant something to her and And all this vocabulary related to pets was suddenly easier to remember and more relevant.
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And it was easier to remember because it was more emotional.
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She had more of an emotional connection to the vocabulary.
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You see, words don't exist in isolation.
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Words are there in the universe, in language, to express something.
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And that's often something emotional because we are human.
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We are emotional.
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We all have emotions.
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So if you can connect any new words you learn, maybe on TV, on the news, in class, if you're taking lessons,
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by the way, click the link in the description below if you want to apply to study with us.
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If you can do this, if you can connect any word you learn with a specific emotion, you're going to be so much more likely to remember this word.
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So stop trying to memorize the dictionary.
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Stop trying to write words out 20 times, 30 times, hoping to remember them.
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You're not going to be able to.
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And you're not going to be able to because you don't have an emotional connection to these words.
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Emotions anchor vocabulary into your brain.
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And that's the key.
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If you really want to remember a new word or a new concept, it needs to be anchored to your brain.
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It needs to be stuck there.
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It needs to be completely immovable.
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I encourage you to look around you, look at an object.
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Maybe you know the English translation, maybe you don't know the English translation.
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If you don't, you can find that.
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Make sure you know the names of everything in your room, in your life, and if you don't,
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if you have to learn new vocabulary and connect it to either a positive or a negative emotion that you've experienced.
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I hope you found this video useful.
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Make sure to leave a like, let me know in the comments if you've ever tried this strategy, if you find it difficult to memorize vocabulary,
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and if you're planning on implementing this strategy.
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If you want to learn more about how you can improve your English with me and my team, click the link in the description below to apply now.
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I'll see you in the next video.
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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 « Why You Always Forget English Words ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : word, cat, vocabulary, kibble, emotion. Cette vidéo contient 99 phrases et 1233 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 6:31. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 189 mots par minute : attendez-vous à des liaisons et à des sons réduits. 88 % 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 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| vocabulary nom | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | vocabulaire, lexique |
| kibble nom | /ˈkɪbəl/ | croquette |
| emotion nom | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | émotion |
| anchor nom | /ˈæŋ.kəː/ | ancre |
| memorize verbe | /ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/ | mémoriser, apprendre par cœur |
| nonsensical adjectif | absurde, sans queue ni tête | |
| curve nom | /kɚv/ | courbe |
| frustrate verbe | /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/ | frustrer |
| scientifically adverbe | /ˌsaɪ.ənˈtɪfɪkli/ | scientifiquement |
| dictionary nom | /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/ | dictionnaire, dico |
| espouse verbe | /ɪˈspaʊz/ | épouser |
| pellet nom | /ˈpɛl.ɪt/ | granule |
| repetition nom | /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/ | répétition |
| seafloor nom | fond marin | |
| attach verbe | /əˈtæt͡ʃ/ | attacher |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| look around verbe | regarder autour de soi | |
| make up verbe | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | constituer, composer |
| pop up verbe | se pointer |
Des phrases à répéter
Des phrases courtes et complètes de la vidéo, à réutiliser dans la conversation de tous les jours :
- You're probably going to forget this word.
- You see, words don't exist in isolation.
- You're not going to be able to.
- If you don't, you can find that.
- I'll see you in the next video.
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 | isn't designed · is called · is attached |
| Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant | you've experienced · you've ever tried |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 37 contractions et formes réduites, comme you're, you'll, don't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, combinations /kɑmbɪˈneɪʃənz/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/, isolation /ˌaɪsəˈleɪʃən/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, scientifically /ˌsaɪ.ənˈtɪfɪkli/, combinations /kɑmbɪˈneɪʃənz/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, immovable /ɪˈmuːvəb(ə)l/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: attach /əˈtæt͡ʃ/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, memorize /ˈmɛm.əˌɹaɪ̯z/, frustrate /ˈfɹʌsˌtɹeɪt/, dictionary /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/, repetition /ˌɹɛp.əˈtɪʃ.ən/
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 vocabulary, kibble, emotion.
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.