Pratique du Shadowing: Why You Should Get Married Now - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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One of the things about our world that would most surprise a magically returned,
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pre-modern ancestor of ours is how long we take to assess and settle on a spouse.
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In almost all societies that have ever existed,
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the period between first laying eyes on a prospective partner and the moment of committing to them was extremely short.
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In Sumeria, there was a single audience.
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In classical Athens, young men and women might meet three times before arrangements were settled.
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In the Inca Empire, one might never even have been in the spouse's presence until the wedding.
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Contrast this with our own setup.
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We move extremely slowly.
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It's typical to date someone non-exclusively for six months, then to commit to seeing them singly for a year and a half,
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then perhaps to move in and further test the waters for four or five years, before either finally getting engaged or else discovering that,
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after all, one wasn't quite suited, perhaps because of slightly different attitudes around politics or some clashes over interior design or entertainment preferences.
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At the heart of the dispute between the pre-modern attitude
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and ours is a contrasting notion of what is required to make a relationship succeed.
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We implicitly believe it's about compatibility.
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They firmly believed it was about commitment.
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Underpinning our modern romantic approach to love is a tightly held notion
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that the most important ingredient in any functioning relationship is innate congruence,
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a pre-existing sympathy of souls that will lend us a feeling that we've met someone before, perhaps in a past life.
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We believe we will need to encounter a lot of people and try them out over extended periods because this,
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and only this, will help us to see whether we've correctly alighted on a soul mate.
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It can take 180 breakfasts with someone to assess if we really have a sympathetic communication style.
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We might need 23 mini-breaks to properly judge a person's approach to packing and timekeeping.
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Only after sleeping with 76 different individuals might one determine whether we're fully satisfied with sex with a particular example.
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Our ancestors begged to differ.
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They believed that alignments were to be formed, not found.
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What was, for them, principally important for the success of any relationship was the desire to make it succeed.
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Commitment came first, any in-built compatibility a distant second.
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It almost didn't matter who one married.
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The choice was somewhat secondary to the desire to be married.
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So long as the rough details were correct – right gender, age and so on – the rest could and would be sorted out in time, through willpower and dedication.
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Intention, far more than any innate and possibly fictitious twinship of the soul, would mean that after an argument,
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partners would come back together to resume their dialogue, or that they would put aside certain of their spontaneous wishes for the sake of the couple,
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or would make effort after effort to grasp how the world might look through the other's eyes.
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In the ancestral view, compatibility was an achievement of love.
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It was not, and could never be its precondition.
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We don't have to follow historical precedents in every detail to be at least partially inspired by them.
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We can recognise that a wish to actually be married
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might in the end be one of the determining factors in how successful any marriage can be.
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So long as we and our partner are aligned on this point, the many differences that will naturally emerge between us may not have to be insuperable.
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In the pre-modern expectation that trouble is natural and legitimate, we discover a more bearable method of interpreting discord.
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Working at differences is what constitutes a relationship.
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It may not need to be seen as a stern obstacle that has to be overcome before one can ever take place.
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Everyone we meet will be slightly wrong.
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Our ancestors knew this better than we do.
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Everyone will fail to understand us intuitively.
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Everyone will have a range of very unfortunate tastes.
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None of this has to be remotely fatal.
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We don't need to be the same person separated at birth.
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We don't need to be in spiritual synchronicity.
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All we really need is to want, very, very much, to be together with someone.
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The rest are almost details.
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It might not, with this in mind, after all be so crazy to go on three dates with someone and then, without too much fanfare, set in motion plans for marriage.
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Once we understand that it's the idea of commitment that counts, the details can be managed.
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We may have exaggerated the importance of finding the right person,
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and very much underestimated the power of wanting to make a relationship, any relationship, work.
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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon
Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau C2 s’appuie sur la vidéo « Why You Should Get Married Now ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : relationship, detail, pre, modern, ancestor. Cette vidéo contient 56 phrases et 793 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 5:12. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 152 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 :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| ancestor nom | /ˈæn.sɛs.tɚ/ | ancêtre |
| compatibility nom | /kəmˌpætəˈbɪlɪti/ | compatibilité |
| innate adjectif | /ɪˈneɪt/ | inné |
| assess verbe | /əˈsɛs/ | estimer, évaluer |
| ancestral adjectif | /ænˈsɛs.təɹ.əl/ | ancestral |
| bearable adjectif | /ˈbɛəɹəbəɫ/ | vivable, supportable |
| congruence nom | /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.əns/ | congruence |
| discord nom | /ˈdɪskɔɹd/ | discorde, désaccord |
| exaggerate verbe | /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/ | exagérer, outrer |
| fanfare nom | /ˈfænfɛə/ | fanfare |
| fictitious adjectif | /fɪkˈtɪʃəs/ | fictif |
| implicitly adverbe | implicitement | |
| insuperable adjectif | /ɪnˈsup(ə)ɹəb(ə)l/ | insurmontable |
| magically adverbe | /ˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪ.kli/ | magiquement, par magie |
| precondition nom | /ˈpɹiːkənˌdɪʃən/ | condition préalable, précondition |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Sens |
|---|---|
| come back verbe | revenir |
La grammaire de cette vidéo
Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :
| Structure | Dans la vidéo |
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| Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait | were settled · is required · be formed |
| Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant | have ever existed · have been · we've met |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 8 contractions et formes réduites, comme don't, we've, didn't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « th »: sympathetic /ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/, sympathy /ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: fictitious /fɪkˈtɪʃəs/, precondition /ˈpɹiːkənˌdɪʃən/, dedication /ˌdɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/, clash /ˈklæʃ/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: compatibility /kəmˌpætəˈbɪlɪti/, ancestral /ænˈsɛs.təɹ.əl/, exaggerate /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/, insuperable /ɪnˈsup(ə)ɹəb(ə)l/, precondition /ˈpɹiːkənˌdɪʃən/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: exaggerate /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/, magically /ˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪ.kli/, emerge /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒ/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: ancestral /ænˈsɛs.təɹ.əl/, bearable /ˈbɛəɹəbəɫ/, congruence /ˈkɑŋ.ɡɹu.əns/, discord /ˈdɪskɔɹd/, exaggerate /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/
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 ancestor, compatibility, innate.
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.