Pratique du Shadowing: Working as a Fire Protection Engineer - First Six Months Experience - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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It's now been half a year since I started working as a fire engineer
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and during that time I had a total of 53 projects ranging from smaller projects like sheds
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and offices to shopping centers and health clinics and here are some of my thoughts.
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For my first day at work I got a quick introduction to the basic commands in AutoCAD
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and the company's routines and was then handed the CAD drawings of a new building.
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I got a few minutes to look at it before having
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a meeting with my co-worker without really knowing anything about consultant
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work whatsoever where the drawings was for a new two-story shopping center with a two-story parking garage
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and this was going to be my first ever project.
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That specific project quite literally just started digging just around a month ago
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which got me understanding of how long the pre-building process of new buildings actually take.
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Now that I got quite a routine built I start every new project by going through the plans of the building, seeing a situation in comparison to other buildings,
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as well as a distance to the closest fire department.
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I then instantly start to sketch out the ideas of how
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the fire protection strategy can be made as efficiently as possible
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with my knowledge of the pre-accepted rulesets from the regulations before even writing a single word in the report.
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After sketching off the drawings, I get it up in the report, running down the criteria given for the specific risk category that the building is set in, using the regulation's 17 chapters on fire safety,
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ranging from a building's load-bearing capacity to securing the safety of the fire department in an emergency situation.
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If there's some parts of the regulation that seems a bit redundant for for the specific buildings or even hard to achieve, it might be needed to do some extra analysis,
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calculations or simulations to prove that the fire safety of the building is achieved without that specific criteria.
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So far during my 53 projects, there's been the need to do that for 60% of them.
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So it's quite a common practice.
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Doing this involves doing some other measures such as the installment of sprinkler systems where it's not technically a requirement, direct alarm to the fire departments,
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or just passive measures that will just secure a quick egress of the building.
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But I think I'll dive more into that in a different video.
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It gets quite hard to keep track of all the projects, as in a busy day you might work on up towards 10 different projects at the same time, so to stay organized I got a folder with shortcuts to all my projects,
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links from our work database, while also typing up the progress of each project onto my personal Notion page or OneNote.
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When I first started I was very afraid to do any mistakes, as a slight mishap from my part might result in an unsafe construction being built
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but luckily our internal quality control ensures
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that there's at least three engineers on each project where one creates the product one does a thorough quality control
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and a third person evaluates the quality control as the final
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step before the project is sent out to a customer
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if it's a more complicated project where some of the solutions
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are not amongst the regulations pre-accepted ones it might also require the separate quality control from a different firm
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which has their own multi-step quality control it really puts your mind to ease a little bit more than
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if you were the sole responsible person for each project.
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All in all, I really like my job.
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The fact that every building is different and
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that some buildings will require a totally new solution
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that needs to be simulated and documented to fit the regulations makes it that you're constantly learning something new.
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There's also different routes to take as a fire engineer, but becoming a fire safety advisor was most likely the best fit for me personally as I enjoy using my brain.
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And even though it's mainly an office job, you also get to go out on site and see what the sentences that you write in the report actually mean.
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Another route
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that I would personally consider doing is experimental fire research as
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you get to see more of what the different solutions Amongst other things actually does firsthand.
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So during my bachelor thesis we did multiple full-scale experiments and I had a lot of fun
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So we did experiments using water curtain sprinklers protecting windows towards an outdoor emergency path
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So you can watch this playlist next if you're interested in
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that it shows the whole process from gathering theory to finishing the actual experiments Anyways, thanks for watching and have a good one.
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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon
Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau C1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « Working as a Fire Protection Engineer - First Six Months Experience ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : project, quality, regulation, safety, specific. Cette vidéo contient 49 phrases et 814 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 3:39. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 223 mots par minute : attendez-vous à des liaisons et à des sons réduits. 83 % 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 |
|---|---|---|
| criterion nom | /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/ | critère |
| sprinkler nom | /ˈspɹiŋklɚ/ | arroseur, asperseur |
| sketch nom | /ˈskɛt͡ʃ/ | esquisse |
| egress nom | /ˈiːɡɹɛs/ | sortie |
| mishap nom | /ˈmɪshæp/ | erreur, accident |
| shortcut nom | /ˈʃɔːtkʌt/ | raccourci |
| simulate verbe | /ˈsɪm.jə.lət/ | simuler |
| installment nom | /ɪnˈstɔːl.mənt/ | au fur et à mesure |
| redundant adjectif | /ɹɪˈdʌn.dənt/ | redondant |
| playlist nom | /ˈpleɪˌlɪst/ | playlist, liste de lecture |
| unsafe adjectif | /ʌnˈseɪf/ | dangereux |
| folder nom | /ˈfoʊldɚ/ | dossier, chemise |
| calculation nom | /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/ | calcul |
| efficiently adverbe | efficacement | |
| curtain nom | /ˈkɜɹt(ə)n/ | rideau |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Sens |
|---|---|
| go through verbe | traverser |
| run down verbe | heurter |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 3 contractions et formes réduites, comme you're, I'll. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « th »: thorough /ˈθʌɹoʊ/, thesis /ˈθisɪs/
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: shortcut /ˈʃɔːtkʌt/, calculation /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn̩/, simulation /ˌsɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃn̩/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: criterion /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/, whatsoever /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: firsthand /ˈfɜːstˌhænd/, mishap /ˈmɪshæp/, whatsoever /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: sketch /ˈskɛt͡ʃ/, bachelor /ˈbæt͡ʃ.ə.lə(ɹ)/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: criterion /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/, sprinkler /ˈspɹiŋklɚ/, egress /ˈiːɡɹɛs/, ruleset /ˈɹulˌsɛt/, redundant /ɹɪˈdʌn.dənt/
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 criterion, sprinkler, sketch.
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.