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It's a classic scene, we have all these images in mind,
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we know these rules of grammar by the heart,
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we have memorized these lists interminables of vocabulary,
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we approach the comptoir to order a simple cafe at Paris or,
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I don't know, at Montréal… Yeah, the moment fatidic.
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Exactly.
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And there, the server responds to the light of the light with an expression totally ingenue,
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avalant the half of the syllables.
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And it's the total panic.
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But really, the brain is completely fiching.
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Welcome to our deep dive today.
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We have on the table a very intriguing document,
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a intensive training guide called Mastering Natural French,
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Brain Training for B2 Listening Comprehension.
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It's fascinating.
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Yes.
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And that things are clear,
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the goal of our exploration is not to do a simple course of linguistic探椅.
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Today, the mission is to really decode the mechanics of our brain face to an learning complex skills.
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Absolutely.
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How do we pass from a school-educated,
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very artificial and artificial, to a knowledge of a natural information and completely imprevisible?
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The challenge is largely the context of the French.
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Because to understand a language at an advanced level,
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it's above all a exercise of treatment of information in real, under pressure.
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A mental exercise, what?
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Analyse today, whether it be the management of information,
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the lack of information in the unknown,
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or the unconscious unconscious of the schemas,
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Well, these are actually the same rouages that allow us to acquire any high level skills in a chaotic environment.
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Well, we can't do a little bit of that.
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The point of view is that our brain is supposed to identify the phonemes,
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the grammatical structure and the global sense of a phrase in...
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.. a fraction of a second.
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A real war machine!
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But the big coupable, the major obstacle which makes it to the best mechanics of the intermédiaire,
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is what we call the mental translation.
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Ah oui, le fameux réflexe.
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Le fait de s'accrocher désespérément à sa langue maternelle.
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Ça me fait penser à une analogie très concrète du document.
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Essayer de traduire mentalement chaque mot,
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c'est exactement comme regarder une vidéo en streaming avec une connexion Internet défaillante.
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Ah, j'adore cette image.
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N'est-ce pas ?
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Le cerveau fait une mise en mémoire tampon,
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un petit buffering sur un mot précis qu'il ne reconnaît pas immédiatement.
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Il se met sur pause pour chercher dans son dictionnaire interne.
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And that's where the difference is created.
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That's it.
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Because the problem is that the real life has no buttons to pause.
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While the brain charge the translation of this word,
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the direct conversation continues to flow. Of course.
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The time that the translation is found,
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we have a problem with the next three words and we are completely erased.
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What is fascinating here is the way this analogy illustrates the physical limits of our memory of work.
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Neurologically speaking, it's even more drastic than a simple connection.
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C'est-à-dire ?
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Notre mémoire de travail ne peut retenir qu'un nombre très limité d'éléments simultanément.
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Quand on active le processus de traduction,
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on remplit ces cases de mémoire avec les mots de notre langue maternelle.
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D'accord.
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Résultat, il n'y a littéralement plus d'espace cognitif disponible pour faire entrer les nouveaux sons de la langue étrangère qui,
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eux, continuent d'arriver.
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L'audio rebondit sur un mur.
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Et j'imagine que c'est épuisant ?
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C'est le mot.
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This creates a fatigue mental foudroyant,
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because the brain is on-sour-chopting trying to try to jongle with two linguistics linguistics at the same time.
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The ultimate goal, this famous automatic compréhension,
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is to court-circuiter this translation.
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But how do we do it, concrètement ?
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The only way to come to the ears is to expose the ears to a constant natural flux, without pause.
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It's to force the brain,
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by pure instinct of cognitive to abandon the maternal language language.
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It's a real therapy of shock, in fact.
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And this saturation explains perfectly why we hit a mirror at a very precise moment of the learning.
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The source identifies the challenges specific to the level B2,
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which we could compare to four mirrors invisible.
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Yes, the level where everything goes down.
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Exactly.
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At this stage, we don't get more against the alphabet or the conjugations of the present.
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The nature of the obstacle changes.
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First, we confront the variable vitesse.
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And that's destabilizing.
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Completely.
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A native native speaker doesn't have a limit of metronomical.
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He accélère when he is passionate,
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he murmured, he made some pause,
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he fusioned three words in one single song.
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It's the natural rhythm of the oral.
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Then, there is the vocabulary, which is suddenly abstract.
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We pass from the description of his house to the debate on his politics or environment.
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What is the need for different neurons.
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Then, there is the challenge of the sudden changes of language.
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A person can start a sentence with a hyper-formel and end with an expression of an argo super familiar.
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Yes, like, I have to say that it's really a bit of a bad thing.
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Exactly.
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The brain must do a constant gymnastics to follow its ruptures of tons.
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And there's the fourth wall,
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which is often the most stabilizing,
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which is the most important thing about the implicit cultural references.
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Ah, that.
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The fact that a simple conversation is being used to a subject of the country related to the history of the country,
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to the recent recent news,
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or even to the publicities that have marked a generation,
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these are data that exist in any grammar manual.
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It's just on this point that I'm a little bit perplexed.
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Ah, bon ?
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Yes.
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I understand that we can get our ears to get a word pronounced more quickly or identify records of languages.
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But how can we seriously pretend to understand the implicit culture with a simple exercise of listening?
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I see what you mean.
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The implicit, by definition, is what is not said.
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Is it not an illusion of thinking that we can handle it without having lived years in the country?
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It's an excellent remark.
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But if we relate this to the global context of development cognitive,
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we need to understand
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that the goal of this training is absolutely not to transform the learning in an encyclopedia of an ambulatory.
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So we're not supposed to know all of this?
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Not at all.
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It's not to know how to decode each obscure reference.
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In reality, the real goal is to develop the adaptability face to the unknown,
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what we call the tolerance to ambiguity.
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The tolerance to ambiguity, it's interesting.
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Yes, because when a blague or a cultural reference occurs and creates a black hole in the comprehension,
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the reaction of an apprentice to a intermediate level, it's panic.
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The same buffering.
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The training aims to modify this reaction.
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It's a sense of accepting this temporal zone,
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not to approach the temporal zone and use the environment.
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The tone of the voice, the body, the body.
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Exactly.
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To deduce the intention global.
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To know avancer and to take decisions even when we need crucial data,
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it is a vital executive skill,
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beyond the language of the language.
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So, technically impossible to know or to control this chaos,
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the solution is in the art of triage.
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The document offers a survival strategy,
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which seems almost counterintuitive to first abord.
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It is to say ?
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It is to say 100% of the sense global and to make the deal of 100% of the words.
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It is to decide to ignore one part of what we hear.
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And that is a change of paradigm that asks a lot of courage.
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Why do you say that ?
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Because the school system has conditioned to the perfectionism.
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We have told each word to have the right note.
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Or, the natural oral understanding is on a principle of economy energy.
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We can't listen to everything at maximum intensity.
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That's it.
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The strategy consists of bragging all his attention on the words ported sense,
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namely the verbs of action and the non-principal verbs,
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and to filter impitoyablement all the noise around.
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The noise, like the prepositions,
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the articles… And, especially, the famous words of remplissage which parasitic the discourse.
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Just the guide gives an example extremely parlant to this subject.
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Let's take an example of a simple phrase,
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saturated with a tick of language.
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Genre, du coup, je me disais qu'on pourrait peut-être se voir demain si t'es pas trop occupé, bien sûr.
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Une phrase super typique.
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Complètement.
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Un apprenant qui essaye de tout traduire va s'épuiser dès le premier « du coup ».
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Chercher une logique, puis très gûcher sur le « euh ».
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Et il perd le fil.
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Alors que le cerveau n'a besoin d'isoler que trois piliers pour reconstruire l'intégralité du message.
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Disait, voir et demain.
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Tout le reste, c'est littéralement de l'emballage.
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C'est fascinant quand on y pense.
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C'est la même chose dans un contexte plus formel,
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comme l'exemple du texte sur le télétravail mentionné dans les sources.
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Si une phrase commence par « alors je voulais vous parler d'un sujet qui me tient particulièrement à cœur ».
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L'oreille entraînée ne cherche qu'à capter les mots clés qui vont suivre.
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Comme « pandémie », « liberté » ou « isoler ».
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Voilà.
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Tout en reconnaissant les expressions comme « ce qui est sûr »,
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non pas comme une suite de mots à analyser grammaticalement,
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but like a simple block of sense prefabricated,
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a signal that announces a conclusion.
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And the identification of these prefabricated blocks is a technique of reduction of the cognitive charge redoutable.
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Ah oui !
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Yes, instead of treating the expression « what is sure » as four distincts,
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asking four analyses separated, the brain is treated as one single image global.
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Like one single word, in fact.
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Exactly.
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This liberate instantaneously the mental band to analyze the true information that follows.
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That's where it becomes really interesting.
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It reminds me of the professional photography,
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you know, where the photographer plays with the depth of the pitch.
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Ah, the effect of flow in the back-plan.
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That's right.
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When you look at a success,
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the eye is immediately attracted by the main subject,
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which is an absolute net,
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while the rear-plane, the decor,
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is fluted in a aesthetic way.
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The brain isola what counts.
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It's a beautiful analogy.
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It's this natural filter that we operate all the day in our maternal language without thinking.
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We don't listen to each syllable of our colleagues.
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Heureusement, by the way.
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But as soon as we plonged into a foreign language,
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L'anxiété nous transforme en perfectionnistes,
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voulant que chaque pixel de la scène soit net.
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La métaphore visuelle est puissante.
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Mais pour rester dans le registre auditif de notre sujet,
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je dirais plutôt que c'est l'équivalent du travail d'un ingénieur du son lors d'un mixage audio.
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Oh, j'aime bien ça.
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Comment ça ?
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Eh bien, ils ne suppriment pas la batterie ou la basse de la piste,
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ils baissent simplement leur volume pour que la voix du chanteur puisse percer le mix.
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Pour aider le cerveau à effectuer ce mixage en temps réel,
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The method suggests to impose what she calls an intention of listening.
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An intention of listening?
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Yes.
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Before pressing on the lecture,
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we need to give a role.
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Is it simply to identify the general theme of the debate?
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Or is it to be able to identify the specific argument of the guest against the telework?
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So, we program the brain before even listening?
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Exactly.
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This intention precise is like a frequency filter for our attention.
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The brain stops the wave of sound and starts to scan the flow to find its target.
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Okay.
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So the theory of triage,
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of audio and of the release is very clear.
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But how do we go from a concept of concept to a real brain reflex neurologic?
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Ah, the practice of practice.
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Right.
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The document is a test of attack on 30 days.
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Pensé for re-education of the brain progressively.
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It's not just a list of tasks, it's a real adaptation.
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And how does it structure?
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The first week begins with a light and passive immersion.
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15 minutes per day, without taking notes,
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without trying to understand everything,
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just to habitate the audio audio,
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to the loud rhythm of the language.
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A bit of a sound effect.
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Yes.
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The second week, we go to a crank with an active immersion of 20 minutes,
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where we introduce the strategic prise of notes to see the frequency of certain words.
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Very good.
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Then, the third week, the famous technique of shadowing,
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which consists of repeating the audio with a very light decalation, for 25 minutes.
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And the last week, the third week,
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the immersion total of 30 minutes,
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without any security, followed by a synthesis of synthetics.
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This protocol is remarkable because it really respect the cerebral plasticity.
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How about that?
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It starts with implicit to go to explicit.
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And for this plasticity to be stimulated at maximum,
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the choice of resources is also important that the time passed.
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It is necessary to create a real fraction fractionation for the ear.
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Justement, the sources insistent on the extreme variety of supports.
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Alternate between the blind and structured of journalists on radio like France Inter or RFI.
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Yes, the French is very proper.
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Exactly.
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And on the other side,
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the debris-in-the-bit filled with coupes-montages of creators YouTube like Hugo Décrypte or Cyprien.
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It's a great deal.
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And without forgetting the dramatic rich series of contemporary films,
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like Lupin, The Bureau of Legends or 10%,
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where the dialogues are chevaux,
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where the actors are talking or talking about camera.
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It's the real world.
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And it's this permanent contrast that force adaptability.
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But there is an element of this plan on which I would like to stop.
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I listen to you.
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The phase 3, the shadowing.
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The fact of listening to an extrait is to repeat it immediately in high voice in imitating the tone and rhythm.
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I am sorry that logic is a little.
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It's normal.
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It's often not understood.
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What the fact of doing the perroquet alone in his salon,
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doing his own own macework,
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is specifically to listen and understand what others say?
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It's like a practice of oral expression, not understanding?
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It's a great question.
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And it's often the point that the most derroute but the answer is in the incredible intricacies of our physiology.
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Our physiology, it is to say?
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It is not only a passive reception process in the ear.
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It is also a internal simulation.
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The cells of the brain,
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responsible for the articulation of the words,
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and the cells responsible for the audio decoding,
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are connected by the neural networks.
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Okay.
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I see.
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When we practice shadowing, we force our own phonateur,
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our own, our vocal cords,
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to physically reproduce the complex liaisons, complex, illusions, rapid rhythms.
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Genre, the fact of fusioning,
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I don't know, in a simple, I don't know.
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Exactly.
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In generating these micro movements,
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we create a proprioceptive memory.
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The brain registra the physical sensation of producing these sounds.
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Wow.
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TIFF uses this data to decode the sound almost instantaneously.
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In clear, we train his ability to listen through the movement of his own mouth.
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It's fascinating to realize that the key of the listening voice is in the motricity.
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Well, on the paper with all these techniques,
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this program of 30 days seems infaillible.
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On the paper, yes.
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But the reality of the learning is much more rugged.
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The daily execution of this exercise confront inevitably the prenant to a psychological mur.
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And that's where many abandonment.
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The guide met a point of honor to normalize an emotion, the frustration.
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It is described not as an error,
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but as an indicator biological growth.
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And it's fundamental to understand it for not to abandon.
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The frustration, the feeling of disappointment or confusion total,
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it's literally the chemical signature of the brain which signale that it is in the way to create new connections synaptic.
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It's the moment where it works really?
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It's the price of the zone of comfort.
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If the exercise is comfortable,
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it's not an neural adaptation in course.
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The progression of this type of skills is never a nice and nice curve and lice.
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That's sure.
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It's made of plates, and sometimes even a day where we have the impression of having carrément regress.
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That's where the unconsciousness of the learnings is in the game.
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The document reminds that the brain works intensely in the back-end.
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Even when we don't realize it.
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Even when you're feeling like 20% of a podcast in making the oven,
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our brain records the statistics.
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It's a real work of an ombre.
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It's a real work of an ombre.
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Like the fact of a rire to a black spontaneity,
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before even having realized in which language was formulated.
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What does that mean at the end?
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Good question.
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What I retire from this analysis is that this famous training to natural comprehension is not a simple accumulation of academic knowledge.
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It is a true experience of emotional resilience.
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Yes.
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To achieve the fluidity, it is necessary to accept the vulnerability of not understanding.
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It is necessary to accept the feeling of disarm
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and confused for weeks to leave the brain time to do his work of assembly.
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This brings a crucial question on the psychology of performance.
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It's the importance of the trust in the process.
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The fact of believing even when it's a blank.
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Yes, because the permanent doubt is the acquisition.
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This minutiae and unconscious of the sound structures by the brain is totally silent on the daily basis.
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We don't feel it.
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No, but this accumulation of effort invisible ends ineluctablement by entering a critical issue critique.
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C'est l'origine de ce phénomène bien connu des apprenants persévérants, le fameux déclic.
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Ah, ce moment magique !
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Un jour, sans cri égard,
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sans avoir fait d'efforts supplémentaires ce matin-là,
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le brouillard auditif se dissipe.
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La chaîne de son indistincte se sépare soudainement en mots clairs et porteurs de sens.
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Ce n'est pas de la magie,
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c'est simplement le résultat d'un travail de fond qui vient d'atteindre la surface de la conscience.
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It's an extremely encouraging perspective for all those who debate this learning.
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To synthesize our exploration of sources today,
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to try to get a complex information and natural,
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it's above all a act of cognitive education.
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It's exactly that.
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It's to learn to get a sense of the chaos rather than to try to control it.
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It's to develop the surgical capacity to filter the essential,
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while ignoring the noise.
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It demands a variation, a active practice,
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including even our own body with shadowing,
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and, above all, patience to endure the initial frustration.
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The regularity of the exposition is the only real maître of the game.
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There is a last aspect in our documentary that deserves a bit more large reflection.
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What is it?
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It was mentioned that even during a passive écoute,
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in the background, our brain is able to cartograph
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and to absorb unconsciously the complex schemas and the sound of a foreign language.
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Yes, the radio thing when we do the TV.
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Yes, it's a demonstration of force of our subconscious,
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but it opens the door to a much more vertigineuse question,
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which is largely over the linguistics.
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I'm curious.
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If our neural architecture is configured to aspire and integrate passively structures also elaborated simply because they resonate in the rear-plan,
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what other type of invisible schemas is our brain-like to communicate in this moment?
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Wow, that's an excellent question.
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It is a great question.
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It is a lot of beliefs that are vehiculized by media that we have to turn,
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the level of cynicism of our environment of the work or the ambient ambient in our backyard.
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It is true that the brain doesn't always feel what enters.
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Yes.
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If our brain is constantly on the buffering of our environment in our own sound,
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perhaps we should have paid attention to the quality of the sound of our own life.
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The video "Compréhension orale : je parle français sans pause pour entraîner votre cerveau" offers a unique opportunity to enhance your English speaking practice through immersive listening. By engaging with natural spoken French, learners can better grasp the fluidity and rhythm of language—key aspects often overlooked in traditional study approaches. The context presented in the video, especially regarding real-life situations like ordering a coffee, reflects the everyday challenges language learners face. This type of practice not only helps to solidify your understanding but also enhances your confidence when navigating through spontaneous conversations, making it particularly beneficial for preparing for tests like the IELTS speaking practice.
Grammar & Expressions in Context
The speaker effectively utilizes several grammatical structures that are instrumental in achieving fluency. Here are three key expressions worth noting:
- Avalant la moitié des syllabes - This phrase emphasizes the phenomenon of native speakers blending or dropping syllables, a challenge for learners who may expect clear enunciation.
- La gestion de l'information - This term highlights the cognitive skill of managing information under pressure, which is crucial for real-time comprehension and can be applied to your spoken English practice.
- Essayer de traduire mentalement - The speaker discusses the common pitfall of mental translation, which many English learners face. Recognizing this helps to shift focus towards thinking directly in English, rather than translating from one's native language.
Common Pronunciation Traps
Focusing on pronunciation is essential for clear communication. The video presents a variety of words and expressions that could pose challenges:
- Comptoir - The 'o' pronounced as a nasal sound can be tricky for English speakers, who might be tempted to pronounce each letter distinctly.
- Fatidic - This word emphasizes the French pronunciation style, which can differ significantly from English phonetics, particularly in the blending of vowels and consonants.
- Avalant - The flow of this word reflects how native speakers often reduce sounds for quicker speech, a practice that learners should emulate for more natural flow in their own speech.
Incorporating this video into your practice routine can fundamentally reshape your approach to English speaking, using the shadowing technique to mimic the natural cadence of spoken language. By engaging actively with advanced contexts, you'll reduce the tendency to translate mentally, ultimately paving the way to fluency.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.
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