Shadowing with "Les émotifs anonymes": Improve Your French Pronunciation and Intonation

Hello and welcome to my YouTube channel If you don't know me my name is Marion I am a French and foreign language teacher At CLAP French And my goal is to teach you French using French movies and TV shows And today I'm going to suggest a little shadowing exercise Hello everyone I am very happy to see you again in a new video And today we are going to start a special shadowing series I will present to you Several movie clips over the next few weeks and show you how to do shadowing with these clips Let's go here we go Today we are working on a clip from a film called "The Anonymous Emoters" which I recommend you watch It's a very nice French comedy And it's also something rather neat now at the time that comes from Valentine's Day We will listen to the excerpt once and then I will explain to you how to do the shadowing of this excerpt Excuse me So we're at the restaurant There's a young woman who enters the restaurant and is talking to maybe The waiter the main one to explain to her that she came here to eat So the waiter gently mocks by saying that's convenient You are in the right place It's a great coincidence to come to eat at a restaurant We start with this good evening miss It 's going You see he says good evening miss We have a small tone that goes up Here Miss as a question It's a way of saying "Good evening what can I do for you " We will use a questioning intonation and he will say good evening madam miss Good evening miss So no "e" it's not "bonsoir mademoiselle" it's "bonsoir mademoiselle" So nothing special here except for this little e that 's leaving here from miss And this tone that's rising Here as well as to indicate a question as to show that he wants to encourage him to speak Miss Okay We continue She speaks quite quickly because she is very stressed about this social situation She says good evening so this is very French good evening that would be If you listen carefully she doesn 't say "it's for eating " No she says "it would be " we can even put a little bit like that it would be o eat That would be to eat Good evening I would like to eat It also has a slight intonation that rises here like a question Is it possible to eat Good evening I would like to eat You can use it as a nightcap that would be to have a drink If you ever go to a restaurant and you just want to have a drink and you're not sure if they do that you can say Good evening I would like to have a drink Good evening I would like to eat And you see the head rising that would be to eat It's just in time It falls It's just in time We're not sure about that that's good we're sure about that That's good They said that a little insistence on this B is needed That's convenient And there we're rather on something that's going down That's convenient He laughs a little Yes a gentleman must have reserved a table for two finally I think Yes so she has a lot of E because she hesitates she 's a bit stressed Yes a gentleman must have reserved a table for two I think Let's listen to it again Yes a gentleman must have reserved it On a a small E that's hanging around here Yes the gentleman must have For two E's she continues her E like an hesitation A gentleman must have reserved a table for two Finally I think So here we are definitely dealing with a gentleman A man has A man must have Reserve a table for two We'll listen again A table for two E's So she is on the E's because it's her way of showing she's not very sure of herself okay So there is a lot of hesitation here A man had to book a table for two finally I think And this way of repeating the "I " is also a hesitation As I imagine you do it in your language too Yes a gentleman must have reserved a table for two I think A gentleman had to reserve a table for two I think A table for two I think The name of this gentleman Here we hesitate We insist a bit The name of this gentleman The time to find it We continue with the gentleman sir Sir It comes from this Here we remove this small D and it will give the name of this gentleman The name of this gentleman So here is again this rising intonation which helps us understand that it's a question The name of this gentleman You see there is no such thing What is the question It does not ask what the name is of this gentleman The name of this gentleman And it ends With Ah yes actually I don 't know his name I'm sorry She has a small OK at the end Oh yes actually I don't know his name I'm sorry Yes actually here we do pronounce the T Actually Almost like that I don't know his name I'm sorry If you listen carefully there's a I'm sorry here Yes actually I don't know his name I'm sorry I don't know his name She keeps all those E's well I don't know his name I'm sorry It's going to become I'm sorry She is very formal she is very polite she is even a little bit stressed so that's how it is Sometimes a more standard vocabulary is used Yet you see she does well the I'm sorry Excuse me Yes actually I don't know his name I'm sorry Excuse me I can put it like that for you Excuse me It won't help you much more than that but we can put a K here which might be more logical Excuse me Sometimes it's a bit harder to pronounce this excuse me We listen to it in full once and then I'll put it here The phrases I have modified with colors Listen to it one last time Good evening miss is that for eating That's convenient A gentleman must have reserved a table for two Finally I think What is the name of this gentleman Oh yes yes actually I don't know his name I'm sorry Excuse me You can also add break moments here if it helps you do your shadowing You can find this small document on Notion in a version that is only for viewing You will not be able to copy it but you can view and read the video and also the small audio file just below Therefore I invite you Go check it out The link will be here in the description It was a short video I invite you to watch it and practice Do shadowing and feel free to ask questions if you have any in the comments I wish you a very beautiful day See you soon