Pratiquer le Shadowing en français avec la série Plan Coeur

Hello welcome to my YouTube channel Club Français My name is Marion I am a French and foreign language teacher And I teach you French through movies and series Welcome to this new video I hope you are doing well Today we are going to talk about shadowing So if you follow me a bit on social media you know that this is a method I particularly enjoy But the question everyone is asking what is shadowing Shadowing is a technique that was popularized especially by Alexander Argel You can check out his YouTube channel he's a polyglot who talks a lot about languages It is a method that involves repeating phrases spoken by native speakers At the same time above them in order to improve his pronunciation the rhythm etc of the language So this is really a technique that will allow you to work on your speaking skills I don't know if you've ever done this but for example when you were younger you may have been singing songs in foreign languages you didn't master You may not necessarily know the meaning of the words but still you were singing over the voices of the singers I do it in rhythm and by trying to repeat the sound Well shadowing is exactly that but with spoken language and by trying to understand as much as possible of the language since indeed it is your target language In any case if you want to improve your pronunciation and look more natural in Frenc And also develop your linguistic intuition that's really the method you should practice Today I'm taking you with me on a guided session with the Plein Coeur series We're going to do some shadowing together But before starting there are three rules you need to know in order to reuse clips from movies or series yourself later Choose an audio that you like for practicing shadowing Choose a video where you can clearly see the actors' lips moving It will help you imitate their pronunciation as closely as possible Choose a video that contains phrases that will be useful in your daily life Things you can reuse by changing a few small words for example And rule number three don't forget to imitate the actors' gestures Gestures with the body and also with the head Body language the language of the body is very important Of course you can practice shadowing without understanding what you'repeating there's no problem with that It's better to understand it will allow you to develop several language skills at the same time We will now focus on a heartwarming video that I have already used in another video So if you want to know the explanations of the text we will be using today Don't hesitate to click up here or there to see the explanation for this video Let's go I'm taking you with me for a shadowing session So there are all these animals just watching without doing anything So the complete sentence spoken here is So there are all the animals watching like that without doing anything I am writing this sentence here That is the sentence written in correct French Now you to do shadowing you can rewrite the sentence in this way for example In a more phonetic way that will help you repeat it more naturally and spontaneously without needing to think about the reading When you do shadowing you really have to give up reading and let yourself be carried away by the sound So feel free to rewrite your sentence this way or that way The second thing you can do in your rewriting so you can take a piece of paper and write down what you hear by closing your eyes By trying to be as close as possible to the sound so it's easier for you to pronounce And don't forget to also add small marks for intonation For example we can make pauses here like here Or maybe why not mark the moments when the tone goes up or down with arrows for example That's up to you Try to note down what will help you The idea is to detach from reading and try to repeat over the voices of the characters For the next part of the exercise I will add the subtitles below the videos in correct French You can rewrite them in your own way I won't give you a way to rewrite them so you don't get stuck on the writing But if you need to see it written Don't hesitate to write it down on a piece of paper with your own phonetic way of writing The video will repeat I cut it into several parts so you can practice short phrases Each sentence will be repeated twice allowing you to try it several times Don't hesitate to go back and take breaks It's your video You can also try slowing the video down just a little The goal of the game is to stay as natural as possible when repeating all of this Last note don't forget that shadowing is also about repeating the gestures and body language And of course to speak above the person who is speaking at the same time like if you were singing a song The real point of the exercise is this You can record yourself and listen back to compare with the original Try to correct the things you hear There's no need to do this exercise 25 times okay The idea isn't to be tired of hearing this excerpt Do it 3-4 times and once you're fed up you stop You can come back in 2 days in 4 days And then of course change the excerpt as often as possible so you don't get bored So there are all these animals just watching without doing anything But there there is a little hummingbird that is active on its own to go get water and buy it on the fire And at that moment there's a tattoo artist who arrives and says A tattoo isn't a type of weird armadillo is it In any case a hummingbird is not a seagull So now you're an influencer and a platypus Ornithologist Charlotte Platypus it's the squirrel with a duck's bill Ornithologist Charlotte Platypus it's the squirrel with a duck's bill Short answer the tattoo says to the hummingbird that basically what he's doing is pointless But there what does the hummingbird reply I know but I'm doing my part Short answer the tattoo says to the hummingbird that in short what he's doing is pointless But here what does the hummingbird reply I know but I'm doing my part There it's done I hope you enjoyed the exercise Don't hesitate as I told you to do it again in 2-3 days or within a week If this is a type of exercise you enjoy let me know in the comments Tell me what was the most difficult for you what was the most challenging in this exercise Don't hesitate to tell me if you want us to do it again that would be a pleasure If you want to add shadowing to your learning I'll leave you the link below this video to download my workbook It's a workbook that will help you add movies and series to your learning using a step-by-step method So that it is really effective and that you really learn something Thank you very much for watching this video and see you next time