Learn French Shadowing With Laure Calamy In Just 15 Minutes!

What do you do to improve your French orally? Today, I'm taking you to a shadowing exercise to improve your pronunciation. We're going to shadow a great French actress, Laure Calame. Hi, I'm Marion. I'm a French teacher. And my specialty is to teach French through movies and French series to give you cultural knowledge, to give you knowledge also in terms of grammar and vocabulary techniques, and to help you better understand French spoken by natives. One of the techniques that I use most often and that is very effective to understand French spoken and also to speak it better is shadowing. Shadowing is a technique that will allow you to become aware of the modifications that French people make to their orals to be able to speak faster. It's a very powerful technique and it will allow you to work on your understanding and also your expression. But be careful, the goal is not only to speak like a native Frenchman. You can absolutely keep your accent and your way of speaking. The goal is to make you more independent in your understanding, more comfortable when you find yourself surrounded by natives who don't pay attention to their way of speaking. Today we're going to use an excerpt from an interview with Laure Calamy and you'll see, it's very interesting. Ok, so let's listen for the first time to what she says here and then I'm going to re-write it in an almost phonetic way so that we understand the modifications that she makes to her orals. But you, at home, you can totally re-write it in your own way, with your alphabet, with your way of making it similar to the sound to what she's saying. You'll see here, we're on a part where she tells something quite intimate, quite personal, and so she hesitates a lot about the words. There are a lot of times when she hesitates, she uses tricks to be able to then look for these words. Let's watch the excerpt right now, it'll be more practical. But because I was running away, because there was a moment where I was getting on my nerves, I was a bit like garbage, you see? In class and all that, when all of a sudden you're a bit harassed or I don't know what, I didn't want to be the target, I felt that it could be possible at some point, there was a year like that, and so I wanted to be invisible, I was shaving the walls, I was quiet, I was trying to be as transparent as possible. So, we're going to start from the beginning. If you listen carefully, you'll notice that the parce que, in the oral form, and I imagine that maybe you already know it, it's going to become parce que. But because I was running away, she says. But because I was running away. And we always have this hesitation at the end that you will often see transcribed like that, H-E-U, but you can of course write it like that. Because I was running away. But because I was running away. Because in fact... Because in fact, another E, and another parce que, which is going to become something like that. Parce que, parce que, maybe even a passe, when, do, we have a long E. Because in fact... OK. There was a time when... So, this is going to be a bit difficult. Because you saw, we have a lot of vowels here. And sometimes it's a bit complicated to chain all that. So let's listen again. There was a time when... There was a... There was a time when... OK. So it's going to be something like that. There was a time when... OK. Here, the EN is a vowel. So there's not the pronunciation of the N. OK. It's the vowel EN. There was a time when... You notice that these sentences, there's no difference in the intonation. There's no difference in the volume. It's almost like she's saying a whole word when she's saying these sentences. There was a time when... Yeah, I was... When... Yeah. I was... So don't forget that FAISAIS, it's not pronounced FAISAIS. It's written FAISAIS, but it's pronounced FAISAIS. There was a time when... We can do it like this. And again, We're going to listen to it again, but you'll see, it doesn't pause. It's really like, I was getting on my nerves. There was a time when I was getting on my nerves. I was getting on my nerves. Here we're going to have a I WAS doing. So like a little bit... I WAS doing. Okay, again, no pause. I was getting on my nerves. Okay, I was getting on my nerves. We can push the... I WAS part of trash. Garbage. Garbage, I was a little of the garbage. You see? You see. It's really something we often use, it's going to allow us to make sure that the people listening to us follow what we're saying. and also to have a little bit of his agreement you see so if you listen well you see there is not really the ou of you you see it's almost a you see a long you see you see be careful she will do it again no but you see you see it's almost a you see and here it would be a no no but you see it's not really a very long you see no but you see when she looks for her words but that's the advantage of using interviews it's very natural and it will allow you to understand where to take the breaks where to take the time to breathe how to use certain words to look for your words for example typically you see it will make you sound more natural and above all it will help you to create this connection with the person in front of you in the classes and all that so in the classes and all that again it's a single sentence in the classes and all that in the classes and all that we extend a little bit the a classes and all that when suddenly in the classes and all that when suddenly so when suddenly when suddenly we can even put a que here sorry when suddenly suddenly we are a little harassed when suddenly so that's also his way of looking for his words I don't know what and so when suddenly when suddenly we are a little harassed we are a little harassed all that again without pause we are a little a little harassed we are a little harassed where and there listen well this way of saying I don't know what harassed I don't know what I don't know what So that's really the most typical way we have to say I don't know what, we are a bit harassed, I don't know what. I was a bit, I didn't want to be the target. I didn't want, I didn't want to be the target, it's going to become I didn't want, I didn't want, I didn't want to be. If you listen carefully, we don't have an R here, I didn't want to be the target. I didn't want to be the target, I didn't want to be the target, I didn't want to be the target. I felt that it could be possible. I felt that, I felt that, I felt that. Instead of that, we're going to remove the E and we're going to bring the sound that to the syllable before. And so it gives something like I felt that. I felt that it could be possible. Once again, the être that is going to become être. And here we have it could be. It could be possible. Possible at one, possible at one point. I didn't want to be the target. I felt that it could be possible at one point. There was a year like that. And so I wanted to be invisible. I felt that it could be possible at one point. Possible at one point. And here, very interesting, there was a year like that. So we find the, you remember at the beginning, we had a, there was a time, there was a time. And here, there was a year, there was a year. So we're going to have a double U. It's going to be something like there was a year. There was a year like that. We can write it like that. There was a year like that. I felt that it could be possible at one point. There was a year like that. And so I wanted to be invisible. So we'll have the bass. The bass here has a bit of a meaning of so, too. Of logical consequence. And so, it's logical. I wanted to. And so I wanted to be. Again we're going to have the wanted to be. I wanted to be like it could be. I wanted to be invisible. Let's listen again. Like that. And so I wanted to be invisible. I was shaving the walls. I wanted to be invisible. I wanted to be invisible This quoi, it's the same, it's a little word that doesn't mean much that we use a little bit to rythmize our speech to finish our sentences when we don't necessarily know how to finish them So the quoi is a little word that has nothing to do with the what of the question but that we're going to put inside our speech from time to time I shut up So, we have the last sentence And so I wanted to be invisible I shaved the walls Here, no difference I shut up That's very interesting here I shut up I don't know if you remember earlier we had a I me Here Yeah, I was getting on my nerves So we have the I me that turns into where I am Where I am We remove this E So this I me It can become I me But it can also become I love With the verb that goes after Like here, I love your z I love your z It's the second one So we can either remove this first E here Or this second E here We can remove both I tried to be the most I tried to be Once again, we have this little E I tried to be the most I tried to be as transparent as possible With an E a little longer at the end There you go, I hope it was interesting And that you followed my logic a little Don't hesitate to do it again with other passages of this interview Which is super interesting I'll put the link in the description There you go, I hope you liked this video Don't hesitate to practice with this video several times To come back to the beginning, to do pauses Try to repeat And try to copy the way to speak of Lorca l'ami If it's an exercise you liked There are a lot of other exercises like this one on my YouTube channel And you can download my Shadowtech for free It's a place where I put all my best YouTube videos The Shadowing With transcriptions and modifications Done as you saw in this video If you liked this exercise Don't hesitate to share it with your friends Who are learning French Have a good continuation in your learning And see you soon