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Le rapport à la parole, s'exprimer plus naturellement à l'oral

Le podcast "Passerelles" explore le rapport à la parole à travers un documentaire inspirant sur un concours d'éloquence. Conseils pour améliorer son expression orale en français : répétition, observation des gestes & pauses, et travail sur l'intonation. #Français #Podcast #Eloquence
Duration
20.0 mins
Level
intermediate
Word Count
2607 (737 unique words)
Topics
Arts & Literature
Documentary
Education
Language Learning
Podcast
Public Speaking
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Welcome to Bridges, a podcast designed to spark the curiosity of French learners.
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Well, here we are.
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By the time you listen to this episode, the fourth one, Passerelle will have been around for a month.
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A trailer and four episodes in, is it too early for a quick recap of this experience? Maybe, but as a starting point this week, I want to talk about something I'm still finding pretty difficult about this whole podcasting thing.
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That's what you call speaking naturally.
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Maybe I'm overthinking things, like I'm not seeing them realistically and I'm lacking perspective. But when I listen to myself, when I'm editing the episodes, my reaction is often "this is awful." It's true that it's always strange to hear your own voice, you're not used to it. It's funny because when I'm recording myself, I feel like I'm speaking with intention, with varied intonations, fluidly and naturally. But when I listen to myself, I find I sound very, very monotonous sometimes.
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Whether you've tried this exercise before or not, recording yourself speaking French or any foreign language probably made you realize something I just mentioned.
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I think there's always a gap between how we think we sound and how we actually sound.
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But I also think that we're often very hard, even too hard, on ourselves about these kinds of things.
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Hi, I'm Emilie, and in this week's episode, we're going to talk about speaking up, the act of expressing yourself out loud.
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"Out Loud" is also the title of a documentary I watched recently and loved.
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And it asks a question, and I encourage you to think about it.
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How do you feel about speaking? If you have to speak in front of a group of people, for work or school, does it stress you out or are you confident in that kind of situation? I could ask you the exact same question about conversations in everyday life. Think about how you approach conversations in French or your experiences in other foreign languages.
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To give you some food for thought, some answers, I'm first going to tell you more about this famous documentary and the things I noticed while watching it. Then, in a second, shorter part, I want to talk to you about my relationship with speaking.
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And then we'll wrap up with some ideas on how you can be more comfortable speaking up, and most importantly, some tips on how to understand better and be better understood in conversation.
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So, let's start by saying a few words out loud.
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One small detail, and I can't recall if I already explained this on the podcast, but speaking aloud means articulating words clearly and distinctly enough to be understood by others in the same space. You can also read aloud. Conversely, speaking softly, or in a hushed voice, is appropriate for quiet environments like libraries, where only those closest to us can hear.
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In short, let's get back to the documentary.
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The film "À voix haute" tells the story of a group of students from Seine-Saint-Denis, a department located in the northeastern suburbs of Paris. For six weeks, we follow their journey as they prepare to participate in a public speaking competition.
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It's an annual competition, and each year the goal is to choose the best male or female speaker from among the students.

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