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Catherine Aygen
Consultante Formatrice & Coach en Prise de Parole en Anglais | Dirigeante d’A Star Formation (Qualiopi) | Top 3 européen de discours improvisé | Appli IA d’analyse de discours
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May 2, 2024
" C'est sûr qu'elle juge mon #anglais " " Comprend-il ce que je dis ? " " Pourquoi parle-t-il si vite ? " 🫠 Ce sont quelques unes des pensées qui vous viennent à l'esprit lorsque vous parlez à une personne dont l'anglais est la langue maternelle, am I right? Vous pensez que les locuteurs natifs jugent votre anglais, mais ce n'est pas (de tout) le cas 😅 𝗟𝗮𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘇-𝗺𝗼𝗶 𝘃𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗲 𝗾𝘂'𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝗻 𝗿é𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁é (et pourquoi il ne faut pas hésiter à demander à votre interlocuteur de parler plus lentement).  __________________________________ 𝘈𝘶 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘵, 𝘴𝘪 𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘻 𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢î𝘯𝘦𝘳 à 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘳 à 𝘥𝘦 "𝘷𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴" 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 (𝘤'𝘦𝘴𝘵-à-𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘪 𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘦𝘵 𝘲𝘶𝘪 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘴 "𝘷𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘴"), 𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘻 𝘭𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵é 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘳𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘵 👇👇👇 #prisedeparole #nojudgement
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May 2, 2024
Last week I had one of the scariest experiences of my life. I was flying back from Amsterdam to Nice after the Toastmasters international conference. Everything was as usual, until the pilot announced, “We’re going back to Amsterdam.” Everyone in the plane groaned. But then he added, “There’s an electrical fault which has affected the brakes and we don’t know if the back up braking system has been affected or not. We need to go back to Amsterdam to land on the longest runway possible. The crew will now prepare you for an emergency landing in 30 minutes.” The worst thing was that I could hear in the pilot’s voice that he was stressed. I looked at the crew’s faces and although they were calm, their faces showed that they were scared. The next 30 minutes were spent practising the brace position, removing all jewellery, glasses, tightening our seatbelts, learning how to open the emergency doors. We were told to study the safety card, which everyone did more intently than ever before! And like most of the other people on the plane, I was quietly worrying that we’d crash at the end of the runway and perhaps this was how I was going to die. We landed in brace position, with the crew shouting “brace for landing”. Luckily the emergency brakes worked 😅 If you’re expecting me to tell you that I have now changed my life for the better and I’m giving everything up to become a life coach… …I’m not 😆 I did say to myself, “Only trains from now on”, but I still had to get home and that involved two flights the next day. What I did realise was sometimes you have to give up control and put yourself in the hands of people who are trained for this. Also that after we landed, all the passengers were talking to each other, everyone was friendly and helpful. And when I saw some of my fellow passengers the next day, it’s like we were friends, bonded by this experience. And that made me think, why can’t we always create these human connections, even when we’re not in such an emotionally charged situation? So that is my resolution from this experience: make more human connections with everyone around me. (Photo taken from my flight home the next day: I’ve never been so happy to see the Îles Lerins 😁)
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