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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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January 24, 2020
Avez-vous déjà eu l'impression que votre anglais vous déserte lorsque vous êtes dans une situation à enjeux élevés? En fait, c'est tout à fait normal. Votre cerveau fonctionne mieux lorsque vous êtes détendu; dès que vous êtes stressé, il passe en mode de lutte ou de fuite. Cette semaine j'ai vécu une telle situation en français : tout ce que je disais me semblait faux et je ne trouvais pas les bons mots, même les mots simples! (Je me demande parfois s'il est possible de parler un français parfait en tant qu'apprenant adulte: il existe tellement de conjugaisons, de plus, en commençant la phrase, si on ne sait pas si le nom est masculin ou féminin, on a 50% de risques que la phrase entière soit fausse 😱) Ce dont vous avez besoin pour vous aider à vous sentir plus en confiance dans ce genre de situation et à empêcher que votre anglais ne se détériore soudainement, c'est un coaching linguistique spécialisé, des simulations ciblées et des retours personnalisés . Malheureusement je n'ai pas (encore) trouvé la bonne personne pour le faire en français avec moi. Si vous cherchez ce genre de service en anglais, on peut vous aider... Et vous: avez-vous trouvé une astuce pour ne pas perdre votre anglais lorsque vous êtes dans une situation stressante? #anglais #coaching #francais
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January 24, 2020
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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