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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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June 3, 2025
J'avais une connaissance. Elle parlait beaucoup. Et Pour une raison ou une autre, je ne comprenais pas la moitié de ce qu'elle disait. Pourtant, je ne suis pas mauvaise en français, je peux communiquer sans problème avec la grande majorité de mes interlocuteurs. Mais j'ai commencé à penser que je n'étais pas aussi bonne en français que je le croyais, car je ne comprenais pas cette personne. Cela me dérangeait vraiment 😣 Jusqu'au jour où j'ai demandé à mon mari, qui est de langue maternelle française, « Tu comprends ce qu'elle dit ? » Il m'a répondu : « Non, elle ne s'exprime pas de manière très cohérente et c'est difficile de la suivre. » J'ai alors réalisé que ce n'était pas parce que je ne la comprenais pas que mon français n'était pas suffisant ! 𝗜𝗹 𝘆 𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗾𝘂'𝘂𝗻 𝗾𝘂𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘇 𝗽𝗮𝘀 : peut-être un locuteur natif qui parle très vite. Ou quelqu'un avec un accent prononcé qui marmonne. Ou encore quelqu'un qui utilise uniquement de l'argot. En tant que locuteur non natif, vous pensez toujours que c'est de votre faute ! Mais ce n'est pas le cas. This is something I always tell my clients, and I'm telling you today: 𝗟𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘂𝗻 é𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 à 𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀. #communication #anglais
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John Graham
Global L&D 👉 France & Hungary & Online 👉 Communication, Culture, Leadership Skills 👉 Helping people and companies succeed globally
5 months ago
Very important points, Catherine Aygen. Native speakers are usually the least effective communicators when speaking their own language to non-native speakers.
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Siham NKL
Talkenglishbysiham / J’aide les francais à remplacer leur “anglais français” par un vrai anglais — pour décrocher de meilleurs emplois, saisir plus d’opportunités et créer des relations plus solides.
5 months ago
Je comprends tous les British et ca m'empeche pas d'etre a l'aise avec tout le monde. (ps j'ai pas d'accent)
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Lucy Tilney
Helping you improve your English fast through intensive 1-2-1 personalised courses in my Bristol home; fluency, flavoursome food & fun. Expert tuition for middle managers to accelerate listening and speaking skills fast.
5 months ago
Totally good point. I've often said the very same thing as your husband said to my student. 💯
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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