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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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March 20, 2025
L'autre jour, j'ai été vraiment choquée. J'aidais mon fils à réviser son vocabulaire espagnol : il est en terminale, il y avait donc des mots comme « syndicalisme », « prisonnier politique » et « auteur-compositeur-interprète ». Je lui ai demandé : « Est-ce que tu t'entraînes à tenir une conversation en espagnol ? » Et il m'a répondu : « Non. Parfois en 6ème, mais plus depuis. » 🤯 𝗟'𝗼𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗳 𝗱'𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝗻'𝗲𝘀𝘁-𝗶𝗹 𝗽𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗿 ? 𝗔𝘃𝗲𝗰 𝗱'𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘀 ? Pourquoi nos enfants apprennent-ils un vocabulaire farfelu qu'ils mettront dans une dissertation, mais n'apprennent-ils jamais à parler ? Les jeunes que je vois réussir le mieux en anglais sont ceux qui : ✅ regardent des vidéos sur YouTube et des séries en version originale ✅ jouent à des jeux vidéo avec des gens du monde entier ✅ ont la chance de passer du temps à l'étranger ✅ et qui passent moins de temps à se préoccuper de la perfection et plus de temps à vouloir communiquer Rien à voir avec leurs cours à l'école... c'est vraiment dommage 😣 Quelles sont vos expériences d'apprentissage des langues dans les écoles françaises ? (Photo de mon fils lors d'une compétition internationale de tir à l'arc, où tout le monde échange en anglais... pas dans un anglais parfait, mais ils parviennent à communiquer et à créer des liens)
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March 20, 2025
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Profile picture of Clara Bellelis 👩🏻‍🏫English coach 🧠neuroatypique
Clara Bellelis 👩🏻‍🏫English coach 🧠neuroatypique
Where is 🎯Brian? Aujourd’hui, il est à l’aise en anglais, et ton ado bientôt aussi.
7 months ago
This is the fight of my life. I see that every week with students asking what they did in their English class at school. Les bras m’en tombent.
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Sama Alkhalili
Helping ESL Teachers Turn New Students into Long-Term Clients | ESL Teaching Resources | Support & Strategies for Retaining Students | Certified Neurolanguage Coach® from Canada | Founder of In English With Love
7 months ago
I learned French for four years in school and walked away with almost nothing exactly because of this. Memorizing vocabulary and grammar rules isn’t enough; they need to change the system to prioritize real communication.
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Stephanie MICHELOT
Je conçois et anime des formations sur-mesure ❙ Pédagogie de l’école sans murs ❙ Co-fondatrice Istea Conseil ✨
7 months ago
Presque que de mauvaises expérience Catherine en ce qui me concerne ! C'est pour cela que tes méthodes me plaisent ! Dès que je rentre de l'étranger, je me dis que je vais reprendre des cours... Mais bon, pas simple quand on cours déjà énormément 😁
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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