François Busnel presents Thursday evening on France 5 the second edition of the reading competition "What if we read aloud?".

The actor Guillaume de Tonquédec ("Do not do this, do not do that", "The first name") is one of the coaches who accompanied the preparation of the young participants.

A role he explains in "Culture Médias".

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It is in front of a jury of great contemporary authors that the young candidates of the final of the France 5 competition will perform on Thursday evening. 

What if we read aloud?

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The reading aloud competition for middle and high school students will, as for its first edition last year, be presented by François Busnel.

The final will see 10 candidates compete against each other, but they were 130,000 at the start.

The young participants who prepared for this final with coaches, by videoconference.

Among them, the actor Guillaume de Tonquédec.

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"The magical thing is that the advice is different for each student, depending on what they offer. I have really seen very good readers. It is very moving", rejoices Guillaume de Tonquédec on Wednesday at

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“They have stage fright, so I tell them to cope with it, because they will also have this stage fright on the day of the passage. They have to make it so that this stage fright turns into fun. That's all they risk: have fun and make discover a very beautiful text to those who will listen to them. "

"Learning to read was very difficult"

Guillaume de Tonquédec will also discover a text during the show. A text that he wishes to keep secret until the show, in which he had already participated last year. The actor wanted to take part in this program, because his relationship to reading was not always easy.

“Learning to read was very difficult for me, and I was also very bad at spelling and grammar. I was completely stuck,” he recalls. "It was the theater, thanks to a French teacher who brought a theater teacher to college, which saved me. It was the world of authors that saved me. I relearned grammar. and the spelling in the third class, that is to say very late. If I can transmit in my turn and give hope, I must do it. " The finale of

What if we read aloud?

, presented by François Busnel and with in particular a reading by Guillaume de Tonquédec, is broadcast Thursday at 8:50 p.m. on France 5.