24: "Excuse me... Is this seat taken?"
Learn French by Podcast
Plus Publications
4.3 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2006
⏱️ 4 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
It's a situation we find ourselves in regularly. We're in a bar or an auditorium looking for a seat. But... is the one we have our eye on actually free? How should we ask? Let's find out in this short, but practical, lesson.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Learn French by Podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | My name is Hugh Nagel and with me is Amelie Verdeer. |
| 0:18.0 | Bonsie A meelie. |
| 0:19.0 | Bonjie A. In this lesson, lesson 24, we'll deal with a very specific situation. to ask if a seat is free in a restaurant on a bus or wherever. |
| 0:38.0 | Let's listen to a very short exchange that might take place in a theater or auditorium. |
| 0:45.0 | Bonsie, is what the moment of you're enge? |
| 0:48.0 | Is that I'm here I live? |
| 0:50.0 | Wiwi. |
| 0:52.0 | Let's hear it once again. |
| 0:56.0 | Bonsieur, excuse me to your energy? |
| 0:58.0 | Is what I'm going to see I live? |
| 1:00.0 | We heard, excuse me for bothering you that was |
| 1:06.6 | excuse me to derangé |
| 1:12.0 | excuse me to derangé |
| 1:12.0 | excuse me to derangé. |
| 1:15.0 | The pattern, Excuse me de-de, as we saw in a previous lesson is followed by an infinitive. |
| 1:22.0 | In this case the verb |
| 1:23.8 | de Rangee to bother or to disturb excuse me to vou de Rangee. |
| 1:29.5 | The second question referred to the vacant seat. That was... |
| 1:36.0 | Is that sousieage libre? |
| 1:40.0 | Is that sous seagge labor? |
| 1:48.0 | S. seag. That is, this seat. Now if the woman had been waiting for her husband she might have said |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Plus Publications, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Plus Publications and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.