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31: "Tell me about your hometown..."

Learn French by Podcast

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4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2006

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Let's listen to Xavier tell us a little about his home town in this lesson. We'll work with a number of useful expressions which could be used in a wide variety of situations. We'll discover the verb 'appartenir à', the expression 'à la rigueur', as well as the prepositions 'loin de' and 'près de'.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Learn French by Podcast.

0:14.0

My name is Hugh Nagel and with me is Emily Verdeer.

0:18.0

Bonjou Aélle. In this lesson, lesson 31, we're going to talk about our hometown. Now the vocabulary we could use in this situation is obviously diverse.

0:37.0

Nonetheless, we'll meet expressions we could use in a wide variety of situations.

0:41.0

We'll start with a dialogue. While you're listening, see if you can

0:44.6

figure out the answers to the following questions. One, what is the population of

0:49.5

Xavier's town? Two, how far is it from Paris? Three, what activities does he say are possible in his town? Oh, Abitu.

1:03.0

I'll be it's seven and surrage, a petit ville in the Bélle in the Bélle-Ephuriz.

1:07.0

How was he he a bitant?

1:09.0

I not not quite a bitant,

1:11.0

and so on Paris.

1:12.0

Is that there's one of Paris?

1:13.0

No, it's in vieur about about a 1.5 kilometers.

1:16.0

Is that there a lot of boutique?

1:17.0

Yes, he's also a sound commercial, a marshy and a super marshy.

1:22.0

Is that there a lot of book of shows and a war?

1:25.0

Yes, he's a book of shows to fair.

1:27.0

We can do so, he's a lot of shows.

1:30.0

We can also have the bibliotec, or cinema or theater.

1:34.0

In revenge, she's not a great show to visit.

1:37.0

It's not a victoristic, to the rigor and the park of Morrison

1:41.0

by the moment, but he's not a

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