44: "I had a narrow escape this morning!..."

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🗓️ 30 January 2007

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

The French tendency to drive fast will form the basis of our lesson this time - our conversation will deal with a near miss on the road. We'll learn how to say 'I had a narrow escape', we'll meet the expression 'il m'a mis hors de moi' and we'll see how to use the verbs 'doubler' and 'faillir'. Let's get started.

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:13.0	welcome back to Learn French by podcast.
0:15.0	My name is Hugh Nagel and with me is Emily Verdeer.
0:19.0	Bonjou
0:20.0	Amelie Verdeer. Bonjoué Bonjoure. In this lesson, lesson 44, we'll be talking about a narrow miss on the road. We'll be talking to about the French
0:35.9	tendency to drive fast. Let's first listen to a role play. Then we'll come back and look more closely at some key phrases.
0:45.0	I'm going to be able to make in the long
0:49.0	a Oh, that's he's still passed? Anga, to fay him or entreat
0:54.0	he conduced, how interred.
0:56.0	He mamieur of me.
0:58.0	I used he frankly,
1:00.0	we'd make attention to my conduit,
1:02.0	and it's time be sooebly. I just have a village. in my
1:05.0	with conviction and it's time beceil,
1:03.0	I just have a village in the fajil nutu and all the two.
1:08.0	The Fancier to the road, that's certain.
1:10.0	That's you can't hear.
1:12.0	I noticed the numeral of this plaque of the
1:13.8	Dimatriculation and I have an intention to be the denancer to the police. But I
1:18.3	I must tell me and I must say that I'll be just more dispenser.
1:22.4	What the day of your tour with the city? that I'm just used not more I've been so different.
1:23.0	What's your nature when you see tell?
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