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Learn French by Podcast

77: "Do you mind if I smoke?"

Learn French by Podcast

Plus Publications

French, Language, Language Courses, Education

4.21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2007

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Some people love them, others hate them. Still more cannot do without them. But, what if someone asks you if it is ok to light up a cigarette in your presence? Let’s listen to a role-play and see how such an exchange might unravel.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Learn French by podcast. My name is Hugh Nagel and with me is Emily Verdeier.

0:18.8

Bonjour Amelie Verdeer.

0:19.6

Bonjour!

0:20.6

Bonjour! Some people love them, others hate them.

0:27.0

Some people love them, others hate them.

0:31.0

Still more cannot do without them. But what if someone asks you if it's

0:36.1

okay to light up a cigarette in your presence? Let's listen to a role play and

0:40.6

see how such an exchange might unravel.

0:45.0

It's strange that I'll use a cigarette.

0:47.0

And well, thanks to Monday, because we've been, I prefer that you

0:51.0

not even my presence.

0:52.0

Really, I'm not in the past. I prefer that you to not to find my presence.

0:52.5

Really, I'm not in the past its response.

0:55.5

You may pose a question, ador-repense.

0:58.0

You may the cell show.

1:00.0

I'm not the fummed cigarette,

1:01.5

in particular when I'm supposed to fumeed cigarette, in particular

1:02.6

when I'm at table.

1:04.3

Personally, I think that we've

1:06.0

given all the examples of the yearland day.

1:08.9

He's entered the cigarette in the lee public and

1:11.3

he was a couple of years an a year. in the law public and case in the case has been very stable success. We've direct that you part of the Neta the individuals? It's there that was one time

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