CBF 1:01 | How are you?
Coffee Break French
Radio Lingua Network
4.6 • 5.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2007
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the very first episode of Coffee Break French! To kick start the series we're starting with the basics as we're teaching you how to ask people how they’re feeling. You'll also learn how to respond to this question in a number of ways.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you, you in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head, |
| 0:07.6 | taking in the views, instead of taking on the road, maybe even taking a nap. |
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| 0:24.4 | AvantiWestcoast, feel good, travel. |
| 0:41.4 | Bonjour et bienvenue à Coffee Break French. |
| 0:43.9 | Welcome to Coffee Break French. |
| 0:46.0 | My name is Mark and I'm here to guide you through the entire course. |
| 0:49.7 | In lesson one, you're going to be learning to ask the question, |
| 0:52.5 | Sava, Sava means how are you? |
| 0:55.6 | And you'll also learn some suitable answers to this question too. |
| 0:59.5 | I hope you enjoy the lesson. |
| 1:02.1 | When I asked Anna, es-que tu est prête, she said, oui, Mark. |
| 1:18.7 | Oui means yes. |
| 1:20.8 | So can you repeat that after me please? |
| 1:26.4 | Oui. |
| 1:27.9 | Now, I deliberately left a space there before Anna repeated the word |
| 1:32.2 | and that's basically so that you, the listener, can repeat it after I say the word. |
| 1:36.3 | So try to emulate my pronunciation when I say it and then Anna will say it and you can say it |
| 1:41.3 | again along with her. So the word for yes is oui. |
| 1:48.3 | And try to immediately start to put on that French accent oui. |
| 1:54.6 | If we learn the word for yes, then theoretically we'll also need to learn the word for no. |
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