CBF 1:13 | Asking for directions
Coffee Break French
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4.6 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2008
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, you’ll learn to ask for directions. We'll teach you how to ask where places in the town are and understand the words for "where", "here" and "there".
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you, you in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head, taking in the views, |
| 0:09.6 | instead of taking on the road, maybe even taking a nap. That's the bliss of getting where you |
| 0:15.5 | need to go without worrying about driving. Book your train journey via avantiwascoast.co.uk |
| 0:23.0 | and we'll take you there. Avantiwascoast, feel good travel. |
| 0:30.4 | Welcome to Coffee Break French. I'm Mark and I'm here to help you with your French, |
| 0:49.0 | guiding you through the 80 lessons of the course. Now in lesson 13 we're talking about the town. |
| 0:55.0 | Places in the town and some simple directions. I hope you enjoy this lesson. |
| 1:12.7 | Okay so one of the first things that we're going to do when we're learning to find our way around |
| 1:16.5 | a French speaking town is learn a few of the names of the places in the town and we're going to |
| 1:22.2 | start with one that's probably quite important to any person traveling around a French-speaking |
| 1:27.6 | place who likes their food. Le restaurant. Le restaurant. Anna, qu'est-ce que c'est que le restaurant? |
| 1:39.1 | And it's a restaurant. A restaurant exactly. The restaurant. So le restaurant. |
| 1:45.8 | Le restaurant. It's spelled exactly the same way as in English but just said in a French |
| 1:51.8 | accent indeed with French pronunciation. And that's important when you come across a word |
| 1:56.1 | that's written the same way as it is in English. Don't just say it in English. Make sure you put on |
| 2:00.4 | a French accent. So you don't say le restaurant. You say le restaurant. Le restaurant. |
| 2:08.0 | Okay so if the restaurant is the restaurant what do you think the museum might be? |
| 2:16.8 | Is it the museum? The museum. Le musée. Le musée. Le musée. So somewhere else that you might want |
| 2:30.2 | to visit while you're visiting a French-speaking town. If you happen to be in Paris there's so many |
| 2:36.0 | wonderful museums there. Le musée du Louvre or le musée d'Orsay and so on. Le musée. Le musée. |
| 2:45.4 | Okay. Something else that you might find in a town or a village indeed would be le marché. |
| 2:53.7 | Le marché. Le marché. And link to that. Le supermarché. What do you think the supermarché and |
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