CBF 1:15 | Ordering drinks in a café
Coffee Break French
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4.6 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2008
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this lesson you’ll learn to order drinks in a café. In addition to building your vocabulary for common drinks in French, you'll also learn the structures used to ask for things. You'll quickly find how easy it is to reuse these structures in other situations, and before long you'll be ready to order a coffee, a mineral water and lots more!
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination, not a car in the world as you simply lean back. |
| 0:17.0 | And before you know it, you're there. |
| 0:20.0 | This is how travel should feel, and on our trains, it does. |
| 0:25.0 | Avanti West Coast, feel good travel. |
| 0:44.0 | Bonjour, Zava. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome back to Coffee Break French. |
| 0:48.0 | Today we are ordering coffees, finally, in Coffee Break French. |
| 0:52.0 | You'll learn the phrase je voudrais. |
| 0:54.0 | I would like. |
| 0:55.0 | So je voudrais. |
| 0:56.0 | And coffee, I would like a coffee. |
| 0:58.0 | And you'll be learning lots more besides that. |
| 1:01.0 | I hope you enjoyed this lesson. |
| 1:17.0 | Okay, so imagine the situation. |
| 1:19.0 | You're perhaps sightseeing in Paris and you're wondering around the streets of Montmartre. |
| 1:24.0 | And you decide that you want to take the weight of your feet for a little while. |
| 1:28.0 | To perhaps find out where you're going to be going next in your tourist trail. |
| 1:32.0 | So you decide to go to a little cafe and order, perhaps a coffee. |
| 1:37.0 | Now, you could point to something in the menu. |
| 1:40.0 | You probably could even see it in English because there's a good chance that you would be understood. |
| 1:45.0 | But it's much better to try seeing whatever it is you want in French. |
| 1:50.0 | And we're going to begin today by learning the words in French |
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