CBF 1:24 | At the campsite
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 10 June 2008
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we continue the theme of accommodation, this time looking at the campsite. Even if camping is not your thing, the constructions covered in this week’s lesson can be easily adapted. We’ll also learn how to spell in French.
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| 0:00.0 | Bonjour et bienvenue à Coffee Break French, welcome once again to Coffee Break French. |
| 0:14.2 | In this lesson, lesson 24, we're going to be visiting the campsite and learning some |
| 0:18.7 | useful vocabulary for dealing with camping and caravans. However, lots of the vocabulary |
| 0:24.6 | can be used in other situations too. So, we hope that you find this useful. |
| 0:41.6 | Le camping. |
| 0:44.6 | Le camping. |
| 0:46.6 | It's spelled C-A-M-P-I-N-G. It looks like camping and it's quite often something that |
| 0:51.6 | happens in French. An English word is used and an I-N-G ending is added even if it's |
| 0:57.9 | not the way we would say it in English. So, a camping. |
| 1:02.6 | A camping. |
| 1:03.6 | It's a campsite and the parking. |
| 1:06.6 | The parking. |
| 1:08.6 | It's the one for a car park. So, the parking, the camping. |
| 1:12.6 | They're not quite exact English translations but they're taken from the English anyway. |
| 1:16.6 | On the camping, you would say, des tantes. |
| 1:21.6 | Des tantes. |
| 1:23.6 | Et des caravans. |
| 1:25.6 | Et des caravans. |
| 1:27.6 | So, what do you think these are? |
| 1:28.6 | Tentes and caravans. |
| 1:30.6 | Bien, bien sûr. |
| 1:32.6 | OK, so that's just the basic vocabulary we need to talk about the campsite. |
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