CBF 1:25 | Shopping
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 17 June 2008
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about Anna’s favourite pastime: shopping! We also test your knowledge of the French alphabet by spelling out the names of some shops you’d see in France.
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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 lesson 25 we're going shopping, on fetch the shopping and you're going to be learning |
| 0:19.0 | useful phrases for buying souvenirs and postcards and things like that and also dealing with |
| 0:24.6 | money. |
| 0:25.6 | We hope that you find this lesson useful. |
| 0:30.0 | First of all, what is the word for a shop? |
| 0:42.8 | A maguesa. |
| 0:44.6 | A maguesa, très bien, and maguesa. |
| 0:47.9 | And can you remember the verb to buy? |
| 0:50.5 | Asté. |
| 0:51.5 | Asté, okay, it's spelled sort of like asté but you run that together and it becomes |
| 0:57.1 | asté. |
| 0:58.1 | Asté. |
| 0:59.1 | Asté. |
| 1:00.1 | Asté. |
| 1:01.1 | So we've got le maguesa, asté, to go shopping or to do some shopping, there's lots of |
| 1:10.2 | different ways of saying this but possibly the best way is to say faire du shopping. |
| 1:16.4 | Faire du shopping. |
| 1:18.4 | So faire is to do or to make, du shopping, obviously the English word, translated into a French accent, |
| 1:25.3 | faire du shopping. |
| 1:27.3 | Faire du shopping. |
| 1:28.8 | So and how would you say I like to do shopping? |
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