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Coffee Break French

CBF 1:26 | Shopping at the deli

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🗓️ 24 June 2008

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, we continue the theme of shopping but this time in a market place. You’ll learn how to ask for different types and quantities of food and how to ask the price. Finally you can listen to a typical conversation in a market place and hear the words and phrases in context.


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0:00.0

Most rule of ebbs and new at Coffee Break French, welcome once again to Coffee Break French.

0:14.6

In lesson 26 we are continuing the shopping theme only this time we are looking at buying

0:19.3

food for example in a market. You will be learning useful phrases for buying certain

0:24.2

amounts of food and different types of food as well. Hopefully you will enjoy this lesson.

0:29.4

We're going to begin with a phrase that we've already covered lots and lots of times and that's

0:46.0

the phrase for I would like. And I can you remember how you would see I would like.

0:51.0

And yes, I can. I would like to talk to you about a particular thing so I would like to

1:05.0

talk to you about a particular type of fruit. Can you guess what it is?

1:14.0

It's an apple. It's an apple correct. So, une pomme is an apple. Yeah, it's feminine, une

1:23.2

pomme and de pomme. I would like some apples. Je voudrais de pomme. Okay, so let's cover another

1:33.4

couple of items of fruit. We could talk about de banan. De banan. De banan are obviously.

1:41.8

And bananas. And again, it's une banan. Une banan. Now, we might be wanting to order de poire.

1:53.1

De poire. And I guess this is to what une poire would be. Sounds a little bit like pear. Yeah,

2:00.4

so we've got de pomme, de banan, de poire. De pomme, de banan, de poire. All of these are feminine.

2:08.6

Let's now think about orange. Orange. So, if it's an orange, orange is obviously orange,

2:18.2

as you probably guessed. If it's an orange, you would say orange. And if it's some oranges,

2:26.8

then you would say des orange. Des orange. Of course, you pronounce the S of D because it's

2:33.7

followed by Aval. Orange. Des orange. Des orange. Okay, now, je voudrais, can be followed by any of

2:40.5

these nouns. You also know that je voudrais, can also be followed by Averbe. Averbe in which form?

2:48.0

The infinitive form. Yeah, so je voudrais, how do you say I would like to buy some apples?

2:54.9

Je voudrais acheter des pommes. Okay, so je voudrais plus an infinitive or je voudrais

3:08.7

just plus the noun. Okay. Now, when you're buying things in a market stall, for example, you could

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