Bonjour et bienvenue at Coffee Break French. Welcome once again to Coffee Break French.

Now in lesson 27 we are continuing the series of transactional situations over the past few lessons.

We've been learning words and phrases that you would find useful when you're travelling in a French speaking country.

And lesson 27 is no exception. This time we're visiting the bank in order to change money or to withdraw money.

And you'll be learning useful words and phrases to help you do this.

You'll also be covering a number of what we call modal verbs.

Je dois, I have to, je peux, I can, je veux, I want to and so on.

I hope that you find this lesson useful.

Okay, the very first word that we are going to learn this week is the word for money.

And that word is l'argent.

L'argent.

So the word itself is argent, er, g-e-n-t, argent.

If any of you are Latin scholars then you may well recognize the word for silver in there.

Okay, so l'argent is also in French the word for silver.

And especially because money, well, anything that you used to buy could be bought with silver.

So l'argent.

L'argent.

Is money and silver.

And if you want to see some money you would see de l'argent.

De l'argent.

Now we're going to come back to that.

What I'd like to do just now is look at three verbs.

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