CBF 1:28 | Aches and pains
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 7 July 2008
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s episode, we talk about different ways of saying you’re not feeling well and how to say different parts of the body are sore. If you’re lucky, you may even learn a song which will help you to remember those body parts!
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| 0:00.0 | Bonjour et bienvenue at Coffee Break French. Welcome once again to Coffee Break French. |
| 0:13.3 | Now when you're travelling, things don't always go according to plan and sometimes you |
| 0:18.0 | have to visit a doctor or a pharmacy. In this lesson we'll be learning how to deal with |
| 0:23.2 | aches and pains in French. And we hope that you find this lesson useful. |
| 0:40.5 | Anna, you asked me, Sava. What does Sava mean? |
| 0:44.1 | I'm hurry. Of course it does. Sava, or you could have said, |
| 0:47.9 | comment Sava, comment Sava. Yeah, comment what it means how, so comment Sava, |
| 0:56.3 | how does that go? Comment Sava, how is it going? I could also have said, or you could have said, |
| 1:03.6 | comment tu va, comment est-que tu va? Literally, how are you going? Okay, comment tu va? |
| 1:11.1 | Comment tu va? Comment tu va? Okay, and in response, you can of course use the Sava, |
| 1:21.7 | but if I ask you, comment tu va, how are you going, then you could answer, I am going well. |
| 1:29.2 | Je vais bien. |
| 1:36.6 | Now, some people will use the Sava version and other people will use the je vais bien version. |
| 1:43.4 | It doesn't really matter, both mean relatively the same thing. Perhaps Sava is a little more |
| 1:48.9 | common, a little more popular. Okay, how do you see things aren't going well? |
| 1:55.8 | Sana va pa. Sana va pa using the no and pa round the verb, just like we always do. |
| 2:02.2 | Sana va pa. So, Sana va pa would mean? It's not going well. |
| 2:08.9 | Yeah, it's not going well. Now, in addition to saying it's not going well, you might want to be |
| 2:13.7 | a little more precise. And to do so, you could say, I'm not feeling very well or I'm not feeling well. |
| 2:21.8 | Now, to say that, you use a verb, sentir. |
| 2:26.2 | Sentir. And that sentir means to feel. Okay, so you would say, je me sens bien. |
| 2:36.3 | Je me sens bien. |
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