CBF 2:29 | Hiring a car
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 27 October 2009
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
This week’s Coffee Break French deals with hiring a car in a French-speaking area. Like our last episode, this lesson focuses on using the language we’ve been working on recently in a practical context. Please note that lesson 29 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 69 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you, you in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head, taking in the views, |
| 0:09.6 | instead of taking on the road, maybe even taking a nap. That's the bliss of getting where you |
| 0:15.5 | need to go without worrying about driving. Book your train journey via avantiwascoast.co.uk |
| 0:23.0 | and we'll take you there. Avantiwascoast, feel good travel. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to Coffee Break French. Welcome once again to Coffee Break French. In this lesson, |
| 0:46.9 | lesson 69, we're going to be hiding a car and again we're going to be encouraging you to create |
| 0:52.8 | the phrases that you need based on the language and grammar that you already know. We hope that you |
| 0:57.2 | enjoy this lesson of coffee break French. So to begin with, we're going to look at some useful |
| 1:14.0 | vocabulary for talking about cars and hiring cars and I think you already know what a car is. |
| 1:20.8 | Can you remember? |
| 1:22.4 | Une voiture. That's right. Une voiture. |
| 1:25.8 | Voi-ture. |
| 1:27.3 | Voi-ture. |
| 1:28.7 | Okay, so it's that nice U, it's a voiture. |
| 1:32.8 | Voi-ture. |
| 1:34.4 | So if a car is une voiture, then to drive a car is conduire une voiture. |
| 1:45.2 | conduire une voiture. |
| 1:47.9 | So conduire is an R-E verb and it is a bit irregular. Let's go through the conjugation of conduire. |
| 1:55.6 | Je conduis. |
| 1:57.4 | Je conduis. |
| 1:58.8 | And that ends in UIS. So C-O-N-D-U-I-S, je conduis. |
| 2:04.7 | Je conduis. |
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