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Coffee Break French

CBF 2:30 | Making a phone call in French

Coffee Break French

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4.64.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2009

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

In this 30th episode of Coffee Break French, Mark and Anna look at one activity which learners traditionally find difficult in a foreign language: using the telephone. Please note that lesson 30 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 70 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

Welcome back once again to Coffee Break French.

0:14.2

It's lesson 70 and in this lesson we're going to be doing something that learners tend

0:18.5

to find quite difficult in a foreign language that is making a phone call.

0:23.7

So you'll be learning all the words, the useful vocabulary that you need for making a phone

0:28.2

call all the standard phrases and also we'll be picking up on some grammar points too.

0:33.2

We hope that you find this lesson of Coffee Break French useful.

0:48.2

Now as last week we're going to start by looking at some basic vocabulary which we'll then

0:52.7

put into phrases, building phrases from the language that you already know.

0:57.8

So what for the telephone in French is the telephone and the telephone number is the

1:12.8

number of telephone.

1:19.3

If you've got to dial a phone number then you use the verb composer.

1:28.3

So that's like composing the telephone number.

1:34.3

Composer, the numero.

1:37.3

And another couple of verbs associated with the phone would be obviously telephone-

1:43.3

telephone.

1:45.3

To telephone someone or to phone someone, telephone.

1:49.3

Telephone.

1:51.3

And a more regular word for phoning to call.

1:57.3

How do you say to call?

1:59.3

Appeler?

2:00.3

Appeler.

2:01.3

Now appeler is one of those tricky verbs because there are some spelling changes in appeler.

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