CBF 2:36 | The conditional "shall we use the tu form?"
Coffee Break French
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🗓️ 10 March 2010
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In this lesson of Coffee Break French, our radio play continues. Sometimes it’s difficult to know when to use tu and when to use vous when speaking to people in French. In this lesson, Jean-Jacques suggests that he and David should tutoyer each other – ie. use the tu form. This lesson includes some useful tips on dealing with tu and vous. We also take a close look at the conditional tense. Please note that lesson 36 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 76 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. In lesson 76 we will be continuing to follow |
| 0:16.8 | the conversation between Christina, David, Jean-Jacques and Sophie and we'll be covering |
| 0:22.2 | a particular aspect of French culture and language and that's the use of two and |
| 0:28.4 | voodoo and in particular that moment when you decide to start using two with someone rather |
| 0:34.3 | than voodoo so when you become more familiar with someone we'll also be introducing you to the |
| 0:39.2 | conditional tense and other tense that we've not yet covered. We hope that you enjoy this lesson |
| 0:44.1 | of Coffee Break French. |
| 0:45.5 | So as usual let's have a listen to the conversation and then we'll go back through it and talk about |
| 1:01.9 | the language used. Just to remind you Jean-Jacques is French, his wife Sophie is Scottish but she's |
| 1:08.4 | been living in France for 10 years and they've met Christina and David both of whom speak |
| 1:14.0 | some French although David's probably a little more confident than Christina and David's |
| 1:19.2 | quick to let Christina know that. I will listen to today's episode. |
| 1:44.8 | So I think we'll start with Pistoux. |
| 1:47.4 | Porto Le Mande? |
| 1:48.8 | Yes and then then I'll give you the Bouillabaisse. |
| 1:53.9 | It's the Procent soup? |
| 1:55.4 | Yes Christina, that's good. |
| 1:57.4 | I'll take the Bouillabaisse too. |
| 2:00.0 | And you Sophie, what would you like? |
| 2:02.2 | I would like to welcome you to the choice you like. |
| 2:05.5 | Ah if you want something really typical of the region David, a choice of choice would be perfect. |
| 2:13.9 | Ah I think it's anchovies, it's good that's Sophie. |
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