CBF 2:38 | The pluperfect tense "I had never tasted it"
Coffee Break French
Radio Lingua Network
4.6 • 5.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2010
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In the 38th episode of the course, we continue our radio play featuring David and Christina, who are having dinner with their new friends Sophie and Jean-Jacques. This lesson introduces the pluperfect tense and also looks at a few examples of avoir expressions, including avoir l’habitude, avoir besoin de quelque chose and avoir de la chance. Please note that lesson 38 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 78 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 | Good morning from Bienvenue at Coffee Break French. Welcome back once again to Coffee Break French. |
| 0:14.0 | In this lesson, lesson 78, we're continuing to listen to the conversation between David, |
| 0:19.1 | Cristina, Jean-Jacques, and Sophie as they have their meal together. Now, the perfect |
| 0:24.2 | sense is something we've already covered. I have done something, whereas the clue |
| 0:28.7 | perfect is new. And this is how you translate. I had done something in French. So we'll be |
| 0:35.5 | looking at this tense in this lesson of Coffee Break French. I hope that you enjoy the lesson. |
| 0:41.1 | Let's get straight into the conversation. As you know, David and Cristina are having dinner with |
| 0:57.6 | their new friends Sophie and Jean-Jacques. They've had their starters, and the waiter has just arrived |
| 1:04.0 | to find out if they've enjoyed their starters. Let's listen to the conversation. |
| 1:15.8 | So Cristina, do you like pistou? Oh, yes, I like to eat. I never had a taste. So as I said, |
| 1:24.0 | our neighbors here in the French are very nice. Their daughter is 17 and they are very good with |
| 1:30.8 | our children. She makes babysitting tonight then. Exactly, she is charming and she has a |
| 1:36.8 | little sister of three years, so she has a little habit. We have a lot of luck. She needs money, |
| 1:44.0 | and we really need to get out of dinner together for a long time. It's practical. Excuse us if you |
| 1:51.5 | want to get out of dinner tonight. Oh, you're talking. No problem, my dear. It's |
| 1:57.4 | a pleasure to know new people. We're also here to talk. We'll start |
| 2:03.4 | next Tuesday. So we'll stay for five days. Yes, that's it. We're done, so we'll have |
| 2:11.1 | tomorrow Monday, and then Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and our flight is Tuesday afternoon. |
| 2:17.5 | So tomorrow, you're going to Saint Raymond, and then after tomorrow, you've already |
| 2:23.2 | had a project? I don't know yet. We went to NIS during the first week of our |
| 2:28.1 | these days, but we didn't see anything. And I have money to do. I must find something for my mother, |
| 2:35.5 | a little souvenir. And tell me, do you plan something? We thought that we could |
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