Coffee Break French Season 3 Episode 9

Bonjour tout le monde et bienvenue à Coffee Break French, welcome back once again to Coffee Break French.

This week we're returning to Veronica's story, and we're going to be finding out a little

more about why she started learning French. We'll also learn about Jessica, her daughter.

We'll cover a couple of interesting phrases in this lesson. We'll look at le problème

s'écure, the problem is that, and alépoque at the time. We'll also look at a number of other

expressions that are used in Veronica's text. As usual, we'll begin by listening to the

whole text. After this, we'll help you understand the text by picking out a few of the language points.

If you'd like to have a full line-by-line analysis of the text, then you can use our extended

version of this episode, and that's available as part of the membership for Season 3.

Go to the website at coffeebreakfrench.com to find out more. OK, let's listen to Veronica's text.

And this is my second day. It's going to be good here in France. But I'm here for three weeks now,

and I have to say that Jessica is missing a lot. Of course, she doesn't live with me for the University trimestre,

and she doesn't miss me because I know she's been studying and she's well surrounded by her friends

to sit down. On the other hand, I'm at 16,000 km to sit down at this moment, and I feel the distance.

In addition, it's difficult to talk about it because when she does it every day in France,

she does it in Australia? Well, that's my mother's. At least, I have the opportunity to practice my French.

I learned French for two years. When I was at school, I didn't have the opportunity to learn a foreign language,

but there were two years ago, I was writing a short French course near my home.

In fact, I must maybe explain. At the time, I was with a Frenchman who worked at Newcastle,

and he told me that I had to learn French. He said all the time,

it can happen one day. In short, I don't know anymore with him now, but he has to say that he had the right.

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