Coffee Break French Season 3 Episode 34

Bienvenue à Coffee Break French. Welcome once again to Coffee Break French.

In this episode, like in the last episode, we're going to be testing you on some of the

constructions, the vocabulary and the grammar that you've learned in the past few lessons,

indeed, in the whole of this season. We're going to be picking some sentences at random,

sentences either taken directly from the texts of Veronica, Katie and Alf,

or based on what our characters have said. And you'll have to translate these sentences from

English into French. Now, if you're listening to the three version of this lesson,

then you'll get five sentences to translate from English into French. If you're listening to our

specially extended members version, then you'll get ten sentences and you'll also get access to

our dictation exercise, which will really test your skills in writing French. Okay, it's time

to get on with today's lesson. Question number one. I'd like you to translate. In different,

French, I have never really thought of that. I've never really thought of that.

Okay, this is one of those sentences where you need to combine different words,

and you also need to think a little about word order. I have never really thought about that.

So first of all, our word for to think is pensé, P-E-N-S-E-R, to think the infinitive form.

And we're saying I have never really thought. So we're putting pensé into the perfect tense.

Let's simplify it as much as we can simplify it. I have thought. Becomes j'ai pensé. Let's put that

into a negative form. I have not thought. Je n'ai pas pensé. Now, in this case, it's not I've

not thought, but it's I've never thought. So instead of ne pas, we use ne jamais. So I have never

thought. Je n'ai jamais pensé. Je n'ai jamais pensé. And if we want to include the word

really here, I've never really thought, then we can use vraiment, vraiment. And the best place to put

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