CBF Mag 2.06 | Mais d’où viennent les frites ?

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🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Mais d’où viennent les frites ? That is the question Mark and Pierre-Benoît are addressing in this episode of the Coffee Break French Magazine! We hope you're hungry as we hear a range of useful food-related words and expressions in this episode, such as manger sur le pouce, avoir la frite and ne pas avoir toutes ses frites dans le même sachet. We also come across examples of direct object pronouns and learn more about the use of the superlative.

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0:00.0	Coffee Break French Magazine Season 2, Episode 6.
0:15.0	Bonjour à tous et à toutes et bienvenue à Coffee Break French. Moi c'est Marc.
0:18.6	Moi c'est Pierre Bonoît.
0:19.6	Comment vas-tu aujourd'hui?
0:21.0	Ça va très très bien parce que en fait je suis allé au restaurant ce midi.
0:24.2	Ah bon?
0:24.7	J'ai bien mangé mais bon c'est pas très bien pour la digestion maintenant mais c'est super.
0:29.9	J'ai très bien mangé. Et toi comment vas-tu?
0:31.9	Ben un peu triste parce que tu ne m'as pas invité.
0:34.9	Mais non non je sais que tu as origines donc parce que c'était un restaurant gastronomique.
0:41.4	Donc on a mangé, on a beaucoup mangé.
0:43.9	Et donc je sais que ce ne te aurait pas plu.
0:49.9	Oui oui je t'inviterais et puis on ira manger ensemble du fish and chips.
0:53.9	Ok, talking of which, we are talking about chips in this episode. In fact, chips is what we call them in the UK.
1:02.9	In other parts of the English speaking world they were perhaps known as fries or indeed French fries.
1:08.9	And we'll find out if that is a correct name for them in this text.
1:12.9	Have a listen to the text. Obviously we'll go through everything in detail after listening to the text together.
1:17.9	But for now, let's hand over to Katya for our text.
1:21.9	Merci Marc, merci Pierre-Benois.
1:26.9	Today we are talking about the origins of French fries.
1:31.9	C'est parti. Mais d'où viennent les frites?
1:35.9	Frites? French fries? Pomme frites?
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