This is join us in France episode 30.

Hello, I'm Annie and today, Elise is away.

She's off in Brittany this week,

having a well deserved vacation. The poor woman has been working all through the summer I feel really bad for her

So I hope she's having a great time and to take her place today I have invited my good friend

Todd Newman to join me because he's really fun to talk to

and he has a lot of stories and I really look forward to having him on the show so

hello Todd. Hi Annie, thanks for having me. Oh you are welcome. Todd is an American writer.

He has been living in France for eight years.

And I've known you this whole time.

Keep it on on you.

He works as a writer and he's also the person behind the Newmans of Legovin blog.

Yes. A very fun blog that I mentioned in a previous I think it was on a Facebook post or something and we'll talk all about that later

But for now, let me introduce the topic for today's show,

and we're going to be talking about survival French.

These are some phrases and expressions

that you'll really need to know in France.

I've selected a few basic things. You don't need to know that much,

but let's have a little music and then we'll get back into it and I'll tell you all about that. Okay. Okay, welcome back. So now, survival French. The first thing I have to say is that

French people are strange. It's not that surprising, okay?

They're not that strange, Annie.

Well, one thing is strange is that if I've seen this happen time and time again with visitors

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