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The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 794 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
"It's fully part of France, but it's completely detached".
That's how this week's guest describes her island home Guadeloupe, which is 100 percent French even though it's in the Caribbean.
Yes, here comes Laura K Lawless, an American teacher of the French language who lives 6,750km from Paris in what's known as a DomTom.
We talk about about the island, the French language, and I go through the spin cycle on a few of her tongue twisters.
You can read along here:
- Le ver vert va vers le verre vert.
- As-tu été à Tahiti?
- Un chasseur sachant chasser chasse sans son chien.
Language lovers should hang around at the end for a classic Corey Story, where he reveals how a very French-sounding word came from.......... THE RUSSIANS!
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| 0:00.0 | Eiffel Tower listeners, something different today. |
| 0:02.1 | We are going to Guadalupe, Guadalupe in the Caribbean. |
| 0:07.0 | Well, not literally going to Guadalupe. |
| 0:10.2 | We're still sitting in the cold office in the 10th hour on this month. |
| 0:13.8 | But we're talking to someone who lives on the island in the Caribbean known as Guadalupe, |
| 0:19.0 | which is actually a part of France, and where the weather's |
| 0:22.0 | quite nice. And that's Laura K. Lawless, so she's going to be talking all about what it's like |
| 0:27.1 | to be living in a part of France that's like 7,000 kilometers away from Paris. And we're going to |
| 0:33.0 | have a Corey's story after that that's also related to language. Laura K. Lawless is a language teacher |
| 0:38.4 | at Lawless French. But first, some really exciting news. The live event that I've been talking |
| 0:43.5 | about in some previous episodes has sold out. And I'm very thrilled about that. That's actually |
| 0:48.8 | coming up in just a couple of days. Tickets all sold out. That proves that we actually have listeners |
| 0:53.7 | who are very generous. |
| 0:55.6 | So a big thank you to all the people who bought a ticket, especially to the ones abroad who |
| 1:00.2 | bought tickets and donated them. These guys aren't even going to this show, but they bought a |
| 1:03.9 | ticket. So I'm going to thank them personally. Here comes some names. |
| 1:07.6 | Nefisa Doty, Sally Langston, Preston Everett, Catherine Watt. |
| 1:11.3 | A double shout-out |
| 1:12.2 | to Shelley Georgopoulos, |
| 1:13.3 | Colby Fox, |
| 1:14.0 | and Veronique from French |
| 1:15.6 | girl in Seattle. |
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