How to speak the language of love
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week it's my favourite language teacher, Camille from French Today.
And seeming it's Valentine's Day we took the opportunity to discuss all the French language you'll need to impress someone when it comes to matters of love.
We cover: Love nicknames, how to tell someone you love them (and how to get it wrong), and exactly how to pronounce La Tour Eiffel in French, which I very clearly cannot do.
If you're unsure of the spelling of any of these words and phrases, then here are links to Camille's site French Today where she has covered it much better than I ever could.
Love nicknames are here, a look at French dating is here, and Camille's own guide to Valentine's Day is here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello and bonjour from Paris. It's Oliver G here, the host of the |
| 0:05.9 | Earful Tower podcast. And while it's not a Monday when I usually release one of these episodes, |
| 0:11.1 | it's a very special day indeed. It's Valentine's Day. And even if you don't subscribe to this |
| 0:16.5 | kind of nonsense that is Valentine's Day. Maybe you kind of like love. |
| 0:22.2 | Maybe you like the language of love. |
| 0:23.9 | Maybe you like French and talking about love. |
| 0:26.3 | And if so, it's lucky for you because today I've got, well, I've got Camille from French |
| 0:31.4 | Today audiobooks. |
| 0:32.6 | It's the company that sponsors this show and we're doing a little bonus episode all about Valentine's Day. |
| 0:38.8 | So she came in the studio to teach the language of love, things like Jitem, what it means, |
| 0:44.3 | how to say it, how not to say it especially, French nicknames, things like that. |
| 0:49.0 | I've put in the show notes below all the links to Camis site for dating articles, French nickname articles, |
| 0:57.7 | all the information is in the link below if you want to read it, but if you want to hear it, |
| 1:02.7 | listen to this episode and repeat after us. But we also have a pretty wide-ranging conversation |
| 1:07.6 | about things like the Eiffel Tower, tattoos, translating tattoos, things like |
| 1:12.4 | how you can say I love you but to your friend. But yeah, all the links and information in the |
| 1:19.0 | show notes below. If you want to learn French as I do with French Today, then go via French |
| 1:26.3 | today.com forward slash earful to the number two. And you get a |
| 1:31.2 | further 10% off all the audiobooks on the site. And I see currently they're having a 20% of sale for |
| 1:36.7 | Valentine's Day. So now is the day to get into it. Now, a little bit of extra news before I switch |
| 1:41.6 | over to my conversation with Camille. In case you didn't know, |
| 1:45.0 | this week, this week in February, I'm doing the Seven Wonders of Paris. So every day of the week, |
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