4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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So you're coming to France. Statistically, you're probably coming to Paris. And you don't know much beyond bonjour and merci.
This bonus episode is Camille from French Today explaining the mistakes you're probably making and teaching us how to get it right.
There's a lot of extra stuff in there too - like how you should actually tell someone you don't understand what's going on - and a little look at slang and how French is developing as a language.
Camille has been a French teacher for decades now - and it's through her audiobooks that I'm improving my own French.
If not, I recommend listening to this podcast in a quiet spot because it's most enjoyable if you repeat, repeat, repeat all the things she says.
Good luck!
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone. Oliver G here, the host of the Earful Tower, which you may have noticed recently is being presented by French today, which is a series of audio books to teach you French. So I'm partnering up with them and I've got the woman behind the whole thing on the show today and we're talking about beginner French. Now I realize a lot of the listeners to the show probably don't know much of French. |
0:21.5 | I know a lot of the listeners to the show probably speak much better French than I do, |
0:24.8 | but I think there's something in this episode for everyone |
0:27.6 | because we cover the sort of basics of if you come to Paris or France |
0:31.5 | for the first time what you should know and how you should pronounce it, |
0:34.2 | but also a few more subtle things that I had no idea about the proper way to |
0:39.2 | tell someone you don't understand. I'd never heard of the way that fancy people say, I guess |
0:45.2 | the equivalent of bu-bye in English, bye-bye. There's a French way of saying. We talked about all sorts |
0:51.6 | of things, including my problems with the French |
0:54.6 | administration and how I tackle it. Anyway, that's all in this episode with Camille. As I've said in the |
0:59.7 | past few episodes, if you use the code, Frenchday.com forward slash earful one. That will work for the |
1:06.9 | whole month to get you an additional 10% off the audiobooks. So if you like what you're here, consider signing up, learn French alongside with me. |
1:15.2 | And yeah, here's what happened when Camille was in the studio from Brittany talking about |
1:19.2 | beginner French. |
1:20.3 | And for the rest of you, the next episode on Monday will be with one of the lead dancers |
1:26.2 | from the Moulin Rouge, who I met with just yesterday in Paris. |
1:30.0 | I was backstage at the Moulin Rouge after watching a very fantastic show. |
1:35.1 | So I'm going to be talking with Amanda Chapman on Monday, and I hope to see you then. |
1:39.7 | But first, here's Camille from French today, talking us through how to speak Francaille. Let's go. |
1:54.6 | Camille, welcome to the studio. |
1:56.6 | Bonjour, Olivier. |
1:57.8 | Oh, how's it? Wow, that went. You turned me French. |
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