Language hacks for learning French quicker

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Bonus episode!

It's Camille from French Today talking about how to learn French quickly and efficiently.

One of the big takeaways is that everyone is different: Some want to learn French simply to pass an exam, others want to move to France, while some are just learning for the pleasure of being able to read a book or order a coffee.

If you're interested in learning French via her method and her audiobooks, here is a link to get you a further ten percent off your audiobook purchase. Click here.

PS: The YouTube video of Eddie Izzard that Camille mentioned is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1sQkEfAdfY

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, guys, everyone. You're listening to the Earful Tower, which is brought to you by French today, the audio books that will help you speak French like a French person. And believe it or not, I've got Camille here with me today, and we're going to talk about hacks to learning French. Are you there, Camille?
0:13.5	Yes, I'm here, Camille.
0:13.5	Yeah, I'm here, OK, yeah, so-va?
0:17.4	Yeah, it's always en form. I en form. Do you like that one?
0:21.9	En form?
0:22.7	Yeah, always in form, it's super.
0:24.8	That's one of my favorites.
0:25.8	But you know, before we even get into today's topic, you brought up something that I like.
0:30.3	You know how you said, Je Sui La?
0:31.9	When people are learning French, they might think that means I'm there, But it means I'm here and there.
0:39.9	Yeah, it's weird.
0:41.0	You just have idioms from time to time.
0:44.1	It would make more sense to say,
0:46.0	but that's not what we say.
0:48.4	No one says it.
0:49.0	No, no, nobody says, I'm here.
0:51.6	We say, I'm there.
0:53.8	Why? I don't know. It's one of those little mysteries. It sounds nicer though, I'm here. We say, I'm there. Why?
0:54.3	I don't know.
0:55.2	It's one of those little mysteries.
0:56.8	It sounds nicer though,
0:57.7	Je Suu la.
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