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The Earful Tower: Paris

Should you ask French people to correct your French?

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

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

4.8749 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Hello everyone!

Today it's an episode with Camille from French Today and we're talking about the whole idea of asking French people to "correct you" when you're speaking French with them. 

Apparently, it's not always a good idea, says Camille.

Click here for the discount on French Today audiobooks.

Read more about this topic from Camille’s blog here.

Support The Earful Tower on Patreon here.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. You're listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. This is an episode

0:05.4

specifically about the French language with Camille from French Today. Now French today is the

0:11.2

sponsor of this show. Once a month I do an episode with Camille and she came into the studio to talk

0:16.7

about, well, have you ever spoken French with someone and ask them to correct you, knowing that

0:22.9

you might be making mistakes? Well, it turns out there's a whole mindfield of things that are

0:27.7

happening, can happen, or should happen, or won't happen when you do that, and Camille walks us

0:33.5

through some of these tricky things and what you should do.

0:37.6

But I'll leave it to her.

0:38.6

She's the expert.

0:39.8

Remember, if you want to learn French using their audiobooks, go to Frenchtoday.com slash

0:45.3

earful 11.

0:46.7

You'll get a further 10% discount, and that can add up quite a lot.

0:51.4

As we speak, there's a discount on, so I think you get 30%. So go and check that

0:56.1

out. Frenchtoday.com slash earful 11. Now remember to hang around at the end of this episode

1:02.1

because where I'd usually talk about French today, I'm going to read out three emails that

1:06.3

were particularly funny this week, including my doppelganger who's walking around in Paris.

1:12.4

More on that in a second. Here's Camille from French today.

1:18.9

And Camille is in the studio again. Welcome. Welcome to me. Welcome to you. It's like, you know,

1:25.4

when I was a kid, when I was a kid and people said,

1:27.7

happy birthday to me on my birthday, I would always say happy birthday back. It was just a natural thing.

1:32.6

So polite. I don't know why I said that. You are very polite. But how have you been?

1:39.2

I've been okay, actually. My voice is kind of getting better, know time just give it time it sounded good thank

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