Talking about holidays in French - Key phrases & examples | A Coffee Break with Hélène

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🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Since we've recently finished Season 1 of Scenes from the Coffee Break French Café, here is a short mini-lesson to keep your French ticking over until we launch our next podcast series! In today's episode, we'll hear from Hélène from the Coffee Break French team.

What can you expect from today's episode? We'll explore French vocabulary for talking about holidays and time off. ☀️ Whether you’re describing your summer travels, chatting about a recent break, or planning a long weekend, Hélène will help you with essential expressions like:

➡️ faire le pont

➡️ être en congé

➡️ être en RTT

➡️ être en vacances

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0:00.0	Salu!
0:01.0	It's Helene, the Coffee Break French.
0:04.9	And I'm here with something slightly different to what you usually find in our podcast feed.
0:11.7	Our first season of scenes from the Coffee Break Cafe has just ended, but you can find all 10 episodes just below in this feed, along with all of the other
0:23.7	episodes from Coffee Break French.
0:26.8	So these new little Expresso episodes, like the one you're listening to just now, will be
0:33.8	here to bridge the gap between our main coffee break seasons.
0:38.1	If this is the first coffee break episode that you come across,
0:42.5	just know that this is different at our usual coffee break style.
0:46.6	Our main episodes are longer, more in depth,
0:50.2	and usually involve discussions between a teacher and a learner.
0:55.9	Well,
0:56.2	all right,
0:57.0	today we're talking about time off and holidays.
1:18.2	Who doesn't like a long weekend, taking some time off or just being on holidays?
1:21.7	But how do you talk about this in French?
1:28.4	Well, I'm about to tell you about some nice expressions to talk about time off.
1:29.6	It's parti.
1:32.8	My first expression is,
1:34.9	Faire le pon.
1:38.2	Faire le pon.
1:42.6	Literally, to make the bridge.
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