Ten fun French words that I really love

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

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

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

I love the French language. I feel like I could make an episode like this every year. The ten words and words like I like, that make me smile, or that have some kind of a fun story to them.

You can hear me describing them and pronouncing them in greater detail in this week's podcast episode, or click here to read the blog and see the spelling.

Music in this episode is from Pres Maxson.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, welcome to another episode of the Yearful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G.
0:05.3	I am Lena Nordenjee. And we're back in the studio. I love it. It's nice, huh? I really love it.
0:11.6	Yeah. But what we're going to hear today is an episode about 10 of my own personal favorite French words. Doesn't
0:19.5	mean it's the best or the most beautiful. They're just 10
0:21.9	that I really like. But before we get into it, I want to tell a story. I don't know if I've ever
0:27.3	told this on the story, but it's my favorite language mix-up ever. And I happen to a friend of mine.
0:31.4	I love this story so much that I offered to buy the story off him. I think you actually bought it. Did I? Yes, you did. I remember a couple of months ago.
0:37.8	You actually bought it off him and forbade, is that a word?
0:41.9	Forbade him from telling you.
0:43.8	You're like, it's mine now.
0:44.9	Yeah, yeah.
0:45.3	I'm in a group of people that someone said, what story?
0:47.4	And he started to tell it.
0:48.5	And you're like, uh-uh.
0:49.3	That's exactly. No, no, no. I don't think I paid him for it, but here's my story. But it happened to a friend of mine.
0:54.9	So this is, this is it.
0:57.1	And it's a bit raunchy.
0:59.0	It's a bit raunchy.
0:59.7	That's all right.
1:00.3	Yeah.
1:00.5	We're in France.
1:01.5	Yeah, yeah.
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