Your most embarrassing French mistakes

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

We asked listeners for their most embarrassing mistakes when trying to speak French.

Important background:

Jouer means "to play", jouir means "to orgasm".

J'ai chaud means "I'm hot", je suis chaud means "I'm horny".

Un baiser is "a kiss", baiser is "to f$$k"

The rest are pretty self explanatory.

Thanks to Lily Heise, the author who co-hosted the episode. Check out the site for more info about where you can find her work.

Oh, and if you're easily offended, do not listen to this episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Here, full-tower listeners, I'm Oliver.
0:02.0	I'm James.
0:03.0	And I'm Lily.
0:04.0	Lily?
0:05.0	Who's Lily?
0:06.0	Co-host?
0:07.0	We have Lily Heise in the studio.
0:09.0	Co-host, you might know her from,
0:10.0	Jete Me Neither.
0:12.0	And she's here helping out with an episode.
0:14.0	Yes, well, I'm very excited to be co-hosting today with Oliver.
0:19.0	And James. co-hosting today with Oliver and James and James who's across from me here and I think it's going
0:22.8	to be a very exciting and titillating episode titillating is the right word and we're about to get
0:28.9	into a warning about who should be turning off but first let's hear the jingle
0:32.7	there's the jingle.
0:39.1	Okay, I said it.
0:39.8	I'm just going to clarify.
0:40.9	This episode is different.
0:42.9	It is unsuitable.
0:44.1	Play the warning bells, James.
0:50.5	There's going to be language.
0:52.6	There's going to be worse than that, Lily. There's going to be language. There's going to be worse than that, Lily.
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