Improve your ear for French with this kids song about counting! It’s 27 words in 23 seconds. How many can you hear and understand? The best way to improve your French listening comprehension starts here with us.
Learn French with a kids song snippet! This clip is from the Les Patapons Youtube channel. Listen and fill in what you hear below. Read more and find a translation below. Find the full song here.
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1, 2, 3, & the numbers…
Basic counting isn’t all that challenging, right? It’s when we get to the higher numbers that it feels like math.
I like the flow of this song and that it incorporates the numbers with some vocab I know, and some verb constructions/conjugations I don’t. It’s short, it’s sweet. Let’s sink our teeth into it and improve our pronunciation of the numbers with help from this little jingle.
This one makes me think of the eenie, meenie, minie, mo song in French. I know thye have one because I heard my teacher say it the other day I’ll have to find that one next.
What did you think? What song should we do next?
The snippet in English
Find a translation of this snippet here, how much of this did you hear?
Un, deux, trois nous irons au bois
Quatre, cinq, six cueillir des cerises
Sept, huit, neuf dans mon panier neuf
Dix, onze, douze elles seront toutes rouges
One, two, three we’ll go to the woods
Four, five, six pick cherries
Seven, eight, nine in my nine basket
Ten, eleven, twelve they will all be red
The text of the first two verses of “1, 2, 3 Nous Irons au Bois”
What words did you look up in this snippet?
nous irons
cueillir
panier
seront
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