Improve your ear for French with this snippet from SNCF’s Pour Nous Tous. It’s 23 words in 7 seconds. How many can you hear and understand? Improve your French listening comprehension with us.
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and for our kids
I found this ad on Youtube and wanted to share it. It’s like spoken word set to train track beat talking about the French. An interesting take as a learner looking to dive into the culture.
Again, a quick search of “mouflets” seems it’s often translated as “brats” or in a negative way. But here, being celebrated, as someone for whom we (The French) are striving for, for their better world. NB That’s only on one site that has negative translations for “mouflets“; Deepl provides neutral (children, kids, young).
Interesting plays on words here, with “défiler” in the last snippet for “parading/strutting” and here meaning “marching” for rights for humankind.
What did you think?
Here’s another one which may need (a lot) more cultural context. Or I might be reading too much into it?
I don’t understand “comme aucun autre” when spoken, but I love the expression in English. So I wanted to highlight it here. And I’m listening to it in this snippet thinking of how I could say it and use it in French.
Also the word choice in this snippet has got to be intentional, right? “parés du plus bel apparat.” and “Sapés trop stylé”. These aren’t words you’ll learn in French A1-1 that’s for sure. How are you getting on?
Here’s the full ad for your reference, but follow along over the coming “lessons” as we dive into it.
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Mais surtout prêts à défiler pour l’égalité, à déclarer des droits pour tous les hommes, pour toutes les femmes et pour nos mouflets.
But above all, we are ready to march for equality, to declare rights for all men, for all women and for our children.
The above translation from Deepl. Source
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Mais surtout
mouflets
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