Improve your ear for French with our daily exercises. This audio clip and quiz come from an SNCF ad. It’s 27 words in 8 seconds, how many can you hear and understand?
This clip is from SNCF advert “Pour Nous Tous”. Listen and fill in what you hear below. Read more and find a translation below. Listen to the full ad here.
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We are not… we are…
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.
It’s intersting how often “on” is used so much. I think it gets covered in beginner lessons, but not nearly in proportion to the amount it seems to be used everywhere.
Come to think of it, I don’t recall seeing it on Duolingo lessons, their robots don’t seem to be using in in expressions, often relying on first plural conjugations for “we”.
And yet, when I hear French speak, and see it in advertisements like this one… “on” always seems to show up.
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On n’est pas statique, on est progressiste.
On ne va pas se refaire, on est parfois en retard.
Mais on n’est pas un retardataire, on est avant-gardiste.
We are not static, we are progressive.
We are not going to recover, we are sometimes late.
But we are not a latecomer, we are avant-garde.
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se refaire
parfois en retard
retardataire
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