Improve your ear for French with this snippet from the Choses a Savoir podcast. It’s 27 words in 9 seconds. How many can you hear and understand?
This clip is from Choses a Savoir (06 Jul 2021). Listen and fill in what you hear below. Read more and find a translation below. Listen to the full episode here.
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To summarize
I really like faux amis in French. I mean, I don’t like them, as I always seem to trip over them. However, it is a mind bending experience when you’re like “oh wait, that’s not journey” or … I know there are many more but I’m not thinking of them.
Here’s another one, where on first hearing/reading the transcript I think “resume” in English, even though that can’t logically be there.
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Donc pour résumer, il faudrait prévoir ses vacances 8 semaines à l’avance, puis, y passer 8 jours, pour enfin profiter des effets pendant 5 semaines au retour.
So to summarize, you should plan your vacation 8 weeks in advance, then spend 8 days there, and finally enjoy the effects for 5 weeks upon your return.
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il faudrait
prévoir
à l’avance
profiter
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