Improve your French listening comprehension with this clip from the Balades podcast. It’s 44 words in 17 seconds. Tell the truth, can you understand them all?
This clip is from Balades Episode 3. Listen and fill in what you hear below. Read more and find a translation below. Find the full podcast here.
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To tell the truth
To tell the truth, I think I’d tell the truth. But then again, I don’t live in the time of kings. Maybe it’d be worse to upset the prince, anger the king, and be beheaded. To tell the truth, beheading is worse. Better to tell a lie. I am not familiar with a time of absolute power in a monarch… nope. and I definitely am better suited to this day and age.
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The snippet in English
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Le roi envoie donc huit serviteurs pour aller chercher la jeune fille. Les braves gens ont trop peur de dire la vérité, que leur fille n’est en fait qu’une poupée de cire et ne protestent pas quand leur fille est emmenée dans une litière.
So the king sends eight servants to fetch the girl. The good people are too afraid to tell the truth, that their daughter is in fact only a wax doll and do not protest when their daughter is taken away in a litter.
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emmenée dans une litière
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