Improve your French listening comprehension with this clip from the Balades podcast! It’s 22 words in 8 seconds, how many can you hear and understand?
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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With a sad look
I don’t have any sad looks while working on this site. I do like this phrase, it seems so very French. I wonder if you can have an “d’un air heureux”. I assume so, but we all know what happens when you assume…
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The snippet in English
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Un jour de fête, alors que les jeunes s’amusent dans les rues, la femme les observe de sa fenêtre d’un air triste.
On a festive day, while the young people are having fun in the streets, the woman watches them from her window with a sad look.
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