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You are anxiously awaiting your first interview in France. You notice the person sitting next to seems to be just as nervous as you are. Are they interviewing for your job here in France? Well, there is only one way to find out! You lean a little closer, smile, and quietly introduce yourself in French. They seem to be friendly, introducing themselves to you in French. You decide that now is the time to go in for the kill! You fumble for the words to ask them in French what it is they do. You need to determine if this seemingly friendly French person is a threat that you need to eliminate now. Just as they begin to answer you, the secretary calls your potential peril into her office to begin the interview. I hope your potential employer isn’t looking for someone that thinks fast on his feet!

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Beginner Season 1 . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

39 Responses to “Beginner Lesson S1 #2 - The Potential French Peril They Won’t Tell You About”

FrenchPod101.com says:

Have you ever had a wierd job?

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Bouks says:

I work at a shop that sells shoes and clothes for dancing (dancewear). Is fitting people to dance shoes a weird job, or just an unconventional one?

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Jian says:

Bonjour tout le monde,

It appears that the pdf file for this lesson is not ready yet.

Jian

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Eran says:

Jian, the PDF should be ready to go. Sorry for the delay :oops:

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Jian says:

Merci Eran,

It is there now. :lol:

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celine says:

I had a job once. it was a recording in English for French with strong french accent… I still wonder why … Maybe they were making fun of our lovely accent. Is our accent that funny :sad:

Ps: En fait Sylvain, this job would have been perfect for you :lol:

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Jacqueline says:

Jamais! :mrgreen:

Merci Beaucoup pour la leçon!

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Angele says:

Hello Bouks

Ah interesting job, fitting dancing shoes to dancers feet! I would say a little unconventional ! I guess if they are pros, they need the perfect shoes for their precious feet!

Hmmmmm a weird job, not really.
Moi non plus!

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Bouks says:

Celine - I’m sure they weren’t making fun! It’s a beautiful accent. Actually, I remember there used to be a series of English learning materials that featured accent comparisons so learners could hear how English is not supposed to be pronounced, and then hear how to pronounce it correctly, so they can work on their accents more easily. I don’t know if they still make those programs.

Angele - yes, pointe shoes are precision instruments! The fitting has to be correct or people can hurt themselves. Of course, dancing on pointe hurts no matter how exact the shoe fitting is :lol:

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maxiewawa says:

What’s the line that Sam says at the beginning of every lecon? “Bonjour a tous”? What does that mean?

-Macques

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Jian says:

In case you don’t know, Louis Braille was French. He invented the braille, a system used by blind and visually impaired people for reading and writing.

À bientôt.

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Celine says:

Bonjour a tous means “Hello everyone”

Thanks Jian for the information ! et Merci Louis

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Nic says:

The wierdest job I’ve ever had was valet. It was wierd in the sense, who would ever give their car to a teenager to park for them!! :shock:
Needless to say the experience of going 0-60 in a small parking lot had a profound influence on my life! :wink:

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Sash The Red says:

It’s good to see that Frenchpod101 is picking up the pace and releasing podcasts more often :)

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Munia says:

Weird jobs, indeed…

Anyway, I have a question. In the intro to the lesson, you say, “Comment tu va?” As it is a question, wouldn’t it be “Comment va-tu?” :???:

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Christophe says:

Hello everyone and Bonjour Munia!

In the intro to the lesson Celine says: “Comment tu vas?”. It could be “Comment vas-tu?” too!
“Comment tu vas?” is more casual while “Comment vas-tu?” is more formal (it’s a better french but most of french use the casual form!).

I hope that i could answer your question! :wink:

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Sam says:

Hey guys I am glad you are enjoying the podcasts, stay tuned….

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Munia says:

Ah, je vois… Merci, Christophe! :grin:

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Hyunwoo Sun says:

Merci beaucoup Silvain, Celine, et Sam pour cette lecon :-) Comme tous les autres que vous ecoutent, j’aime tres bien l’atmosphere de votre lecon! Et heureusement j’ai jamais eu de boulot bizarre sauf que j’etais un soldat pendant deux ans. :mrgreen:

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Shyralei says:

Je n’ai jamais eu de travail étrange, mais j’ai travaillé avec quelques de personnes étranges !

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Angele says:

Il y a bien des personnes bizarres dans la vie, mais les uns sont bizarres pour certaines personnes ou normales pour d’autres…..

On dit en français: les couleurs et les opinions ne se discutent pas.

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Francesca says:

Non, je n’ai jamais eu un étrange travail, mais moi aussi, quelque fois, j’ai travaillée avec bizarres personnes.

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Angele says:

Mais qu’est-ce qu une personne bizarre ?

Pour moi cest quelquun qui ne parle jamais à personne au travail et reste dans son coin.

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Angela says:

j’ai travaillée avec un homme qui habité dans le réserve naturelle… C’est… Différent…

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Angela says:

P.S. Hyunwoo시,
안녕하세요! (hello!) j’écoute a koreanclass101.com aussi mais votre “blog” est très difficile pour mois maintenant. ;)

고맙습니다 (Thank you!)

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Karen says:

Je suis un professeur.
Je crois que these lessons are both fun and useful, merci!

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FrenchPod101.com says:

Bonjour Karen!
We’re glad to hear that you are enjoying these lessons :mrgreen:

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Jilli says:

ok i went backwards with these lessons and so far i feel this one has the most explaining!

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FrenchPod101.com says:

Hello Jilli,

Great to know that you enjoyed this lesson!
Please keep tuned as every week we have new lessons for you!

Cheers,
Neha/FrenchPod101.com

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Derrick says:

Le travail le plus étrange dans le monde est, en Anglais, un Fart Sniffer :shock: . Un Fart Sniffer est une personne qui sent la flatulence des vaches pour déterminer son régime et pour voir s’il est en bon santé :shock: ewwwwww!!!

The weirdest job in the world is, in English, a Fart Sniffer :shock: . A Fart Sniffer is a person who smells the fart of cows to determine their diet and to see if they are in good health :lol:

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FrenchPod101.com says:

Hi Derrick!
Great try to write in French!

I must say though that just the thought of having a job like that, upsets my stomach haha! I bet whoever does this for a living, must be well paid to make it worth!

Thank you for your comment!

Stefania/FrenchPod101.com

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abacosis says:

Is it just me or do the pdf files join words together making it harder to read :cry: ?

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FrenchPod101.com says:

Hello abacosis,

The PDF looks just fine here. Could you please share the version of Adobe PDF Reader you are using?

Regards,
Neha/FrenchPod101.com

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abacosis says:

Hi FrenchPod101,

Thanks much for your assistance, I was actually not using any external pdf reader. I had just opened it within google-chrome’s internal pdf viewer. I’m actually using Linux and after downloading it, it opens just fine in one of the linux pdf readers.

Thanks again

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jaehwi says:

Hi Abacosis,

The PDF is using the font installed your OS system. Since it was working fine on Linux, we’d like to ask you download adobe PDF reader or any programs that you can read the PDf, then try to open it again.
We’re sorry for asking you work on additional steps.

Thank you.

Jae / FrenchPod101.com

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lekambus says:

Bonjoue Comment allez vous?
ca va bien merci
is very nice web now am speak french……..

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FrenchPod101.com says:

Bonjour lekambus !

Je vais bien, merci, et vous ?
I am fine, thank you, and you ?

Great to learn you enjoy the lessons !
Thank you !

Melanie
FrenchPod101.com

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ashmawy says:

it is awesome
thanks :wink:

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FrenchPod101.com says:

Hello ashmawy,

Thank you for the comment!
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

Cheers,
Neha
Team FrenchPod101.com

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