Comments on: Lower Intermediate Lesson #8 - Oh…To Go Anywhere is Fine with Me! http://www.frenchpod101.com/2008/07/25/lower-intermediate-8-mom-im-going/ Learn French with Free Podcasts Whether you are student or a seasoned speaker, our lessons offer something for everyone. We incorporate culture and current issues into each episode to give the most informative, both linguistically and culturally, podcasts possible. For those of you with just the plane ride to prepare, check our survival phrase series at FrenchPod101.com. One of these phrases just might turn your trip into the best one ever! Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:43:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Celine http://www.frenchpod101.com/2008/07/25/lower-intermediate-8-mom-im-going/#comment-988 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:41:16 +0000 http://www.frenchpod101.com/2008/07/25/lower-intermediate-8-mom-im-going/#comment-988 Thanks for the explanation Careyxxx. preservatives in that case is "conservateurs" and that's true, how can they preserve the food without using preservatives ?! I'm going to hang out with friends: Je vais passer du temps avec mes amis. Je vais trainer avec des amis. (trainer usually means doing nothing special as well as glander but glander is pure slang) Qu'est ce que tu fais ? Je glande.... Thanks for the explanation Careyxxx. preservatives in that case is “conservateurs” and that’s true, how can they preserve the food without using preservatives ?!

I’m going to hang out with friends:

Je vais passer du temps avec mes amis.
Je vais trainer avec des amis. (trainer usually means doing nothing special as well as glander but glander is pure slang)

Qu’est ce que tu fais ?
Je glande….

]]> by: careyxxx http://www.frenchpod101.com/2008/07/25/lower-intermediate-8-mom-im-going/#comment-971 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:32:17 +0000 http://www.frenchpod101.com/2008/07/25/lower-intermediate-8-mom-im-going/#comment-971 Americans used to put chemicals in foods and liquids to prevent them from spoiling. The preservatives preserved the foods on the shelves in the supermarkets. Then people started saying that the chemicals could cause cancer. They took the chemicals out of the foods, and now many kinds of foods have the words "No preservatives". What I don't understand is if there are no preservatives in the food, what stops the food from spoiling? I really want to ask a question that I forgot to ask earlier when this lesson came out. Your mother is asking you where you are going and who you are going out with. How do you say in French "I'm going to hang out with my friends"? Americans used to put chemicals in foods and liquids to prevent them from spoiling. The preservatives preserved the foods on the shelves in the supermarkets. Then people started saying that the chemicals could cause cancer. They took the chemicals out of the foods, and now many kinds of foods have the words “No preservatives”. What I don’t understand is if there are no preservatives in the food, what stops the food from spoiling?

I really want to ask a question that I forgot to ask earlier when this lesson came out. Your mother is asking you where you are going and who you are going out with. How do you say in French “I’m going to hang out with my friends”?

]]> by: Celine http://www.frenchpod101.com/2008/07/25/lower-intermediate-8-mom-im-going/#comment-883 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:51:38 +0000 http://www.frenchpod101.com/2008/07/25/lower-intermediate-8-mom-im-going/#comment-883 "Les préservatifs préservent de tout, sauf de l'amour" Condoms protect you from everything, except love. that is a good example of "calembour" and that is also true ! Careyxxx, what do you mean chemical preservatives ? “Les préservatifs préservent de tout, sauf de l’amour”

Condoms protect you from everything, except love.

that is a good example of “calembour” and that is also true !

Careyxxx, what do you mean chemical preservatives ?

]]> by: careyxxx http://www.frenchpod101.com/2008/07/25/lower-intermediate-8-mom-im-going/#comment-827 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:37:08 +0000 http://www.frenchpod101.com/2008/07/25/lower-intermediate-8-mom-im-going/#comment-827 What do you call a play of words with words that have different meanings. I have a favorite pun, but other people have said it has no other meaning. What do you think? Les preservatifs preservent tout, tout sauf de l'amour. I was thinking that chemical preservatives preservent things, but you don't have to preserve your love if you have a preservatif. I guess that is a pun only to people who think of preservatives with the English meaning. What do you call a play of words with words that have different meanings. I have a favorite pun, but other people have said it has no other meaning. What do you think?
Les preservatifs preservent tout, tout sauf de l’amour.
I was thinking that chemical preservatives preservent things, but you don’t have to preserve your love if you have a preservatif. I guess that is a pun only to people who think of preservatives with the English meaning.

]]> by: Alex http://www.frenchpod101.com/2008/07/25/lower-intermediate-8-mom-im-going/#comment-825 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:24:39 +0000 http://www.frenchpod101.com/2008/07/25/lower-intermediate-8-mom-im-going/#comment-825 Wow, Celine you rock!!! I didn't know this one. Mais je ne peux pas dire ca de moi. Je hais de me lever tot le matin! Chaque matin je me demande "Mais qu'est-ce qui a invente le lever matinal?!" Wow, Celine you rock!!! I didn’t know this one. Mais je ne peux pas dire ca de moi. Je hais de me lever tot le matin! Chaque matin je me demande “Mais qu’est-ce qui a invente le lever matinal?!”

]]> by: FrenchPod101.com http://www.frenchpod101.com/2008/07/25/lower-intermediate-8-mom-im-going/#comment-570 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:30:07 +0000 http://www.frenchpod101.com/2008/07/25/lower-intermediate-8-mom-im-going/#comment-570 <em>Un calembour</em> is a play of words with words sounding alike. Here is one from Jacques Prévert: Tous les matins, je me lève de <strong>bonheur</strong>." meaning "Every morning I wake up happy." Usually in French people say "Tous les matins, je me lève de <strong>bonne heure</strong>. "Every morning, I wake up early." Do you know any in English? Un calembour is a play of words with words sounding alike.
Here is one from Jacques Prévert:
Tous les matins, je me lève de bonheur.” meaning “Every morning I wake up happy.”
Usually in French people say “Tous les matins, je me lève de bonne heure. “Every morning, I wake up early.”

Do you know any in English?

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