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17 Responses to “Absolute Beginner #5 - Bistrot Français: The Most Intuitive French Verb - You Cannot Live Without it!!”

FrenchPod101.com says:

Où habitez-vous ? Quel pays? Quelle ville ?

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Beth says:

:roll: J’habite à Los Angeles!

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Virginie says:

Hi Beth!

Tu habites à Los Angeles?
Dans quel coin? (This means “In which neighborhood?, “coin” literally meaning “corner”)

I love Santa Monica! J’adore Santa Monica! Is that cliché?

Why are you learning French? For fun, travel, school…?

Hope to hear from you soon!

Virginie

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Krystal Cui says:

J’habitait une Philippines. Et maintenant, j’habite a Philadelphia . :)
OMG ! tell me if i said it wrong . :D

Well, I have a question .
if you conjugate habiter to all the different forms like habitait, habites, habitent, do you still pronounce it the same way as you pronounce it in j’habite ?

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Angele says:

Bonjour Krystal,

Tu devrais dire :
#1 J’habitais AUX Philippines.

Pour la prononciation :
#2 Habites & habitent are pronounced the same way as in j’habite
#3 In habitait, the “ait” as in most of the other ending of l’imparfait (ais, ait, aient) the pronounciation is the same as the letter “è”

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krystal says:

merci beau coup Angele pour la expalanation :)

In your lesson note for absolute beginner #5 page 4, it said, “The verb stem of habiter is habiter.”
Just want to let you know about this cause it made me a little bit confused. :smile:

Bonne journée

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krystal says:

I have a follow-up question with this. “J’habitais aux Philippines.”

I tried to use an english-french translator in the internet .
J’habitais aux Philippines is I lived in the Philippines .
But according to the lesson note it said that I should use aux for plural country.
And how would I know the gender of a country?

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Angele says:

Bonjour

tu devrais dire “pour l’explication”

Oh merci pour faire la remarque sur le verbe habiter. Je vais le corriger.
Verb stem is habit-

Concernant ton 2ième message, c’est une très bonne question.
In general countries ending in -e are feminine (La Bulgarie, le Yougoslavie, la Corée, la Belgique), but there are always exceptions:
Le Méxique, le Mozambique.

In general countries ending with a consonnant are masculine (Le lLuxembourg, Le Kowait, Le Brésil, Le Danemark, Le Tchad, le Soudan etc…)

Therefore it is always a good idea to log the countries (and their gender) you will use most often in a list. That will help you to get familiar with their gender.

Vive le monde et la France bien sûr ! :)

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Kyrstal says:

Now I know. So why the preposition AUX used for Philippines ? Can I not say J’habitais au Philippines ? :mrgreen: ‘Cause in the lesson note au is for masculine countries.

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Angele says:

Simply because we say Les Phillipines. It is plural, so we use AUX as in Je vais aux Phillipines.

Moi j’habite au Mexique avec mon mari. Tu habites avec ta famille ?

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Krystal says:

Oh, so Philippines is an exemption from the masculine countries’ list huh :lol:

Non. J’habite avec ta tante (aunt - in case the google translator is giving me false french words :lol: ) and two cousins.

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Angele says:

Ahhh je vois. E t tes parents sont aux Phillipines ?
Les miens sont en France à Strasbourg dans la région Alsace situé au nord est de la France.

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jour says:

hi

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Zoe says:

Bonjour Virginie,

J’ai DES question pour vous.

Moi j’ai enchaine votre application sur mon iPhone et maintenant je suis entrain de recevoir DES lecons par email. Le probleme est que je n’ai pa besoin de (beginner lessons) DES lessons pour les debutants je veux seulement rafrachir mon Francais parceque ca fait longtempts j’ai pas utilise la langue. Parfois j’oublie DES mots simple comme rideaux or chaise ou bien comment on conjuge Le verbe s’assesoir :sad: :sad:
En tous Cas est c que vous pouvez m’aider? Qu’elle classe j’en ai besoin pour Parler plus facilement.

La deuxieme question est comment utiliser votre site- c’est un peu confusant(confusing c I forgot the word) I don’t know how tonnavigate ur lessons i bought and upgraded my learning but still am receiving random lessons. How cab I start from lesson one for example??
Thanks.

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Siana says:

Bonjour Zoe ^^

désolé pour les inconvéniences!

Tu peux stopper les emails en cliquant sur la phrase “Remove me from the FrenchPod101.com mailing list”, qui est en bas de chaque email. Malheureusement, il n’y a pas de possibilité de contrôler de manière plus précise les types d’emails reçus.
Pour les leçons par niveau, il suffit de cliquer sur le lien “Browse Lessons” pour obtenir les leçons depuis le début par niveau de difficulté.

1. You can stop getting emails by clicking remove on this sentence at the bottom of each email. “Remove me from the FrenchPod101.com mailing list”. Unfortunately, there is no more nuanced way to control the kinds of email you get.
and the second question:
2. Click on the “Browse Lessons” link to find lesson series from the beginning by level of difficulty

J’espère que cela t’aidera, tu sembles avoir gardé un très bon niveau de Français!
N’hésites surtout pas à poser d’autre question! ^^

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filimon semere says:

je habite a kampala uganda
je suis eritrean

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fereshte says:

j,habite a tehran iran il fait beau ajourduhui

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