Learn French with FrenchPod101.com! You’ve had a fun night out with the guys in France, but now it’s time to get home to your spouse. You stagger into your apartment and whisper (at least to you, it seems like a whisper) in French, “Hey, Honey, are you awake?” You hear no response. You take off your jacket, drop it across the sofa, and stumble toward your bedroom. You say out loud to yourself in French, “Hmmm. That’s weird…why is the bedroom door locked?” You say a bit louder this time in French, “Honey, are you in there? Can I come to bed?” Your wife calls out in French, “No! I would prefer it if you would sleep on the couch.” After a moment, she continues in French, I was waiting for you to come home or at least to call for hours. Maybe if you had phoned me to let me know where you were, the door would be open. But you didn’t! Enjoy the couch.”
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2 Responses to “Intermediate Lesson #18 - If You Stay Out Too Late, You’ll Pay the Price in France!”
Wednesday at 6:30 pm
Did you have a curfew when you were younger? What about now? What is a good time for a curfew?
Sunday at 11:59 pm
My French teacher in high school had an excellent way to remember what took the subjuctive. WOUDINE. Each letter stands for an instance that take the subjunctive. W - wishing, O - obligation U- uncertainty, D - Doubt, I - Il faut que, N - necessity, E - Expectations. I think that’s how it all went. It covers a lot of what takes the subjuctive. It’s been years I’m surprised I remembered it. I don’t know if in other lessons on the subjuctive you mention this or not, but it wasn’t clear from this lesson. Maybe you should state that it always is in the secondary clause following the que. Example: Il faut que tu ailles chez le medecin. Or you can avoid the subjunctive and say Il faut aller chez le medecin.
I usually avoid the subjunctive and I probably shouldn’t but it still looms out there as something scary you learned in an upper level class.
I loved the idiomatic phrases in this lesson. Couldn’t you translate l’oiseau de la nuit as a Night owl?
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