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Learn French travel phrases with FrenchPod101.com! A little French can go such a long way! Whether you’re traveling, visiting, or sightseeing, FrenchPod101.com has all the essential travel phrases just for you! Today we cover a high frequency French phrase sure to be of use on your trip, travels, or vacation to France.

You are able to find your way to a French hospital, but you can’t seem to convey what’s wrong in French. Your taxi driver has dropped you off at a pharmacy in French-speaking Belgium, but you can’t tell the pharmacist what you need in French. In today’s podcast, you’ll learn key French phrases that will ensure that this never happens! Be sure to stop by FrenchPod101.com for more info on French culture and language!



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3 Responses to “Survival Phrases #48 - Explaining Symptoms in French”

FrenchPod101.com says:

What kind of basic medicines, like cold medicine, do you keep regularly in your house?

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Jean-Simon says:

This lesson was pretty helpful althought i must point out some important mistake that had slipped into this lesson.

First: We never say “J’ai une fière”. It’s either “Je fais de la fièvre” or “J’ai de la fièvre”

Second: “J’ai une rhume” is an incompréhensible mistake. “Rhume” is masculin and this kind of sentence doesn’t make any sense. You cannot take a pattern (J’ai un/une..) and apply it for every situation in french. It works in english maybe, but french is more complex when it comes to sentences’ structure. So, in french we say: “J’ai le rhume”.

Third: The way “J’ai mal à la tête” was pronounced a little bit weird. It sounds as if an english-speaking guy is telling the sentence. He pronounced the letter “a” in an uncommon way. This is not the way we say it in french.

I hope those comment will help improving your lessen.

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Angele says:

Hi Jean Simon.

You are right concerning the word fièvre “fever”. These mistakes were pointed out to be corrected. I guess the editing team did not beat the clock!
However you could say J ai un rhume. or J ai le rhume. “I have a cold.” depending of the context.

Thank you for pointing out these mistakes and help learners to get these phrases correctly.

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