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This entry was posted on Monday, June 7th, 2010 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Survival Phrases . 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.
3 Responses to “Survival Phrases #48 - Explaining Symptoms in French”
Monday at 6:30 pm
What kind of basic medicines, like cold medicine, do you keep regularly in your house?
Monday at 10:08 pm
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.
Wednesday at 8:00 am
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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