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Learn French with FrenchPod101.com! Your friend calls you breathless and asks you in French, “Guess what I just heard!” You respond in French, “There’s no telling…you always have you ear to the ground. What is it?” Your friend announces in French, “I just heard that they fired the head of the marketing agency down the street. You must apply for that job!” You respond in French, “Who told you this?” Your friend explains in French, “My friend, who is the receptionist. She said that someone who works on the executive floor overheard someone telling an administrative assistant, who told her.” You respond in French, “Well, you know how rumors get started. It seems like a game of telephone to me. I’ll wait till I see something on the website or read it in a trade magazine!”

Learning French with FrenchPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn French! This French Intermediate lesson will teach you the various French verbs you can use to report what someone else says. It will also teach you what French words you can use to report an order someone gives you. Finally, it will also teach you the different ways you can use the French words meaning “still” and “nonetheless.” Visit us at FrenchPod101.com where you will find many more fantastic French lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!

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Learn French with FrenchPod101.com! You and your buddy are backpacking through the countryside of France. The rural parts of France are beautiful, but sometimes you just get so bored. You tell your friend in French, “Don’t you just wish we could eat something other than food cooked over a campfire?” Your friend replies in French, “Are you saying my cooking isn’t good enough for you?” You respond in French, “No, and I’m glad you are cooking for me too. But I just want some more refined cuisine…maybe some frog’s legs. I’d even go for a baguette or a croissant for breakfast. Or some good French coffee.” Your friend says in France, “Well, sure, so would I. But don’t you enjoy roughing it too?” You tell your friend in French, “Not so much. If they put a five-star hotel and restaurant here with a café, then perhaps.” Your friend snaps back in French, “So you’d like the country if the city were rebuilt out here, eh?”

Learning French with FrenchPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn French! This French Intermediate lesson will show you how to form the passive voice in French. We’ll also tell you when to use this voice. In addition, we’ll describe recent measures the French government has taken to combat environmental problems and tell you about the French author of a quote who condemns pollution. Visit us at FrenchPod101.com where you will find many more fantastic French lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!


Learn French with FrenchPod101.com! You get home from work at your job in France and walk into an eerily still home. You call out in French, “Hello, is anyone home?” Still silence. You walk into the kitchen, wondering whether your spouse went out for a walk, but before you get there, you see something that makes you gasp and say in French, “What happened here?” Your prized glass vase from your French grandmother is in pieces on the tile floor. You call out again in French, and finally your spouse arrives in the kitchen and asks in French, “What’s up?” You ask your spouse in French, “Did you see this?” Your spouse responds in French, “No…maybe the dog did it while I was upstairs.” You look out in the yard, spot the dog, and say in French, “But the dog is outside. He just didn’t go there by himself. Because he is outside, you must be the culprit!” Your spouse looks you in the eye and tells you in French, “Even though the vase is broken, it’s not a bad thing…our décor has improved already!”

Learning French with FrenchPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn French! This French Intermediate lesson will show you how to use French prepositions to express concessions, goals, and causes. We’ll show you how to form these French constructions using the subjunctive mood. We will also tackle the subject of how French employers handle layoffs in France. Visit us at FrenchPod101.com where you will find many more fantastic French lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!


Learn French with FrenchPod101.com! It’s early in the morning in France, and you and your friend are going for a jog through a forest near your French hotel. You are enjoying the crisp morning air, but apparently something else is on your friend’s mind. She asks you in French, “Did you hear that noise?” You respond in French, “No…I’ve been listening to my iPod. What did you hear?” She tells you in French, “Stop for a minute and listen to that noise. It sounds like footsteps.” As you pause, you do hear a distinct noise that seems to be coming toward you from not too far away. You reassure your friend in French, “It’s probably just an animal.” Your friend says in French, “I’m not sure that’s something we should hope for…what kinds of animals are there in the French forest?” You reply in French, “I have no idea, but they are better than the alternative…this could be a haunted forest!” Your friend looks at you with wide eyes and asks in French, “Do haunted forests exist in France?”

Learning French with FrenchPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn French! This French Intermediate lesson is a veritable festival of French pronouns. We’ll teach you how to use various French relative pronouns to link concepts between thoughts and sentences. We’ll also discuss French demonstrative pronouns. Finally, we’ll teach you how to use French partitive articles when you want to say that you are playing a sport in French. Visit us at FrenchPod101.com where you will find many more fantastic French lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!


Learn French with FrenchPod101.com! Your friend tells you in French, “I need to get away from this crazy urban lifestyle for a little bit and get some fresh air.” She continues in French, “I think I may find a bed and breakfast somewhere outside Paris for the weekend. Do you want to come with me?” You respond in French, “What, and miss out on a day of culture? A day to walk the streets, eat French pastries, shop, and soak in the culture? Are you crazy?” She responds in French, “We can do more of that when we get back…I just think a change of pace will be good.” You ask in French, “Sure, but just what will we do in the country? I am not capable of sitting still and watching cows!” She laughs and replies in French, “Don’t be ridiculous. We can rent bicycles and ride them through the countryside, and we can enjoy nature.” You raise an eyebrow, look at your friend skeptically, point at your couture, and say in French, “Um, do I look like I’m prepared for exercise while I’m here? And what will we do if it rains?”

Learning French with FrenchPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn French! This French Intermediate lesson will show you how to use French impersonal verbs and impersonal expressions. In this jam-packed French lesson, we’ll teach you how to use these French expressions to enumerate things, to discuss the climate and weather, and many more things. We’ll also tell you how to form French imperative verbs and give directions in French. Finally, we’ll also tell you about green methods of transport you can use to see even more of France! Visit us at FrenchPod101.com where you will find many more fantastic French lessons and learning resources! Leave us a message while you are there!