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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! 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! After breakfast, you ask your traveling companion in French, “How would you like to spend the rest of the day?” Your compatriot tells you in French, “I’m undecided. Why don’t you tell me what you’d like to do?” You respond in French, “Sure…I’d like to do a million things, but we don’t have enough time for them. So I’d prefer it if you’d just tell me what you’d like to do so we can make sure to do that.” Your friend questions in French, “Don’t you have an opinion?” You reply in French, “Sure I do. But I’m more easygoing than you are, and I know you probably have a preference. So long as we’re having fun, I don’t care where we go or what we do. I just don’t want to choose. Whatever and whenever you decide will be fine with me.” Your friend replies in French, “How exasperating! But, of course, I do have a preference! I was just trying to be polite before.”

Learning French with FrenchPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn French! This French Intermediate lesson will show you how to express that you don’t have a preference in French. (And in France, there’s so much to do that we know you probably cannot decide between it all!) We’ll also tell you about the leisurely lifestyle of the 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!

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Learn French with FrenchPod101.com! You are struggling not to put your fingers in your ears as your friends belt out the lyrics to Madonna in French. You think to yourself in French, “Never have my ears been so assaulted!” When your friends return to the table, they ask you in French, “What did you think?” Trying to polite, you suggest in French, “No one looked like they were having more fun up there than you guys.” Your friend responds in French, “Please tell me we were at least better than that group that sang the Britney Spears song earlier.” You tell your friend in French, “Of course you were! They were the worst I’ve ever heard!” You think to yourself in French, “A dog howling at the moon might be better.” Then another friend turns to you and asks in French, “When are you going up there to sing?” You reply in French, “I didn’t sign up. I am a very bad singer.” Your friend pipes up in French, “Oh, but we signed you up to sing an Elton John song at least thirty minutes ago.” You glare at your friend and say in French, “You did what?”

Learning French with FrenchPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn French! This French Intermediate lesson will show you how to make comparisons in French by using adjectives and adverbs. We’ll also teach you how to say that something is the best or worst in French. In addition, we’ll explain how you should use the French relative pronouns. Finally, we’ll tell you about the importance of the realistic song movement in French society. 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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I hope you came to France with a healthy appetite! France has something to start every mouth watering, from snails in Burgundy to the perfect cassoulet in Toulouse. Is everybody hungry yet? Do you know how to ask them if they are hungry…or thirsty in French? Do you know where to get these fantastic foods while frolicking through France? Because if you are hungry, and I am sure you are, you have no time to waste!  You shouldn’t make everyone starve in France!!! Learning French with FrenchPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn French! This French Newbie lesson will teach you how to express your needs by conjugating the French verb avoir (to have, to be). We will also tell you the most important guide to have while travelling in France! faim