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Intro |
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| Virginie: Bonjour a tous. |
| Eric: Is Everything You Own in That French Purse?! In this lesson Rob needs to make a phone call, but he doesn't have a phone. |
| Virginie: Rob is not very equipped, so he has to ask Giulia if she has a phone. |
| Eric: Let's listen to the conversation. |
Lesson conversation |
| Rob: Giulia, tu as un téléphone portable? |
| Giulia: Oui. |
| Giulia: Non…non… |
| Rob: (rires) Qu’est-ce que tu as dans ton sac? |
| Giulia: J’ai…un portefeuille, un stylo, un paquet de Kleenex… |
| Rob: (rires) Et un téléphone portable? |
| Giulia: Ah! Voilà! |
| Eric: One more time with the translation. |
| Rob: Giulia, tu as un téléphone portable? |
| Eric: Giulia, do you have a cell phone? |
| Giulia: Oui. |
| Virginie: Yes. |
| Giulia: Non…non… |
| Virginie: No…no… |
| Rob: (rires) Qu’est-ce que tu as dans ton sac? |
| Eric: (laughs) What do you have in your bag? |
| Giulia: J’ai…un portefeuille, un stylo, un paquet de Kleenex… |
| Virginie: I have…a wallet, a pen, a pack of Kleenex… |
| Rob: (rires) Et un téléphone portable? |
| Eric: (laughs) What about a cell phone? |
| Giulia: Ah! Voilà! |
| Virginie: Ah! There it is! |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Eric: Wow. She had a lot of things in that purse. |
| Virginie: Yes that's the purpose of a purse. Being full. |
| Eric: Full of kinds of things. |
| Virginie: Oui, exactly. Women have a busy life. They need a place to store all kinds of things. |
| Eric: So, do women in France work a lot? |
| Virginie: Oh yes. Most women have jobs. |
| Eric: Okay. |
| Virginie: But the pay actually is lower than men's. |
| Eric: Ah. |
| Virginie: Yes, that's pretty bad. And you know what, they only got the right to vote in 1944. |
| Eric: Wow. |
| Virginie: I know. France needs to improve, but it's getting there. |
| Eric: But, there is something pretty good in France when you're a woman? |
| Virginie: What is it? |
| Eric: Don't you get a three-month leave after giving birth. |
| Virginie: Oh yes. But that's just normal. |
| Eric: And get time off too? |
| Virginie: Men, yes. They get a two-week leave, which is not enough, but still, it's nice. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Eric: Okay interesting. So, let's take a look at our vocabulary. What do we have first? |
| Virginie: Avoir [natural native speed] |
| Eric: To have. |
| Virginie: Avoir [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Avoir [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next. |
| Virginie: Un portable [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Cell phone. |
| Virginie: Un portable [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Un portable [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Okay. |
| Virginie: Qu'est-ce que / qu'est-ce qu' [natural native speed] |
| Eric: What. |
| Virginie: Qu'est-ce que / qu'est-ce qu' [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Qu'est-ce que / qu'est-ce qu' [natural native speed]. Ton [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Your (informal). |
| Virginie: Ton [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Ton [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next. |
| Virginie: Sac [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Bag. |
| Virginie: Sac [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Sac [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Next one. |
| Virginie: Un portefeuille [natural native speed] |
| Eric: A wallet. |
| Virginie: Un portefeuille [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Un portefeuille [natural native speed] |
| Eric: And next |
| Virginie: Un stylo [natural native speed] |
| Eric: A pen. |
| Virginie: Un stylo [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Un stylo [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Okay. |
| Virginie: Un paquet de Kleenex [natural native speed] |
| Eric: A pack of Kleenex. |
| Virginie: Un paquet de Kleenex [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Un paquet de Kleenex [natural native speed] |
| Eric: And finally. |
| Virginie: Voilà [natural native speed] |
| Eric: Here you are or here it is. |
| Virginie: Voilà [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Voilà [natural native speed]] |
| KEY VOCABULARY AND PHRASES |
| Eric: Okay, the first word we're going to look at? |
| Virginie: Let's start with ""un portable."" |
| Eric: A cell phone. |
| Virginie: Yes literally that's ""a holdable,"" a portable. |
| Eric: Right, something you have with you all the time, you can bring around. |
| Virginie: Yes, exactly un portable. It comes from the verb porter, which mean to hold, to carry. |
| Eric: And that's also the same word for a laptop. |
| Virginie: Exactly, oui, un ordinateur portable. |
| Eric: The word ordinateur is computer, |
| Virginie: And portable is still, literally holdable, portable, carryable. |
| Eric: So, un portable is a cell phone, and un ordinateur portable is a laptop. |
| Virginie: Yes. Now I would like to explain the word ""ton."" |
| Eric: Right. Rob at some point in our dialog says ""ton sac."" |
| Virginie: Yes and that means ""your purse."" |
| Eric: So, ""ton"" is your in English. |
| Virginie: And that's informal, TON |
| Eric: So this is just one of the possessive adjective that we're going to look at another time. |
| Virginie: For now, just remember that ton is your. |
| Eric: So, by the way, Virginie, is sac really a purse? |
| Virginie: Yes, it's short for sac a mains. |
| Eric: Oh I see. So, sac is purse, but it also can mean a bag, correct? |
| Virginie: Yes, Eric, oui, sac is both purse and bag. |
| Eric: Easy. |
| Virginie: What else do we have here? |
| Eric: The best word voila! |
| Virginie: Oh yes. I know you like this word. Voila. It's an easy one. It means there you go, there you are, here it is. |
| Eric: This is sort of the typically phrase we think of French people saying, ""Viola."" |
| Virginie: Tout a fait. Absolutely. Viola! |
| Eric: You can also have voila followed by a name. |
| Virginie: Yes. Like in, Voila Eric! |
| Eric: and Here is Eric! |
| Virginie: Or Voila la grammaire. |
| Eric: Here is the grammar. |
| Virginie: Exactly. Absolutely there goes grammar! |
Lesson focus |
| Eric: Well, we're going to be focusing on saying I have. |
| Virginie: And how to say ""do you have?"" |
| Eric: In our dialogue, Rob asked Giulia ""tu as un telephone portable?"" |
| Virginie: ""Do you have a cell phone?"" |
| Eric: So it's pretty easy. |
| Virginie: Yes, it's really easy. |
| Eric: First we have tu, which is you informal. |
| Virginie: Then you have the verb to have, avoir, conjugated with tu, obviously. |
| Eric: And that is ""as"" AS, as (spell). |
| Virginie: Tu as, you have. |
| Eric: Then all you need to do is add what you're inquiring about. |
| Virginie: Here, it's a cell phone, right, so un telephone portable? |
| Eric: And we have to remember the article which is un, un telephone portable. |
| Virginie: Exactly. Un is a and we saw that in a previous lesson. And portable is again a cell phone. |
| Eric: So what is the entire sentence? |
| Virginie: Tu as un telephone portable? Literally ""you have a cell phone?"" |
| Eric: So what if we want to ask about something else though? |
| Virginie: Okay what about un stylo? |
| Eric: A pen. |
| Virginie: Tu as un stylo? |
| Eric: Do you have a pen? |
| Virginie: C'est facile, it's easy. Non? What do you think, Eric. |
| Eric: Oui Virginie c'est facile. It's very easy. |
| Virginie: Now let's look at what Giulia answers. |
| Eric: Well, Giulia says ""J'ai...un portefeuille, un stylo, etc. |
| Virginie: Which is I have a wallet, a pen, etc. |
| Eric: To say I have is pretty simple. |
| Virginie: It is ""j'ai."" |
| Eric: Once more time? |
| Virginie: Bien sur, of course, ""j'ai"". |
| Eric: So that's j'ai. |
| Virginie: Do you remember what happens if the verb after je starts with a vowel? |
| Eric: Well, I think the ""e"" gets dropped, the vowel get dropped and we just replaced it with an apostrophe. |
| Virginie: Okay, and that's the case here. |
| Eric: A little recap it's j'ai, j'ai. |
| Virginie: And it's I have |
| Eric: And tu as. |
| Virginie: Is you have |
| Eric: One more thing, what if I want to ask ""do you have the pen?"" |
| Virginie: Oh, you mean the one pen I gave you earlier? Well it will be ""tu as le stylo?"" |
| Eric: Right. So that's a little more specific. We're using the definite article le. |
| Virginie: Yes, because we know which exact pen we're talking about, so definite article. |
| Eric: Le, great. |
Outro |
| Eric: I think that does it for today. |
| Virginie: Au revoir! |
| Eric: Bye. |
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