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INTRODUCTION
Sam: Today, I’m joined here by…
Celine: Céline.
Sam: bonjour ça va?
Celine: ça va et toi Sam?
Sam: I’m great, thank you. Don't Let Your Goose Get Cooked!!! In this lesson, you’ll learn how to refer to the furniture in the living room.
Celine: The conversation is between Alice, her youngest child, Rémi, and Aurélie in the kitchen. Rémi is looking after his friend’s pet.
Sam: The speakers are family. Therefore, the speakers will be speaking informally.
DIALOGUE
Wiz Alice: Okay les enfants, ça c’est la cuisine, ma cuisine.
Tiny Rémi: L’anguille de Daniel est dans l’évier.
Wiz Alice: Les jouets sont sous la table.
Sweety Aurélie: Les vêtements de Rémi sont sur le four.
Wiz Alice: Oui, les vêtements sales! Rémi! Où es-tu?
Sam: One more time, slowly.
Wiz Alice: Okay les enfants, ça c’est la cuisine, ma cuisine.
Tiny Rémi: L’anguille de Daniel est dans l’évier.
Wiz Alice: Les jouets sont sous la table.
Sweety Aurélie: Les vêtements de Rémi sont sur le four.
Wiz Alice: Oui, les vêtements sales! Rémi! Où es-tu?
Sam: One more time with the English.
Wiz Alice: Okay les enfants, ça c’est la cuisine, ma cuisine.
Sam: Okay kids this is the kitchen, my kitchen.
Tiny Rémi: L’anguille de Daniel est dans l’évier.
Sam: Daniel’s eel is in the sink.
Wiz Alice: Les jouets sont sous la table.
Sam: There are toys under the table.
Sweety Aurélie: Les vêtements de Rémi sont sur le four.
Sam: Rémi's clothes are on the oven.
Wiz Alice: Oui, les vêtements sales! Rémi! Où es-tu?
Sam: Yes, his filthy clothes! Rémi! Where are you?
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
Sam: So how about table manners? Do you have any special table manners back home?
Celine: We have a lot, actually.
Sam: For example?
Celine: So for example, you shouldn’t put your elbows on the table.
Sam: Yeah. Same thing for me back home. You should keep elbows off the table.
Celine: You shouldn’t cut the salad with a knife.
Sam: Oh, really?
Celine: Oh, yeah, yeah. No, you can’t. You can’t do that. Also, if you drink wine… because in France we drink different wines when we eat one meal.
Sam: Okay.
Celine: So you shouldn’t pour different wine in the same glass.
Sam: Oh, yeah.
Celine: Yeah.
Sam: Get a fresh glass, huh?
Celine: Yeah, fresh glass.
Sam: Yeah. Or cup!
Celine: No cup.
Sam: Okay.
VOCAB LIST
Sam: Okay. Now let’s look at the vocabulary and phrases from this lesson. The first item is…
Celine: Sales [natural native speed].
Sam: Dirty.
Celine: Sales [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Sales [natural native speed].
Sam: Next…
Celine: Vêtement [natural native speed].
Sam: Clothes or clothing.
Celine: Vêtement [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Vêtement [natural native speed].
Sam: Next…
Celine: Jouet [natural native speed].
Sam: Toy.
Celine: Jouet [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Jouet [natural native speed].
Sam: Next…
Celine: Evier [natural native speed].
Sam: Sink.
Sylvain: Evier [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Evier [natural native speed].
Sam: Next…
Celine: Cuisine [natural native speed].
Sam: Kitchen.
Celine: Cuisine [slowly - broken down by syllable]. Cuisine [natural native speed].
Sam: Okay. Now let’s take a look at the usage of some of these items from our lesson.
Celine: So the first word is “cuisine”. La cuisine is a feminine noun referring to the place kitchen as well as cooking in French.
Sam: Oh. Like cuisine chinoise or méditerranéenne?
Celine: cuisine chinoise ou cuisine méditerranéenne ou cuisine française.
Sam: Okay. So Chinese, Mediterranean or French cuisine, of course.
Celine: Eh oui. La cuisine française est la meilleure au monde. Tu n’es pas d’accord Sam?
Sam: French cuisine is best in the world?
Celine: Yeah.
Sam: Maybe behind American cuisine.
Celine: Oh mon Dieu, Okay. So next we have the word “évier.”
Sam: Sink.
Celine: Oui. It’s also a noun but this time it’s masculine.
Sam: Okay. Next is sale. Sink.
Celine: It’s also noun but this time it’s masculine.
Sam: So it’s un évier.
Celine: Un évier, oui tout à fait.
Celine: So the following word is “sale”.
Sam: This one means “dirty.”
Celine: Exactement.
Sam: Oh, wow. I’m good, huh?
Celine: You’re really good. It’s an adjective always agreeing with a noun. The opposite is propre meaning “clean.”
Sam: Ah. Okay.
Celine: So for example, l’évier est propre.
Sam: l’évier est sale.
Celine: Tout à fait. Mon évier est toujours propre.
Sam: Oh, your sink is always clean?
Celine: Always.
Sam: Okay.
Celine: So after, we have the word “vêtement.”
Sam: It refers to clothing.
Celine: Oui. Vêtement is masculine but it’s often used at the plural form in the conversation.
Sam: Like clothing, clothes?
Celine: Oui Des vêtements.
Sam: Some clothes.
Celine: Oui.
Sam: Okay.
Celine: Finally, we have the word “four”.
Sam: Sounds like jeopardy here. Something used for baking, the oven.
Celine: oh bravo!
Sam: What kind of things do you bake in France?
Celine: Les pâtisseries?
Sam: Like pastries? Like pies or bread?
Celine: Oui du pain, des quiches.
Sam: Okay. What are some famous Toulouse pâtisseries?
Celine: I don’t know.
Sam: You don’t know? Baked peanut butter and jelly? No?
Celine: Non. I don’t think so.
Sam: Okay.
Celine: I don’t think so.
Sam: Okay.
Celine: But it’s not something from Toulouse, it’s from France.
Sam: Okay. I understand.
Celine: Les tartes.
Sam: Like a tart.
Celine: Oui.
Sam: I thought that was American.
Celine: No, no it’s French. Tart is French word.
Sam: Really?
Celine: Yes.
Sam: Oh. Okay.
Celine: Okay. Shall we…
Sam: Look at some grammar?
Celine: Bravo.
Sam: Okay.
Celine: So Sam, we used a lot of very tiny words to tell where things are today.

Lesson focus

Sam: Ah, the grammar point. These words are called prepo…
Celine: …sitions.
Sam: Ah.
Celine: Yes. They are prepositions of location or in French, prépositions de lieu.
Sam: What is a preposition? I’m sure a dummy with grammar.
Celine: Yeah, I noticed that. A preposition is a word which link two words. It can be followed by a noun or pronoun.
Sam: What are they?
Celine: For example, in the conversation, we used sur meaning “on” and implying a contact between two objects.
Sam: For example?
Celine: Par exemple in the dialogue, les vêtements de Rémi sont sur le four.
Sam: So Remi’s clothes are between…
Celine: Non, between non, on.
Sam: “Remi’s clothes are on the table.”
Celine: Non, on the oven.
Sam: Oh no!
Celine: Yeah.
Sam: “Remi’s clothes on the oven!”
Celine: Yeah. It’s..
Sam: It’s a bit dangerous.
Celine: It’s really dangerous. Another example is la pomme est sur la table.
Sam: “The apple is on the table.”
Celine: Voilà.
Sam: What about if you want to say “the apple pie is on the table?”
Celine: La tarte aux pommes est sur la table.
Sam: That’s an apple tart, though. How about apple pie? Same thing?
Celine: I think so. The pie and the tourte. What is a pie?
Sam: What’s a pie? Oh mon Dieu. You’ve never had apple pie?
Celine: Yes, maybe. But for me, it’s a tarte.
Sam: n’importe quoi!
Celine: No. It’s an American word so I don’t understand.
Sam: Okay.
Celine: So the other one is “dans”.
Sam: “In.”
Celine: Oui. This clearly indicates a placement inside of something. Par exemple l’anguille de Daniel est dans l’évier.
Sam: “Daniel’s eel is in the sink.”
Celine: Oui. C’est dégoûtant!
Sam: Maybe their having eel for dinner, so…
Celine: Maybe. Okay. Ensuite there is devant. Devant is another preposition meaning “in front of.”
Sam: Okay. Have a joke.
Celine: What? Okay.
Sam: What is devant…never mind. What’s the opposite of devant?
Celine: derrière, behind. It’s also used to talk about someone’s bottom.
Sam: Okay. How would say between?
Celine: entre.
Sam: Oh. Are there other words to talk about location?
Celine: Actually, yes. There are adverbs. There are a few examples in the grammar bank.
Sam: So maybe our listeners should just check the grammar bank?
Celine: Tout à fait.
Sam: Okay.
Celine: Okay. Another example with dans, je suis dans la chambre.
Sam: “I’m in the room.”
Celine: In the bedroom, more exactly.
Sam: Oh, I’m in the bedroom.
Celine: Et Sam tu es où?
Sam: Je suis dans Paris?
Celine: Tu es dans Paris?
Sam: Peut-être.
Celine: Okay. So you’re in Paris.
Sam: In spirit.
Celine: Another example with devant, Sam regarde la fille devant toi.
Sam: “Sam, look at the girl in front of you.”
Celine: So in front of you. You can use also for people or places. Le cinéma est devant la pharmacie.
Sam: “The cinema is front of the pharmacy.”
Celine: Voilà.
Sam: Okay.
Celine: Okay. An example with entre, il y a une araignée derrière toi.
Sam: Encore une fois?
Celine: Il y a une araignée derrière toi.
Sam: qu’est-ce que c’est une araignée?
Celine: a spider. araignée.
Sam: Really? Oh, no! “There’s a spider behind me?”
Celine: Voilà. Derrière. Derrière, devant. It’s easy to use in French.
Sam: Yeah. I think so. Of course.
Celine: And we also have entre.
Sam: “Between.”
Celine: Between.
Sam: For example, le chat est entre les voitures.
Celine: Tout à fait. le chat est entre les voitures.
Sam: le chat est entre les voitures, “The cat between the cars.”
Celine: Exactement.
Sam: You can have an apple between the cars maybe.
Celine: N’importe quoi. No, this is a bad example. C’est n’importe quoi.

Outro

Sam: So that was quick and informative. Thank you, guys, for listening and thank you, Celine.
Celine: Merci beaucoup Sam.
Sam: And we’ll see you next time.
Celine: Merci beaucoup!
Sam: Au revoir!
Celine: Au revoir!

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