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INTRODUCTION
Virginie: Hi, this is Virginie! Bonjour!
Eric: Bonjour! Eric herex. How to Stay in Style While in France - Avoiding the Tourist Traps.
Virginie: How are you Eric today?
Eric: Doing well, how are you?
Virginie: I am good, thank you. Okay, so what are we going to see in this lesson?
Eric: Well, our conversation here is going to be taking place at the Hôtel du Louvre. where Joe is staying. It’s going to be at the front desk.
Virginie: In this lesson, you will learn how to locate things.
Eric: And how to talk about what’s inside and outside.
Virginie: Let’s listen to the conversation.

Lesson conversation

Réceptionniste : Bienvenue à l'Hôtel du Louvre.
Joe : Bonsoir. J'ai une réservation.
Réceptionniste : Votre nom, s'il vous plaît ?
Joe : Joe McFly.
Réceptionniste : Vous pouvez l'épeler, s'il vous plaît ?
Joe : J O E M C F L Y
Réceptionniste: Ah oui, Monsieur McFly, vous avez la chambre vingt-trois. Voici votre clef.
Joe : Est-ce qu'il y a internet dans la chambre ?
Réceptionniste : Oui Monsieur. Voici un câble.
Joe : Et est-ce qu'il y a des serviettes ?
Réceptionniste : Oui Monsieur.
Joe : Merci. Pouvez-vous me réveillez demain matin ?
Réceptionniste : Bien sûr. À quelle heure ?
Joe : À sept heures. À quelle heure est le petit-déjeuner ?
Réceptionniste : De six heures à sept heures trente, au premier étage, dans le restaurant.
Eric: One more time, a little more slowly.
Virginie: Encore une fois, plus lentement.
Réceptionniste : Bienvenue à l'Hôtel du Louvre.
Joe : Bonsoir. J'ai une réservation.
Réceptionniste : Votre nom, s'il vous plaît ?
Joe : Joe McFly.
Réceptionniste : Vous pouvez l'épeler, s'il vous plaît ?
Joe : J O E M C F L Y
Réceptionniste: Ah oui, Monsieur McFly, vous avez la chambre vingt-trois. Voici votre clef.
Joe : Est-ce qu'il y a internet dans la chambre ?
Réceptionniste : Oui Monsieur. Voici un câble.
Joe : Et est-ce qu'il y a des serviettes ?
Réceptionniste : Oui Monsieur.
Joe : Merci. Pouvez-vous me réveillez demain matin ?
Réceptionniste : Bien sûr. À quelle heure ?
Joe : À sept heures. À quelle heure est le petit-déjeuner ?
Réceptionniste : De six heures à sept heures trente, au premier étage, dans le restaurant.
Eric: One more time, with the translation.
Virginie: Encore une fois, avec la traduction.
Réceptionniste : Bienvenue à l'Hôtel du Louvre.
Eric: Welcome to the Hôtel du Louvres.
Joe : Bonsoir. J'ai une réservation.
Eric: Good evening. I have a reservation.
Réceptionniste : Votre nom, s'il vous plaît ?
Eric: Your name, please?
Joe : Joe McFly.
Eric: Joe McFly.
Réceptionniste : Vous pouvez l'épeler, s'il vous plaît ?
Eric: Can you spell it, please?
Joe : J O E M C F L Y
Eric: J O E M C F L Y
Réceptionniste: Ah oui, Monsieur McFly, vous avez la chambre vingt-trois. Voici votre clef.
Eric: Oh yes, Mr. McFly, you have room twenty-three. Here is your key.
Joe : Est-ce qu'il y a internet dans la chambre ?
Eric: Is there Internet in the room?
Réceptionniste : Oui Monsieur. Voici un câble.
Eric: Yes, sir. Here is a cable.
Joe : Et est-ce qu'il y a des serviettes ?
Eric: And are there towels?
Réceptionniste : Oui Monsieur.
Eric: Yes, sir.
Joe : Merci. Pouvez-vous me réveillez demain matin ?
Eric: Thank you. Can you wake me up tomorrow morning?
Réceptionniste : Bien sûr. À quelle heure ?
Eric: Of course. At what time?
Joe : À sept heures. À quelle heure est le petit-déjeuner ?
Eric: At seven o'clock. At what time is breakfast?
Réceptionniste : De six heures à sept heures trente, au premier étage, dans le restaurant.
Eric: From six o'clock to seven-thirty, on the second floor in the restaurant.
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
Virginie: So Eric, Joe is in Paris as we know, but there are a lot of other places in France that you can visit.
Eric: Indeed, like your own tours.
Virginie: Yes. For example, have you heard about the Gites de France, Eric, at all?
Eric: I had not, what is that?
Virginie: Gites de France is a bed and breakfast label. When you go to these bed and breakfast, you can get handmade meals for example.
Eric: Ah okay, so it’s sort of like you are staying with a family in their house and…
Virginie: Yes.
Eric: They are showing you around and taking care of you.
Virginie: Yes and it’s always very nice and quiet and the architecture is regional and it’s really comfortable and it’s affordable which is important.
Eric: Ah very nice. Have you stayed in any of these, Virginie?
Virginie: No, not really but I know some of these. In my region, there are a lot of those and there are also farms that can welcome you and it’s very nice. Usually, people are very happy with this sort of vacation.
Eric: So, is the goal to kind of get a feel for the country and kind of immerse yourself in you know a certain region of France.
Virginie: Yes, absolutely. That’s the goal for the visitor and the goal for the village and the region is to get some tourism.
Eric: Okay. So let’s have a look at some of the vocabulary.
VOCAB LIST
Virginie: avoir [natural native speed]
Eric: to have
Virginie: avoir [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: avoir [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: une réservation [natural native speed]
Eric: a reservation
Virginie: une réservation [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: une réservation [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: votre [natural native speed]
Eric: your (formal)
Virginie: votre [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: votre [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: un nom [natural native speed]
Eric: a name
Virginie: un nom [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: un nom [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: épeler [natural native speed]
Eric: to spell
Virginie: épeler [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: épeler [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: une chambre [natural native speed]
Eric: a bedroom, a hotel room
Virginie: une chambre [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: une chambre [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: internet [natural native speed]
Eric: the Internet
Virginie: internet [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: internet [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: dans [natural native speed]
Eric: in
Virginie: dans [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: dans [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: un câble [natural native speed]
Eric: a wire, a cable
Virginie: un câble [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: un câble [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: une serviette [natural native speed]
Eric: a napkin, towel
Virginie: une serviette [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: une serviette [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: me / m' [natural native speed]
Eric: me
Virginie: me / m' [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: me / m' [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: se réveiller [natural native speed]
Eric: to wake up
Virginie: se réveiller [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: se réveiller [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: un petit-déjeuner [natural native speed]
Eric: breakfast
Virginie: un petit-déjeuner [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: un petit-déjeuner [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: de... à... [natural native speed]
Eric: from... to...
Virginie: de... à... [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: de... à... [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: j'ai [natural native speed]
Eric: I have
Virginie: j'ai [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: j'ai [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: sept heures/ 7h [natural native speed]
Eric: seven o'clock
Virginie: sept heures/ 7h [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: sept heures/ 7h [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: bien sûr [natural native speed]
Eric: of course
Virginie: bien sûr [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: bien sûr [natural native speed]
KEY VOCABULARY AND PHRASES
Eric: Let's have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases from this lesson.
Virginie: The first word/phrase we’ll look at is....
Virginie: Une serviette.
Eric: Une serviette. And this has two meanings.
virginie: Oui, the first meaning is "a towel"
Eric: And that' s what Joe is asking for at the front desk.
Virginie: And he's using the plural for serviette
Eric: Yes, des serviettes.
Virginie: Now again, une serviette is singular, and des serviettes is plural.
Eric: OK. But serviette can also mean "napkin", right?
Virginie: Yes.
Eric: So how does the front desk person know that he's asking for a towel and not a napkin?
Virginie: Ahaha because it's a hotel, the context is pretty clear.
Eric: Yes. If he were at a restaurant, the staff would bring him a napkin.
Virginie: Oui, c'est sur. Yes for sure. Unless they want to play a joke on him.
Eric: OK so what else do we have here? How about bien sur?
Virginie: Bien sur means "of course"
Eric: The front desk person answers "bien sur" to one of Joe's questions.
Virginie: Yes, when he asks about a wake up call.
Eric: Again, that's bien sur.
Virginie: Now there is another way to say of course in French. It's bien entendu.
Eric: So if you come across the expression "bien entendu", remember it means of course.
Virginie: Should we look at another word Eric?
Eric: Bien sur.
Virginie: OK let's look at petit déjeuner.
Eric: Breakfast.
Virginie: Yes un petit déjeuner is a very important meal.
Eric: So, it's two words. Petit and déjeuner.
Virginie: It's funny because literally, it is "little lunch"
Eric: Yes petit in French is little and déjeuner is lunch.
Virginie: Isn't that cute?
Eric: It si Virginie, it is.
Virginie: so if you want to use it in a sentence
Eric: If you want to say, for example, "I am having breakfast"
Virginie: You will say, "je prends mon petit dejeuner"
Eric: Literally that is "I am taking my breakfast.
Virginie: Je is I, prends is am taking, mon (spell) is my and petit déjeuner is "breakfast
Eric: Once again je prends mon petit dejeuner.
Virginie: It's funny how we say mon petit déjeuner, my breakfast
Eric: French people are very possessive when it comes to food.
Virginie: Ahah. Ok grammar now.

Lesson focus

Eric: What are our two focuses today?
Virginie: First we'll see a couple of expressions that enable you to locate things in space.
Eric: And in a second part we'll see how to say at what time this or that happens.
Virginie: OK let's start with our space expression.
Eric: In our dialogue, Joe asks "is there the internet in the room?
Virginie: Est-ce qu'il ya internet dans la chambre?
Eric: the first part of the question is Est-ce que, and that always indicates that this is a closed question
Virginie: Yes, a question to which you will answer by either yes or no.
Eric: Est-ce que is literally "is it that". so joe's question is "is it that there is the internet in the room?
Virginie: And our first way of locating things is the expression "il y a "
Eric: And that's there is.
Virginie: then we have internet.
Eric: That's the internet.
Virginie: Yes French does usually not use an article before the word internet.
Eric: So we have est-ce qu'il y a internet, is there the internet
Virginie: And then dans la chambre,
Eric: And that's in the room.
Virginie: OUi. And there comes our location preposition "dans"
Eric: Dans (spell) is in, or inside.
Virginie: OUi. and dans is followed by the noun "la chambre"
Eric: Now let's locate something with another example.
Virginie: Oui. We'll use the word un sandwich, a sandwich
Eric: and the word " la cuisine" the kitchen. And our sentence is" there is a sandwich in the kitchen
Virginie: Il y a un sandwich dans la cuisine.
Eric: And that's the exact same structure as previously.
Virginie: Il y a
Eric: There is
Virginie: Un sandwich
Eric: A sandwich
Virginie: Dans la cuisine
Eric: In the kitchen.
Virginie: Now you can also use the preposition "dans" to locate things that are inside a piece of furniture, for example.
Eric: There is a sandwich in the fridge
Virginie: Il y a un sandwich dans le frigo.
Eric: Frigo is the casual word for "fridge"
Virginie: To recap, our structure is "il y a then noun then dans then noun.
Eric: Il y a un chat dans le studio.
Virginie: There is a cat in the studio?
Eric: Yes. No, I just wanted to make sure it worked.
Virginie: OK. Now let's see how to say the time.
Eric: We'll just go over a few examples.
Virginie: First in order to tell what time it is you will need to know how to say numbers
Eric: And we have a special counting lesson in French in our Basic Bootcamp series.
Virginie: Check it out!
Eric: Now what's the basic structure to say at what time something happens in French?
Virginie: C'est facile, it's easy. For example, you want to say "breakfast is at 6am.
Eric: Ok we know that breakfast in French is "le petit déjeuner"
Virginie: Yes. So our sentence will be "le petit dejeuner est a 6 heures
Eric: One more time, slowly
Virginie: Le petit déjeuner est a 6 heures
Eric: Ok let's look a little closer to see how easy it is
Virginie: We have le petit dejeuner,
Eric: Le petit déjeuner
Virginie: est
Eric: Is
Virginie: a
Eric: At
Virginie: 6 heures
Eric: Six o’clock
Virginie: Heures
Eric: O'clock, literally hours.
Virginie: Yes today we'll stick to sharp hours.
Eric: What is breakfast was at 10 o'clock
Virginie: This would be - le petit déjeuner est a 10 heures
Eric: So the way to say at what time things happen is to use the verb etre to be
Virginie: Yes, followed by the preposition a, and then followed by the time, 6 heures, 10 heures, 8 heures if it's 8 o'clock.
Eric: Ok. If you want more details, please refer to our lesson notes.

Outro

Eric: Thank you very much for listening.
Virginie: Thank you! Merci !
Eric: Au revoir !
Virginie: Au revoir !

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