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INTRODUCTION
Virginie: Bonjour à tous, this is Virginie and welcome to frenchpod101.com. I’m here with JP.
JP: Hi everyone, bonjour. This is JP. If you don’t leave France, is it still a vacation?
Virginie: And this is our first lesson of our intermediate series and the first lesson of this series.
JP: And the theme of this mini-series is traveling, so we’ll be talking about travel topics.
Virginie: And this is gonna run for five lessons.
JP: Okay.
Virginie: Welcome, again, to FrenchPod101.com, this a very fun way to learn French, because we are funny people. So what's going on today? What are we gonna talk about?
JP: So it looks like in this lesson about travel, we’re gonna learn about how to make hypothetical statements. That’s my hypothesis anyway.
Virginie: So this is gonna be a lesson full of doubt, everyone, so be prepared. And in our lesson, dans notre leçon, un couple se dispute.
JP: So a couple is fighting.
Virginie: Because... Ils ne sont pas d'accord sur leur projet de voyage.
JP: They’re fighting about the travel plans, they’re not agreeing about it.
Virginie: Let’s listen to the conversation now.
DIALOGUE
Elle : Alors, mon amour, on fait quoi pendant les vacances ?
Lui : Écoute, tu sais bien qu’on n’a pas un radis.
Elle (N'écoute pas) : Voyons … moi j’irais bien à Tahiti.
Lui: Hein ?! Tahiti ! Tu rêves!
Elle : Ah… si on avait de l’argent, je voyagerais un peu …
Lui : Oui, mais on n’a pas d’argent.
Elle : Si tu travaillais, on aurait de l’argent. On n’irait pas encore à la campagne.
Lui : Allez… c’est parti… jamais contente. Et puis tu aimes bien la campagne, non ?
Elle (sarcastique) : Oui, c’est vrai, ce serait dommage de rater Trifouillis-Les-Oies !
Lui : Voilà, tout de suite, les sarcasmes. À chaque fois c’est la même chose. Si ça continue, je te paie un aller simple pour Papeete.
*Papeete est la capitale de Tahiti.
English Host: Let’s hear the conversation one time slowly.
Elle : Alors, mon amour, on fait quoi pendant les vacances ?
Lui : Écoute, tu sais bien qu’on n’a pas un radis.
Elle (N'écoute pas) : Voyons … moi j’irais bien à Tahiti.
Lui : Hein ?! Tahiti ! Tu rêves !
Elle : Ah… si on avait de l’argent, je voyagerais un peu …
Lui : Oui, mais on n’a pas d’argent.
Elle : Si tu travaillais, on aurait de l’argent. On n’irait pas encore à la campagne.
Lui : Allez… c’est parti… jamais contente. Et puis tu aimes bien la campagne, non ?
Elle (sarcastique) : Oui, c’est vrai, ce serait dommage de rater Trifouillis-Les-Oies !
Lui : Voilà, tout de suite, les sarcasmes. À chaque fois c’est la même chose. Si ça continue, je te paie un aller simple pour Papeete.
*Papeete est la capitale de Tahiti.
English Host: Now let’s hear it with the English translation.
Elle : Alors, mon amour, on fait quoi pendant les vacances ?
JP: So, my love, what are we doing for our vacation?
Lui : Écoute, tu sais bien qu’on n’a pas un radis.
JP: Look, you know well that we are broke.
Elle (N'écoute pas) : Voyons … moi j’irais bien à Tahiti.
JP: Let's see…I'd love to go to Tahiti.
Lui : Hein ?! Tahiti ! Tu rêves !
JP: What? Tahiti! You're dreaming!
Elle : Ah… si on avait de l’argent, je voyagerais un peu …
JP: Ah…if we had money, we could travel a little…
Lui : Oui, mais on n’a pas d’argent.
JP: Yes, but we don't have money.
Elle : Si tu travaillais, on aurait de l’argent. On n’irait pas encore à la campagne.
JP: If you worked, we would have money. We would not go to the country again.
Lui : Allez… c’est parti… jamais contente. Et puis tu aimes bien la campagne, non ?
JP: There we go again…never happy. Besides, you like the country, don't you?
Elle (sarcastique) : Oui, c’est vrai, ce serait dommage de rater Trifouillis-Les-Oies !
JP: (sarcastic) Yes, that's true, it would be a shame to miss Trifouillis-Les-Oies!
Lui : Voilà, tout de suite, les sarcasmes. À chaque fois c’est la même chose. Si ça continue, je te paie un aller simple pour Papeete.
JP: There we go, sarcasm right away. Every time it's the same. If it goes on like this, I'll buy you a one-way ticket to Papeete*.
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
JP: All right, this conversation was about the choice between an exotic fun vacation and a vacation in the countryside, right?
Virginie: Oui, elle veut aller a Tahiti et il veut aller a la campagne.
JP: She wants to go to Tahiti and he wants out in the countryside...so what is this "Trifouillis-les-Oies",
Virginie: Trifouillis-les-Oies
JP: Is it a real place?
Virginie: Non. En fait, in fact, Trifoullis-les-Oies is a fictional place that French people use to talk about places in the middle of nowhere, where nothing exciting happens, ever.
JP: So, like, out in the goonies?
Virginie: Right.
JP: So it’s a place where you DON'T want to spend your vacation.
Virginie: And literally it means something like "Rummage on the Geese"
JP: "Rummage on the Geese"!! Trifouillis-les-Oies, rummage on the geese! I always wonder how you guys come up with things.
Virginie: Well I guess the word “geese”
JP: les oies
Virginie: les oies, it actually refers to the country or something like that.
JP: Ok, this is etymology by Virginie.
Virginie: Exactly, I was raised on etymology. It’s my drug.
JP: And wine
Virginie: And wine. Donc vous prenez Virginie, vous prenez du vin, vous prenez d’etymology, et vous avez FrenchPod101.com.
JP: That's a great equation, wine, etymology, and Virginie, at Frenchpod101.com
Virginie: Exactly.
JP: Ok, let's stop with the sarcasm and let’s take a look at the vocab.
VOCAB LIST
Virginie: voyons [natural native speed]
JP: let's see
Virginie: voyons [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: voyons [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: les sarcasmes [natural native speed]
JP: sarcasm
Virginie: les sarcasmes [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: les sarcasmes [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: c'est dommage [natural native speed]
JP: it's a shame
Virginie: c'est dommage [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: c'est dommage [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: rater [natural native speed]
JP: to miss, to mess up
Virginie: rater [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: rater [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: un aller simple [natural native speed]
JP: a one-way ticket
Virginie: un aller simple [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: un aller simple [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: allez [natural native speed]
JP: come on
Virginie: allez [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: allez [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: tout de suite [natural native speed]
JP: right away, right now
Virginie: tout de suite [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: tout de suite [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: ne pas avoir un radis [natural native speed]
JP: to be broke, to not have a penny
Virginie: ne pas avoir un radis [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: ne pas avoir un radis [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: prendre du bon temps [natural native speed]
JP: to have a good time
Virginie: prendre du bon temps [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: prendre du bon temps [natural native speed]
: Next:
Virginie: c'est parti [natural native speed]
JP: here we go again, let's go
Virginie: c'est parti [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Virginie: c'est parti [natural native speed]
VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE
JP: Let's take a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases from this lesson. What’s first?
Virginie: The first one is "on n'a pas un radis"
JP: To not have a radish.
Virginie: Exactly, that's literal, and that's casual, actually, and that means...
JP: To be broke, to not have a penny, not even a radish.
Virginie: Yes, exactly, not not even a radish.
JP: Wow, that’s not having much.
Virginie: If you have a potato, you’d be alright. But if you don’t have a radish...
JP: Then you got nothing!
Virginie: Yeah, I’m not making any sense right now… But, anyway. You need to know that this expression is casual.
JP: On, here, means “we,” so we don’t have money.
Virginie: "On n'a pas un radis"
JP: Now later he said the standard expression ...
Virginie: "On n'a pas d'argent"
JP: We don't have any money. So, in France, if you have a radish, you can pay for things
Virginie: Oui parfois on paye avec des pommes de terre aussi.
JP: Ahah sometimes you pay with potatoes.
Virginie: Les francais sont rustiques. French are rustic.
JP: I love vegetable idioms.
Virginie: I will give you un aller simple to vegetable land.
JP: Is that a transition to the word "un aller simple?"
Virginie: Oui, c'etaitt nul, je sais. It was lame, I know
JP: Mais non! By the way that's the word for a one-way ticket
Virginie: Oui. Il veut envoyer sa copine a Papeete
JP: He wants rto send his girlfriend to Papeete
Virginie: Pour toujours
JP: Forever. How tragic. So un aller simple is composed of two words
Virginie: First aller, in the infinitive form, and simple, which is simple.
JP: So a one way ticket in French is literally "a simple to go"
Virginie: Hehe and vous pouvez demander un aller simple dans le bus
JP: You can ask for un aller simple in the bus
Virginie: Pour le train, etc
JP: For a train ride etc...what about a round trip ticket?
Virginie: C'est un aller retour
JP: So literally a to go - return
Virginie: Oui. bon. un peu de grammaire maintenant
JP: Oui, grammar time.

Lesson focus

Virginie: Aujourd'hui, nous allons faire des hypothèse
JP: We're going to make hypothetical statements.
Virginie: si, si, si
JP: Why are you saying yes in Spanish Virginie?
Virginie: Mais non, si, en francais, ca veut dire "if"
JP: Oh it means "if"...I guess I thought I was on Spanishpod101
Virginie: ok si on regarde le dialogue
JP: If we look at the dialogue...
Virginie: There are a few examples. We'll take just one
Jp: Lequel? Which one?
Virginie: I kind of like the line "si tu travaillais on aurait de l'argent"
JP: Aha "if you worked we would have money", that's what I call resent
Virginie: He's probably very lazy, il est feignant!!
JP: Feignant is lazy in French.
Virginie: Oui. Donc, elle dit si tu travaillais...elle utilise l'imparfait
JP: She uses the imperfect tense. In English it would be if you worked...
Virginie: OUi, et apres elle fait une hypothèse avec le conditionnel!
JP: She's amazing, that lady. OK she makes a hypothetical statement using the conditionnel, can we hear it, Virginie?
Virginie: "on aurait de l'argent"
JP: We would have money. So here the conditional, which the tense of hypothetical actions, is "aurait"
Virginie: C'est le verbe avoir.
JP: To have. So here "on aurait" is "we would have".
Virginie: Absolument.
JP: The conditional tense is very easy as it's the equivalent as the "would" form in English..I would go, I would find etc.
Virginie: Before we get to the conjugation rule, we'd like to recap the whole structure of our sentence
JP: OK. The First part of the sentence is starting with "si", if and is in the imperfect tense
Virginie: si tu travaillais
JP: If you worked. And the second part of the sentence uses the conditional tense
Virginie: On aurait de l'argent
JP: We would have money
Virginie: OK, if you look closely to the dialogue, or listen to it again, you will find this structure several times.
JP: Now how do we conjugate our hypothesis, Virginie?
Virginie: C'est tres facile. Take the infinitive of your verb
JP: OK for example in the dialogue "voyager" in the sentence"on voyagerait un peu"
Virginie: Oui, "voyagerait" c'est l'infinitif de "voyager" plus the ending corresponding to the pronoun "je"
JP: " and that's AIS
Virginie: (in French) A-I-S
Jp: So that's easy, keep your infinitive form and add the right ending.
Virginie: Oui la bonne terminaison, the right ending. You'll find those in the PDF of this lesson
JP: Or in the conjugation chart at Frenchpod101.com
Virginie: Donc je voyagerais is of course
JP: I would travel.Now some verbs are irregular in French as you know
Virginie: Yes some of the main ones are in the dialogue as well. Il y a "avoir"
JP: We just it, "to have".
Virginie: Ensuite, il y a "etre", to be
JP: Then you'll find "pouvoir", to be able. All in the conditional tense.
Virginie: Isn’t that exciting.
JP: That’s exciting.

Outro

Virginie: Alright, thank you for listening.[*]
JP: [*]

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