3 everyday dialogues in French (Volume 2)

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Hi! A few months ago, I offered you three spontaneous dialogues that my wife and I had imagined to teach you everyday vocabulary. Since many of you enjoyed this video, I am now offering you a volume 2. Listen to these conversations between two native speakers and tell me in the comments if you understood everything.

Hello and thank you for joining me for this new Authentic French video. And today, once again, we offer you three everyday dialogues between two native French speakers. So in today's three dialogues, we will talk to you about cooking, clothes and sports. And we will follow the same model as for the first video, which you can find in the "i" for info or in the description . What we are going to do is that we are going to offer you the dialogues, so you will have the dialogues between two native speakers, and right after, I will explain the slightly specific vocabulary that you may have encountered in these dialogues.

It's ideal for testing your understanding. You can read the subtitles or at least read the text of the dialogues while listening and you can really work on your understanding thanks to that. It will allow poland whatsapp number data you to discover new vocabulary thanks to the context. And of course, it's quite rare to have access to real conversations, dialogues, everyday discussions between several native speakers. So I hope you'll like it.

If you like these dialogues, you can be interested in the Authentic French Academy, since we are adding more and more dialogues, discussions, in our content. Registrations are currently closed, but they will open on October 1st. So what I invite you to do is follow the first link to discover all the contents of the academy (modules, Zoom meetings, etc.) and join the waiting list so as not to miss the registrations on October 1st.



Audrey: That's clever. How are we going to do it without cake?

Jean-Luc: Wait, don't worry. I'll quickly go to the local supermarket and buy a raspberry tart, Lily's favorite. That should do the trick.

Audrey: Good idea.

Quick question to see if you understood before explaining the vocabulary: What did Audrey prepare for this evening? What happened at the end of the discussion? Can you answer these two questions?

Now let's move on to vocabulary.

So you have a meal. Here we sometimes say a three-course meal, it's a starter, a main course, a dessert. Sometimes you even have an aperitif before, an apéritif. An apéritif, you're going to have a drink and eat two or three little things. The starter, the first little course; the main course, often meat or fish; and the dessert, which is the sweet touch.

We have seen the expression "avoir l'eau à la bouche". It means to be very very hungry. If I have water in my mouth, it means I smell a good smell of food and it makes me hungry. Here, the image that is taken is that when we are hungry, saliva often arrives in our mouth. So when we have water in our mouth, it is because saliva arrives in our mouth because we are hungry.

Lending a hand doesn't mean hitting. Lending a hand means helping, rendering a service. If you ask me: "Can I lend you a hand?" it doesn't mean: "Can I hit you?" it means: "Can I help you?" Lending a hand means helping.

Setting the table or setting the table means bringing everything you need. We will bring the plates, knives, forks, water, glasses etc. That is setting the table or setting the table.

Cutlery, precisely, is the utensils we use to eat: knives that we use to cut; forks that we use to prick food and put it in our mouths; and spoons that we use more for liquids.

To zap is a colloquial expression that means to forget. I zapped my mother's birthday, that means I forgot to wish my mother a happy birthday. That's zapping. It has nothing to do with changing channels with the remote control, that's also zapping, but in this case, zapping means to forget.

"It's smart", it's an ironic phrase, you have to be careful. When we say "it's smart", well we mean the opposite. It doesn't mean it's good, it's intelligent, it means it's stupid, it's silly. If I say "it's smart to have forgotten the cake", I don't mean that it was good and intelligent, I mean that it was a bad thing, it was stupid to have forgotten the cake.

The expression "faire l'affaire" means to suit, to satisfy the request. Here, Jean-Luc forgot the cake and, finally, he decides to buy a pie. We say that it fits the bill. It means that it suits.