French Advanced Podcasts Series – Bonjour et bienvenue to FRENCH ETC.

France is calling Henri to invite him to make crêpes to celebrate la chandeleur, crêpe day. Find out how she –and you – can get rich by doing this on the worksheet. The culture capsule explains this fun French holiday celebrated on February 2^nd.  As well as using tons of common expressions, France’s conversation will help us today with the future perfect and that EN structure that can be so fussy.

• ‘I will have eaten all the crêpes by noon’ – ‘J’aurai mangé toutes les crêpes à midi’
• ‘I want two’ – ‘J’en veux deux’

You’ll also find Anne’s list of kitchen and cooking related words, and of course, the crêpe recipe. Really easy to make, and fun.

France and Henri use a lot of colloquial expressions. FRENCH  ETC. brings you up-to-date expressions, not the ones you may find in your textbook. The translation of the text and everything else is in the worksheet you can get on the Web site, as usual when you are a member.

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Bonne journée française !

Welcome to this FRENCH ETC. Advanced Podcast where you can learn every day French every day and brush up on vocabulary and grammar with the companion worksheets that you can get as a member on the Web site.

It’s almost springtime in France and it’s time to renew that membership at the fitness club. Today’s podcast is called ‘Au Club de gym – At the fitness club’. France is telling us about her new membership to the gym. In the worksheet, learn fitness vocabulary and get a review of an easy to grasp tense: the near future.

Anne is bringing you today’s French, with authentic and useful expressions. Merci et thank you for listening to FRENCH ETC. We hope you found this helpful, and if you want more, please visit www.frenchetc.org. We love questions, comments, and suggestions. Feel free to leave a reply in the post. Now, it’s time for you to make progress in French, become a member and get the worksheets with fun and targeted material.

France is overwhelmed with work this week. She’s telling us about her week at work and how happy she’s that it is finally Friday. She uses lots of idiomatic expressions that I hope you’ll find helpful in your journey with French.

There is a companion worksheet with this podcast. It has the transcript for France’s story and its translation. It also goes over business etiquette and protocol in France. The grammar section goes over negative command forms with the pronouns Y and EN.

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Welcome to this FRENCH ETC. Advanced Podcast where you can learn every day French every day and brush up on vocabulary and grammar with the companion worksheets that you can get as a member on the Web site.

France had a problem with her dog eating the King’s cake she’d made. Zut alors ! Get the whole story in the Premium worksheet, along with a review of the pluperfect, a practice on adverbs of time and a French dog talk list. Yes, dogs can speak French too, you know.

Anne is bringing you today’s French, with authentic and useful expressions. Merci et thank you for listening to FRENCH ETC. We hope you found this helpful, and if you want more, please visit www.frenchetc.org. We love questions, comments, and suggestions. Feel free to leave a reply in the post. Now, it’s time for you to make progress in French, become a member and get the worksheets with fun and targeted material.

Related: King’s cake tradition . The Pluperfect . Dogs speak French too . About bille .

Welcome to this FRENCH ETC. Advanced Podcast where you can learn every day French every day and brush up on vocabulary and grammar with the companion worksheets that you can get as a member on the Web site.

France is taking a high-speed train to go back home in the Lorraine region. She’s hoping to arrive on time to go to the Christmas market and buy a piece of jewelry tor her friend. The worksheet has the whole story in French and English, along with a list of jewelry and how to use EARLY and LATE.

Anne is bringing you today’s French, with authentic and useful expressions. Merci et thank you for listening to FRENCH ETC. We hope you found this helpful, and if you want more, please visit www.frenchetc.org. We love questions, comments, and suggestions. Feel free to leave a reply in the post. Now, it’s time for you to make progress in French, become a member and get the worksheets with fun and targeted material.

Welcome to this FRENCH ETC. Advanced Podcast where you can learn every day French every day and brush up on vocabulary and grammar with the companion worksheets that you can get as a member on the Web site.

Today’s text is called ‘Le cauchemar des cadeaux’. France is doing her shopping for the holidays in a smarter way than she did last year. She bought presents for everyone online so that she would have to spend hours in the crush downtown. The worksheet has it all – text and translation – and also goes over indefinites such as ‘chacun/e’ – each one, every one, ‘plusieurs’ – several and ‘n’importe quoi’ – whatever and ten irregular verbs in the subjunctive mode.

Anne is bringing you today’s French, with authentic and useful expressions. Merci et thank you for listening to FRENCH ETC. We hope you found this helpful, and if you want more, please visit www.frenchetc.org. We love questions, comments, and suggestions. Feel free to leave a reply in the post. Now, it’s time for you to make progress in French, become a member and get the worksheets with fun and targeted material.

Related: About ‘après-midi’. Downtown . Stores in the neighborhood . About ‘late’ and ‘early . Indefinites . Subjunctive mode .

Advanced Podcast Series

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Today, we’re touring a library, checking out books and standing in line the old-fashioned way. It’s all in the worksheet with a review and practice of the imparfait and library vocabulary.

Anne is bringing you today’s French, with authentic and useful expressions. Merci et thank you for listening to FRENCH ETC. We hope you found this helpful, and if you want more, please visit www.frenchetc.org. We love questions, comments, and suggestions. Feel free to leave a reply in the post. Now, it’s time for you to make progress in French, become a member and get the worksheets with fun and targeted material.

Related: Imparfait .

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Along with vocabulary about cooking a Holiday Meal in this unit called ‘Repas de fête’, find out about French table manners so that your French hosts don’t think you’re playing ‘footsies’ with them at the table. In the worksheet that you get as a member, see why some plural words don’t take an ‘S’ where they should. And brush up on the present tense of –IR verbs. There are actually 14 different patterns for conjugating –IR verbs in the present tense. Pick and choose the ones you need in the worksheet.

Fabienne and Henri use a lot of colloquial expressions. The translation and everything else is in the worksheet you can get on the Web site, as usual when you are a member.

FRENCH ETC. brings you up-to-date expressions, not the ones you may find in your textbook.

Related: Thanksgiving Vocabulary

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France is slightly impatient today, as she is waiting for her roommate to get ready so they can go to work on time. She uses tons of colloquial expressions and we’ll use her monolog to go over daily routine vocabulary, from morning to night, and we’ll review spatial prepositions such as among and underneath in the grammar worksheet that comes with this podcast. We’ll also clarify the agreement of passé composé. For instance, did you know that Elle s’est lavée requires an extra E at the end, but Elle s’est lavé les dents may not have an extra E at the end. The culture capsule explains the three uses of FAIRE, FICHER AND FOUTRE which range from proper French to pretty offensive.

FRENCH ETC.’s podcasts teach you today’s French, the way it’s spoken on the streets of Paris, with authentic useful expressions you can use right away so that you can understand French and be understood over there.

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Fabienne is going to La Cave - the wine boutique – today to pick a bottle of wine. She uses a lot of adjectives, which we’ll study in the worksheet. For instance, do you know that Il est gris doesn’t always mean : he is grey, but it can mean “He’s tipsy” and that isabelle is not only a girl’s name, but also a color? Also in the grammar points, is when to use apporter, emporter, amener and emmener.
The Culture capsule brings us to this famous Médoc Marathon, where I’ve seen a few participants having to quit from drinking too much red wine en route. Leave it to the French!
FRENCH ETC.’s podcasts teach you the latest contemporary French, the way it’s spoken on the streets of Paris and in the cafés in Nice, with authentic useful expressions you can use right away.
The worksheet is available to FRENCH ETC. members.

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une église en France

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A big part of France celebrates La Toussaint (All Saints’ Day) on November 1st. It’s also national holiday, and a lot of people get a week off from work. Come to church with Fabienne and Henri and find out about public holidays and paid vacations in France. If you get the worksheet, you’ll also brush up on three time expressions : since, it has been, depuis, il y a … que, and ça fait … que. Wrap up this unit with the puzzle.
Fabienne and Henri use a lot of colloquial expressions.
The translation and everything else is in the worksheet you can get on the Web site, as usual when you are a member.
FRENCH ETC.’s podcasts teach you today’s French, the way it’s spoken on the streets of Paris, with authentic useful expressions you can use right away so that you can understand the French and be understood over there.

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anne@frenchetc.org

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Les escaliers de Beaubourg - Centre George Pompidou

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Today, Fabienne is lost in Paris – complètement pommée à Paris. She’s trying to find the restaurant to meet with her ‘Walking Tour’ group, but she. She uses a lot of colloquial expressions. FRENCH  ETC. brings you up-to-date expressions – not the ones you may find in your textbook – with authentic useful expressions you can use right away so that you can understand the French and be understood by them.
The translation for this unit, and everything else is in the worksheet you can get on the Web site, as usual when you are a member. The worksheet features 10 Paris landmarks and when they were built. The grammar points go over directions words and ordinal numbers – how to say first, second, and so on, with links to make your own flashcards.

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Advanced Podcast Series

Welcome to this FRENCH ETC. Advanced Podcast where you can learn every day French every day and brush up on vocabulary and grammar with the companion worksheets that you can get as a member on the Web site.

It’s back to school at FRENCH ETC. France is in her Freshman year and she reminisces about the high school years. It gives us an opportunity to go over the French school system, the passive voice, and the words cours and courses. Génial, je kiffe l’école. So much fun. I dig school.

Anne at frenchetc.org is bringing you today’s French, with authentic and useful expressions.

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Fabienne just landed at the Charles de Gaulle’s airport. She’s trying to get downtown, but there is a strike. The best thing to do is probably to have a cup of coffee in the meantime.
She uses lots of colloquial expressions in French that you can use later.
The translation and everything else is in the worksheet you can get on the Web site, as usual when you are a member. It goes over French Unions and political parties and reviews the imparfait. There is  also an exercise to check your vocabulary on this topic.

FRENCH ETC.’s podcasts teach you the latest contemporary French, the way it’s spoken on the streets of Paris and in the cafés in Nice, with authentic useful expressions you can use right away.

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livres à la librairie

French Advanced Podcast

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Today’s dialog brings us to talking about books, novels, and 5 French authors. We also give you links to wander through Paris cafés and to see what Cecilia ex-first lady says about the French President in her banned book. Boy! She’s not gentle with him. The grammar lesson visits the conditional mode today. The culture capsules explain a bit about literary awards, cafés and where to find books in Paris.
The translation and everything else is in the worksheet you can get on the Web site, as usual.

FRENCH ETC.’s podcasts teach you the latest contemporary French, the way it’s spoken on the streets of Paris and in the cafés in Nice, with authentic useful expressions you can use right away.

The worksheet is available to FRENCH ETC. members.

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Welcome to this FRENCH ETC. Advanced Podcast where you can learn every day French every day and brush up on vocabulary and grammar with the companion worksheets that you can get as a member on the Web site.

Today, Henri wants to adopt a pet. He doesn’t want a NAC and he’s hesitating between a small and a big dog. He uses a lot of colloquial expressions in French that you too can use later. The translation and extra material are in the companion worksheet that you can get on the Web site as a member. The worksheet also features a review on irregular verbs in the future tense, different ways of expressing likes or dislikes and a game with flashcards to learn extra vocabulary on pets.

Anne at frenchetc.org is bringing you today’s French, with authentic and useful expressions.

Merci et thank you for listening to FRENCH ETC. We hope you found this helpful, and if you want more, please visit www.frenchetc.org. We love questions, comments, and suggestions. Feel free to leave a reply in the post. Now, it’s time for you to make progress in French, become a member and get the worksheets with fun and targeted material.

Related: Pets . Les NAC . Dogs speak French too . Likes and dislikes .

Welcome to this FRENCH ETC. Advanced Podcast where you can learn every day French every day and brush up on vocabulary and grammar with the companion worksheets that you can get on the Web site.

France is renting an apartment today. She found a classified advert. She’s telling us about what she was able to find, how much she’s paying and all. She mixes up rental jargon you can use if you need to rent in France and idiomatic expressions you can use in other contexts as well.

Get the worksheet with the text, translation, tips about renting an apartment in France and practice on this topic.

Merci et thank you for listening to FRENCH ETC. We hope you found this helpful, and if you want more, please visit www.frenchetc.org. We love questions, comments, and suggestions. Feel free to leave a reply in the post. Now, it’s time for you to make progress in French, become a member and get the worksheets.

Related: Online test on renting vocabulary .