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Do you want to improve your French listening skills and understand French as it's really spoken in France? Cultivate Your French is more than a Slow French podcast. Thanks to the double listen method — once slowly, once at natural speed — your ears get to experience the magic of real French. A unique approach for lasting progress.
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Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
Wednesday Dec 13, 2023
As you may have noticed, the December calendar is about Montparnasse, the famous neighbourhood of Montparnasse where so many artists gathered at the beginning of the 20th century : Apollinaire, Modigliani, Soutine, Picasso, Brancusi, Blaise Cendrars, so many famous names.
Do you remember, two weeks ago when Anne-Laure and I recorded ourselves under the rain, again? And that we thought that Rachilde or André Breton could have been responsible for this? Well today, you are going to hear this specific recording.
We were at the Villa Vassilief, a nice passage near Montparnasse station. This lovely Parisian passage used to have many artists’studio that are now used differently. This is where Marie Vassilief, a painter who came from Russia in 1910 had her studio and her famous cantine for artists during World War One. She made a small painting about a specific meal to celabrate George Braque’s return from war. The painting can be seen in Paris until April 14th, at the very nice exhibition at Le Petit Palais, Le Paris de la modernité.
In the notes that come with the transcript, I will highlight for you some tipical French expressions that are present in the text. There will be also a little devinette !
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I mentioned the December Calendar about Montparnasse. To receive it, please enter your email address on the home page of my website www.onethinginafrenchday.com
. It’s free and it’s in French !
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Wednesday Dec 06, 2023
Last week, when Anne-Laure and I were recording ourselves under the rain, we were in Montparnasse. Do you know this famous Parisian neighbourghood were lived Picasso, Modigliani, Soutine, Brancuse, Hemingway, Marie Vassilief, Man Ray and many others?
I’m sure you have already heard about La Coupole, the famous café that opened in the 1920ies ? Well, the place Anne-Laure and I are going to tell you about opened in 1912, rue Campagne Première. It’s less known than La Coupole and it a smaller place, but Modigliani enjoyed to go there.
I found a picture showing Rosalie in her restaurant. In the notes that come with the transcript, I will give you short and easy sentences that describe this picture. Describing the picture in French is an interesting exercice, but it also has the magic effect of almost transporting you into the picture.
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I mentioned the December Calendar last week, it’s about Montparnasse. To receive it, please enter your email address on the home page of my website onethinginafrenchday.com . It’s free and it’s in French !
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Last week, Anne-Laure and I had spent our day out in the rain. We also met this week to record some episodes in the same neighbourhood, the weather forecast were clear : no rain !
Well, it was only a forecast, unfortunately. But we may have found the reason why we kept on being under the rain. Maybe someone was unhappy about what we had said about her or him?
In the notes that come with the transcript, I will highlight for you some expressions that express the fact that you are unhappy with a situation.
And I’m afraid, you will also learn your first « gros mot », your first swear word if you had not learnt any before this episode.
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Oh, before I forget, on Friday starts the new December Calendar : a short email is sent everyday. This new calendar will be about a Parisian Quartier and its artistic life. To receive it, please enter your email address on the home page of my website onethinginafrenchday.com . It’s free and it’s in French !
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Wednesday Nov 22, 2023
Last Thursday was a very rainy day in Paris. My friend Anne-Laure and I spent the day under the rain to record some episodes to come on the podcast. Our feet were wet, we were tired and cold when we started the queue at the museum. I won’t tell you which one not to reveal the subject of the coming episodes. The exhibit that we had planned to visit was supposed to be the best moment of our day, but an incident happened in the queue. This is what this episode is about.
In the notes that come with the transcript, I will highlight for you some little expressions that come naturally in French, we will also stop on a specific sentence to repeat aloud, I will tell you why this one, and you will have to guess the infinitive of a verb.
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Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
We were in the Jura during the Toussaint holidays, during one week. We love that region that is on the road to the Alps. Its foothills and woods are very nice when you like walking. And there are also lakes and waterfalls.
There is a crêperie in Pont-de-Poitte where we love to have an early dinner or lunch : it’s a warm place and the owner Laurence has a wonderful voice. There is something special about that place. We were having lunch there when we met another family : the grands-parents, their daughter, her husband and their little boy. They were from the region and suggested that we go to La Frasnée where there is a wonderful waterfall.
This episode is about us going there.
Do you know that the transcript is a very powerful tool to improve your comprehension? And also to see things that are not obvious when you only listen to the text. Things like :
— how the verbs are conjugated : it’s easier then to identify a tense, notice an agreement, etc,
— you can see how the words are written and get used to the French spelling,
— you can take the time to understand how the sentences are built,
— you can take notes,
— you can make the link between the text of the episode and a grammar lesson from your textbook.
In the notes that come with the transcript, we will focus on how we talk about the rain in French, also I will highlight for you a specific sentence to repeat aloud and tell you why I have chosen this one in particular.
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Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Wednesday Nov 08, 2023
Since September, Micaela, my eldest daughter, takes the train every day to go to Paris. She has classes either near Cité Universitaire or near Luxembourg. Both stations are on the line of the RER B.
One morning, I took the train with her and ask her about her journey and what was going to be her day.
In the notes that come with the transcript, you will find some info about the text, but also 2 very natural French expressions that are very interesting to focus on. I will also give you a list of useful sentences to use when you take the train.
So, to cultivate your French, you could subscribe to the transcript. The transcript is a very useful tool to enjoy many ways of working with the text and this way improve your listening skills.
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Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
Wednesday Oct 25, 2023
This episode comes from the past : it was written and recorded in April 2012 for One Thing In A French Day poscast, Cultivate Your French’s big brother.
My grils were little girls at that time. That day, we had invited a friend of ours to have lunch with us at a crêperie. She was a nice woman, always keen on joking with the grils as you will see.
In the notes that come with the transcript of this episode, I will give you the crêpes recipe and also show you a very commun word that we don’t write the same way nowadays than when I was a teenager.
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Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
Wednesday Oct 18, 2023
After spending the afternoon at the hammam, my friend Geraldine and I did not feel like taking the metro back to Saint-Lazare. The weather was nice so we decided to walk instead. It was a nice walk because Paris is a city that changes a lot, and as you walk, you can really feel the change from one neighborhood to another.
We stopped to eat a little something in a boulangerie.
In the notes that come with the transcript, we will study how to talk about a place, un endroit in French.
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Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
Wednesday Oct 11, 2023
On Friday evenings, after the kung fu class, we often stay longer together just talking, the kung fu team. Of course, we talk about kung fu, but not always. There are different ages in our group, sometimes it leads to funny conversations. For example, we had a talk about famous movie soundtracks.
In the notes that come with the transcript, we will take a close look at specific verbs, how they are used and conjugated, though they are very frequently used verbs.
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Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Wednesday Oct 04, 2023
Every week-end, on Sunday morning, I join a group of nordic walkers.
The walk takes place in Rueil Malmaison’s wood : le bois de Saint-Cucufa, supervised by our coach Philippe.
Last Sunday, at the end of our walk, Philippe decided to challenge us a little bit. He wanted us to climb a slope in different stages. It means going down each time you reach a stage. After this intense effort, we stayed a moment down the slope. And we met someone. You are going to discover who in this episode.
In the notes that come with the transcript, this week I will highlight for you 3 sentences that you could add to your collection of fRench sentences. I will aslo give you some examples of how you can play with them.
So, to cultivate your French, you could subscribe to the transcript. The subscription is available at cultivateyourfrench.com, it costs 4 euros a moth. The transcript is sent by email each time an episode is released. Last but not least, each new subscriber receives the transcript of the 10 latest episodes.