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Do you want to improve your listening skills and comprehension of the French as it is spoken in France? With Cultivate Your French podcast, things go smoothly. This is slow French podcast, but Slow French doesn’t just mean speaking slowly and it’s not about quick progress. It’s a nice learning approach.
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Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
This is Laetitia and you are listening to Cultivate Your French podcast, the slow version of One Thing In A French Day. Cultivate Your French is an easy way to improve your comprehension of the French language as we speak it in France.
We really enjoyed each minute of our holidays. I remember the time during the confinement when we were not sure to be allowed to go on holidays.
Today, you are going to listen to little nice moments of our stay in Jura.
and then we’ll go back to Paris until the end of the summer.
All the information about the transcripts is available at www.cultivateyourfrench.com
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
During the second week of our holidays in Jura, we did something that I was eager to do : we spent the day with a baker at the Pont-des-vents mill. Bruno, the baker, mills his own flour, bakes bread in the old oven and sells it at the mill or on markets. Receiving people and making bread with them is part of the project he set with the village of Montfleur who owns the 18th century mill. And he loves receiving people! We really had a wonderful day. This is what you are going to listen in today’s episode.
All the information about the transcript is available at www.cultivateyourfrench.com
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
This is Laetitia and you are listening to Cultivate Your French podcast, the slow version of One Thing In A French Day. Cultivate Your French is an easy way to improve your comprehension of the French language as we speak it in France.
Last week and the week before, I told you about our first week of holidays in Cluny (Burgundy region). We left Cluny and drove to our next location : Jura.
Our three daughters took horse lessons and during that time Pietro and I started our day by a nice walk in the forest. Our favorite place was the « Belvedere de la Scia ». It took us forty-five minutes to go there and we had to climb more than 200 meters. But what a nice view we had over the Jura mountains!
This is where we met Mickaël who was hiking in the region and was taking a little pause. In today’s episode you are going to listen to a short conversation between Mickaël and I.
All the information about the transcript is available in English at www.cultivateyourfrenchday.com
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
This is Laetitia and you are listening to Cultivate Your French podcast, the slow version of One Thing In A French Day podcast.
I hope you are well and happy.
When we were in Cluny our friends Florence and Sébastien came from Lyon to stay with us for two days. Sébastien and my daughter Felicia were friends at school before his family moved to Lyon two years ago. In June, I told his mother Florence that we were coming to Cluny in July. Cluny is only an hour from Lyon by car.
We visited the abbaye de Cluny on wednesday, the day of their arrival. It was a very interesting visit. There isn’t much to see because the big abbey had been destroyed after the French Revolution. But we had a wonderful guide who explained everything so well that we could imagine it.
The following day, we rented bikes and part of us rode to Cormatin castle. I had a nice conversation with Emmanuel who owns the bike rental shop and he agreed to talk about his job for the podcast. This is what you are going to hear in today’s episode.
Thank you so much for your enthousiasm about the podcast!
All the information about the transcripts is available in English at cultivateyourfrench.com
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Today’s episode takes you to Burgundy where we stayed last week. We had rented a house near Cluny. On Sunday, Lisa was feeling unwell and stayed at home almost all day. At five o’clock, I suggested that the two of us could go for a walk in the countryside. Pietro, Micaela and Felicia were in Cluny where there was a horse competition.
We took the little road that was going from La Chaume to Lournand. On that road, a cyclist asked us for his way. He wanted to go to Lournand. We continued our balade. This episode tells you about the last part of our walk.
Thank you so much for your enthousiasm about the podcast!
All the information about the transcripts is available in English at cultivateyourfrench.com
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Today’s episode takes you to the Côte d’Azur! Yes, the south of France! This is where Murielle Iris lives and works. She has created her own company, Les Sauvages. She collects wild plants around the city of Nice : wild lavender, wild roses, thyme, cynorhodon, orange blossom, etc. Then, she transforms them into tinctures, infused oils, herbal teas, etc. She sells her product on local markets and on Internet.
She enjoys sharing her knowledge about plants with people who live in the city and can’t afford to go in the nature to collect plants.
I asked her how she knew when to pick up a plant and if this was a special moment. Now imagine the wonderful paysages of the Nice region, hear the wind and the bees and meet our guest!
Thank you so much for your enthousiasm about the podcast!
All the information about the transcripts is available in English at cultivateyourfrench.com
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
This is Laetitia and you are listening to Cultivate Your French podcast, the slow version of One Thing In A French Day podcast.
I hope you are well and happy.
Today’s episode takes us back in the kitchen. The girls and I cooked a clafoutis a typical summer fruits recipe. I dit it with apricots, but the classical version is with dark cherries. Clafoutis are also very good with peaches.
If you bake it without the fruits, it’s a « tôt fait », typical of the Burgundy region.
In Brittany, this kind of recipe is made with « pruneaux », dried prunes and it’s called « le far breton ».
Thank you so much for your enthousiasm about the podcast!
All the information about the transcripts is available in English at cultivateyourfrench.com
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
This is Laetitia and you are listening to Cultivate Your French podcast, the slow version of One Thing In A
French Day podcast.
I hope you are well and happy.
In today’s episode, I take you to Paris, at the Musée de Cluny, national museum of middle ages. This week’s episode is published in two parts. Yesterday, I gave you the information about a fabulous chef d’œuvre from the Middle Ages : the golden altar frontal of the Basel Cathedral. You learnt in which cirumstances the altar frontal left the cathedral to be sold at auction in 1835. In today’s episode Christine Descatoire, curator at the museum, tells you more about who bought it and how it became part of the Musée de Cluny’s collection.
Thank you so much for your enthousiasm about the podcast!
All the information about the transcripts is available in English at cultivateyourfrench.com
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée de Cluny - musée national du Moyen Âge) / Michel Urtado
This is Laetitia and you are listening to Cultivate Your French podcast, the slow version of One Thing In A French Day podcast.
I hope you are well and happy.
In today’s episode, I take you to Paris, at the Musée de Cluny, national museum of middle ages. Christine Descatoire, curator at the museum, tells you about one the chefs d’œuvre that belong to the museum. It’s the altar frontal of the Basel cathedral’s treasury. It has been made for the consecration of the cathedral that took place in October, 1019 as a special gift from the Emperor Heinrich II . Basel used to be part of Burgundy. The city is now in Switzerland. How that altar frontal made of gold became part of the Musée de Cluny’s collection? This is what you are going to learn today and tomorrow. Yes, this week I’m going to publish this story in two episodes, so you can really enjoy being at the museum!
Thank you so much for your enthousiasm about the podcast!
All the information about the transcripts is available in English at cultivateyourfrench.com
Thursday Jul 02, 2020
Thursday Jul 02, 2020
This is Laetitia and you are listening to Cultivate Your French podcast, the slow version of One Thing In A French Day podcast.
I hope you are well and happy.
Today’s episode is about my meeting with my friend Adeline who is a patissière and also a podcaster. She runs the podcast Girls in Food. We had a work session yesterday, then we had lunch in a very nice little restaurant in rue de Condorcet. It was my first meal at the restaurant since the end of lockdown. Life is almost back to normal.
Thank you so much for your enthousiasm about the podcast!
All the information about the transcripts is available in English at cultivateyourfrench.com