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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 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
Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Thursday Jun 25, 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 the last of the Journal de bord series that I started at the begining of lockdown in France. This morning, Lisa and I went to the market and we did a few recordings as we were walking in the streets. You may also hear a few swifts! The weather is nice and hot, the swifts are very happy, they can find a lot of food.
Thank you so much for your enthousiasm about the podcast!
All the information about the transcripts is available in English at cultivateyourfrench.com
Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
Wednesday Jun 17, 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.
This wee, I’ve published on the Cultivate Your French YouTube Channel 3 bonus episodes. They will take you with us for a walk in Paris from Notre-Dame to the Eiffel Tower.
Things are changing in France regarding school. The president told on Sunday that all the écoliers and collégiens have to go back to school on Monday the 22nd. How did my girls react to this big news? This is what is this episode about!
Thank you so much for your enthousiasm about the podcast!
All the informations about the transcripts are available in English at cultivateyourfrench.com
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
Wednesday Jun 10, 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.
This is our fifth week after the end of lockdown. Sport within some clubs is now possible again. Last sunday I was back into the forest for the Nordic Walk session. And last monday, it was the first kung-fu class I had since the end of lockdown. Well, the teacher did some class on the Internet, but last monday it was in person and in a particular place of the Courbevoie stadium. This is what is this episode about!
Thank you so much for your enthousiasm about the podcast!
All the informations about the transcripts are available in English at cultivateyourfrench.com