This week Sophie joins us from Le Marais where she is talking about the French institution that is le goûter - the late afternoon snack. She discusses a number of items of vocabulary including être accro à quelque chose, meaning “to be addicted to something”, and she also talks about some French delicacies in the form of Millefeuille and Madeleines. Find out more about Le Marais on Wikipedia.
Sophie is back with this episode which she recorded a few weeks ago in Paris. This week she looks at the expression se méfier de quelque chose, meaning “to be wary about something” and also faire gaffe, meaning “to watch out”. For the cultural section she’s in the Jardin des Plantes, the main botanical garden in Paris. There’s more info on Wikipedia about Le Jardin des Plantes.
Today we’ve been working on the latest episode of On Location French and it’s currently in the final stages of rendering and upload. The episode will be published tomorrow and as soon as you see it you’ll realise that it was recorded in January. We’d like to apologise to fans of the show for the delay in getting this episode to you, and we’d also like to apologise to Sophie herself! She filmed the episode soon after returning to Paris after the Christmas holidays, but for various reasons we’ve not been able to get the episode published until now. Sophie has filmed a few more episodes including a special episode on Valentine’s Day in Paris, and one on the Mardi Gras celebrations and we look forward to bringing you these retrospectively over the next few weeks.
Once again, apologies to everyone for the delay with On Location French. The latest episode will be with you early tomorrow.
In this Christmas edition of On Location French, Sophie talks about some of the festive vocabulary she’s picked up while preparing for the holiday season.
In this week’s episode Sophie looks at “verlan”, a type of French slang which is very common in many parts of France. It involves reversing the order of syllables within words and can be confusing for learners. In the cultural section Sophie introduces us to the area around Rue Cler in Paris. For more information about Verlan, you can view an article in Wikipedia in English or French.
This week Sophie has been finding out about abbreviations used in French, including what MDR in a text message means. In the cultural spot for this week she has been visiting the Musée de l’Orangerie in the Jardin des Tuileries to view a very famous Monet painting.
In this latest episode of On Location French Sophie has had some interesting traffic-related experiences and she tells us about the language she’s picked up as a result. Expressions include en cours, les heures de pointe, and griller un feu rouge. She also talks about her recent walking tour around the 5ème arrondissement.
Sophie recorded this most recent episode at the weekend in the run-up to Hallowe’en. She introduces the phrase avoir la trouille, meaning “to be scared”, and also lets slip her love of all things Harry Potter – en français, bien sûr! In her cultural input she tells us about her recent trip on a bateau mouche along the Seine.
This week Sophie talks about the expression arriver à faire quelque chose, meaning “to succeed in doing something”. She provides examples in the positive and negative. She also talks about a recent visit to the Pompidou Centre.
In this week’s first episode, Sophie talks about the expression se débrouiller, meaning “to get by”, or in some contexts “to muddle through”. She also taks about a recent visit to l’Hôtel des Invalides.
Join Sophie in Paris as she explains our new video blog series On Location French.
Sophie is a Scottish student, currently studying in Paris, and she’s taking full advantage of the fact that she’s surrounded by native speakers of French. Each week she’ll be telling us about one expression or grammar point that she has learned in the course of the week. She’ll also take the opportunity to indulge in some “shameless tourism” and will be sharing her discoveries with us.
RT @wispywinds: @emmamwoolley I like the podcast coffee break french. You can listen to it over time and individual episodes aren't supe ... 2012/04/04
For Spanish learners there's a new Q&A Spanish out now. http://t.co/3VpOS6G4 Subjunctive and llevar + time phrases :) 2012/04/03
@harlemlibrarian Hadn't realised that this was a problem. The feeds are now on http://t.co/NKhTnGQB instead - use http://t.co/Z6XXIJhv 2012/04/03
