Podcast #37 How the French Celebrate Christmas
Listening Time: 35 minutes.
Here is the 37th session of Talk in French Podcast! You can download the podcast to your computer or listen to it here via iTunes. There is a button where you can download the Podcast.
In this episode:
– Some information about French Culture. How the French celebrate Christmas?
– Some French Words with an English Translation. Ideal when you cook, run, commute….
– Learn some French words with a double meaning: Avoid this common mistake made by some English Speakers in French?
– Some French Expressions and their translation
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Confusing French Words with a double meaning
- Un bureau: a desk or an office
- Voler: to fly or to steal
- temps – can refer to both “time” and “weather”
- Prier: to pray or to beg
- Une feuille: a leaf or a paper
- Chercher: to search or to look for
- Jouer: to act or to play
- Une langue: a tongue or a language
- Une pièce: a room or a coin or a piece or a part
- Un verre: a glass or a lens
- Bleu: blue or a bruise
French Words in the Podcast
- la souffrance – suffering
- la maladie – illness
- le traitement – treatment
- les urgences – A&E (UK), ER (US)
- les horaires de visite – visiting hours
- l’urgence – emergency
- le docteur – doctor
- le chirurgien – surgeon
- l’infirmier – nurse
French Expressions of the week
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- Etre comme l’âne de Buridan – to be unable to choose between alternatives
- Éclairer la lanterne – To enlighten somebody
- Attaquer bille en tête He didn’t beat about the bush
- Ca passe ou ça casse – sink or swim it
- Avoir un cheveu sur la langue – to have a lisp
- La gueule de bois – hangover [/list]
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