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]

Articles and vocabulary Mentioned in This Session:

• • Ebooks
  • Tutoring services

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