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Cultivate your French : Slow French, at the right pace.

Laetitia Perraut

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 42

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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248 — Une manière française dans le défi climatique : rencontre avec le journaliste du Monde Nabil Wakim

Episode 293

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 • Duration 06:46

Last week, I visited the offices of the newspaper Le Monde. I had an appointment with Nabil Wakim, the journalist who runs the podcast Chaleur humaine. It's a podcast that takes an expert but relaxed look at the various issues surrounding climate change, with expert guests. Each episode takes the form of a question. For example, the last episode was entitled ‘How can we save the Mediterranean Sea? I met Nabil Wakim at the Human Heat Ideas festival last December. I was there with my daughter Micaela, who is particularly interested in the subject of climate change. We had a chance to talk to him and he agreed to be interviewed. So we met last week. I chose a passage in which he talks about the French approach to climate change. In the notes that accompany the transcript, we'll look at the way Nabil Wakim constructs his answer to make it clear: he makes oppositions, he uses adjectives of different intensities, and so on. So, to cultivate your French, the Slow way, I invite you to subscribe.

www.cultivateyourfrench.com

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247 — Le Navigo, la liberté plus plus — mercredi 22 janvier 2025

Episode 292

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 • Duration 06:23

I hadn't really followed the story. Of course, I knew that transport fares were going to change in the Ile-de-France, that the price of a ticket outside Paris was going to be a single rate of 2.50 euros. I imagined some sort of magic ticket that would allow me to go further than Bécon if I suddenly changed my plans.

Then, one day when we were coming back from Nordic walking, Thierry mentioned the Navigo Liberté. The Navigo is a pass, with a photo, that allows you to travel throughout the Ile-de-France region for a single monthly or weekly rate. It's a season ticket. Until now, I didn't move around enough to take it. But we're going to talk about this in this episode. In the notes that accompany the transcript, we'll look together at three expressions or turns of phrase that are natural in French. We'll also notice which tense I use and how I compose my sentence when I give Pietro some advice in this episode.

So, to improve your French and learn how to give advice, I invite you (‘advice from a friend’) to subscribe to the transcript.

www.cultivateyourfrench.com

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238 — Virtual Pietro sur un bateau — mercredi 20 novembre 2024

Episode 283

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 • Duration 06:55

Are you familiar with the Vendée Globe race? It's a solo round-the-world yacht race on a small boat, a monohull. A race without assistance! It's what we call a ‘sick race’. Every four years, the participants set off from Les Sables d'Olonne, in Vendée, and arrive in Le Sable d'Olonne after sailing around the world from west to east. Pietro is very fond of this race, and has been taking part virtually for several years. What exactly do I mean by ‘virtually’, that's what you're going to find out in this episode, among other slightly wacky things.

In the notes accompanying the transcript, you'll find three useful and natural expressions in French, with examples. We'll also take a closer look at what the little word ‘bien’ can change in a sentence. Especially when you're investigating, my dear Watson.

So, if you want to cultivate your French, not virtually, but the Slow and at the right pace way, I invite you to subscribe to the transcript at www.cultivateyourfrench.com

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237 — Lire dans une tache de thé — mercredi 13 novembre 2024

Episode 282

Wednesday, November 13, 2024 • Duration 07:20

On Friday, I met up with my friend Anne-Laure for lunch at a cute little restaurant in La Garenne-Colombes. To warm us up, we ordered tea. ‘Let it steep for two minutes’, said the lady in the restaurant. Everything changed when I removed the tea bag. Fortunately, as they say in French, ‘le ridicule ne tue pas’.

In the notes accompanying the transcript, we're going to play around with switching certain sentences from indirect speech to direct speech, because it's very useful to know how to do that when you're telling someone something, a little adventure that's happened to you, for example. We're also going to identify some pronouns to see how they're used in the sentences in the episode. It's a good opportunity to pick up some automatic patterns, both when you're listening and when you need to express yourself.

So if you want to cultivate your French, the Slow Way, I invite you to subscribe.

www.cultivateyourfrench.com

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236 — Une histoire de loups dans le Jura — mercredi 6 novembre 2024

Episode 281

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 • Duration 07:01

As I prepare this episode, we still don't know the result of the US elections. I hope this episode will give you a break from the stress of the election campaign.

Last week, we were in the Jura mountains. We went for a walk with Eric Wolff, a naturalist guide, around the village of Etival. After climbing ‘Le Mont Paradis’, where we were able to observe a number of different plant species, we went back down a wooded path to look for animal tracks - there were traces of wild boar. In the notes that accompany the transcript, there will be photos of the walk, but we're also going to look at a word that occurs three times in the text, but in different contexts. If you have time, I'll suggest that you send me a mini-story about the wolf or a phrase to repeat on the podcast answering machine.

So, to cultivate your French, the slow way, I invite you to follow in the footsteps of the wolf, er, of the other subscribers.

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235 — Retirer de l’argent au distributeur — mercredi 30 octobre 2024

Episode 280

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 • Duration 07:49

After going to the bakery, in last week episode, two days later, I went back to Bécon, this time to withdraw money from the ATM. Lisa was with me. Perhaps she'll tell us about her cinnamon roll?

In the notes that accompany the transcript, you'll find an assortment of super-practical phrases about withdrawing money from an ATM. Yes, yes, you also need to know how to speak ATM French!

So if you want to cultivate your French and have a nice assortment of words about withdrawing money, I invite you to subscribe.

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234 —A la boulangerie — mercredi 23 octobre 2024

Episode 279

Wednesday, October 23, 2024 • Duration 05:59

Today's episode is a live recording. I recorded it on Monday morning on my way to do an errand. The recording starts outside my building. It's a chance for you to hear some totally natural French, as well as a real dialogue at the bakery. In the notes that accompany the transcript, we'll look at all the expressions that are typical in this dialogue and how you can use them. So, to cultivate and improve your French at the boulangerie, the slow way, I invite you to subscribe to the transcript.

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233 — Dimanche soir, un débat — mercredi 16 octobre 2024

Episode 278

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 • Duration 06:23

On Saturday nights, we eat a slice of homemade pizza in front of the TV. But not on Sunday evenings. this Sunday, Lisa suggested we watch something. By the time we'd agreed, Pietro's soup was ready. We watched a live political debate on France 5. The subject of the debate was the importance of ecology in the new government. There were a few sighs at the beginning of the programme, but by the end we were all hooked.

In the notes that accompany the transcript, we'll make a list of practical phrases for debating or expressing your opinion. It's always useful in a discussion.

So if you want to improve your French, the slow way, and debate in French, I invite you to subscribe.

www.cultivateyourfrench.com

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232 — Le jeu des péniches — mercredi 9 octobre 2024

Episode 277

Wednesday, October 9, 2024 • Duration 06:36

When Micaela was a baby, one of my favourite walks was to the Pont de Levallois. If I saw a barge, I thought I'd won the barge game. If I didn't see one, I'd lost. Sometimes I'd see two or even three barges. It was a real party. Since then, playing the game of barges has become a sort of reflex whenever a member of the family passes over the bridge or on a train over the Seine. In this episode, I tell you about a new version of the game that my father and I are developing.

In the notes that accompany the transcript, we'll look at three natural French expressions that come from the text and we'll focus on the phrase in the text that contains the locution ‘en train de’, which means « in the process of », and we'll see how it's very important when we're talking about something.

So, if you're ‘in the process of’ cultivating your French, the slow way, at the right pace, I invite you to subscribe to the transcript.

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231 — Différences de cultures financières, avec Pierre — mercredi 2 octobre 2024

Episode 276

Wednesday, October 2, 2024 • Duration 07:20

Today we're not going to talk about choux, but about sous (money). Cultural differences are sometimes also differences in financial culture, as my friend Pierre explained to me about mortgages. It's his job, and he knows the French banking industry very well. He's going to compare a few aspects of mortgages in France and the United States. The first difference is that there is no credit score in France. In this episode, Pierre will tell us about a second difference, and then a third.

In the notes that accompany the transcript, we'll look at three useful expressions and then you'll find a list of simple phrases for talking about rates that go up, down and up.

If you'd like to improve your French, the slow way, also about finance culture, I invite you to subscribe to the transcript at www.cultivateyourfrench.com

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