2. D’où viens tu?

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Topic:

Topic: Telling someone where you are from

A : D’où viens-tu ?
B : Je viens du Canada.
A : Vraiment ? J’y suis allée l’année dernière.
B : As-tu aimé ?
A : J’ai adoré.

Episode Transcript

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Planning to visit France, Belgium,Switzerland, or another country where they speak
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dot fluency fix dot com. Butbefore you practice with your virtual conversation practice
partner, let's have a quick manylesson first so that you'll really ace the
conversation. Ready, let's go.Now, here's your teacher to explain a

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few things you'll need to know beforeyou practice the conversation with your virtual practice
partner. Hello, and welcome tobegin a French lesson too. Today we're
going to learn how to ask someonewhere they are from and how to tell
someone where you are from. Thefirst thing we need is the verb for

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to come na the knee na.Let's quickly learn how to conjugate this verb.
I come juvia, you come tovia, he comes, il via,
she comes, el via, wecome, nou venu, they come

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feminine l vienn they come masculine ilVienne. When we want to turn to
via to via to via, whichmeans you come into a question, we
just turn it backwards and say vatuva two va two. Now let's put

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that with the rest of the sentence. The word d d D in this
sentence means from the word ooh,ooh, ooh oh, you means where.

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But if we tried to say dooh, it would be kind of
uncomfortable. So we just get ridof the oh and put an apostrophe and
turn du oo into do do do. Altogether we have do via two,

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do via two, do via two. It's kind of like from where come
you do viantu do villantu vitu.Now I'll show you how to answer and
tell someone where you are from.We already learned that I come is juvia

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ju villa juvia. But what isthis word we have here in the middle
between juvia and Canada? Do dodo? In French countries are masculine or

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feminine, and in the case ofthe United States, they can also be
plural. La Canada, la France, le zeta, lu la or le
come in front of the country dois actually do plus lu scrunched together to

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make do to say from. Forfeminine countries you say do. Masculine countries
you say do and plural you saythey. Because Canada is masculine, we
say do and we get guvia duCanada, guvilla do Canada, villa du

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Canada. Let's try three more countries. Australia feminine guvia dostrelli, Japan masculine
guvilla du japin the United States plural, so you would say guvia des it

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as you need. Try doing thiswith your own country. Three. Just
put guvillenne du, guvienne dieu orguvillen de in front of it. The
next thing we learn is vremont vremontvremont, which just means really lande dernier

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lane dernier, Landi dernier just meanslast year. The word e replaces Canada
and means there, Jeu plus ebecomes g. You must be thinking that

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we love to shorten things in French, maybe a little. In the last
part of this conversation, we'll needto say three things in the past tense.
We'll go deeper into the past tenselater. For today, I just
want you to look at something thatthe three verbs used in the last three

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sentences have in common. These threeverbs are ali, to go, ame,
to like, and adore, toadore or love. They all have
a little accent on the e.This is all you have to remember for

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now. We will talk more aboutthe past tense in future lessons, but
for now, just remember that forthe verb ali, we drop the R,
add an accent to the e,and we get the past tense form
ali, which means went. Forthe verb emi, which means to like,

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we drop the R and add anaccent to the E, and we
get em, which means liked.For the verb adore, which means to
adore or to love, in thissentence, we drop the R and add
an accent to the E and getadore, which means loved. I loved

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it. This is everything you needto know to really understand this conversation.
Have fun practicing it with your conversationpractice partner. Now you are ready to
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