3. Où sommes-nous?

In this lesson, you'll learn everything you need to know to do Beginner French: Conversation 3 at: https://funandfree.fluencyfix.com/?p=125.

Topic: Asking for and giving directions

A : Excusez-moi, où sommes-nous ?
B : C’est la gare Jonquière.
A : Je suis désolée. Je n’ai pas compris.
B : C’est la gare Jonquière.
A : Oh, la gare Jonquière … Merci.
B : De rien.

Episode Transcript

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Planning to visit France, Belgium,Switzerland, or another country where they speak
French. Do you need French fora bilingual position. Maybe you've been meaning
to start learning this beautiful language foryears. You've been dreaming about being able
to pronounce French properly and with agood French accent. Well, we've got
sixty five free beginner French conversation practicesessions waiting for you at fun and Free

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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 few

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things you'll need to know before youpractice the conversation with your virtual practice partner.
Hello, and welcome to begin aFrench lesson three. In today conversation,
we learn some useful phrases for whenyou're traveling abroad. You may find
yourself in a location that you're notfamiliar with and you may need to ask

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for help. Will also learn whatto say when someone's trying to tell you
something and you don't understand what theyare saying. Let's take a look at
this conversation about a lost tourist.The first phrase that we learn is excuse
himoi, excuse himoi, excuse himoi. This one is too easy. It

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just means excuse me. The nextphrase uso nw ouso new usom new contains
a word that we learned in conversationtoo. That's right, it's oh,
and it means where. In conversationtoo, we also learn that when you

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want to turn certain phrases into aquestion, you just say them backwards.
So we just take newsom, whichmeans we are, and turn it around
to get some new, which meansare we. Let's look at the full
conjugation of the verb that the conjugationfor newsom comes from. It is the

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verb h e and it means tobe. Here is the conjugation I am
just you are to a he isin a. She is la. We

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are newsom. You are polite orplural uzette. They are feminine elson,
they are masculin in elison. Buttoday we are mostly interested in new sum
from the sentence, or some newnow on to the next sentence. Ga

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as in leaga la gare Lager isa feminine word which means station and jean
Quierre is the name of the station. Let's talk about se se se.
We learned in less than one thatA means is, so let's talk about

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the sea and apostrophe in front ofit. This is one of those things
we've shortened. We take the wordsu su su, which means it,
and added to A. But itwould be a little uncomfortable to say su

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eh, so we drop the extrae and make it say it is.
In French, is se se laguerre Jenquierre, se la guerre Jeanquierre.
Sell la guerre Jeanquierre. It's JeanQuire station. In the next part of

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this conversation, the person apologizes becausethey didn't understand what was said. Just
now, when we conjugated the verbetre, we learned that Jesus means I
am so. All we really needto learn now is the word for sorry.

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It is desuli. Altogether, it'sjesuits dessuli, jeu sui desuli gesuis
desuli, I'm sorry. Now we'lllearn how to tell someone you didn't understand
something, and one new verb.The verb is to have avoi avoi avoi,

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the conjugation I have je, youhave two ah he has Ela,
she has la. We have newzavon. You have polite opera role vouzave.

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They have feminine le zone, theyhave masculine i zon. Today we
just need I have ja ja jato make I have not understood. But

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first we need to put one littlething which makes French sentences negative in there.
It is no, no no.We put no in front of the
verb. In this case, justN plus the apostrophe, and we get

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I have not. The verb comproundcomprendre comproend means to understand, comprend kind
of sounds like comprehend. The pasttense form of the verb compround is compri,
comprix compri. So altogether we haveJeanne pa compri Jeanne pa compri,

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Jeanne pa compri. After this,the other speaker just repeats what they've said,
sella Gjenquier, say la garre jeanquier, sella Gergenquier. Then the
tourist understands. Finally, the conversationends with mercy, mercy, mercy,

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thank you, and durya durya durya, which means you're welcome, You're all
set. Now you've learned everything youneed to know to aid your conversation practice
session. Now you're ready to practicethis conversation with your virtual conversation practice partner.

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