4. Non, Place Ville Marie est là-bas.

In this lesson, you'll learn everything you need to know to do Beginner French, Conversation 4 at https://funandfree.fluencyfix.com/?p=128

Topic: Asking for and giving directions

A : Excusez-moi, est-ce Place Ville Marie ?
B : Non, Place Ville Marie est là-bas.
A : Ce bâtiment ?
B : Oui, de l’autre côté de la route.
A : Ok. Merci.

Episode Transcript

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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 conversation four. In today's
conversation, we'll learn how to aska question about a location using the verb
etre, which means to be,which we learned in conversation three. The

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conversation begins with someone asking, excusemoirs plus ville, Marie, excusemore s
plus ville, Marie, excusemi splus ville marie plus ville. Marie is
a very famous shopping center in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The tourist wants

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to confirm that they are at theright place, so after excuse emoir,
she asks s plus ville Marie.We learned in less than three that sir,
sir, sir means it, siralso has another meaning. It also

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means this, as in is thisplus Villemarie or in French s plus Villemarie.
To ask this question, we needthe verb h, which means to
be. We use the a formof the verb h for things like he

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is la, she is la,it is sey, or this is set.
So what we're doing is we're justtaking say and turning it backwards to
make a question like we've already learned. Then from sey backwards you get s

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s s. In the next sentence, the speaker says the word for no,
which is so simple, it isno. But like a few other
words that we've learned, with theword no, we don't pronounce the final

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letter, so the pronunciation of theword which means no is no no no.
Finally, the speaker says that theplace she is looking for is over
there, which in French is labbano plus ville Marie e labba no plus

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ville marie a labba no plus villemarie e labba. Next, she uses
a word we've already learned, suwhich you already know means this. She
wants to know if it is thisbuilding. The word for building is batimo,

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su batimo, su batimo su batimore. Well, we've learned the French
word for no, so this isa good time to learn the French for
yes. It is simply we.To you, the pronunciation of this word
may not look exactly like how itis spelled. The proper pronunciation of this

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word is we we We. Wesee the word we at the beginning of
the next sentence, we do lot, we do lord tre cote de la
route. We do lord cote dela route. Before we talk about the

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next word d, which occurs twicein this sentence with two different meanings,
Let's look at the word for thewhich is l l l, the word
for other outre outre dre, andthe word for side cotti coutti coutti.

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As you can see in the sentence, when we put lee in front of
hautre, we dropped the e andmade it lord. So whenever you want
to say on the other side,you just put D in front of all
this to get the Lord ra Cotti, the Lord Tractti, the Lordracotti.

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This is just a set phrase whichit is better just to learn altogether,
because it will come in very handyfrom time to time. So in this
particular set phrase, the Lordracotti,the word du takes on the meaning of
on. But at the very endof this very same sentence, the word

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has another meaning, which is theone we are more used to seeing.
Which is of the street is larute la route la route? We want
to say it is on the otherside of the street of the street is

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de la route du la route dela route. Altogether we have we do
lot. Finally, the conversation endswith the word we already know. Thank
you. Okay, Mercy, Nowyou've learned everything you need to know to

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aid your conversation practice session. Nowyou're ready to practice this conversation with your
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