5. Ça semble délicieux.

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Beginner French: Conversation 5

Topic: Describing food

A : Qu’est-ce que c’est ça, là ?
B : C’est une Poutine.
A : Ça semble délicieux.
B : Vas-y. Goûte.

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
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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 conversation five. When you visit
France or another French speaking country likeCanada, you'll probably want to try some
dishes that you've heard about. Today, we'll learn how to talk about food

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and also how to tell someone totry some. This conversation begins with guescues
guescu. Even though this looks likefour words, qu a, sue and
qu all of it altogether just meanswhat we put it in front of set.

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In a previous conversation, we learnedthat se is just short for sir
plus a. However, se isalso short for sah plus a. The
word sah means that, so inthis case we have sa plus a or

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se se se, which means thatis. Right After that, we have
the word la. Even though itis spelled like the word la, which
you learned when you were talking aboutcountries like La France, this La has

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an accent on it, so ithas a totally different meaning. The meaning
of la with an accent on thea is there. When we put all
this together, we have quiescuse la? Or what is that over there?
The second speaker answers setun putin setunputin. Setun putin putin is a very

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popular dish which you'll have to tryif you're ever in Quebec, Canada.
It is made from friend Rice FritFritz Fritz cheese skirts. First, we
need the word for cheese, whichis fromage, fromage fromage. Then cheese

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skirts is just fromage, are fromageen grand fromage are. Finally, puttine
needs brown gravy, which is saucebruin. Sauce bruin. Saucebruin sounds delicious,

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doesn't it. That's why the nextthing we hear is sassemble de lisieux,
samble de lisieu, sasemble de lisieux, de lisieux, de lisieux de lisieux

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means delicious samble zamble samble from theverb mble just means seams or looks.
Next, we have the word Sa, Sa Sa. We've talked about this

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word Sa before, but we've neverseen it like that, with that accent
called a cedilla on the bottom ofthe word sea. So let's talk about
it a little bit. The properwriting of the word sa is actually with
the cedilla on the sea. However, over time, for whatever reason,

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it has just become more common toonly see the word Sa with the accent
on the sea. When SA isspelled out fully c A and pronounced fully
sa. An example of this isin the sentence sassmbre de decius. When

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we have the shortened form of SA, as in SA plus a, which
becomes see apostrophe eest or se.It is more common to see SA written
without the accent on the sea Nowthat we've sorted out SA, finally we're

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going to learn how to tell someoneto try some of that delicious food.
The verb ali means to go.It is conjugated. I go juve,
you go tuva. He goes ilva, she goes elva. We go new

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zalm, you go vuzali. Theygo feminine elvon, and they go masculine
ilvu. To give a command,or what we call the imperative to someone
in an informal setting, we usethe two form of the verb, but

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we drop the S so to saygo we would say in this case,
we won't say go ahead, sowe add e and we put an S
in between to make it easier tosay. Z is a set phrase which

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means go ahead. Finally, weuse the imperative informal form of the verb
good t which is just good totell them to go taste it or try
some. Now you've learned everything youneed to know to ace your conversation practice

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session. Now you're ready to practicethis conversation with your virtual conversation practice partner.
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