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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
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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 nine. Today's conversation
will be about two people who arefinally meeting each other. Do you have
any friends who live in France thatyou've been corresponding with. Well, today
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you'll be learning some useful phrases thatyou can use when you meet. Let's
begin. The first phrase in ourconversation is sittell mon bien de finale monte
ran quantris set tell more billen thefinalement ran quantris sittell more bien de finale
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montur ran contris. Now, let'slook at all the words in this conversation.
The good news is that we've seenmany of these words before in previous
lessons. Say as we've already learned, means it is or shortened it's.
Then we have a brand new wordthat we've never seen before. Tell mont
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tell lemon delmon. It means so. You can use it whenever you want
to emphasize something and say something isso in this particular example, so nice.
The word for nice here is biabia bia. When we put these
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three things together, we get settell mont bien see de le mon bia
set tell mont bia it's so nice. The next new word that we haven't
seen before is phinalemon finale, lemon, phin almon. This word means finally,
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and it is very easy to learnbecause it looks so much like the
English word final. But we havea little M E N T at the
end, which is pronounced mont.You will often see this man at the
end of French words, and itis the equivalent of lee in English.
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For example, finalement, finally vremontreally raramont rarely and immediate mont immediately.
The last part of this sentence wesaw before in conversation one touran quantris to
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ran contrix touran quntris. In lessthan one we learned that raqntris means to
meet and touran qnris means to meetyou. So when we put that all
together, we get see tell monbien de finalement ran quantris set tell mon
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bien du finalement, touran dentrix settell monbiham the finale monturan qentris. It's
so nice to finally meet you.The next sentence is a sentence you've seen
before in less than one, soit should be fairly easy. It is
ravi de touran contris ravi d touranquantriss ravi de touran contrios. As we
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learned in less than one, ravimeans delighted or pleased, so that's pretty
easy. Now you can try sayingravi de touran conrios. In the next
part of the conversation, we're goingto practice giving someone a compliment. Usually
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when you go to someone's house forthe first time, you'll have something nice
to say about their house. Intoday's conversation, the guests says, you're
in treasury maisons to a un tresjolie maison tour in trejoli maison too,
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as we already learned, means you. In lesson three, we talked about
the verb avoir, which means tohave, and we also conjugated it.
The conjugation to r, which wesee in today's conversation means you have.
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Let's recap the entire conjugation. Ihave je, you have to a.
He has ela, she has elr. We have neu zavon, you
have polite or pleroll vusavi. Theyhave feminine el zon, they have masculine
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il zon. Next we have unun un, which is the feminine form
of the word ah. The nextword will learn is very useful and it
means very. This word is treitray tray. Next we have the word
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for beautiful, which in this sentenceis jolis joli jolis. Finally, we
end with the word for house,which is maison, maison, maison.
When we put it all together,we get to ewing trejoly maison to ah
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un trey jolis maisons to aowing treasureLily Maison. If for any reason you
need it to be extra polite orrespectful, you could say, zave tres
so. Today we've learned what tosay when you finally met someone after a
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long time, and how to givesomeone a compliment. Good job. Now
you've learned everything you need to knowto must begin a French conversation nine.
Now you're ready to practice this conversationwith your virtual conversation practice partner. Just
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