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When you're talking to someone outside the homeland, the first step is finding out which language you can both speak well enough to be able to communicate with as little hand signals and exaggerated facial gestures as possible. In today's podcast, we travel to a Moroccan bazaar where we have a lesson on foreign languages and learn how to say in French which ones you speak and how well.
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billkaulitzlover says
July 14, 2008
Amaury, vous parlez l'espagnol couramment aussi?!!. Dónde aprendiste a hablarlo? Cuánto tiempo te tomó aprenderlo? ça c'est ma langue maternelle. :)
Erica, Arabe votre prochaine langue à apprendre?! Bonne Chance on learning it haha! :) ça langue semble très très difficile. Mais l'arabe est une langue très importante . :)
I wonder how many and which languages the Frenchpod listeners can speak fluently....
amaurylibeer says
July 14, 2008
Salut eruworld,
Oui je parle espagnol couramment aussi (j'ai quand même besoin d'écouter SpanishPod!). C'est une langue que j'apprécie énormément. Je l'ai apprise à l'université et et au cours de voyages en Espagne (je n'ai jamais eu la chance de me rendre en Amérique latine). Pour me débrouiller en espagnol, il m'a fallu deux ans de cours mais ensuite, lorsque j'ai passé cinq mois à Madrid et à Pamplona, j'ai vraiment appris autant que durant les deux années d'étude.
Espero ir de vacaciones de pronto en un país hispanohablante para practicar.
Hi eruworld,
Yes I speak Spanish fluently too (I still need to listen to SpanishPod though!). It is a language I like a lot. I learnt it at university and during travels in Spain (I never got the chance to go to Latin America). To be able to speak Spanish, it took me two years of classes, but then, when I spent five months in Madrid and Pamplona, I learnt as much as during the two years classes.
I hope to go on holiday soon in a country where people speak Spanish so I can practice.
bosbos11 says
July 14, 2008
i am speak english and arabic.because i am egyptian i am doing my best to learn french so it could be my third lanuage.i am living in canada which is english/french country
pinkjeans says
July 15, 2008
Je suis penta-lingue, mais pas couramment en tous. Je communique le mieux en anglais. Ma langue maternelle est cantonais, et je connais aussi malai. Maintenant, j'apprends mandarin (avec Chinesepod, bien sur!) et toujours français.
Quand j'ai habité à Doubai pendant deux ans, je n'ai pas arrivé à apprendre arabe, sauf les chiffres et quelques phrases touristiques. Je trouve qu'arabe est assez difficile, mais je pense que c'est peut-être plus facile pour les francophones naturelles parce que les deux langues utilisent beaucoup des tons nasillards. L'écriture n'est pas aussi difficile que celui du chinois parce qu'il emploie l'alphabet. Peut-être ça sera ma sixième langue...
ericat says
July 15, 2008
Whoa, pinkjeans, quelle polyglotte! Bravo!
ericat says
July 15, 2008
Bonjour, eruworld! I've always been fascinated with la culture et la langue arabe. It would be so fun to learn how to pronounce those interesting sounds. Thanks for the bonne chance :)
And that was a great question to find out from the FrenchPod listeners...Alors, quelles langues parlez-vous couramment?
If French is your first foreign language, it would also be interesting to know:
Quelle est votre langue maternelle (what is your native language)?
hwaboon says
July 15, 2008
Ma langue maternelle est l'italienne et je parle aussi l'anglais couramment.
pinkjeans, wow! so many languages!
anugrah says
July 16, 2008
I speak English, and I would say Upper Intermediate Indonesian. I live in NYC, USA and my parents are Indonesian. Learning French will make it my third language if i can master it. I can speak Malay if I want to, because it isn't that hard to learn if you know one of the languages. But it is harder to learn Malay- Indonesian rather than British English- American English.
rashlien says
July 17, 2008
Ma langue maternelle est l'anglais. Je parle un peu de français et un peu de l'espagnol. J’utilise mon espagnol plus a ma travail. Je veux pouvoir parler le chine, l’allemand, et le russe aussi. J’espère voyager à l’avenir, mais pour maintenant je vis délégué par d’autres.
My first language is english. I speak a little french and a little spanish. I use my spanish mostly at my work. I want to speak chinese, german and russian also. I hope to travel in the future, but for now I live vicarously through others.
spanishlearners says
July 18, 2008
Arabic Mother tongue, English second, Spanish (elementary), French (Lower Newbee). Trying to learn Italian and Chinese(Lower Lower Newbee). If anyone want to learn a bit of Arabic just feel free to ask.
ericat says
July 19, 2008
I might take you up on that someday, spanishleaners :)
That's great that you have un travail where you can parler une langue étrangère, Rebecca!
croft says
September 15, 2008
i think i really like these French Pods, cause it really helps me to speak the language. and its a cool language to speak it.
naz_saim786 says
September 18, 2008
I WAN TO LEARN TO TALK & WRIET IN FRENCH
christela says
September 18, 2008
Hi naz_saim786!
If you want to learn how to speak and write French, the FrenchPod website can be of great help! With the dialogues and podcasts, the audio review of the new vocabulary for each lesson, you will learn spoken French and assimilate paterns and new words easily as well as improve your listening comprehension.
And with the transcripts of the dialogues, the expansion section and the exercises for each lesson, you will learn written French, improve your reading and writing!
We wish everyone all the best in their French studies!
yamiurw says
September 30, 2008
I speak Spanish, Hebrew and English fluently.
I was born in Argentina, now I live in Israel and in a few months I'll be in Switerland for a year (in Geneva so I'm learning French). I'd like to learn German too!
ericat says
September 30, 2008
Bonjour, yamiurw, and bonne chance with your French studies!
sweetyboy8 says
October 7, 2008
what i really like in these site is useful words and communcate with other partner.
amaurylibeer says
October 7, 2008
Merci beaucoup pour ton commentaire sweetyboy8.
francophile says
November 14, 2008
thanks
ericat says
November 14, 2008
De rien, francophile!
alse45 says
November 16, 2008
je parle l'espagnol, ma langue maternelle, l'anglais et un petit peu le français. :)
amaurylibeer says
November 19, 2008
On dirait que tu parles déjà bien le français alse45. Quel est ton niveau? De quel pays hispanophone viens-tu?
makmak says
November 28, 2008
I like this lesson. I'm from Morocco but I don't speak French. I'm learning French everyday with Frenchpod.
Thanks ^^
Amin
penhui says
December 31, 2008
<i>I wonder how many and which languages the Frenchpod listeners can speak fluently....</i>
Seulement anglais, malheureusement (?).
Using this page as a guideline,
http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/november/learningExpectations.html, I'm keeping track of my hours of language learning. I started in August, as though I were just beginning each language and so far have logged 178 hours of Mandarin, 17 hours of Spanish (though I have three years of high school Spanish and one year of college Spanish), and 6 hours of French.
I think I have a way to go before I'm fluent in any of them. 8-D
dyanne says
January 1, 2009
I really want to learn other language and I hope that french will be one of them
amenassie2002 says
January 4, 2009
Hi there!
I'm Amon from Houston, Texas. I just subscribed for Frenchpod and I kinda like it, but I studied French back in Africa in a French school for a couple of summer so many years ago, but still my problem is with Vocabulary and I think I'm in need of more intense and more advanced lessons. What should I do in your opinion? You have no idea how much I love French and the people too . Take care.
amaurylibeer says
January 4, 2009
Bonjour Amon et bienvenue à FrenchPod,
Since you can take advantage of the seven days free trial, we suggest you listen to some of the higher level lessons -elementary, intermediate, upper intermediate, advanced or advanced media- and see which level is more appropriate to you. You will be free then to subscribe to a 1 month or 6 months basic subscription (for instance) that will give you access to all the FrenchPod lessons. You can get more information on the different subscriptions in the 'Help Subscription Information' section. We are happy to hear you love French and we want you to progress.
If you have any query, don't hesitate to contact us.
A bientôt
ladysnow says
May 26, 2009
i dont speak french but iwant to learn
amaurylibeer says
May 27, 2009
Bonjour ladysnow et bienvenue à FrenchPod.
We would advise you to listen to all the newbie lessons.
Good luck with your French studies
jojo12345 says
June 14, 2009
This helped me pass an exam
amaurylibeer says
June 15, 2009
Salut jojo12345,
Nous sommes vraiment contents de cela.
We're really happy of that.
Merci de nous le faire savoir.
Thanks for let us know.
christinei says
June 26, 2009
I have never learned a language before this, and I'm finding it hard to think about being fluent in multiple languages! What language do you think in???
amaurylibeer says
June 28, 2009
Salut christinei,
If you've never learned a language before, it's better to focus on one language than thinking about being fluent in multiple languages. When you start learning a new language, you shouldn't think about being fluent straightaway, I think. You'll find out there's already so much pleasure being able to speak the basics.
Personally, I think in French and English, depending on the language I'm using so I would say it's 50/50.
Good luck with your French studies. If you have any query, don't hesitate to contact us.
doaleon says
July 7, 2009
Arabic is a very beautiful language but I will stick to my French at the moment ^^
I speak German by the way .....
amaurylibeer says
July 7, 2009
C'est vrai doaleon, l'arabe est une très belle langue.
Tu parles allemand... je vois que tu viens de Suisse, est-ce que tu parles italien également?
Bonne chance dans tes études de français. If you have any query, don't hesitate to contact us.
tarcy says
September 10, 2009
Je parle japonais, chinois, français, allemand et angles. Mais français, allemand et angles, je ne parle pas couramment.
Amaury, Vous parlez chinois?
amaurylibeer says
September 10, 2009
Je parle un petit peu chinois tarcy, je parle mieux japonais.
Je parle aussi français, anglais, espagnol et italien. Mais je ne parle pas couramment italien.
tarcy says
September 13, 2009
I'm amazed that you can speak Japanese, Amaury. When & where did you study Japanese?
amaurylibeer says
September 14, 2009
I studied Japanese at university 15 years ago tarcy. And then when I used to live in Scotland 3 years ago. I just had a beginner level.
Let's see what I will be able to remember : )
samiziko says
December 6, 2009
Je parle un peu de Français.
Je parle aussi l'anglais couramment.
Merci
amaurylibeer says
December 7, 2009
Moi je parle (l')anglais et (l')espagnol couramment samiziko.
Je parle un peu (d') italien, (de) japonais et (de) chinois.
Et bien sûr le français est ma langue maternelle.
(When I add the brackets, it means the words are not complusory in the sentence samiziko.)
samiziko says
December 7, 2009
(When I add the brackets, it means the words are not complusory in the sentence samiziko.)
compulsory
Thank you
Teacher of English language in Egypt.
amaurylibeer says
December 7, 2009
Merci beaucoup samiziko.
samiziko says
December 8, 2009
De rien.Avec plaisir.
Vous êtes marié??
Vous avez des enfants?
Merci beaucoup pour votre effort. (It's an English word)
amaurylibeer says
December 8, 2009
Non, je ne suis pas marié et je n'ai pas d'enfants samiziko. Et vous?
'effort' is a French word as well (cool!) so your sentence is correct, although it's more frequent to hear in French "Merci beaucoup pour tous vos efforts".
samiziko says
December 10, 2009
Moi aussi
Can we say" Je suis célibataire" instead of this long sentence.Je ne suis pas marié.
What do you think??
Merci beaucoup pour tous vos efforts.
What could i do without your help??? God bless you amaurylibeer .
amaurylibeer says
December 11, 2009
Oui samiziko, tu peux dire : "Moi aussi, je suis célibataire." au lieu de "Moi non plus, je ne suis pas marié". C'est parfait.
Toujours là pour vous aider samiziko (always there to help you : )
samiziko says
December 14, 2009
What do you do for living Mr.amaurylibeer?
What's your job?
How can we say them in French?
What is your answer?
merci
poissonnoir says
December 14, 2009
Amaury. You're just awesome.
samiziko says
December 16, 2009
i asked a question
how can you say' what's your job??' In french
Why didn't you answer me?
Ok I'll answer it.Can we say
quel est votre métier?
by the way the word awesome has many meanings.
poissonnoir says
December 17, 2009
Really? I have only heard the good one, haha
amaurylibeer says
December 21, 2009
Sorry sami, I was off work for a couple of days.
Your answer is perfect, "What do you do for living?" and "What's your job?" are in French:
'Quel est votre métier?' (formal) or 'Quel est ton métier?'
You could say as well:
"Tu fais quoi dans la vie?" (informal)
Moi, je suis enseignant sami. Toi aussi je crois.
And soon you're going to be able to take over my job as a French teacher : ) Well done and sorry about the late reply.
amaurylibeer says
December 21, 2009
I saw that the word 'awesome' has different meanings, as sami wrote poissonnoir, but I'm going to stick to the good one and take your comment as a compliment.
Merci beaucoup, c'est très gentil.
bababardwan says
December 22, 2009
Hey,I was just thinking the same thing;Amaury is awesome!! I haven't been here in a while but I come back and see that amaury is still being as diligent and thorough as ever.Such a champ.It's so nice to see some things don't change.Keep up your awesome work Amaury and have un Joyeaux Noel :)
samiziko says
December 23, 2009
Je suis un enseignant de English.
welcome back to your friends amaury libeer.
We missed you very much.
How can i say ( i miss you very much) in French
thank you
amaurylibeer says
December 26, 2009
Merci beaucoup bababardwan, je suis heureux que tu passes nous dire bonjour à FrenchPod (I'm happpy that you pass by and say hello here at FrenchPod).
Joyeux Noël et bonnes fêtes de fin d'année.
amaurylibeer says
December 26, 2009
Salut sami,
Donc toi, tu es un enseignant d'anglais.
This is how to say 'I miss you very much': "Tu me manques beaucoup" or "Vous me manquez beaucoup" (if formal or if there's more than one person that you miss).
To say 'We missed you very much' :
"Tu nous a beaucoup manqué" or "Vous nous avez beaucoup manqué"
madelinesoo says
December 28, 2009
Je parle tres petit peu francais j'aimerais bien de mieux parler. J'aime visiter des pays etrangers especially le Maroc.
amaurylibeer says
December 31, 2009
Où es-tu allée au Maroc madelinesoo (where have you been in Marocco)?
Je vais corriger ton commentaire:
Je parle un petit peu francais, j'aimerais bien mieux parler. J'aime visiter des pays étrangers, spécialement le Maroc.
Je te soutaite un très bon réveillon de Nouvel An (I wish you a very good New Year's Eve party).
madelinesoo says
December 31, 2009
Merci pour me corriger des erreurs que j’ai fait dans mon commentaire.
Je voudrait visiter le Maroc parce que j’ai entendu y parler beaucoup, mais je n’y ai jamais vsiter.
J’ai visité la Vietnam, la Myanmar, la Chine, L’Angkor Wat, Bali, le Thailande, le Kenya, le sud d’Afrique, la Canada, la France et quelques d’autres pays en l’Europe.
Merci pour des felicitations. Jet e souhaite une bonne annee et bonne santé
Yes, Amaury, you are awesome!
samiziko says
January 2, 2010
Je veux parler français avec quelqu'un tous les jours.
Quel est votre avis?
amaurylibeer says
January 8, 2010
Je t'en prie madelinesoo. Je te propose donc maintenant cette correction pour ton commentaire:
Merci de corriger les erreurs que j’ai faites dans mon commentaire.
Je voudrais visiter le Maroc parce que j’en ai beaucoup entendu parler, mais je n’y suis jamais allée.
J’ai visité le Vietnam, le Myanmar (la Birmanie), la Chine, l’Angkor Wat (au Cambodge), Bali (en Indonésie), la Thaïlande, le Kenya, l’Afrique du Sud, le Canada, la France et quelques autres pays en Europe.
Merci pour tes voeux. Je te souhaite une bonne année et une bonne santé.
Merci aussi à toi pour tes voeux et ces gentils mots à la fin de ton message.
amaurylibeer says
January 8, 2010
Salut Sami et meilleurs voeux pour cette année 2010.
Je pense que c'est une très bonne idée: c'est un très bon moyen de faire des progrès.