Unlocking French with Paul Noble: Your key to language success with the bestselling language coach. Paul Noble
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Название: Unlocking French with Paul Noble: Your key to language success with the bestselling language coach
Автор: Paul Noble
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Хобби, Ремесла
isbn: 9780008209544
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Got it? Then let’s go!
| le week-end (luh weekend) | the weekend |
| romantique (roe-mon-teek) | romantic |
| fantastique (fon-tass-teek) | fantastic |
| typique (tip-eek) | typical |
| politique (po-lee-teek) | political |
| J’ai (zhay) | I have |
| visité (visit-ay) | visited |
| J’ai visité (zhay visit-ay) | I have visited / I visited / I did visit |
| Paris (pa-ree) | Paris |
| Notre-Dame (not-re darm) | Notre-Dame |
| J’ai visité Notre-Dame. (zhay visit-ay not-re darm) | I have visited Notre-Dame / I visited Notre-Dame / I did visit Notre-Dame. |
| passé (pass-ay) | spent |
| J’ai passé (zhay pass-ay) | I have spent / I spent / I did spend |
| Vous avez (voo za-vay) | You have |
| Vous avez passé (voo za-vay pass-ay) | You have spent / You spent / You did spend |
| Nous avons (noo za-von) | We have |
| Nous avons passé (noo za-von pass-ay) | We have spent / We spent / We did spend |
| septembre (sep-tom-bruh) | September |
| Noël (no-ell) | Christmas |
| à Paris (a pa-ree) | in Paris |
| en France (on fronce) | in France |
| en Suisse (on swees) | in Switzerland |
| Nous avons passé Noël en Suisse. (noo za-von pass-ay no-ell on swees) | We spent Christmas in Switzerland. |
| Vous avez passé septembre en France. (voo za-vay pass-ay sep-tom-bruh on fronce) | You spent September in France. |
| et (ay) | and |
| c’était (set-ay) | it was |
| C’était fantastique. (set-ay fon-tass-teek) | It was fantastic. |
| très agréable (trez ag-ray-arb-luh) | lovely / very agreeable |
| C’était très agréable. (set-ay trez ag-ray-arb-luh) | It was lovely / It was very agreeable. |
| J’ai passé le week-end à Paris… et c’était très agréable. (zhay pass-ay luh weekend a pa-ree ay set-ay trez ag-ray-arb-luh) | I spent the weekend in Paris… and it was lovely. |
Finished working through that checklist and made fewer than three mistakes? Yes? Wonderful!
As that’s the case, what I now want you to do is repeat exactly the same process with the checklist below, except that this time you’ll be reading through the English and trying to recall the French. You’ll be doing it the other way round. Just relax and work your way up and down the list until you can give the correct French translation for each of the English words / expressions again without making more than three mistakes in total. It’s not a competition – and I’m not asking you to memorise them. Just look at the English words (on the left-hand side) while you cover up the blue French words on the right-hand side and see if you can remember how to say them in French. You’ll be surprised by how many you get right, even on the first try.
Okay, off you go!
| the weekend | le week-end (luh weekend) |
| romantic | romantique (roe-mon-teek) |
| fantastic | fantastique (fon-tass-teek) |
| typical | typique (tip-eek) |
| political | politique (po-lee-teek) |
| I have | J’ai (zhay) |
| visited | visité (visit-ay) |
| I have visited / I visited / I did visit | J’ai visité (zhay visit-ay) |
| Paris | Paris (pa-ree) |
| Notre-Dame | Notre-Dame (not-re darm) |
| I have visited Notre-Dame / I visited Notre-Dame / I did visit Notre-Dame. | J’ai visité Notre-Dame. (zhay visit-ay not-re darm) |
| spent | passé (pass-ay) |