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Bonjour à tous et toutes.
📌Learn French while learning about the French Canadian culture.
📌Subject: Gastronomy and sport in Montreal (in Quebec), French Canada (eastern region)
📌Level: A1-A2 - beginner
📌Grammar: Vocab + Adj (details below)
P.S: This is an actual photo of the city 😉
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【How to use this video?】
🎧Listen to the story! I read it once at normal speed, then a second time slowly with the script on the screen. In the last part of the video, we translate it together.
🙆Don't translate literally, but try to understand the general meaning of the sentences
🗣️Follow along and repeat out loud, the story with me while reading it!
🔁Listen to the story several times.
✍️Take note new vocabulary for review ;)
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Time Stamp
00:00 Intro
00:30 Reading 1 (normal pace)
02:37 Reading 2 (slow) + script
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【BASIC GRAMMAR】
A) Fixed expression
il y a - There is | There are
B) Negative sentences
ne + conjugated vb + plus - no more
C) Personnal pronouns
Some pronouns like 'en' and 'y' are used to avoid repetition.
ex : il y en (=gastronomie) a pour tous les goûts et tous y (=QC) trouveront leur bonheur.
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【VOCABULARY】
une saveur - flavour
beaucoup【adv】 - lots of
elle a su (participe passé of the verb 'savoir') - it has learned
(elle = la poutine)
ou - or
encore 【adv】- still | yet | also (depend on context)
les plus grands chefs - the most well-known chef
de plus en plus - more and more
être réputé - to be considered (popular)
occuper - to take (in sense of take charge of)
Tout d'abord - first of all
susciter - to encourage | to arouse
parmi - among
durant - during
se transformer - to transform | to turn into
ainsi que - as well as
gratuit - free (price)
pendant - during
préserver - to preserve
le patrimoine - heritage
se multiplier - multiply | increase
favoriser - to promote
d'ailleurs - by the way
sont devenus (participe passé of vb devenir) - have become
la marque - a brand
quelques - a few
effleurer - touch (lightly)
conseiller - to advise
pas à pas - step by step
chaque【always singular】- each
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It's by being consistent that you improve.
Any questions? Leave me a comment.
À bientôt!
Amé
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