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A classroom, a professor, some students. |
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Hello (good day). We are going to learn French. |
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Me, I am the professor. You, you are the students. |
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Me, I speak French. |
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Let's see. Where does one speak French? (Where is it that one speaks French?) |
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One speaks French in Canada, in Quebec. |
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One speaks French in Africa (in Senegal, in the Ivory Coast, for example). |
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One speaks French in the Antilles, in Tahiti, ... where else? (where again) |
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Ah, in Switzerland, in Belgium ... and then in France, of course. |
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In Alsace, in Rouen, in Chartres, one speaks French. |
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In Paris, one speaks French. |
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In Paris. Hello, Mrs. Rosa. Hello, Miss Mireille. |
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It's going all right? It's going fine. Goodbye. Goodbye, Miss. |
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Mireille meets a friend, Colette. |
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Mireille! Hey, Colette. Hello. |
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Where are you going? (Where is it that you are going?) |
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To the university. I'm in a hurry. Goodbye. |
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Mireille meets a friend, Hubert, on the St. Michel boulevard. |
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Hey, Hubert? Hi! It's going OK? |
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It's going fine. Where are you going like that? (Where go you?) |
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To the university. And you? |
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Oh, me .... no. I'm not going to the university. |
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Ah, really? (Ah, good?) Well (good), excuse me. |
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I'm in a hurry. Goodbye. |
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Mireille meets Véronique, a friend. |
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Véronique, hi! How are you? (How go you?) |
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It's all right, thanks. And you? |
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It's OK. Excuse me. I'm in a hurry. Goodbye. |
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Mireille meets Ousmane, a friend. |
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Hello, Ousmane. You're doing all right? |
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Yes, yes. I'm doing very well, thanks. And you? |
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It's all right. Where are you going? (Where is it that you go?) |
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I'm going to the library. And you? |
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I'm going to the university. Bye. |
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Mireille meets two friends, Marc and Catherine, Street of the Schools. |
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Hey, look. It's Mireille. Hi. |
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Hi. How's it going, you two? |
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It's OK. Where are you going like that? |
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We are going to the university restaurant. (restau-U = restaurant universitaire) |
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Already? .... Well, yeah. |
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Well, enjoy your meal. (good appetite) |
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Thanks. Bye. ... Bye |
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Mireille meets an old professor. |
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Well, hello, Miss Belleau. How are you? (How go you?) |
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I'm very well, thanks. (I go very well.) And yourself? You're doing all right? |
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I'm fine, thanks. Goodbye, Miss. ... Goodbye, Sir. |
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Mireille meets her Aunt Georgette and Fido. |
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Hello, my little Mireille. How are you? |
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I'm OK, thanks. Any you? You're all right? |
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Oh, me, it's not going very well. |
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It's not going well? But what's the matter? (What is there?) You are sick? |
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No, I'm not sick. It's not going well. I'm tired. |
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Oh, it's going to get (go) better. |
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(to the dog) And you my little Fido, how's it going? |
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You're fine? You're not tired? |
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You're doing very well. You're a nice doggy. |
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Oh, his health is all right. (Oh, him, the health, it's all right.) |
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He isn't sick, him. He isn't tired, him. (lui = him and is just throw in for emphasis) |
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Oh, my! I'm going to be late. Goodbye, Aunt Georgette. |
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But where are you going? |
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To the university. I'm going to be late, really. Goodbye. |
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Goodbye, goodbye, my little one. All right, come on, Fido. Come. |
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Mireille at the Sorbonne, at the Italian class. |
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The Italian professor: (He is speaking Italian here. We won't worry about this.) |
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The classroom. |
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Where is Mireille going? She's going to the university. |
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Why is she going to the university? She is going to learn French? |
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No, she's not going to learn French; she's going to learn Italian. |
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And us, we are going to learn Italian? No, we aren't going to learn Italian. |
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Are we going to learn Spanish, Arabic, Japonese? |
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No, and we aren't going to learn English, either. |
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What are we going to learn, then? |
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French. That's it. We are going to learn French. |
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