In this episode we’re talking about the flood of solidarity in the aftermath of the horrible tragedy that hit the southernmost state of Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul, in early May 2024.

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The flood of solidarity in the wake of a tragedy

✅ Practice your listening skills with the stories from my everyday life. 

✅You'll find the whole transcription as well as translation into English and Russian in the special GoogleDoc I created for you
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WrRMa-XQjG9K0Du4irYNNljd-n5ceo2IutqgooWUyNE/edit?usp=sharing 

❓ Et toi, c'est quoi la dernière chose que t'as annulée ?

Here are some notes on grammar and vocabulary:
*j’ai dû - passé composé du verbe devoir - I had to // мне пришлось 
*en extérieur - outside, outdoors // на свежем воздухе 
*depuis hier - since yesterday // со вчерашнего дня 
*je me demandais - imparfait du verbe se demander - I was wondering // я думала 
*y - there // там, туда 
*plein de choses - familier - lots of things // куча всего 
*le boulot - familier - job, work // работа 
*aprèm = après-midi
*si j’étais allée - plus que parfait - if I had gone // если бы я пошла 
*je n’aurais pas eu - conditionnel passé - I wouldn’t have had time  // у меня не было бы 
*du coup - familier - so // и поэтому 
*j’aurais dû organiser - conditionnel passé - I should have organized // я должна была бы планировать 
*on ne sait pas bien - you don't know how // ты не умеешь 
*c’est quoi - what is ? // какой 

👍If the podcast was useful and taught you something. 
🗨Contact me if you want to improve your speaking skills and practice your French.


En français avec Victoria

🇫🇷 1 minute in slow French. 1. J'ai annulé mon rendez-vous. 

Learn one useful expression to have better conversations in French. 

👋🇨🇵 Bonjour French learners !

Let's study or practice one useful expression for your daily life in a French speaking country. 

✅ Today's expression is: f a i r e   l a   q u e u e 

🇨🇵 Faire la queue = stand in line

Examples:
📌 Je déteste faire la queue. C'est long et ennuyeux.  - I hate standing in line. It's long and boring. 

📌 Je fais souvent la queue à la boulangerie pour acheter du pain.  - I often stand in line in the bakery to buy some bread.

🗣 Your turn!
Et toi, tu as déjà fait la queue pour manger au restaurant ? - Have you already waited/stood in line to eat at the restaurant?

😀 Hope it was useful for you!
🤩 Don't hesitate to answer in French in the comments, I'm here for you. 
🤗 Suggest another expression you want me to teach you.

French expressions for your conversations. 1. 

Je te raconte ma journée typique. 

You can learn the vocabulary of everyday activities and also frequency adverbs and how to say time. 

If you don't understand everything, that's ok. I prepared a transcript of everything I say in the audio. You will also find the translation of the text into English and Russian. 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nkxwm8QdK-QYkohvlEv8w4dhb3wdh4H5WKkaWcDFiaU/edit?usp=sharing 

To check your understading I created a True/False exercice at the end of the transcript. 

Et toi, raconte-moi ta journée. 

Ma journée. 

Je te parle de mes activités ce week-end. 

Transcription complète, traduction en anglais et en russe, questions de compréhension
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12GTOegcmUieLaLXCj6tT07i6m7NFHqnnPapzbqGHBcc/edit 

N'oublie pas de programmer un cours de conversation avec moi pour discuter de ce podcast et pour apprendre à parler français avec confiance. 

Un long week-end. 

Several exemples of negative phrases in French with the verb 'avoir' (to have). 