Learning French Review - Laughing At French Jokes Explained!

I hope you had a chance to read the last post and laughed at the joke! In case you read it and didn't understand it, this is the explanation:

"Oscar:À ma mort, je veux être incinéré.
Matilde:Ça, C'est bien toi.Chaque que fois que tu pars,tu laisse de la cendre partout."

"Oscar: When I die, I want to be cremated.
Matilde: It sounds just like you, every time you leave, you leave ashes all over the place."

Pretty funny isn't it? I am going to leave you with another joke, this time a bit longer. See if you understand it!

Quelle est la couleur des petits pois ?

- Rouge, car les petits pois sont rouges (les petits poissons rouges).
Q'est ce qui est vert et très dangereux ?
- Un petit pois avec une mitraillette.
Qu'est-ce que le sucre ?
- C'est quelque chose qui donne mauvais gout au café quand on oublie d'en mettre dedans.
Ecrire " LE ROI PEPIN " dans le coin d'une feuille, ensuite il faut rayer le "o", le "i", "Pe", "pin" : LE ROI PEPIN.
On obtient alors : Le roi Pepin dans un coin, sans eau, sans lit, sans pain et sans le peu qu'il lui reste. (sans O, sans l'I, sans PIN, et sans le PE qu'il lui reste.)

I'll give you the translation next time!

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Learning French Review - Laughing at french jokes

One way to learn french is to read the french newspapers once in a while or read some french news online. Another good day to learn french is to read some good french jokes...

I was reading some french jokes the other day and I found this one quite funny! No better way to learn french then reading french and laughing at the same time.

Try and see if you get this french joke! I'll explain it in the next post...

"Oscar:À ma mort, je veux être incinéré.
Matilde:Ça, C'est bien toi.Chaque que fois que tu pars,tu laisse de la cendre partout."

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Learning French Review - Having Supper With Friends!

Did you get the last audio french phrase of the day? Diane, veux-tu me passer le beurre s'il te plait! Diane, would you please pass me the butter!

One thing that you'll do while learning french is to visit with french speaking friends or to invite them to your house for supper. Today we'll be looking at around the house items and how you say them in french.

le couteau - the knife
la cuiller - the spoon
la fourchette - the fork
le beurre - the butter
la table - the table
la chaise - the chair
une tasse de café - a cup of coffee
une tasse de thé - a cup of tea
servir - to serve

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Learning French Review - Watching Movies In French!

One of the very best way to learn french is to rent a multi-language DVD with of course french and english. You'll listen to the movie first in your first language, preferably a few times then you swith to listening to the movie in french! That is a very good "learning french review" way to really accelerate your french learning.

Did you get the last sound bite? Which said "Le chat court après la souris" in english would be "The cat is running after the mouse". Listen to it again if you didn't get it!

Today we'll go to the grocery store and learn a few food items!

le pain - the bread
le beurre - the butter
l'huile - the oil
la pomme - the apple
la banane - the banana
la viande - the meat
le poulet - the chicken

Now for the learning french review phrase of the day!

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Learning French Review - Aujourd'hui on est mercredi!

Today is Wednesday! That's what the last french review sound bite said, "aujourd'hui on est mercredi!". Listen to it again if you didn't get it!

Another good way to learn or to review your french is to listen to french cartoons for kids.

Cartoons for kids tends to be funny and not too complicated. It is aimed at putting the little ones in a jolly mood when parents are busy doing adult stuffs. Therefore it is a good way to learn french. I have found a good site for learning french with cartoons for kids!

Today we'll see a few new words, mostly about pets!

Un chien - a dog
un chat - a cat
une souris - a mouse
courir - to run
un oiseau - a bird
un lion - a lion (we'll look at the pronunciation later!)
un poisson - a fish

Listen to the learning french review phrase of the day!

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Learning French Review - Bonjour

I hoped that you had the chance to listen to the last sound bite and see if you could understand what is said! Learning french is as easy as listening to some french conversation and pretty soon you will develop the ear and understand more and more.

Let's see what the sound bite said! "C'est une belle fin de semaine" meaning "It is a nice weekend". Pretty simple.

Let's review the days of the week:
Monday - Lundi
Tuesday - Mardi
Wednesday - Mercredi
Thursday - Jeudi
Friday - Vendredi
Saturday - Samedi
Sunday - Dimanche

Our learning french review for the day! See if you can understand that little french sound bite!

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Learning French Review - What Is In The News?

Now that it is Saturday and we are firmly into the weekend, let's see what is making the news lately! Looks like the movie "The Incredible Hulk" or in French "L'incroyable Hulk" is making it big at the movie theaters.

In other news, from The Associated Press "President George W. Bush, informed of Russert's death while at dinner in Paris, swiftly issued a statement of condolence that praised the NBC newsman as an institution in both news and politics for more than two decades."

Well it looks like President Bush was in Paris, France for business and likely brushing up on his french as well...

New words for today:
Weekend is: fin de semaine
Going to the movies: aller au cinema or aller voir un film

One more thing, I am going to leave you with a little sound bite. See if you can understand what it says! I'll give you the english translation in the next blog.

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