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Coucou mes petits linguistes 🫶🏻
I’ve been waiting a while to send this one to you all.
Who’s your favourite athlete?
I have a lot of American readers and I’m suspecting it will be split differently depending on where you all are from. 🌎
“Y a”, which you’lll find below, is such an important part of spoken French so I’m also really pleased to be addressing it directly today!
As ever there’s lots in this short dialogue.. so get stuck in.
Gros Bisous
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Une Façon d'utiliser ce Dialogue
These dialogues are a very simple tool. Yet this allows them to be versatile and endlessly flexible to you and your learning style.
Here’s one way you could use the dialogue this week:
🏃♀️Identify each verb in the dialogue and list its conjugation and infinitives.
(this one’s a little more advanced)
Qui est ton athlète préféré ? ⛹🏾♂️🎾
Dialogue du Jour
Éthan : Louise, qui est ton athlète préféré ?
Louise : Oh, sans aucun doute, c'est Roger Federer. Je pense qu'il est le plus grand joueur de tennis de tous les temps.
Éthan : Pourquoi lui ?
Louise : Y a ✪ un mot pour le décrire : sublime. C'était juste un génie sur le court. Et il a gagné beaucoup de trophées, bien sûr.
Éthan : Et j’ai eu l'impression ✪… il a l'air de ✪ s'améliorer avec l'âge, comme un bon vin.