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🇫🇷 French · Advanced Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 24 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Local Paper

Answer a journalist, confirm what you were told, sum up a year, and report what you have always answered.

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THE STORY

A journalist with a notebook, one year after the one-euro sale.

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Emma, on m'a dit que vous aviez repris cette école pour un euro. C'est vrai ?eh-mah, oh(n) mah dee kuh voo zah-vyay ruh-pree seht ay-kol poor a(n) nuh-roh, seh VREHEmma, I was told you'd taken over this school for one euro. Is that true? Politely.
C'est vrai. Un euro, et les dettes qui allaient avec.seh vreh, a(n) nuh-roh, ay lay deht kee ah-leh ah-VEHKIt's true. One euro, and the debts that went with it.
Qu'est-ce qui a changé en un an ?kehs kee ah shah(n)-zhay ah(n) na(n) NAH(N)What has changed in one year?
Les horaires, le site, la machine à café. Et nous avons vingt élèves de plus.lay zoh-rehr, luh seet, lah mah-sheen ah kah-fay, ay noo zah-voh(n) va(n) tay-lehv duh PLEWSThe hours, the website, the coffee machine. And we have twenty more students.
Nous avons vingt élèves de plus.noo zah-voh(n) va(n) tay-lehv duh PLEWSWe have twenty more students.
On dit que votre voisine d'en face casse les prix.oh(n) dee kuh votr vwah-zeen dah(n) fahs kahs lay PREEPeople say your neighbour across the street is slashing prices. Politely.
On me l'a demandé souvent cette année.oh(n) muh lah duh-mah(n)-day soo-vah(n) seh tah-NAYI've been asked that often this year.
J'ai toujours répondu que nos élèves ne venaient pas pour le prix.zhay too-zhoor ray-poh(n)-dew kuh noh zay-lehv nuh vuh-neh pah poor luh PREEI've always answered that our students didn't come for the price.
J'ai répondu que c'était vrai.zhay ray-poh(n)-dew kuh say-teh VREHI answered that it was true.
Ils viennent pour quoi, alors ?eel vyehn poor kwah, ah-LORWhat do they come for, then?

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