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🇫🇷 French · Beginner Level 1

PART 2 · LESSON 18 OF 30 · 40 MINUTES

Your Family

Lunch at Chloe's parents' goes on for hours, and the family asks about Emma's family in Chicago. Ask about brothers and sisters, say he, she and they, ask and say how old people are, say older and younger, married and single, and where your parents live and what they do. Then Leo asks the questions you're not supposed to ask, and at last the strawberries come out.

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THE STORY

Lunch at Chloe's parents' goes on for hours. Patrick pours more wine, Sylvie brings out the cheese, and now it's Emma's turn to answer questions about her family back in Chicago. Then Leo, who is sixteen, asks the questions you're not supposed to ask, and at last Sylvie brings out the strawberries. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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des frères et sœursday frehr ay SUHRbrothers and sisters
Vous avez des frères et sœurs ?voo-zah-VAY day frehr ay SUHRDo you have brothers and sisters?
Tu as combien de frères ?tew ah koh(n)-bya(n) duh FREHRHow many brothers do you have?
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ils onteel-ZOH(N)they have
quel âgekeh-LAHZHwhat age
Ils ont quel âge ?eel-zoh(n) keh-LAHZHHow old are they?
trente-deux anstrah(n)t-duh-ZAH(N)thirty-two years old
Mon frère a trente-deux ans.moh(n) FREHR ah trah(n)t-duh-ZAH(N)My brother is thirty-two.

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