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🇫🇷 French · Fluency Level 1

PART 2 · LESSON 13 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Camille Quizzes Emma on France

Revise for a French citizenship interview with a friend, with the dates, the motto and the symbols every French person learnt at school.

Audio instruction: English

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THE STORY

The staff room after hours, a schoolbook borrowed from Leo, and Camille playing the examiner.

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La Révolution française, c'est quelle année ?lah ray-voh-lew-syoh(n) frah(n)-sehz, seh kehl ah-NAYThe French Revolution, what year is it?
Mille sept cent quatre-vingt-neuf. La prise de la Bastille, le quatorze juillet.meel seh sah(n) kahtr-va(n)-nuhf, lah preez duh lah bahs-teey, luh kah-torz zhwee-YEHSeventeen eighty-nine. The storming of the Bastille, the fourteenth of July.
La prise de la Bastille.lah preez duh lah bahs-TEEYThe storming of the Bastille.
La devise de la République ?lah duh-veez duh lah ray-pew-BLEEKThe motto of the Republic?
Liberté, égalité, fraternité.lee-behr-tay, ay-gah-lee-tay, frah-tehr-nee-TAYLiberty, equality, fraternity.
Et la femme sur les timbres, c'est qui ?ay lah fahm sewr lay ta(n)br, seh KEEAnd the woman on the stamps, who is she?
Marianne. Et le coq, c'est l'animal.mah-ryahn, ay luh kok, seh lah-nee-MAHLMarianne. And the cockerel is the animal.
La laïcité, tu expliques ça comment ?lah lah-ee-see-tay, tew ehks-pleek sah koh-MAH(N)Secularism, how do you explain that? To a friend.
La laïcité.lah lah-ee-see-TAYSecularism.
L'État et les religions sont séparés. Chacun croit ce qu'il veut, et l'école n'en parle pas.lay-tah ay lay ruh-lee-zhyoh(n) soh(n) say-pah-ray, shah-ka(n) krwah suh keel vuh, ay lay-kol nah(n) parl PAHThe State and religions are separate. Everyone believes what they want, and school doesn't talk about it.

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