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🇫🇷 French · Fluency Level 3

PART 3 · LESSON 24 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Improvising a Toast

Be made to speak with a glass in your hand, admit you prepared nothing, and say the three sentences that are enough.

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THE STORY

The village hall after the ceremony, forty people with a glass, Marcel at the front for once, and a speech nobody warned Emma about.

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Un discours ! La Française nous fait un discours !a(n) dees-koor, lah frah(n)-sehz noo feh a(n) dees-KOORA speech! The Frenchwoman gives us a speech!
Un discours !a(n) dees-KOORA speech!
Je n'avais rien préparé.zhuh nah-veh rya(n) pray-pah-RAYI hadn't prepared anything.
C'est mieux. Les discours préparés, on les oublie.seh myuh, lay dees-koor pray-pah-ray, oh(n) lay zoo-BLEEThat's better. Prepared speeches, one forgets them.
Alors je dirai juste ceci. Il y a sept ans, je ne connaissais personne ici.ah-lor zhuh dee-ray zhewst suh-see, eel yah seh tah(n), zhuh nuh koh-neh-seh pehr-son ee-SEEThen I'll just say this. Seven years ago, I knew no one here.
Je dirai juste ceci.zhuh dee-ray zhewst suh-SEEI'll just say this.
Aujourd'hui, vous êtes tous là. Même Marcel, qui n'est pas au fond.oh-zhoor-dwee, voo zeht toos lah, mehm mar-sehl, kee neh pah oh FOH(N)Today, you're all here. Even Marcel, who isn't at the back. To several people.
Et qui a à boire.ay kee ah ah BWAHRAnd who has something to drink.
Alors, à vous. À la France. Et à ceux qui m'ont appris à la parler.ah-lor, ah voo, ah lah frah(n)s, ay ah suh kee moh(n) tah-pree ah lah pahr-LAYSo, to you. To France. And to those who taught me to speak it. To several people.
À vous.ah VOOTo you. To several people.

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