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🇫🇷 French · Intermediate Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 4 OF 30 · 32 MINUTES

We'll Take It!

Saturday the fifteenth of January 2028, the fourth lesson of this level. Eleven in the morning, a little street on the slopes, and the owner at the door with the keys. A pram by the letterboxes, a lift that is old but works, and on the third floor a balcony over the Saone. Emma says we'll take it before Hugo has seen the bedrooms. Then the file, where the owner asks for payslips Emma doesn't have, wants a guarantor by Monday and has two other couples waiting. At seven, Chicago on a video call, and her father's question gets its answer at last. Say we'll take it, with the little word for it before the verb, and I haven't got any, I'm self-employed, with the little word for of them in a negative.

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THE STORY

Saturday the fifteenth of January 2028, eleven in the morning, a little street on the slopes of the Croix-Rousse, five minutes down from the school. At the door, the agent, and a man of about sixty-five with a ring of keys, the owner. A pram by the letterboxes, a lift that works, and on the third floor a living room that opens onto a balcony over the Saone. Emma has decided before the tour is over. Then the owner opens a folder, and the morning changes. This is the conversation you'll be able to say by the end of the lesson.

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une poussetteewn poo-SEHTa pram
Une poussette ! Il y a un bébé dans l'immeuble ?ewn poo-seht eel yah a(n) bay-bay dah(n) lee-MUHBLA pram! Is there a baby in the building?
il est vieuxeel eh VYUHit's old
Il est vieux, mais il marche !eel eh vyuh meh eel MARSHIt's old, but it works!
soixante-huit mètres carrésswah-sah(n)t-weet meh-truh kah-RAYsixty-eight square metres
Soixante-huit mètres carrés, deux chambres, et un balcon sur la Saône.swah-sah(n)t-weet meh-truh kah-ray duh shah(n)br ay a(n) bahl-koh(n) sewr lah SOHNSixty-eight square metres, two bedrooms, and a balcony over the Saone.
Pas une seule marche !pah-zewn suhl MARSHNot a single step!
On le prend !oh(n) luh PRAH(N)We'll take it!
Mille cent cinquante euros par mois, charges comprises.meel sah(n) sa(n)-kah(n)t uh-roh par mwah sharzh koh(n)-PREEZEleven hundred and fifty euros a month, charges included.
Vous entendez ? Un bébé pleure.voo-zah(n)-tah(n)-day a(n) bay-bay PLUHRCan you hear? A baby's crying.

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