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Bonjour tout le monde, Je m'appelle David, et je suis ingénieur de ponts aux États-Unis. J’aime la lecture, les sports (surtout le foot et le basket), la science, et faire la cuisine. J’ai étudié le français au lycée pendant 4 ans, mais ça fait un bail ! J'aimerais vraiment améliorer mon niveau de français, parce que j’aime beaucoup la culture française. Je peux vous aider à améliorer votre niveau d’anglais en même temps. Hello everybody, My name is David, and I am a bridge engineer in the United States. I like reading, sports (especially football “soccer” and basketball), science, and cooking. I studied French in high school for 4 years, but it’s been a while! I would really like to improve my French, because I like French culture a lot. I can help you improve your English at the same time.
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    Here is a site with quite a large database of audio that covers a wide variety of topics. Each entry is transcribed as well. Plus, a large number of the entries are in a Youtube format, meaning that you can slow down the playback speed as needed. The site was created by a university professor at UIT de Marseille and the recordings are of French university students ; so it's authentic French. https://francebienvenue1.wordpress.com/
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    August 23, 2016
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    All are perfectly fine. Although, for the second one, "My mother and father didn't get along," sounds a little bit more natural to me.
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    February 11, 2016
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    "Vous connais un homme" is not correct. It should be "Vous connaissez un homme." You may have seen/heard: "Tu connais un homme" which is more familiar. Also, you can say "Je vous connais" which means "I know you." In French object pronouns comme before the verb, usually.
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    February 3, 2016
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    As a stand alone question, it could be closely translated as an informal way to say "What is that?" For example: A: "This weekend, I got an Akita." B: "Which is what?" A: "It's a breed of dog." The general idea is that person "B" is asking the question by implying person "A" should have explained further themselves. Because person "B" doesn't know what an Akita is, they replace "a breed of dog" with the iterrogative pronoun "what." Note that this is informal and may seem a little rude to the other person.
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    February 1, 2016
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    The following is a list of resources that I have found useful, all of which are free, or have a free component to them: Beginner Friendly: There are plenty of Youtube videos geared towards learning French. I recommend Extra French, which is a sitcom style show intended for teaching French. It is mostly in French, but they speak slowly and there are sub-titles. Note: the story and acting are really cheesy, but that’s some of the charm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaNqp4FXh-s TV5Monde is a Global French TV station that has some courses in addition to broadcasts in French. http://www.tv5monde.com/ IE Languages is a website with a lot of vocabulary and grammar (with audio), and also some listening exercises. (It’s geared toward English speakers.) http://ielanguages.com/french.html The French page at About.com is has a lot of grammar articles and some vocabulary, some blog posts, and short stories in French. (It’s geared toward English speakers.) http://french.about.com/ There are plenty of podcasts out there, i use iTunes. I personally used Coffee Break French and Learn French by Podcast (These are geared toward English speakers). Intermediate: France Bienvenue is a website created by a professor in Marseille who has her students record everyday conversations. (This is real conversational French, so it may be daunting to a beginner.) https://francebienvenue1.wordpress.com/ You can also listen to French radio online. I prefer RTL because there is a lot of talk. (Likewise, This is real conversational French, so it may be daunting to a beginner.) http://www.rtl.fr/ You can try watching Youtube videos from France. (Note: you can slow the video playback speed down if you want in Youtube.) I hope some of these can help. What works for one person does not necessarily work for another.
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    January 29, 2016
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    Literally is synonymous with exactly, precisely. However, a lot of times in spoken English, it is used to give emphasis to a statement. For example: "There were literally a million people at my house last night." This is an exageration as the person didn't have one million people at their house, but it really emphasizes that there were a lot of people there.
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    January 15, 2016
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    In general, these prepositions are used with places in the following manner. "On" refers to being on top of or on the surface of a location. "In" refers to being inside of an objects boundaries. (This one is used with coutries and cities: They are in (England, France, China, New York, Prague, Buenos Aires, etc.) "At" is a general location preposition that doesn't emphasize the relation between the two objects. Looking at the following two statements: "He is at the store," only states that he is at the store and does not emphasize any additional relationship between "him" and "the store." He could be inside, outside, on top, in the parking lot of the store, etc. Whereas, "He is in the store," emphasizes the relative location between "him" and "the store." There is no doubt about it, he is inside (not outside, not on top, not in the parking lot). Example: A: I told John to wait for me at the store. Where is he? ("At" used because this statement provides his general location.) B: He told me to tell you that he is in the store. ("In" used because this statement emphasizes that he is inside the sore.) There are some cases, where these rules don't hold, and unless I'm mistaken you will have to learn these as they arise. One example would be if "Person B" from the conversation suddenly remembered additional information about John's location and said the following: B: He also told me that he is buying some bread. So, he is probably on aisle 4. We could probably find a way to rationalize the usage of "on" in the above statement (something along the lines of he's phisically on the floor of aisle 4), but it might be easier to remember that "on" is used in this situation.
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    December 23, 2015
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    Je crois que "tout" veut dire "très" en ces cas. "Un tout petit peu" = "un très petit peu." "Un tout petit garçon" = "un très petit garçon."
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    December 22, 2015
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    In British English, "to ring" means "to call on the telephone." "It was very decent of him to ring and explain." "It was very decent of him to call me on the phone and explain."
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    December 22, 2015
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    Je sais que ceci est la partie française mais en anglais, on dit "Nobody wants to talk about it."
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    December 22, 2015
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