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EP 2 | Qu’est-ce que je déteste le plus ? (What do I hate the most?) · The Learn French With Alexa Podcast

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  Bonjour et bienvenue at Learn French with Alexa, the podcast.
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  The podcast. Now, in this podcast, I'm going
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  to read you a short passage in French based on a fun fact about
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  me, Alexa Polidoro. And you may think, "Well, who
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  are you?". Just in case the algorithm has
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  taken you to me, well, I'm Alexa from Learn French with Alexa,
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  and you are here to learn some French, just in case you don't
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  know what you're doing here. Anyway, quite simple, I'm going
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  to read you a fun fact about me, and we are going to ask you, or
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  we, as in I, myself and I, are going to ask you a question
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  based on this. So what we are going to do is
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  read it the first time, then I will ask you a question based on
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  this very fun fact of mine. Okay?
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  Are you ready? Now, the focus of today's
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  passage is about adjectives, okay?
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  So try to spot the adjectives. So listen really carefully to
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  the text, and try to spot the adjectives, if you can.
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  If you cannot, it's okay. I'm going to point them out in a
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  minute. Okay.
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  Écoutez attentivement. Il y a plusieurs choses que je
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  déteste dans la vie. En voici deux.
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  D'abord, c'est d'avoir des chaussettes mouillées.
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  Il n'y a rien de pire que de marcher dans l'eau en
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  chaussettes. Pour moi, la sensation est
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  tellement désagréable que je dois les enlever tout de suite.
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  Et puis, je n'aime pas quand les gens ne respectent pas mon
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  espace personnel. Il n'y a aucune raison de se
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  coller aux autres. Okay.
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  So this is another fun fact about me.
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  Did you get it? Now, the question is going to be
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  quite leading, and you're going to understand what the text is
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  about. Here's the question.
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  Qu'est-ce que je déteste le plus ?
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  Now, if I start a question with 'qu'est-ce que,' it means what
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  is it, okay? Now, literal translation is what
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  is it that. Qu'est-ce que.
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  What is it that je déteste, I detest or hate, le plus, the
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  most. Okay?
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  Now, listen to the text a second time and answer this question:
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  Qu'est-ce que je déteste le plus ?
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  What is it I hate the most? Here we go.
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  Il y a plusieurs choses que je déteste dans la vie.
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  En voici deux. D'abord, c'est d'avoir les
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  chaussettes mouillées. Il n'y a rien de pire que de
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  marcher dans l'eau en chaussettes.
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  Pour moi, la sensation est tellement désagréable que je
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  dois les enlever tout de suite. Et puis, je n'aime pas quand les
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  gens ne respectent pas mon espace personnel.
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  Il n'y a aucune raison de se coller aux autres.
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  Okay. Now we've listened to the text
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  twice. We know the question: Qu'est-ce
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  que je déteste le plus ? What is it I hate the most?
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  What did you hear? Hmm.
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  I heard the word 'chaussettes' twice when I read it.
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  Chaussettes. That means socks.
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  But what is it I hate the most about socks?
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  Now, the adjective 'mouillées' here is really important.
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  Mouillées means wet. Mouillées.
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  Chaussettes mouillées. Wet socks.
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  Now, usually in French, and this is what you have to understand,
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  is that the adjective comes after the noun, except for some,
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  and there is an exception to the rule, okay?
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  Now, in this case, chaussettes mouillées is wet socks.
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  So mouillées is wet, and chaussettes is socks.
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  Okay? Mouillées.
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  Mouillées. Can you say that?
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  Mouillées. So les chaussettes mouillées is
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  one of the things I hate the most.
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  Don't ask me why. I don't know why, okay?
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  Je déteste avoir les chaussettes mouillées.
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  Okay? Pourquoi?
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  Parce que c'est une sensation désagréable.
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  Now, here's another adjective. Désagréable.
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  Désagréable, c'est le contraire d'agréable.
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  Agreeable. Désagréable, disagreeable.
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  And do you know what is the second thing I hate the most?
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  Did you hear 'mon espace personnel'?
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  Yes. My personal space.
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  Okay? Quand les gens ne respectent pas
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  mon espace personnel. It's when people, les gens, ne
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  respectent pas, do not respect. Here you've got the negation
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  'ne,' and then the verb 'respectent' and 'pas,' which is
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  not. Ne pas.
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  When they do not respect my personal space.
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  Okay? And then I add on to the text
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  'il n'y a aucune raison de se coller aux autres'.
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  There is no reason, aucune, as in not at all, no reason to
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  stick to someone else or to be really close.
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  De se coller. Now, coller means to glue or
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  stick, okay? De se coller.
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  So it's to stick right up against other people, les
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  autres. Okay?
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  So to answer the question: Qu'est-ce que je déteste le plus
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  ? Je déteste les chaussettes
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  mouillées parce que la sensation est désagréable.
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  Et la deuxième chose, je déteste quand les gens ne respectent pas
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  mon espace personnel. Now, here's my question.
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  I'm going to read the text again.
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  What do you hate the most ? Qu'est-ce que vous détestez le
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  plus ? Here's the text again.
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  Listen really carefully. Il y a plusieurs choses que je
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  déteste dans la vie. En voici deux.
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  D'abord, c'est d'avoir les chaussettes mouillées.
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  Il n'y a rien de pire que de marcher dans l'eau en
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  chaussettes. Pour moi, la sensation est
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  tellement désagréable que je dois les enlever tout de suite.
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  Et puis, je n'aime pas quand les gens ne respectent pas mon
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  espace personnel. Il n'y a aucune raison de se
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  coller aux autres. OK.
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  Now we've read this text three times.
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  How much of it do you understand?
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  And could you write down what you hate the most?
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  Ce que je déteste le plus. What I hate the most is.
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  Ce que je déteste le plus, c'est...
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  And then you tell me. It could be anything.
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  This is only two of many things that I hate the most.
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  And you will hear about that because I have some really odd
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  quirks. Now, let's have a look at the
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  text one last time and we are going to translate it together.
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  Il y a plusieurs choses que je déteste dans la vie.
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  There are several things I hate in life.
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  En voici deux. Here are two of them.
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  D'abord, c'est d'avoir les chaussettes mouillées.
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  Firstly, I hate having wet socks.
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  First is d'abord. Il n'y a rien de pire que de
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  marcher dans l'eau en chaussettes.
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  There is nothing worse, pire, worse, than walking through
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  water in socks. En chaussettes.
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  In your socks. Pour moi, for me, la sensation
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  est tellement désagréable que je dois les enlever tout de suite.
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  The feeling is so unpleasant that I have to take them off
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  straight away. Tout de suite.
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  Straight away. Et puis, and then or secondly,
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  je n'aime pas quand les gens ne respectent pas mon espace
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  personnel. I don't like it when people
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  don't respect my personal space. Il n'y a aucune raison de se
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  coller aux autres. There is no reason to stick
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  right up against other people. Don't you think?
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  Of course, this is my personal opinion, by the way.
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  And I can imagine that some people would enjoy the
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  chaussettes mouillées... or not. I don't know.
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  Tell me. I want you to tell me what you
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  hate the most. OK?
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  Or is it just me and my funny pet peeves?
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  Right. Now, the adjectives that I
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  wanted you to have a look at were mouillées as in wet,
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  chaussettes mouillées, désagréable, disagreeable,
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  personnel, espace personnel, personal space.
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  Again, here the adjective comes after the noun.
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  There are many adjectives that come before the noun and there
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  are rules. And I follow all of that at
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  Learn French with Alexa, my complete and very popular
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  Complete French Course on my website
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  learnfrenchwithalexa.com. See, I sponsor my own podcast.
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  Well, you may as well. Now, remember, all adjective has
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  to agree in gender and number with the word it is related to.
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  If chaussette is feminine, then mouillée will be feminine.
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  If chaussettes is feminine plural, mouillées will have to
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  reflect that feminine plural. In my case, mouillées ends in
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  '-ées'. You can't hear it, but it's
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  definitely written like that. Otherwise, it's a spelling
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  mistake. And for more like this, keep on
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  listening. We are Learn French with Alexa.
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  Bisou bisou!