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EP 4 | Qu’est-ce que je n’aime pas faire ? (What do I not like to do?) · The Learn French With Alexa Podcast

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  Bonjour tout le monde et bienvenue à notre podcast, à
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  Learn French with Alexa. Today's podcast is number four.
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  You know the drill, I will read a short passage in French based
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  on a fun fact about me, Alexa Polidoro.
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  So if you're listening to it and do not know me, that should be
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  quite interesting. You're going to think, but why,
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  or why should I listen to fun facts about you?
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  You don't have to listen. But this one is quite fun.
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  Now, the text is of A1-A2 level in French, which means that it's
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  beginners-intermediate level. So remember that this podcast is
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  all about understanding the grammar and practicing your
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  listening skills. Okay?
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  I'm going to read the first passage of a fun fact on me,
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  Alexa Polidoro, and then we'll ask you a question, and maybe
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  two questions. Who knows?
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  Okay. Now, the focus of this
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  particular passage is based on idioms using the verb faire or
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  avoir. We're going to have a look at
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  the idioms in a minute. But first of all, read-- not
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  read, but listen very carefully. Écoutez attentivement.
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  I'm not telling you what it's about because you're going to
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  tell me in a minute what you think the text is about.
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  So here we go. Je vais vous faire une
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  confidence. Moi, j'ai horreur de faire la
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  bise. En effet, quand on pense à la
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  France, on pense souvent à la bise.
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  La bise, c'est faire un bisou sur les deux joues pour dire
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  bonjour à quelqu'un. Et alors, attention, les règles
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  ne sont pas les mêmes partout. En général, c'est deux, comme à
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  Paris, mais à Marseille ou à Montpellier, c'est parfois
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  trois, et quatre en Normandie. Vous imaginez ?
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  Dans ma région, on en fait deux pour dire bonjour et au revoir.
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  Okay, so what is the podcast about?
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  Now, you may have heard the word bise quite a lot, and that's
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  exactly the title of the podcast.
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  Faire la bise. What is faire la bise?
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  And that's part of our first idiom.
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  Now, to do a kiss, or to make a kiss is faire la bise in French,
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  but it's not any kind of kisses. Okay?
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  So when you do a kiss, when you "fais la bise", it means that
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  you say hello to someone. In France, we kiss on both
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  cheeks, but sometimes three times, and sometimes four times.
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  So faire la bise is basically when you kiss someone hello or
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  au revoir. Okay?
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  So here's my first question. I'm going to read it to you
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  again. Qu'est-ce que je n'aime pas
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  faire ? So this is about me.
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  Qu'est-ce que je n'aime pas faire ?
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  Or, qu'est-ce qu'Alexa n'aime pas faire ?
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  Okay, so listen to it again. Qu'est-ce que means what.
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  What is it? Je n'aime pas is a negation.
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  Ne, aime, pas. When you hear ne and pas, it
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  means not. Okay, so what is it I do not
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  like to do? Qu'est-ce que je n'aime pas
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  faire ? So try to answer in French if
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  possible. If not, just answer in English.
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  But listen to the passage again. Now, we've had a look at the
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  first idiom, faire la bise. How many other idioms can you
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  see? Listen very carefully.
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  Écoutez attentivement. Je vais vous faire une
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  confidence. Moi, j'ai horreur de faire la
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  bise. En effet, quand on pense à la
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  France, on pense souvent à la bise.
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  La bise, c'est faire un bisou sur les deux joues pour dire
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  bonjour à quelqu'un. Et alors, attention, les règles
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  ne sont pas les mêmes partout. En général, c'est deux, comme à
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  Paris, mais à Marseille ou à Montpellier, c'est parfois
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  trois, et quatre en Normandie. Vous imaginez ?
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  Dans ma région, on en fait deux pour dire bonjour et au revoir.
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  Okay, so we've listened to the passage a second time.
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  Can you answer: Qu'est-ce que je n'aime pas faire ?
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  This one is quite obvious. What is it I do not like doing?
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  So this is a fun fact about me. Of course, it's faire la bise.
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  To say hello, kissing people on both cheeks.
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  And can you imagine if I had to do it three times or four times?
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  In my region, we do it only twice.
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  Faire la bise is not my favorite thing in the world.
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  There are many things I don't like.
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  If you listen to the podcast, you would realise that actually,
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  I'm very difficult. Je n'aime pas faire la bise
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  would be the answer to this question.
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  However, if you wanted to say, well, Alexa does not like
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  kissing to say hello, you would say, Alexa n'aime pas faire la
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  bise. So the verb remains the same.
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  It's the present tense. The ending for je and il, elle
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  or on is exactly the same. It's an E.
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  So je n'aime pas, il n'aime pas, elle n'aime pas, on n'aime pas,
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  etc. And what about you?
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  How do you feel about faire la bise?
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  So you could say, I like it, j'aime faire la bise.
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  Or you could say, I do not like it, je n'aime pas faire la bise.
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  Now, here is a second question before we move on to reading the
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  text another time. Dans quelle région fait-on
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  quatre bises pour dire bonjour ? Dans quelle région ?
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  Quelle région means which region.
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  Dans quelle région, in which region, fait-on quatre bises
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  pour dire bonjour ? We do four kisses to say hello.
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  Which region in France ? So listen really carefully.
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  As I said, sometimes we do deux bises, sometimes trois bises,
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  and sometimes quatre bises. Listen very carefully.
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  Je vais vous faire une confidence.
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  Moi, j'ai horreur de faire la bise.
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  En effet, quand on pense à la France, on pense souvent à la
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  bise. La bise, c'est faire un bisou
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  sur les joues pour dire bonjour à quelqu'un.
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  Et alors, attention, les règles ne sont pas les mêmes partout.
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  En général, c'est deux comme à Paris, mais à Marseille ou à
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  Montpellier, c'est parfois trois, et quatre en Normandie.
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  Vous imaginez ? Dans ma région, on en fait deux
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  pour dire bonjour et au revoir. And two in my region is far
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  enough for me anyway. So the question is : dans quelle
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  région fait-on quatre bises pour dire bonjour ?
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  In which region do we do four kisses to say hello, or goodbye
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  for that matter, by the way, ou au revoir.
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  So what do you think ? Did you hear ?
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  Well, Normandie. The Normandie region, which is
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  the west side of-- sorry, North, West is Brittany.
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  Normandie is not at all. It's west of Paris, if you wish.
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  So en Normandie, on fait quatre bises pour dire bonjour et au
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  revoir. So that would be your ideal
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  answer. En Normandie, on fait quatre
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  fois la bise pour dire bonjour. Now, do you remember that the
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  focus of this podcast was about idioms ?
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  So we've learned one, faire la bise, to kiss hello or goodbye.
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  Now, another one was faire une confidence.
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  So je vais vous faire une confidence.
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  I am going to let you in a secret.
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  This is me letting you in my confidence.
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  Je vais faire une confidence is part of an idiom using the verb
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  faire. And by the way, at Learn French
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  with Alexa, the full complete French course has a full lesson
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  on the verb faire and activities such as faire du piano, faire de
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  la trompette, etc., in lesson eight of the full course, if
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  you're interested in checking this one out.
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  So faire la bise, faire une confidence.
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  And the third idiom was avoir horreur de.
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  Now, this is the second sentence.
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  Moi, j'ai horreur de faire la bise.
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  So within that sentence, you've got two idioms.
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  Avoir horreur, j'ai horreur. Of course, we have conjugated
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  avoir in the present tense. I have horror of.
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  So that means I detest or I hate doing that.
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  But the idiom is avoir horreur de.
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  Again, there are many idioms using avoir + something + de.
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  So another thing I could think of is avoir besoin de, to need
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  something, whereby you would have to conjugate the verb avoir
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  in whatever tense you want and add besoin, then de.
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  So avoir besoin de means to need something.
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  But avoir horreur de means to hate.
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  Avoir envie de, to feel like something.
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  So there's quite a few. Again, we cover that in the
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  course. So three idioms.
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  Faire une confidence, faire la bise, avoir horreur de.
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  now. Je vais vous faire une
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  confidence. We know what that means.
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  I'm going to let you in a secret.
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  Moi, j'ai horreur de faire la bise.
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  I hate kissing people on the cheek to say hello.
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  That's basically faire la bise means that.
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  En effet, quand on pense à la France, In fact, when you think
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  of France, on pense souvent à la bise.
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  We often think of the bise. La bise, c'est faire un bisou
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  sur les deux joues. The bise is when you kiss
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  someone on both cheeks to say hello.
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  Pour dire bonjour à quelqu'un, to someone.
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  Mais, et alors attention. But be careful.
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  Les règles ne sont pas les mêmes partout.
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  The rules aren't the same everywhere.
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  Partout means everywhere. En général, c'est deux comme à
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  Paris. Generally, en général ou
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  généralement, you can say it's two, as in Paris.
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  In Paris, it's two. Mais à Marseille ou à
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  Montpellier, so the southern Marseille and Montpellier, c'est
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  parfois trois. It is sometimes three kisses.
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  Parfois trois. Et quatre en Normandie.
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  So when you say you're going to bonjour, quatre fois.
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  If you've got to do and say hello to about 10 or 20 people
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  in front of you that you know, if it's a wedding or whatever,
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  that's what you would have to do.
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  Now, can you imagine ? Vous imaginez ?
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  Dans ma région, on en fait deux pour dire bonjour et au revoir.
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  In my region, we do two to say hello and goodbye.
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  Now I'm going to tell you a little story that when I was at
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  school, in high school back in the '80s, that's telling you my
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  age, when I was a teenager, we used to faire la bise every time
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  we saw someone in the morning. And usually not necessarily
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  friends, but if you said hello to your friend and kissed them
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  hello, like faire la bise, you would have to faire la bise to
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  every single one next to them, even though you're not friend
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  with them or you don't know them personally.
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  Okay? And the same goes for au revoir.
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  So every single morning, every single evening, you would have
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  to faire la bise. That was a common practice, and
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  it was a polite way to say hello.
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  Now, can you imagine my state every time I saw a friend that
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  was surrounded by about 20 schoolmates?
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  I hated it because that means I had to say hello to every single
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  one of them by kissing them. You're going to think, "Well,
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  Alex, you have an issue." Yes, I do.
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  As a matter of fact, I don't know whether it's a hygiene
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  thing or whatever, but yeah. Unless you're my super good
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  friend, I'm not going to do that.
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  Anyway, now you know. So in today's podcast, we have
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  seen three idioms, faire une confidence, avoir horreur de,
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  and faire la bise. Now, of course, for more
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  podcasts like this, and in order to practice your listening
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  comprehension, why don't you have a look at the other
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  podcasts of this very series that I have already done.
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  Please let us know whether you like this format or not, okay?
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  It's very much up to you. If you want to see a different
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  format, let me know as well, and I will start a series on that
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  very format. Whatever works.
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  That's it for me. Au revoir, à bientôt, bisou,
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  bisou.