Latest / The Learn French With Alexa Podcast / EP 3 | Quand est-ce que je suis née ? (When was I born?)

Transcript

EP 3 | Quand est-ce que je suis née ? (When was I born?) · The Learn French With Alexa Podcast

• 0:00
  A Bonjour AB avenue I learned French with Alexa for another
• 0:04
  podcast. Now this series is quite simple.
• 0:08
  You're going to hear a small text based on a fun fact about
• 0:13
  me Alexa Polidoro. Now, if you learned it here just
• 0:18
  because the algorithm took it here, you may not know who I am,
• 0:22
  but I'm a French teacher, Alexa Polidoro from Learn French with
• 0:26
  Alexa. Now stick with us, OK, because
• 0:29
  you're going to do an exercise, a listening exercise.
• 0:34
  I'm going to run you through some grammar as well as we go
• 0:37
  along. Let's listen to another fun fact
• 0:39
  about me. Alexa Politoho.
• 0:42
  I'm going to ask you a question after the first reading of this
• 0:45
  text and maybe a second question if we've got time.
• 0:49
  Listen very carefully. Equity attentive MO Noel
• 0:55
  Gallagher Busave le chanteur de groupe de Roc Oasis EMOI Avon
• 1:01
  shows and coma Eno SE NI PA montalon musical male rosmo nu
• 1:08
  parte Jean le meme anniversaire SE tadir le vant northeast par
• 1:14
  Contra no El Gallagher a quetron de prize que Moi bizarme SE to
• 1:21
  silla that Danny Versaire de John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
• 1:27
  OK, this is another fun fact about me.
• 1:30
  As you know, this whole series of the podcast is all about fun
• 1:33
  facts about Alex Apolidoro. Not that people care, but I
• 1:37
  thought I would use that as a subject for my text.
• 1:40
  Anyways, here's the first question.
• 1:44
  Can't ask just Winnie. Com means when.
• 1:48
  Can't ask just Winnie. Now juh swiney is the way.
• 1:54
  In French we say I was born. Bizarrely, we're using sui am I
• 2:00
  am born. So you may wonder, but why when
• 2:03
  I say I was born in French we say I am born?
• 2:07
  That's because the verb net to be born is used in a passe
• 2:13
  composite, as in the past tense with the auxiliary verb to be.
• 2:18
  And when we do a pasi compose, we use an auxiliary verb in the
• 2:23
  present tense and we add a past participle.
• 2:27
  I've lost you, haven't I? Well, let me rewind now.
• 2:32
  Je means AI, si means AM northeast N EE in that case is
• 2:39
  born and northeast Here is a past participle of the verb
• 2:44
  netre net, which is considered as a movement verb.
• 2:49
  Weirdly and all the movement verbs are using the auxiliary to
• 2:55
  be in the basic composite. So can't translate it by I was
• 3:01
  born. No, can't do that in French.
• 3:04
  You have to say I am born and weirdly, and this is a fun fact,
• 3:09
  not about me, but when you use to die, it is also constructed
• 3:18
  the same way. So if you wanted to say I I am
• 3:25
  dead or I died, not that you would ever do that because you'd
• 3:29
  be dead, but imagine I died. It would be I am dead.
• 3:36
  OK, so GE three more because the verb is more here and Maurier is
• 3:43
  also considered like a movement verb and therefore in the passe
• 3:46
  composite is used with the auxiliary verb ETR.
• 3:51
  OK, so in order to answer this question, can't ask contesques
• 3:56
  just when was I born? Listen to the text one more
• 4:00
  time. Listen very carefully.
• 4:03
  Noel Gallagher Mousavi le chanteur du groupe de Roc Oasis
• 4:08
  ET Moi avoir en chosen coma Eno SE EPA montalon musical MI le
• 4:14
  rosmo nu parta Jean le meme anniversaire SE tadier le vant
• 4:20
  noff me par contr no El Gallagher a quatrone de plus
• 4:25
  cumois bizarre MO SE tosi la de de niversa de John Fitzgerald
• 4:29
  Kennedy, Right. Can you answer?
• 4:33
  When I was born, Did you hear that in a text?
• 4:36
  Yeah. Le van Neve me the 29th of May,
• 4:42
  but we said the 29th May le vent northeast may see la dat de mun
• 4:48
  naniversaire. It's my birthday, the date of my
• 4:52
  birthday. Can you tell me when yours is
• 4:55
  kele la dat de votre anniversaire?
• 4:59
  So to answer this question, you would say la dat de mun
• 5:03
  naniversaire ay, and whenever your birthday is.
• 5:08
  Now here's the second question esque Noel Gallagher a Prussian
• 5:14
  como. Is Noel Gallagher younger than
• 5:18
  me? Now listen really carefully and
• 5:21
  tell me we Oh no Noel Gallagher Mousavi le chanteur de groupe de
• 5:28
  Roc Oasis EMOI avoin chosen coma Eno SE EPA Montano musical mala
• 5:34
  rosmo nu parte Jean le Mani versaire southeast a die
• 5:38
  relevante nafme a contr Noel Gallagher a catron de preuss que
• 5:44
  Moi bizarmo SE to silla DA de niverse de Jean Fitzgerald
• 5:49
  Kennedy. OK, so to answer esque Noel
• 5:52
  Gallagher E Preuss Jean que Moi. Is Noel Gallagher younger than
• 5:57
  me now? Preuss Jean que more young than
• 6:03
  preview que would be more old than now.
• 6:07
  This is called a comparative OK plus plus adjective and then CU
• 6:13
  OK and if you had more plus adjective and then CU it will be
• 6:18
  less than now. Can you answer whether Noel
• 6:24
  Gallagher is younger than me or not?
• 6:27
  Well, in the text that say Noel Gallagher are Catron de plus CU
• 6:35
  MO, what does that mean? Noel Gallagher is 4 years older
• 6:44
  than me ILA Catron four years more than me ILA Catron de Prix
• 6:49
  Comois. OK, when you're going to give
• 6:52
  your age, you don't say I am for example 35.
• 6:58
  You would say in French I have 35 years, so JE Tran St. con.
• 7:05
  So the same goes for well, he is 4 years older.
• 7:09
  You would say he has four year more than you Don Quix Ella
• 7:15
  catron de Proust catois or quinoa For me in that case, to
• 7:21
  answer the question, is Noel Gallagher younger a Persian
• 7:25
  quinoa then you would say no. Noel Gallagher a preview Quetois
• 7:33
  Elie preview is older by four years.
• 7:37
  OK, so this is quite difficult. OK, fun fact, Noel Gallagher was
• 7:43
  born in 1967. That tells you my age.
• 7:46
  Now if you've listened to the text, I am not going to reveal
• 7:51
  my age unless you're very good at maths.
• 7:55
  Well, you don't need to be very good at maths to work out how
• 7:58
  old I am, OK? Anyway, we're going to read it
• 8:03
  one more time, OK, with the translation to help you a bit
• 8:07
  more, and that should become much clearer.
• 8:11
  Noel Gallagher, Mousavi Le Chanter, the group the rock
• 8:15
  Oasis. So Noel Gallagher, you know, the
• 8:19
  lead singer of the rock band Oasis, the group the rock EI Moi
• 8:26
  avoir in shows and comma. So Noel Gallagher and I and me,
• 8:31
  we have nu savant unchos en coma.
• 8:35
  One thing in common, No SE northeast par montalon musical
• 8:40
  and no, it's not my physical talent.
• 8:44
  You know, Malo Rosmo, unfortunately, Malo Rosmo nu
• 8:49
  parte Jean le meme anniversaire. We share the same birthday sita
• 8:55
  dia, which means Levant neuf may Levant neuf may the 29th of May
• 9:03
  Noel Gallagher a Catron de Prisco noir.
• 9:07
  Noel Gallagher is 4 years older than me.
• 9:11
  Now remember what I've said, when you give your age you need
• 9:14
  to use avoir. So je Trinton, I'm 30 years, J
• 9:21
  Sanconto I'm 50 years and so on. OK?
• 9:24
  Do not say je suis Sanconto, je suis ton doesn't work in French.
• 9:29
  OK? Now Noel Gallagher is 4 years
• 9:32
  older than me, OK? Bizarre.
• 9:37
  Strangely, bizarrely. OK, so to see like that Danny
• 9:41
  Verser de John fits the old Kennedy, I can't say it.
• 9:46
  It is Also John fits the old Kennedy's birthday.
• 9:49
  OK, and Latoya Jackson by by the way, just in case, you know, you
• 9:57
  want to know, we did some research on who, what famous
• 10:01
  person was born on the 29th of May, right?
• 10:05
  So we've read that text, we've listened to it three times, OK,
• 10:10
  and we've translated it. OK, Now what I want to emphasize
• 10:14
  on 2 words, Malorosmo and Bizarmo.
• 10:18
  Now Manor rousman means unfortunately and bizarman means
• 10:22
  strangely or bizarrely. Now these are called adverbs of
• 10:26
  manner. OK?
• 10:28
  And the way we create those we have to do 2 things.
• 10:33
  Take an adjective Manor, which is unhappy.
• 10:37
  OK, in order to form Manor rousman, what we've done is that
• 10:42
  we take Manor Roux, the masculine adjective form, put it
• 10:46
  into its feminine adjective form, which is malorose, and all
• 10:51
  we need to do afterwards is add more malorose MO, unfortunately.
• 10:57
  And so we do the same for bizarre MO.
• 10:59
  Bizarre is the adjective, it is bizarre.
• 11:03
  The feminine adjective for bizarre is bizarre because it
• 11:06
  ends with an E anyway, and we add more bizarre MO.
• 11:11
  Now, can you form an adverb using rapid?
• 11:15
  Rapid, that means fast. Now rapid, this adjective, what
• 11:21
  would be rapidly or fast, rapid de Mont, exactly.
• 11:27
  OK, you get it. I cover how to form in great
• 11:31
  detail the adverb of manner, and I also run through tons of
• 11:37
  different adverbs as well in my complete French course Learn
• 11:41
  French with Alexa, which you can find at Learn French with
• 11:44
  alexa.com. And if you don't know who I am,
• 11:47
  I am the YouTube Alexa Polidoro from the very popular YouTube
• 11:54
  channel Learn French with Alexa. That's it for me.
• 11:57
  Au revoir abiento bisu bisu.