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EP 1 | Quel est mon passe-temps préféré ? (What is my favourite hobby?) · The Learn French With Alexa Podcast

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  Bonjour et bienvenue à Learn French with Alexa.
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  In today's podcast, 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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  Now, this text is of A1/A2 level, which means it is of
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  beginner/intermediate level. This exercise is all about
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  understanding grammar and practicing your listening
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  skills, so you've got to listen really carefully.
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  Now, what I'm going to do, I will start reading the text
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  first, then ask you a question about the text, which is not
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  long, which we will then answer together after the second
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  reading. And if we are brave enough, I
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  may ask you a second question. So you've got to concentrate.
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  I'm going to read it at a slow pace, which I think will help
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  you understand the first question.
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  Now, the focus of this paragraph is the present tense, which
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  means that a lot of those verbs are in the present tense.
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  Actually, all of them, for that matter.
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  Listen very carefully. Écoutez attentivement.
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  J'aime chercher des fossiles sur la plage.
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  J'adore cette activité parce que ça me détend.
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  J'aime être seule pour pouvoir me ressourcer et me vider la
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  tête. Je prends souvent des outils
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  avec moi, comme une truelle ou un marteau.
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  Et pour protéger mes genoux, j'utilise quelque chose qui
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  s'appelle des genouillères. Pendant quelques heures, je ne
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  pense pas au travail. Si je peux, j'essaie d'y aller
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  toutes les deux semaines. So we've read the text once.
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  What is it about, do you think? I'm going to ask you the first
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  question, which may be leading to the answer to that.
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  What is this text about? It's a fun fact about me, and
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  they're all real. So throughout the series of this
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  podcast, you will hear some crazy things about me.
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  Now, first question: Quel est mon passe-temps préféré ?
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  Now, quel is what or which. Est is is.
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  Quel est mon passe-temps préféré ?
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  So you can imagine that passe-temps sounds like pastime
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  or hobby, and préféré sounds like preferred.
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  So what is it I'm asking you? That's right.
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  What is my preferred hobby? And it is in the text.
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  Did you hear it? And can you answer this
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  question? Here is the second reading.
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  J'aime chercher des fossiles sur la plage.
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  J'adore cette activité parce que ça me détend.
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  J'aime être seule pour pouvoir me ressourcer et me vider la
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  tête. Je prends souvent des outils
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  avec moi, comme une truelle ou un marteau.
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  Et pour protéger mes genoux, j'utilise quelque chose qui
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  s'appelle des genouillères. Pendant quelques heures, je ne
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  pense pas au travail. Si je peux, j'essaie d'y aller
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  toutes les deux semaines. The answer to the first
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  question, quel est mon passe-temps préféré ?
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  Mon passe-temps préféré est chercher des fossiles.
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  That's my pastime. I'm a fossil hunter.
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  Chercher means to look for, to look for fossils.
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  Chercher des fossiles. Now, in this text, we have a few
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  verbs which are in the present tense, such as j'aime, I like.
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  J'adore, I love. Je prends, I take.
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  S'appelle, which is called. Je ne pense pas, I don't think.
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  Here it's in a negation, but je pense means I think.
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  And je peux, I can. So this text is not really hard
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  to understand because the level is the present tense and there
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  is no complex sentence structure.
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  Now, we're going to read it one more time because I'm going to
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  ask you one more question. Here it is.
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  Quels sont les outils que j'utilise ?
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  Now, quels again means what or which.
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  In that case, it's followed by sont, they are.
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  Which are. The first question is quel est,
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  which is. But this one is which are.
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  So we're talking about a few things.
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  Les outils. Now, if you're not familiar with
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  this word, outils, it means tools.
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  Now, quels sont les outils que j'utilise ?
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  So this is part of the second answer.
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  What are the tools that I use? Quels sont les outils que
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  j'utilise ? So here we go.
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  Are you ready for the third reading?
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  Listen very carefully. J'aime chercher des fossiles sur
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  la plage. J'adore cette activité parce que
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  ça me détend. J'aime être seule pour pouvoir
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  me ressourcer et me vider la tête.
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  Je prends souvent des outils avec moi, comme une truelle ou
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  un marteau. Et pour protéger mes genoux,
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  j'utilise quelque chose qui s'appelle des genouillères.
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  Pendant quelques heures, je ne pense pas au travail.
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  Si je peux, j'essaie d'y aller toutes les deux semaines.
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  So we've done the first question.
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  Mon passe-temps préféré, c'est la chasse aux fossiles ou c'est
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  chercher des fossiles. Par contre, quels sont les
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  outils que j'utilise ? What are the tools that I use?
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  Well, did you hear the word truelle?
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  Truelle is a trowel. And marteau.
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  Do you know the word marteau? Yes.
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  Marteau is a hammer. Okay.
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  So I use two kinds of tools when I fossil hunt.
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  I have with me une truelle ou un marteau, but sometimes both the
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  same. Not that I use the marteau a
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  lot, actually, because I don't tend to break a stone with my
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  hammer. I tend to just pick things with
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  my truelle. Okay?
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  Now, truelle is a really hard word to pronounce.
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  So can you say: truelle? Very good.
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  Not that you will use it a lot in everyday conversation, but
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  you never know. And marteau is a hammer.
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  Okay, so the answer to that, quels sont les outils que
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  j'utilise ? Les outils que j'utilise sont la
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  truelle et le marteau. And of course, I use something
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  like a genouillère. Did you hear that in the text?
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  And genouillère is knee pad. So these are pads that protect
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  your knees. Okay, pour protéger mes genoux.
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  But you may ask, but why do you need knee pads?
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  Because I kneel down a lot to look for things on the floor, on
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  the ground, and it's usually uneven and it's really dirty.
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  So I use knee pads. Now, you should see the look of
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  me after a fossil hunting session.
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  It's not nice. It's very muddy.
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  Okay, so we've answered the two questions.
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  Now, I would like to read it one last time.
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  Okay? And what will follow will be the
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  translation. Now, listen very carefully.
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  This should become way easier. Now, another question I could
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  ask you is, how many times do I go there and why do I go there?
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  You can guess maybe why I go there.
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  For fun, for relaxation. But how many times do I go
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  there? Now, listen to the last reading.
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  J'aime chercher des fossiles sur la plage.
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  J'adore cette activité parce que ça me détend.
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  J'aime être seule pour pouvoir me ressourcer et me vider la
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  tête. Je prends souvent des outils
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  avec moi, comme une truelle ou un marteau.
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  Et pour protéger mes genoux, j'utilise quelque chose qui
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  s'appelle des genouillères. Pendant quelques heures, je ne
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  pense pas au travail. Si je peux, j'essaie d'y aller
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  toutes les deux semaines. Okay, so after the fourth
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  reading, did it become clearer? I think so, didn't it?
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  Now, j'aime chercher des fossiles sur la plage.
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  I like to look for fossils on the beach.
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  J'adore cette activité parce que ça me détend.
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  I love doing this activity because it relaxes me.
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  Ça me détend. J'aime être seule.
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  I like to be alone. Pour pouvoir me ressourcer et me
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  vider la tête. So that I can recharge my
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  batteries. Now, ressourcer is to resource.
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  Okay? Vider la tête is to empty my
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  head or clear my head. Je prends souvent des outils
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  avec moi, comme une truelle ou un marteau.
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  So I often take tools with me, such as trowel or hammer.
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  Et pour protéger. And to protect.
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  Mes genoux. My knees.
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  J'utilise quelque chose qui s'appelle des genouillères.
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  I use something called knee pads.
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  Pendant quelques heures, je ne pense pas au travail.
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  For a few hours, I don't think about work.
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  Si je peux. If I can.
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  J'essaie d'y aller toutes les deux semaines.
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  And this is the answer that I wanted as to how many times do I
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  go there. J'essaie d'y aller toutes les
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  deux semaines. If I can, I try to go every two
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  weeks. Toutes les deux semaines.
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  Now, if you wanted to say every week would be toutes les
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  semaines, but every month would be tous les mois.
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  Toute, tout, depending on the gender of the word we are using.
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  Now, did you enjoy this exercise?
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  I certainly did. Now, this series is all about
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  me. Fun fact about me.
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  You will have questions, we will translate text together, and the
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  levels will be of A2, roughly. There is a guide attached to
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  this particular lesson where you will see the text if that helps
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  you. In my complete French course at
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  Learn French with Alexa, which will take you from beginner to
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  advanced level, you'll be able to learn all about grammar and
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  the intricacy of the French conjugation, as well as do
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  quizzes, listening exercises, reading exercises, writing
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  exercises, in order to reinforce your learning.
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  So the present tense is taught in great details at
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  learnfrenchwithalexa.com. If you like this kind of
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  exercise, then listen to more like this at Learn French with
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  Alexa, the podcast. That's it for me.
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  Au revoir, à bientôt, et puis bisou, bisou.