Voice Notes from Valentin #020
How To Make The Best of “Voice Notes from Valentin”
Understand REAL spoken French, without subtitles.
Valentin Prat
Bonjour bonjour !
This time, I'm telling you about a une expression française, a French idiom.
Let's start with the idiom in isolation.
VNV 020 - L'Expression
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Can you guess its figurative meaning — what we use it for?
Here are the ear trainers for the expression only:
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🗣️👂What we say (Honest Spelling)
a-vwar- 👍
📜✍️ What we write
avoir xx
🇬🇧🇺🇸 What it means
to have xx OR having xx
👨🏻🏫 Live specimens:
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Avoir de la patience, c'est pas toujours facile mais c'est important. (Having patience is not always easy, but it's important.)
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Avoir l'occasion de monter sur cette plateforme pour voir le résultat fini... non, c'est la première fois ! (Having the opportunity to get onto this platform to see the completed work... Yeah, it's the first time!) TV show example
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Avoir beaucoup de raisins entassés, c'est un risque de les voir pourrir (Having too many grapes piled up means taking the risk to see them rot) TV show example
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C'est excellent. Ça change tout. En fait, on redécouvre que le pain peut avoir du goût. (It’s excellent. It changes everything. Actually, we’re rediscovering that bread can have real flavour.) TV show example
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Ça se termine sur ce qui pourrait être des ateliers qui doivent avoir une vue absolument sublissime sur le paysage. (It concludes with what appear to be workshops, which must have a truly breathtaking view of the landscape.) TV show example
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Je crois qu'on va avoir du pain sur la planche. (I think we're going to have "some bread on the board" → some work to do/a lot on our plate) TV show example
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🗣️👂What we say (Honest Spelling)
u-na-ré-nyé 👍
📜✍️ What we write
une‿araignée
🇬🇧🇺🇸 What it means
a spider
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🗣️👂What we say (Honest Spelling)
o-pla-fõ 👍
📜✍️ What we write
au plafond
🇬🇧🇺🇸 What it means
on the ceiling
And here's the Honest Spelling & literal translation:
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VNS 020 - L'Expression, Word By Word
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🇬🇧🇺🇸 Word-For-Word Translation
Avoir une araignée au plafond.
"to have a spider on the ceiling"
Now, here's the first part of the voice note explaining what the idiom means:
Voice Note from Valentin #020
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Remember: Treat this as an experiment, not an exam.
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