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Essential French DialogsEveryday Conversations & Travel Tips
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Table of Contents1.Introduction .92.How to use this audiobook .10To improve your understanding .10To improve your pronunciation .113.Booking a hotel room.12Conversation on the phone.12Conversation on the phone Translation .13Tips about French hotels .14The elevator.14The floor issue.14Noise .14Size .14Amenities .14Bathrooms .15Smoking or non-smoking .15Internet Access.15Check-in.15Tipping .16Proof of booking .164.At the restaurant.17Au restaurant, conversation .17
Essential French DialogsAu restaurant, conversation translation .19Tips about eating in a French restaurant.22Useful ordering vocabulary and sentences .22Don’t address your waiter as garçon.23Fumeur ou non-fumeur ? .23How do you like your meat cooked?.23Interacting with the waiter .24Tipping in France.24Restaurants hours .255.Asking for directions and avoiding scams.26Asking for directions, conversation .26Asking for directions, conversation translation .27Asking for directions and avoiding scams .29Pitfall .29Useful vocabulary .29Get to the point.30Bags, wallets and credit cards.30Common scams .31Make some copies/photos of important documents .316.Boutiques and other non-food small stores .32Shopping for clothes, conversation .32Shopping for clothes, conversation translation .34Tips about French shops .36Names of speciality stores .36Copyright 2013 French Today - 4
Essential French DialogsSchedule.37Return policy .37Credit card situation.38Don’t forget to say “bonjour” .38La poste .38Le bureau de tabac .38Le bar tabac, the heartbeat of small villages.39Le fleuriste, a real artist .39Laundromat and pressing.39La station service.397.At the bakery, speciality food stores.41At the bakery, conversation .41At the bakery, conversation translation .42Tips about la boulangerie and speciality food stores .43Names of speciality food stores .43Schedule.44La boulangerie .44La pâtisserie.44La boulangerie pâtisserie traiteur .45Don’t buy a “baguette”!.45The line .458.Buying in an open air market & a supermarket.46At the market, conversation .46At the market, conversation translation .48Copyright 2013 French Today - 5
Essential French DialogsTips for shopping at the markets and supermarkets .51Ambiance of the French markets .51Schedule.51Check what is handed to you .52Check for local crops .52Produce in season only .52Ask the fish monger to prepare your food.52Do barter in markets .52Politeness and lines .53Take cash to the market .53No more bags at supermarkets.53Some supermarkets deliver.53Place one Euro in your cart .549.Sick in France: à la pharmacie .55At the pharmacy, conversation .55At the pharmacy, conversation translation .56Tips about being sick and pharmacies, hospitals etc.59Useful vocabulary .59Tricky vocabulary .60A regular doctor’s visit is cheap .60Schedule and “on call” pharmacies .60Pharmacies also sell beauty products .61Train with my free medical exam lesson.
These French dialogs are recorded at two speeds: a slower speed, so you can learn the sentences by repeating them and work on your French pronunciation a faster, more natural speed, so you can train your ear to understand the French when they speak to you You may notice some differences between the 2 recordings: spoken street French is
