Conversational French Lesson 5

Language Lessons Paco
Educational and Entertaining. :)

SETTING:
You haven't found an apartment yet and you have to move out of your temporary quarters which have been reserved for someone else.
(These things happen!) You have to go to a hotel. With the help of M. Bertrand, you take all your bags to the building entrance and wait for the taxi he called for you.

CONVERSATION:
A) Enfin, voilà mon taxi!
B) C'est à vous les valises?
A) Oui, Monsieur. La valise verte, la petite valise blanche, le sac noir, et la rouge aussi.
B) Alors, il y a quatre valises et un sac.
A) Non, non, trois valises: la rouge, la verte, la blanche et le sac.
B) Ah bon, d'accord Et où allez-vous avec ce déménagement?
A) Comment?
B) A quelle adresse allez-vous?
A) A l'hôtel Meurice, au 228, rue de Rivoli.
B) OK. Allons-y!


A CLOSER LOOK:
enfin finally, at last
voilà there is, there are
c’est it is
les the
(le) valise luggage
verte (masculine: vert) green
blanche (masc: blanc) white
noir (fem: noire) black
(le) sac bag
petite (masc: petit) small
rouge red
aussi also, too
quatre four
il y a there is, there are
un (fem: une) one, a, an
tois three
d’accord OK
avec with
(le) déménagement moving (of furniture)
(l’) address address
allons-y let’s go

VOCABULARY NOTES:
C'est à vous?: It's yours?; c'est: it's. You can combine this expression with lots of words you already know.

C'est vous.
C'est l'ambassade.
C'est rouge.
C'est la banque.
C'est le chauffeur.
C'est la sortie.
C'est le café

la rouge: the red one. There's no need to repeat the word valise since it has already been mentioned.

les: the: the plural form of le and la. It precedes plural nouns, which are usually formed by adding -S to the singular form.

Comment?: literally, How? This expression is used in the sense of I beg your pardon, or What? when you want someone to repeat what s/he has just said.

Allons-y: let's go, a useful expression to remember.

*The audio and the information for this video came from the Foreign Service Institute (FSI) which is in the public domain.