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Cultivate your French : Slow French, at the right pace.

Laetitia Perraut

Do you want to improve your listening skills and comprehension of the French as it is spoken in France? With Cultivate Your French podcast, things go smoothly. This is slow French podcast, but Slow French doesn’t just mean speaking slowly and it’s not about quick progress. It’s a nice learning approach.

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07:43

198 — Chez Chanel avec Alice Chance — mercredi 7...

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2024/02/07

A few days ago, my friend Alice proposed a sort of challenge: to go and buy a lipstick at the Chanel store on rue Cambon, the brand's historic store, where Gabrielle Chanel had her apartments and haute couture workshops. I knew the store very well, always had, but only from the outside. What happens once you open the door? This is the mystery I propose to unravel today. In the notes that come with the transcript, we're going to focus on three expressions that sound simple, but are typical of the

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197 — Bordeaux, le Grand Théâtre et les cannelés —...

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2024/01/31

Last week, Micaela had a week's holiday after her exams. She asked me if we could go away somewhere. I suggested we visit my friend Sylvie who lives in Bordeaux. Neither of us knew the city. The city changed a lot in the 90s thanks to its mayor at the time, Alain Juppé. Under his mandate, the city acquired four tram lines, many areas were made pedestrian-friendly, the city was literally cleaned up (the city was known for its pollution-black walls), and the water mirror became the city's

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07:19

CYF 196 — Les macarons avec Sanam — mercredi 24...

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2024/01/24

My daughter Micaela has a friend, Sanam, who can make macarons as good as in a pâtisserie. Macarons are so good, and at the same time they seem so fragile, so complicated to make, so mysterious. So I was thrilled when Sanam invited me to make some macarons in her kitchen. Sanam was right, it’s not that complicated, in fact it’s quite simple, but there is a tricky moment. This is when you incorporate the dry ingredients into the beaten egg whites. You have to be slow, but not too much and make a

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05:56

Balade à Paris : le tour préféré

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2024/01/17

Last week, I went to Paris to do some errands. I had to collect orders I had made at the Pharmacie du four and at Gibert, the bookshop. I love to place orders at these shops because I know that it means going to my favorite places in Paris : Saint-Michel, Saint-Germain, etc. In the notes that come with the transcript, I will give you the reason why I love each place that I mention in this episode. Maybe you already love them too, maybe you would love them too. But also, you will get a template

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CYF 194 — Le réveillon du Nouvel An — mercredi 10...

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2024/01/10

Très bonne et heureuse année à vous, chers auditeurs du podcast ! On new year’s eve we were at home. We had invited our friends Isabelle and Thierry to have dinner with us. Isabelle had offered to bring some cheese because she had been staying in Savoie and she also offered to bring the dessert. Lisa asked if she could make her delicious tarte au citron. How many and what were the cheese that Isabelle had brought? What was the wine that we drunk? All these mysteries will be revealed in today’s

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CYF 193 — Emballages cadeaux — mercredi 20 décembre 2023

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2023/12/20

Christmas is coming ! It’s time to wrap presents. Don’t tell anyone, the Christmas presents that I bought are in a big box under my bed. To wrap my presents, I use some wrapping paper, but I also use some papers that are recycled. In the notes that come with the transcript, we will stop on these verbs that are conjugated at other tenses than present. Each time, there is a specific reason that is nice to be aware of. So to Cultivate Your French, receive the text by email each time an episode is

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CYF 192 — Montparnasse : la Villa Vassilief —...

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2023/12/13

As you may have noticed, the December calendar is about Montparnasse, the famous neighbourhood of Montparnasse where so many artists gathered at the beginning of the 20th century : Apollinaire, Modigliani, Soutine, Picasso, Brancusi, Blaise Cendrars, so many famous names. Do you remember, two weeks ago when Anne-Laure and I recorded ourselves under the rain, again? And that we thought that Rachilde or André Breton could have been responsible for this? Well today, you are going to hear this

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07:43

CYF 191 — Chez Rosalie restaurant crèmerie de...

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2023/12/06

Last week, when Anne-Laure and I were recording ourselves under the rain, we were in Montparnasse. Do you know this famous Parisian neighbourghood were lived Picasso, Modigliani, Soutine, Brancuse, Hemingway, Marie Vassilief, Man Ray and many others? I’m sure you have already heard about La Coupole, the famous café that opened in the 1920ies ? Well, the place Anne-Laure and I are going to tell you about opened in 1912, rue Campagne Première. It’s less known than La Coupole and it a smaller place,

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CYF 190 — La colère de Rachilde et André Breton —...

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2023/11/29

Last week, Anne-Laure and I had spent our day out in the rain. We also met this week to record some episodes in the same neighbourhood, the weather forecast were clear : no rain ! Well, it was only a forecast, unfortunately. But we may have found the reason why we kept on being under the rain. Maybe someone was unhappy about what we had said about her or him? In the notes that come with the transcript, I will highlight for you some expressions that express the fact that you are unhappy with a

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CYF 189 — Le couple doubleur — mercredi 22 novembre 2023

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2023/11/22

Last Thursday was a very rainy day in Paris. My friend Anne-Laure and I spent the day under the rain to record some episodes to come on the podcast. Our feet were wet, we were tired and cold when we started the queue at the museum. I won’t tell you which one not to reveal the subject of the coming episodes. The exhibit that we had planned to visit was supposed to be the best moment of our day, but an incident happened in the queue. This is what this episode is about. In the notes that come with

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CYF 188 — La Frasnée — mercredi 15 novembre 2023

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2023/11/15

We were in the Jura during the Toussaint holidays, during one week. We love that region that is on the road to the Alps. Its foothills and woods are very nice when you like walking. And there are also lakes and waterfalls. There is a crêperie in Pont-de-Poitte where we love to have an early dinner or lunch : it’s a warm place and the owner Laurence has a wonderful voice. There is something special about that place. We were having lunch there when we met another family : the grands-parents, their

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07:21

CYF 187 — Avec Micaela dans les transports — mercredi...

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2023/11/08

Since September, Micaela, my eldest daughter, takes the train every day to go to Paris. She has classes either near Cité Universitaire or near Luxembourg. Both stations are on the line of the RER B. One morning, I took the train with her and ask her about her journey and what was going to be her day. In the notes that come with the transcript, you will find some info about the text, but also 2 very natural French expressions that are very interesting to focus on. I will also give you a list of

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2291 — La crêperie électorale (avril 2012) — mercredi...

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2023/10/25

This episode comes from the past : it was written and recorded in April 2012 for One Thing In A French Day poscast, Cultivate Your French’s big brother. My grils were little girls at that time. That day, we had invited a friend of ours to have lunch with us at a crêperie. She was a nice woman, always keen on joking with the grils as you will see. In the notes that come with the transcript of this episode, I will give you the crêpes recipe and also show you a very commun word that we don’t

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CYF 185 — Un petit goûter à Paris chez Leonie Bakery...

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2023/10/18

After spending the afternoon at the hammam, my friend Geraldine and I did not feel like taking the metro back to Saint-Lazare. The weather was nice so we decided to walk instead. It was a nice walk because Paris is a city that changes a lot, and as you walk, you can really feel the change from one neighborhood to another. We stopped to eat a little something in a boulangerie. In the notes that come with the transcript, we will study how to talk about a place, un endroit in French. So to

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CYF 184 — Tu connais Hans Zimmer? — mercredi 11...

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2023/10/11

On Friday evenings, after the kung fu class, we often stay longer together just talking, the kung fu team. Of course, we talk about kung fu, but not always. There are different ages in our group, sometimes it leads to funny conversations. For example, we had a talk about famous movie soundtracks. In the notes that come with the transcript, we will take a close look at specific verbs, how they are used and conjugated, though they are very frequently used verbs. So, to cultivate your French, you

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CYF 183 — Rencontre à la marche nordique — mercredi 4...

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2023/10/04

Every week-end, on Sunday morning, I join a group of nordic walkers. The walk takes place in Rueil Malmaison’s wood : le bois de Saint-Cucufa, supervised by our coach Philippe. Last Sunday, at the end of our walk, Philippe decided to challenge us a little bit. He wanted us to climb a slope in different stages. It means going down each time you reach a stage. After this intense effort, we stayed a moment down the slope. And we met someone. You are going to discover who in this episode. In the

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CYF 182 — Si j’étais une œuvre d’art, je serais —...

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2023/09/27

Micaela is going to have a penfriend from an American University. It’s part of her English course at University. To present herself she had to publish a short text, on an online board, startiting with this sentence : Si j’étais une œuvre d’art, je serais. The answer is in today’s episode, of course. But, have you noticed in this sentence the use of the conditionnel? In the notes that come with the transcript, I share with you a short study of how we use the conditionnel in everyday life

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CYF 181 — Une journée à Londres, Islington — mercredi...

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2023/09/20

Do you know that London is only two hours from Paris by train? My friend Sylvie and I went to London for a day, two weeks ago. The temperatures were very high that day. But it was nice to enjoy London under the sun. We had planned our day : a lunch at Pophams, a bakery that is also a restaurant (I was very curious about it), then a visit to the Bank of England museum’s and then, the inevitable Foyles. But we were a little bit early for lunch, so we decided to enter the little church of Saint James

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CYF 180 — La rentrée des filles : université et lycée...

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2023/09/13

The big question these days that young people ask each other is : when do you go back to school? Going back to school after summer holidays is what we call in French la rentrée ! La rentrée is when you discover your new classmates, new teachers, or new school. This is what this episode is about regarding my daughters Micaela and Felicia. As usual, in the transcript, I will highlight for you 3 expressions that are natural in French with some examples, so you too could use them in your own French

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CYF 179 — Bari Vecchia : un petit tour en Italie —...

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2023/09/06

Summer holidays are over for us and I’m happy to be back with you dear listeners. I hope those of you who are subscribers have enjoyed the special episodes during the holidays about being at a French café. Now, before going back to France, let me share with you a few words about our Summer trip to Italy. We were staying in Puglia, in the deep South of Italy were my husband Pietro has family. During the Ferragosto period, around the 15th of August, beaches were crouded with people a 8 in the

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