Many people always feel like their English speaking ability is not improving and often say they need to improve their confidence. Well, in this video I share a practice you could do in the comfort of your home. 

Language Bootcamp

How To Talk about Anything Confidently

🇫🇷 New episode of the podcast for beginners. 😀

Listen to a short story and learn new expressions. 

I love flea markets. What about you ? 

➡️ listen to a short story
➡️ learn useful vocabulary 
➡️ practice your French with a short exercice 

Complete transcription and translation into English and Russian 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17JBRq0pudAh6oTOq_Y0ymHUH4HcKNa6o3Gnz-ZG3_l4/edit?usp=sharing

👍If the podcast was useful and taught you something. 
🗨 Leave a comment with your answer in French. 
📨​Contact me if you want to improve your speaking skills and practice your French.

En français avec Victoria

🇫🇷 1 minute in slow French.  3. Les vide-greniers. 

🥺 Today I'm not feeling very well. 
➡️ listen to a short story
➡️ I explain useful expressions
➡️ listen again to the story

✅You'll find the whole transcription as well as translation into English and Russian in the special GoogleDoc I created for you https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ThVgMXZbBvtJDaN7_D-dpS1vJbIPEYSuWXSvqy7Ebbo/edit?usp=sharing 

👍If the podcast was useful and taught you something. 
🗨Contact me if you want to improve your speaking skills and practice your French.

🇫🇷 1 minute in slow French. 2. Je ne suis pas trop en forme. 

✅ Practice your listening skills with the stories from my everyday life. 

✅You'll find the whole transcription as well as translation into English and Russian in the special GoogleDoc I created for you
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WrRMa-XQjG9K0Du4irYNNljd-n5ceo2IutqgooWUyNE/edit?usp=sharing 

❓ Et toi, c'est quoi la dernière chose que t'as annulée ?

Here are some notes on grammar and vocabulary:
*j’ai dû - passé composé du verbe devoir - I had to // мне пришлось 
*en extérieur - outside, outdoors // на свежем воздухе 
*depuis hier - since yesterday // со вчерашнего дня 
*je me demandais - imparfait du verbe se demander - I was wondering // я думала 
*y - there // там, туда 
*plein de choses - familier - lots of things // куча всего 
*le boulot - familier - job, work // работа 
*aprèm = après-midi
*si j’étais allée - plus que parfait - if I had gone // если бы я пошла 
*je n’aurais pas eu - conditionnel passé - I wouldn’t have had time  // у меня не было бы 
*du coup - familier - so // и поэтому 
*j’aurais dû organiser - conditionnel passé - I should have organized // я должна была бы планировать 
*on ne sait pas bien - you don't know how // ты не умеешь 
*c’est quoi - what is ? // какой 

👍If the podcast was useful and taught you something. 
🗨Contact me if you want to improve your speaking skills and practice your French.


🇫🇷 1 minute in slow French. 1. J'ai annulé mon rendez-vous. 

Learn one useful expression to have better conversations in French. 

👋🇨🇵 Bonjour French learners !

Let's study or practice one useful expression for your daily life in a French speaking country. 

✅ Today's expression is: f a i r e   l a   q u e u e 

🇨🇵 Faire la queue = stand in line

Examples:
📌 Je déteste faire la queue. C'est long et ennuyeux.  - I hate standing in line. It's long and boring. 

📌 Je fais souvent la queue à la boulangerie pour acheter du pain.  - I often stand in line in the bakery to buy some bread.

🗣 Your turn!
Et toi, tu as déjà fait la queue pour manger au restaurant ? - Have you already waited/stood in line to eat at the restaurant?

😀 Hope it was useful for you!
🤩 Don't hesitate to answer in French in the comments, I'm here for you. 
🤗 Suggest another expression you want me to teach you.

French expressions for your conversations. 1. 

Je te raconte ma journée typique. 

You can learn the vocabulary of everyday activities and also frequency adverbs and how to say time. 

If you don't understand everything, that's ok. I prepared a transcript of everything I say in the audio. You will also find the translation of the text into English and Russian. 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nkxwm8QdK-QYkohvlEv8w4dhb3wdh4H5WKkaWcDFiaU/edit?usp=sharing 

To check your understading I created a True/False exercice at the end of the transcript. 

Et toi, raconte-moi ta journée. 

Ma journée. 

Je te parle de mes activités ce week-end. 

Transcription complète, traduction en anglais et en russe, questions de compréhension
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12GTOegcmUieLaLXCj6tT07i6m7NFHqnnPapzbqGHBcc/edit 

N'oublie pas de programmer un cours de conversation avec moi pour discuter de ce podcast et pour apprendre à parler français avec confiance. 

Un long week-end. 

Several exemples of negative phrases in French with the verb 'avoir' (to have). 

J'ai, je n'ai pas 

Vous connaissez peut-être BlablaCar, le service de covoiturage où on partage le trajet avec d'autres personnes. Maintenant il y a Blabla caisse. Qu'est-ce que c'est? C'est une caisse de supermarché où les clients peuvent prendre leur temps et discuter avec la caissière. C'est tout le contraire des caisses rapides où on scanne nous-mêmes nos achats. Le temps qu'il fait, votre nouvelle recette, des nouvelles de vos enfants, des blagues, vous pouvez discuter de tout avec la caissière comme si vous étiez au marché et discutiez avec votre marchand préféré. Ça rend le supermarché plus humain, n'est-ce pas? 