liaison - Beginner - French Videos

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Le saviez-vous? - La liaison (2 videos)

In part two of her lesson, Patricia will explain in-depth which words require a liaison. Some liaisons are compulsory while some are optional or omitted.

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Lionel L - Les liaisons au pluriel

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Lionel explains a special prononciation feature of French called a liaison. Listen carefully to his many examples and you will get the idea!

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Lionel L - Les liaisons et le h aspiré

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Lionel gives us some tips about liaisons, a very important component of French pronunciation. He also talks about le h aspiré (aspirated h) and the debatable pronunciation of les haricots (the beans).

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Français avec Nelly - Les top 100 adjectifs à connaître - Part 1

Difficulty: Newbie

France

Nelly will teach you 100 adjectives in less than 10 minutes. See how many you already know!

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Caption 63 [fr]: Liaison : est ennuyeux.
Caption 63 [en]: Liaison [between T and E]: "est ennuyeux."

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Français avec Nelly - 25 Phrases for Mastering Everyday Conversation - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Nelly goes over some more everyday expressions that will help you sound more confident and natural. Try sprinkling these into your conversations!

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Caption 51 [fr]: On ne fait pas toujours la liaison :
Caption 51 [en]: We don't always make the liaison:

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Français avec Nelly - Fruits et légumes - Part 2

Difficulty: Newbie

France

Nelly teaches us how to pronounce and spell the names of many vegetables. There's enough here to make a delicious salad!

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Caption 20 [fr]: On ne fait pas la liaison
Caption 20 [en]: We don't make the liaison

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Français avec Nelly - Les faux amis - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Nelly discusses some more faux amis (false cognates) in English and French. You'll need to be especially careful with some of these, such as "excited" and excité.

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Caption 13 [fr]: En français [sic: en anglais] ça signifie avoir une liaison avec quelqu'un, donc
Caption 13 [en]: In French [sic: In English] this means to have an affair with someone, so

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Le saviez-vous? - L'élision - Part 2

Difficulty: Beginner

France

In part two of her lesson on elisions, Patricia will help you navigate the rules of elisions with multiple examples. They're an essential part of French speech that will no longer be a mystery!

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Caption 25 [fr]: une autre particularité de la langue française: la liaison
Caption 25 [en]: another peculiarity of the French language: the liaison,

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Le saviez-vous? - La poésie française: Baudelaire - Part 1

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Patricia introduces one of France's most renowned poets, Charles Baudelaire. His major work, Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), is still the most studied poetry collection in French schools and was as much a source of controversy as admiration in his day. Baudelaire's love affair with his muse, actress Jeanne Duval, was a main source of inspiration for Les Fleurs du Mal.

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Caption 35 [fr]: Sa liaison amoureuse avec une jeune comédienne métisse, Jeanne Duval,
Caption 35 [en]: His love affair with a young mixed-race actress, Jeanne Duval,

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Sakhoura et Lily - Conjugaison du verbe apprendre

Difficulty: Beginner

France

Our friends Sakhoura and Lily will teach you to conjugate the verb apprendre (to teach or to learn) in a variety of tenses. They also elaborate on some of the things we covered in our Yabla French lesson on liaisons.

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Caption 11 [fr]: J'imagine que tu as remarqué la... la liaison aux trois personnes du pluriel,
Caption 11 [en]: I imagine that you noticed the... the liaison in the three persons of the plural:

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Manon et Clémentine - Conjugaison du verbe être

Difficulty: Beginner

France

To be or not to be? That is the question that our friends Manon and Clémentine address in this video on the verb être (to be). In their conjugations of the verb être, they demonstrate some of the concepts we covered in our lesson on liaisons.

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Caption 19 [fr]: On dit "vous êtes" car on fait la liaison avec le "s" final de "vous".
Caption 19 [en]: We say "vous êtes" because we make the liaison with the final "s" of "vous."

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