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Bonjour et bienvenue dans podcastfrancaisfacile.com. Aujourd’hui,, je vais vous lire un texte intitulé une vache sur la bâche. Ecouter ce texte et répondez à cette question : Alors à votre avis, pourquoi Chisato et moi avons eu cette conversation bizarre ? C’est parti. Pour aller au feu d’artifice, Chisato a besoin d’une bâche. Problème. Quand je lui ai demandé : « de quoi as-tu besoin pour aller au feu d’artifice, Chisato m’a répondu : UNE VACHE. - Une vache ? ai-je répété. - Oui, oui, une vache. - Mais pourquoi as-tu besoin d’une vache pour voir un feu d’artifice ? - Elle m’a répondu ainsi : « Pour m'asseoir dessus. » - Sur la vache ? - Evidemment, me répond-elle, tout le monde fait ça, tout le monde va au feu d’artifice avec sa vache et s’assoit dessus pour regarder le spectacle. - Mais non, ai-je dit en souriant, personne ne fait ça, c’est impossible. - Alors, elle m’a dit : Tu es vraiment bizarre, moi j’ai une bâche et je l’emmène pour ne pas me salir. - Oui, bien sûr, mais la vache, elle s’assoit aussi sur la bâche ? Ou bien tu mets la bâche sur la vache pour la cacher ? C’est quand même vachement compliqué ton histoire. Alors à votre avis, pourquoi Chisato et moi avons eu cette conversation bizarre ? Voilà, c’est tout pour aujourd’hui. Je vous rappelle que vous trouverez sur le site d’autres textes en français facile, des dictées, des exercices de français je vous rappelle l’adresse : www.podcastfrancaisfacile.com. Merci et à bientôt. mp3

Learning Guide | PDF Transcript Trois dessins de l’espagnol Goya, supposés perdus depuis 130 ans, ont rapporté plus de 4 millions de livres aux enchères Learn French now ! Listen to today s lesson :

Vocabulary: Numbers suo3you3 zheng4shi4 kou3yu3 qiang2diao4 feng1ci4 Vocabulary: Tone Marks suǒyǒu zhèngshì kǒuyǔ qiángdiào fēngcì

English Hindi Pronunciation fruits phal grapes anguur mango aam banana kelaa papaya papiitaa apple seb sweet lime mosanbii custard apple siitaaphal guava amaruud pineapple anannaas pomegranate anaar orange santaraa Learn these words on: If you have some ideas on how to improve the site, the podcasts, the emails, etc. or if you have ideas on future sessions or you like something that we are doing, please leave us feedback. You can do this through the Make a Suggestion link. Also, we are giving away the Navneet Kid s Primer as a gift to people that are willing to support the site with a $25 or more donation. We only have a limited number of these, you can check this page the donation page to see if we still have any left. $25 $50 $100 $150 $200 $250 $10

Today s episode brought to you by Grammar Girl s new book. Look for the link at grammar.quickanddirtytips.com Honey is a very old word but it is a bit of an unusual word in that most words that represent something very common to our human experience have a pretty wide usage across many languages. This is only partly true of honey. In most Indo-European languages the word for honey is not related to our word honey, but instead to an actual Indo-European root meaning honey. This root does make its way into English in words like mellifluous and molasses.  But only Germanic based languages use the word honey or its relatives. As logic would have it that means that honey shows up as an English word back in Old English. As a basic word that so many people would have experience with it turned up early too; the Oxford English Dictionary first citation is from the year 875. But Germanic languages are Indo-European languages too, so why did we end up with a different word for honey? It seems that like many words the parent of honey spread in meaning and got applied to numerous things. Etymologists think that perhaps the word root behind honey might originally not have meant this sweet sticky substance, but a yellow honey-like color instead. So honey was an important enough article that in Germanic it overtook other meanings of the word, which in Sanskrit and Greek were retained as color words. Honey from bees is certainly the oldest meaning of the word honey, but the word gets applied to lots of other things we like, especially our loved-ones. The first citation someone calling their sweetheart honey is found in 1350 in a translation of a French story known as William of Palerne or Guillaume de Palerme. This story has an unexpected etymological circularity. I m sure the honey as sweetheart reference was merely incidental in the translation but the main love interest in the story is daughter to the Roman Emperor, a girl named Melior. Clearly Melior is a name chosen for its sweetness and etymological connection to mel the Latin word for honey.

Bonjour et bienvenue sur podcastfrancaisfacile.com. Je vais vous lire aujourd'hui un texte intitulé une journée tranquillou . Je vais lire ce texte trois fois : une fois à vitesse normale, une fois lentement et une dernière fois à vitesse normale. C'est parti. Ça faisait longtemps que je ne m’étais pas fait plaisir. Hier, j’ai décidé de m’offrir une belle journée. J’ai commencé ma journée en jouant du piano. Ces dernières années, j’avais un peu délaissé le piano et j’ai joué pendant une heure. Que du bonheur. Ensuite, je suis sorti. Et je peux dire que c’était THE journée. Il a fait un temps magnifique, je suis allé me promener près du parc, il y avait un petit café ouvert. Je me suis arrêté et je me suis bu une petite bière en terrasse. Le paradis, je vous le dis. Ça faisait longtemps que je ne m’étais pas bu une petite bière comme ça, tranquillou. Marie m’a téléphoné et elle m’a rejoint. On a beaucoup discuté de sa mère qui s’est cassé le poignet il y a deux mois. Elle a dû faire beaucoup de rééducation mais elle est presque rétablie maintenant. J’ai voulu lui offrir le café mais Marie n’a pas voulu : « chacun sa part ». Ensuite, Marie et moi, on est allés regarder dans une librairie et on a trouvé un livre de contes pour enfant très joli. Ils sont tellement jolis qu’on a décidé d’en apprendre un par cœur. On a passé le reste de la journée à faire les boutiques. Le soir, je suis rentré vraiment fatigué mais heureux. Voilà, c’est tout pour aujourd’hui. Vous trouverez sur notre site d'autres textes en français facile des dictées, des conjugaisons. Je vous rappelle l'adresse du site ; www.podcastfrancaisfacile.com Merci et à bientôt. mp3

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Today s podictionary word brought to you by GoToMeeting. Try it free for 30 days by following the link www.gotomeeting.com/podcast [audio clip] I m Christopher Moore and the word I m interested in is itinerary because I m sometimes not sure if it should be itinery or itinerary. Well, Christopher you ve come up with a quandary for me. I always maintain that if people use a word and recognize it, it s a real word. I plugged itinery into Google and more than 100,000 hits came up.  So people certainly use it.  I recognized it when you said it, and I d have recognized it even if you hadn t said it in the context of itinerary. But none of the dictionaries recognize itinery and at first I d have said it was a mistake people were making, spelling it in the abbreviated way that some people pronounce it. But since I ve given the benefit of the doubt to so many other words I guess I ll concede that perhaps this is a word in transition. Except that Google reports more than 24 million hits for itinerary so if less than half a percent of users use the new pronunciation and spelling, the word certainly hasn t come very far in its transition and maybe never will catch on in wider usage. That makes it a mistake again. I think of an itinerary as a sort of plan.  I ve even heard people referring to those little calendars sometimes kept in a pocket as an itinerary.  One web citation refers to a reading itinerary. But the roots of itinerary relate more specifically to travel.  So when you hear about the itinerary of the pope s visit or something, it s called an itinerary not because it s a plan, but because it s a plan of his travels. The American Heritage Dictionary tells me that there is an Indo-European root ei that means to go.   This made its way into Latin iter which is what the Romans called the routes they took, particularly when extending the reach of their empire into new and hostile territories. Thus an itinerarium was a list of the places that the route passed through, and often included information such as how long it took to march the army there. Roman itineraries were more than just travel plans though. In some cases they were commemorative pillars and public monuments that actually reinforced the political control the Romans exerted over foreign lands by making visible and enduring proclamations of that control. Since maps were pretty crude in those days itineraries were also a really important means of understanding geography. The first time itinerary showed up in English was back in the middle 1400s and it was drawn directly from Latin. The sense of travel embodied in itinerary shows up also in itinerant.  An itinerant salesman is a traveling salesman. While the devout might pray to St. Christopher as the patron saint of travelers, the actual prayer has itself also been called an itinerary.

Today s lesson teaches the German translation of useful words and phrases for occasions when your feel your privacy is being invaded. Learn to tell someone to mind their own business in German and give them a piece of your mind for poking their nose where it doesn t belong. Scluss mit lustig - It s not funny anymore and I m about to lose my cool. Play learn German audio in new window (6.1MB) Podcast Transcript (PRO) | Online Quiz Accordion Podcast Quiz Material for Pukka Pro Members - Find Out More! German Gap-fill Dialogue with AudioEnglish - German Match-up 1English - German Match-up 2Scrambled German Sentence 1Scrambled German Sentence 2Scrambled German Sentence 3Scrambled German Sentence 4Scrambled German Sentence 5Complete the German Expressions 1Complete the German Expressions 2Scrambled German Sentence 6Scrambled German Sentence 7Scrambled German Sentence 8Scrambled German Sentence 9Scrambled German Sentence 10German Multiple Choice QuestionsGerman Gap-fill Sentences 1German Crossword PuzzleEnglish - German Flash Cards

Learning Guide | PDF Transcript Il est enfin sorti cet album! Et la première Dame de France Carla Bruni dit qu’elle “comprendra” si le public boude son album parce qu’elle qui elle est Learn French now ! Listen to today s lesson :

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JETTISON = 1. to discard or abandon something such as an idea or project. 2. to throw something from a ship, aircraft, or vehicle. Examples: - As ratings dropped, the station jettisoned educational podcasts. - Seawater filled the Titanic so rapidly that Leonardo began to frantically jettison unnecessary items. - Microsoft was forced to jettison some of their ideas when it became clear that their plans were too elaborate. Synonyms: abandon, cast off, discard, expel, unload, eliminate Antonyms: keep, retain INSOLENT = 1. disrespectful and rude; 2. unrestrained by convention Examples: - The insolent child always talked back to his mother. - The lawyer's insolent behavior got him thrown out of the courtroom. - That kind of insolence will not be tolerated in my classroom. Synonyms: impolite, rude, disrespectful, brazen, insulting, arrogant. Antonyms: respectful, considerate, polite

English Hindi Pronunciation colors rang red laal orange naarangii pink gulaabii white saphed yellow piilaa green haraa brown bhuuraa black kaalaa blue niilaa purple beignii shapes aakaar circle virtt oval andavakr triangle tribhuj cone shanku square varg rectangle aayat cylinder belnaa Learn these words on: Check out the related resources below from: If you have some ideas on how to improve the site, the podcasts, the emails, etc. or if you have ideas on future sessions or you like something that we are doing, please leave us feedback. You can do this through the Make a Suggestion link. Also, we are giving away the Navneet Kid s Primer as a gift to people that are willing to support the site with a $25 or more donation. We only have a limited number of these, you can check this page the donation page to see if we still have any left. $25 $50 $100 $150 $200 $250 $10

Learning Guide | PDF Transcript Des chasseurs de nazis disent qu’ils ont de fortes preuves que le plus recherché des membres du régime d’Hitler connu sous le nom Learn French now ! Listen to today s lesson :

English Hindi Pronunciation to smile muskaraanaa to laugh hansnaa to cry ronaa to weep ronaa to throw phenknaa to catch jhelnaa to kick thokar maarnaa to shoot banduuk chalaanaa to yawn jamhaaii lenaa to clap taalii bajaanaa to box mukkebaajii karnaa to cook rasoii banaanaa Learn these words on: If you have some ideas on how to improve the site, the podcasts, the emails, etc. or if you have ideas on future sessions or you like something that we are doing, please leave us feedback. You can do this through the Make a Suggestion link. Also, we are giving away the Navneet Kid s Primer as a gift to people that are willing to support the site with a $25 or more donation. We only have a limited number of these, you can check this page the donation page to see if we still have any left. $25 $50 $100 $150 $200 $250 $10

REVIVE = 1. to bring back to life; 2. to give new life or energy to something; 3. to restore and renew. Example: - A hot shower and a cup of tea will revive you. - Traditional skills are being revived by local craftsmen. - The paramedics revived the unconscious man after several minutes. Synonyms: restore, renew, rejuvenate, revitalize, refresh, resurrect, Antonyms: extinguish, kill PONTIFICATE = speak pompously: to speak about something in a knowing and self-important way, especially when not qualified to do so. To speak about something in as if you are the authoritative expert on the subject. Example: - Experts get on the tube and pontificate about the economy. - I think it should be illegal for non-parents to pontificate on/about parenting. - I have a feeling he's going to get up and pontificate about the subject as if he's the foremost authority. Synonyms: expound, expatiate, preach Antonyms: ask, deliberate

In this weekâs lesson, we deal with a situation which many Spanish-learners are scared of... a phone conversation in Spanish! By the end of the lesson, we guarantee youâll be able to handle a Spanish phone-call with confidence!

Today s podictionary word brought to you by GoToMeeting. Try it free for 30 days by following the link www.gotomeeting.com/podcast Allow me to read you a little of the Wikipedia entry for trampoline: According to circus folklore, the trampoline was supposedly first developed by an artiste called Du Trampolin who saw the possibility of using the trapeze safety net as a form of propulsion and landing device and experimented with different systems of suspension, eventually reducing the net to a practical size for separate performance. It goes on …the story of Du Trampolin is probably a myth and no documentary evidence has been found to support it. I m here to tell you that not only has no documentary evidence been found to support it, there is good evidence to refute it.  Every dictionary I checked gives an etymology for trampoline that does not derive from a personal name. The Oxford English Dictionary says it s from an Italian word trampoli but the American Heritage Dictionary says the Italian word came from Spanish. On the other hand Merriam-Webster says Spanish got it from Italian, but at least they both agree that before either Spanish or Italian the word root was likely Germanic. In Italian trampoli meant stilts and although none of the dictionaries go this far, it seems to me logical that the up-in-the-air function of a trampoline might well have adopted the high walking name from stilts. The Germanic connection brings us back to a more familiar English word with a connection to walking; tramp. Much is made in various internet articles of the invention of the modern trampoline in 1934 but the OED has as its first citation 1798 from the Times of London in what appears to have been an advertisement for a circus.  It reads Equestrian Performances with Oranges, Forks, Skipping Rope, Hat, Handkerchief, and a curious Equilibrium with a Hoop and Glass. Wonderful Trampolin Tricks, by Messrs. Smith [etc.]. Though this is the first citation, people obviously must have known what a trampoline was, since there is no explanation contained in the advertising copy. Forks, skipping ropes and hats as inducements to come to the circus may seem quaint but I note that oranges would have been an expensive and relatively rare food item in England in 1789, though perhaps not worth the price of admission if you only got to see it and not eat it.

Learning Guide | PDF Transcript Une délégation du peuple aborigène d’Australie est arrivée à Edimbourg pour ramener chez eux des restes humains qu ils considèrent leur appartenir Learn French now ! Listen to today s lesson :

Real life French Guide Welcome to your lesson of Real Life French. Each lesson we take a simple situation you may encounter in everyday life in France. Today : nouvel étage ! Learn French now ! Listen to today s lesson :

Not all wounds happen on the battlefield. Some are not even physical. But all wounds need attention. Our brave military men and women overseas and their families report, time and time again, that the stress incurred during deployment is indescribable.

Barry is the highly acclaimed director of such classic American films as DINER, AVALON, WAG THE DOG, and RAINMAN, for which he won a 1988 Academy Award for Best Director.

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VIRTUOUS = with moral integrity: having or showing moral goodness or righteousness. A good moral quality in a person, or the general quality of goodness in a person Example: - I've been up working since six o'clock this morning so I'm feeling very virtuous. - He described them as a virtuous and hard-working people. - I'm convinced he only does that charity work so that he can feel virtuous. Synonyms: moral, ethical, honest, conscientious, scrupulous, principled, upstanding, Antonyms: virtueless, immoral, unethical, dishonest STRIDENT = 1. harshly loud, grating, and offensive; 2. loudly, strongly, or urgently expressed. Synonyms: harsh, grating, shrill, noisy, loud, vulgar, bold Antonyms: respectful, quiet, reserved Example: - People are put off by his strident voice. - The strident committee member openly complained during the meeting. - Whenever Lisa drinks too much, her voice becomes strident.

Learning Guide | PDF Transcript Allan Errington, golfeur occasionnel de 43 ans, jouait sept coups par trou en moyenne lors d’un tournoi pour le personnel Learn French now ! Listen to today s lesson :

Martín Ventola s 3 rules to remember about Spanish vowels: They are short sounds They are pure sounds They start and end differently from English vowels. Visit Martin s blog, Spanish Pronunciation 101, for a detailed description of the correct pronunciation of Spanish vowels. Vowel A : In Spanish, the a is similar in sound to the a in the English word [...]

Today s episode brought to you by my audio-book Global Wording - The Fascinating Story of the Evolution of English. Available in downloadable form from iTunes or Audible.com or as a CD from bookstores. For more information and a few samples, go to www.globalwording.com Here s a word with a lot of meanings and an unusual history. You can canvass for votes—which means you want people to vote for your candidate; or you can canvass public opinion—meaning you re taking a survey; or canvassing can mean examining or discussing something thoroughly. But canvas also means the fabric used for the sails of a boat.  It seems that the voting and surveying canvass grew out of the sailing canvas, although exactly how isn t completely clear. There are a few theories. It was once a form of punishment to get someone onto a sheet of canvas so that a bunch of other people could hoist it up and bounce the victim around a bit.  Sort of like a trampoline that you have no control over.  Back in 1508 this lead to canvass as a verb meaning to inflict this treatment. Over the next few centuries to canvass seemed to split in at least two directions, one with a meaning of shaking things out to examine them carefully; the other to criticize destructively. One theory is that people canvass for votes by criticizing their opponent and so that s how the word gained its new meaning. A less likely theory is that a piece of canvas can be used sort of like a sieve through which the facts and arguments can be strained. Although I don t see it in any of the dictionaries it would seem logical to me that you d use canvas to sort things out just as a broad clean surface upon which to work; you see it every day in markets where people spread their wares out on a tarpaulin. The sense of punishing someone as relates to canvas does not come from the use of canvas as the flooring in a boxing ring since the sense of punishment is 500 years old while the first citation we have for canvas in boxing is from 1910. So now we know that to canvass for votes is etymologically related to the canvas in a ship s sail.  But the word goes quite a bit further back than that, and takes another unexpected turn. The fabric that is called canvas got its English name back in 1260 from French and the word had originally been a Latin word referring to the plant from which this fabric was made. That plant was hemp and it s Latin name is cannabis. So canvas is actually just a morphed pronunciation of cannabis.

Today s podictionary word brought to you by GoToMeeting. Try it free for 30 days by following the link www.gotomeeting.com/podcast When I peer into the dictionaries they tell me that the word nefarious means wicked and unlawful. This may be true but it seems to me that nefarious is sometimes used in a lighter tone. I said to someone the other day that Google could use all the data that they are constantly gathering for nefarious purposes. By that I didn t mean I expected Google to become some master criminal corporation, but rather that they could use it in sneaky ways that were to their advantage. The word nefarious appeared in English in writing 12 years before William Shakespeare died.  The work that nefarious appeared in is reputed to be the first monolingually English dictionary, written by a guy named Robert Cawdrey. The word came from Latin and back in Latin had been one of those words that got squished together from two other words.  Both of those words trace back to Indo-European roots. Ne is simple enough and it means not.   The Latin fas meant according to divine law so that nefas meant against divine law. The Indo-European parent of fas meant to set so that the divine law would have been seen as set and fixed. That Robert Cawdrey guy was an appropriate fellow to bring nefarious to English since he seemed to go against divine law himself to some extent. First let me tell you about his dictionary.  The title alone is quite something: A table alphabeticall, conteyning and teaching the true writing, and understanding of hard usuall English wordes, borrowed from the Hebrew, Greek, Latine, or French etc with the interpretation thereof by plaine English words, gathered for the benefit s not why he was nefarious though. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography tells me that this Table Alphabetical was largely copied from other people s work, though that wasn t nefarious either since it was totally legal in those days.  Today we d call it repurposing because the earlier works were intended to be used translating between languages such as Latin and English. The Table Alphabetical was the first dictionary of words in English, defined in English. What was nefarious about Robert Cawdrey is that he stood up to the church. He d been a deacon and a priest but his thinking ran counter to his peers and he was charged, tried and booted out of the church before ever his dictionary came to print. His crime? He wouldn t read certain official church missives from the pulpit. He felt that a Christian was a Christian and the church fathers were acting as if they were more Christian than other people. I guess they did feel that he was less Christian.

Learning Guide | PDF Transcript La Maison Blanche a présenté ses excuses au Premier Ministre Silvio Berlusconi pour l’avoir présenté dans une note comme un “amateur” Learn French now ! Listen to today s lesson :