French matching for the week: play it until you hear every word, until you can “match” every word in the transcript to a sound in the recording.
Make sure you can hear all of the words; pay special attention to the ones in yellow.
- Vous avez commencé is quick because it’s a common series of words: no need for a native speaker to articulate when speaking to another native speaker. And, at the same time, you can’t mistake it for anything else. Try to learn this one not as individual words but as a single sound pattern.
- le permis and aux arrêts may be hard to catch because they don’t sound at all like we English speakers expect them to sound. Try to forget about what you want to hear and listen for the sounds the speaker makes.
- quand on: notice that it sounds like “canton.”
- déjà (5th line, 2nd word): notice how we translated it as “for starters.” If you already know that it can be used this way, you won’t get stopped wondering what the speaker means when you hear it in a conversation.
Subscribers – get the whole interview here: Catherine Roux : conductrice de métro à Marseilles
Spanish matching for the week: play it until you hear every word, until you can “match” every word in the transcript to a sound in the recording.
Two great expressions in this one: I learned “a mountain” and “le hemos mamado.”
Subscribers – get the whole interview here: Memories of growing up in an Italian-speaking community in Argentina target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Maria, productora de televisión