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8 responses to “Souvenirs de guerre, track 2”
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The first sentence – the translation says “I will tell you”, but the transcription has the conditional “dirais”, which I thought would translate as “I would tell you”. Should it be “Je te dirai” ?
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des reactiones not les reactiones
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Hi Kamil, thank you for the message. Are you talking about this part? Instead of, “et ceci explique beaucoup les réactions familiales, des réactions…” You hear, “”et ceci explique beaucoup Des réactions familiales, des réactions…” Now that I listen again, I also think I might hear a D. I am going to ask a native listener and then correct.
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Hello David,
To me it is also clearly a “d”, “beaucoup des reactions..”. It also sounds to me like “des”, rather than the much more typical “de” which follows beaucoup. For anyone wondering why it is “des”, I found this:Explanation of Beaucoup des Versus Beaucoup de
Beaucoup des is not always wrong—just most of the time. Like other adverbs of quantity, beaucoup is nearly always followed by de, with no article:J’ai beaucoup de temps
I have a lot of timeTu as beaucoup d’amis
You have many friendsC’est un détail de peu d’importance
It’s a minor detail, a detail of little importanceIn the above examples, the nouns are unspecific. They refer to time, friends, and importance in general. The only time beaucoup de and the other adverbs of quantity can be followed by a definite article is when they are referring to something specific, as in these examples:
J’ai acheté une chemise dont beaucoup des boutons s’étaient détachés
I bought a shirt that a lot of the buttons had come off of
(I’m talking about the specific buttons on this particular shirt)Beaucoup des idées de Jean-Luc sont intéressantes
A lot of Jean-Luc’s ideas are interesting
(I’m not referring to ideas in general, but rather the specific ideas that Jean-Luc has)
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“Mais en meme temps une certaine attraction” don’t hear the “une” at all I don’t even think he says it…
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Keep listening, he definitely says the “une”.
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I started the track 2 and repeating the first sentence.
“je te dirais que, comme je suis né” sound to me like “sh te dirais que, comme sh finie”.
Is this a kind of “French rhythm”? Or will it be crystal clear as written one day?-
Hello Dai,
yes, it will get clearer. There are at least two processes, maybe more: you ear will recognize and pick up more and more of the sounds that it does not yet notice and also, as you get more used to the words people say, you’ll have less need for clarity. This last aspect means that you won’t need to hear all of the sounds of a word in order to recognize it. So, with time, you won’t even notice that some sounds are missing and you’ll understand, even though the enunciation is less than what a beginner might hope for.
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