Speak French With Me | B2 Upper Intermediate Level

Bonjour. Let's practice this B2 level dialogue together. I will be saying the text in red and you blue. But first I'm going to go through the full script with you. Then I will translate it and then you will have a go. Okay. Let me go through the dialogue together. Now remember that the red bit is mine but the blue bit is yours. But I'm going to read it all so you get an understanding of the text but also the pronunciation. Here we go. Louver. Are we Okay. So, we've read the full uh dialogue together. How was that? I'm going to go through this dialogue with a translation so you get an understanding about what the dialogue is about. Did you understand about? So let's start with my part. Now remember this is a B2 dialogue. So you are going to have odd tenses, tenses that are quite complex, more complex that at B1 level for example. So Louie told me okay that now is the emper of to go ali so that you were going to do what to go out this evening for your birthday to this you're going to say ah we Yes, I was going to again send you. So the t apostrophe is which is a text. I was going to do it. Then I say quite angrily and this is by a far the hardest sentence here. So let's have a look at it. means frankly or honestly now this is a adverb okay I am disappointed so it's in the present tense so that's not a problem what is the problem and what comes after and because it's introduced by what follows is going to be a subjunctive not only a present subjunctive in that case it's a past subjunctive I'm disappointed that you did not warn me earlier. Let's have a look at that. Na didn't. Okay, it's it well don't. It's a negation. But what's the hardest is e a i s. You may never have seen this before, but it's avoir in the subjunctive present. So, okay, etc. So, to that you didn't. Okay? And a is used as a auxiliary here. Why? Because is here as the past participle of preven which is to warn. I am disparated that you have not warned me earlier. And this is what it's about. Now the reason why we are using this subjunctive is because it starts with and that brings the subjunctive and that's the hardest part to understand I think in when you learn French. Okay. If you're not familiar with a subjunctive please have a look at my lessons on subjunctive. I cover them in great length at learnwithalixa. com. To this you're going to say I'm sorry, but I have been busy these past few days. I have been de. So, it's literally the

same translation. I have been uh busy. Now, deort comes from to go over. You know the water can de from the vase if you wish. Now say these last days or these past few days. You could have emphasize it and say if you wanted. I was extremely busy over the past few days. to this I say again this is of B2 level remember the difficulty of this dialogue what bothers me the most okay is that I feel like I don't matter but have a look at this sentence I feel like Okay. I have this impression that I do not matter or to not matter. All right. So basically this sentence means what bothers me the most is that I feel like I don't matter. to this. I say now this is quite a hard one to say. That really wasn't my intention. Here we're using the empire. It was not really my intention. Okay. And I do regret making you feel that way. This is a way to say please forgive me. Okay. Ask pardon, pardon. Okay, that's what it means. But of course, we would translate it as forgive me. How does it feel? We've run it once without a translation. Then now we know what the text is about. What I'd like to do now is practice with you. You can practice this over and over again with other people, too. Okay? Remember, I'm red and you're going to be the blue part. So, I'm going to leave enough time for you to read the blue bit. We've got the translation and we've got the pronunciation. Here we go. Foreign Bravo. Well done. Now remember this is of B2 level. So it's quite a high level. If you want to practice at other levels, please have a look at my other practice videos and dialogue with me. Repeat them over and over again. Practice with someone else. Maybe that will help. Remember that there is a support guide. How do you get the support guide? Well, you just have to join our community and our special membership program. Click on the join button below. I hope that we'll get to practice together again soon. —