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French stories and encounters straight from Paris — a podcast for intermediate & advanced learners
How do you enhance your French learning once you've outgrown textbooks? With curiosity, culture, and new obsessions!
One Thing In A French Day bridges the gap between classroom French and real conversational French as spoken in Paris. This podcast invites you into authentic Parisian daily life - unscripted, never simplified, yet accessible.
What makes this French podcast unique:
As one of the pioneering voices in podcast-based language learning since 2006, this show provides what's surprisingly hard to find: French that exists nowhere else. Not textbook French, not simplified YouTube French - but the natural French you only hear when you're actually there.
Learn French through:
- Genuine daily conversations from Paris life
- Enriching encounters
- Interviews with professionals and locals
- Meetings with students, creative runners, pastry chefs from Michelin-starred restaurants
- Natural vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structures in authentic context
- Topics spanning French culture, food, literature, language, contemporary Paris
For intermediate to advanced French learners ready to understand real spoken French.
Full transcripts, cultural notes & vocabulary at www.onethinginafrenchday.com
French stories and encounters straight from Paris — a podcast for intermediate & advanced learners
How do you enhance your French learning once you've outgrown textbooks? With curiosity, culture, and new obsessions!
One Thing In A French Day bridges the gap between classroom French and real conversational French as spoken in Paris. This podcast invites you into authentic Parisian daily life - unscripted, never simplified, yet accessible.
What makes this French podcast unique:
As one of the pioneering voices in podcast-based language learning since 2006, this show provides what's surprisingly hard to find: French that exists nowhere else. Not textbook French, not simplified YouTube French - but the natural French you only hear when you're actually there.
Learn French through:
- Genuine daily conversations from Paris life
- Enriching encounters
- Interviews with professionals and locals
- Meetings with students, creative runners, pastry chefs from Michelin-starred restaurants
- Natural vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structures in authentic context
- Topics spanning French culture, food, literature, language, contemporary Paris
For intermediate to advanced French learners ready to understand real spoken French.
Full transcripts, cultural notes & vocabulary at www.onethinginafrenchday.com
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Thursday Sep 01, 2011
Le mandarin
Thursday Sep 01, 2011
Thursday Sep 01, 2011
Je l’avais presque oublié, ce mandarin acheté chez Un dimanche à Paris justement dimanche. J’y étais avec Natasha (il est temps de se remettre au travail, non?). Avant de quitter le salon de thé, nous avons fait un tour par la boutique. Sous une cloche de verre, hum, des mandarins! C’est sous cette appellation que je connais les clémentines confites nappées de chocolat noir. Cela m’a rappelé une autre époque, mais je vous en avais déjà parlé lorsque ma sœur m’avait rapporté du sud de la France des clémentines confites. Ce midi, une fois les filles couchées, je suis retournée dans la cuisine me préparer une tisane et je suis tombée nez à nez avec mon mandarin. Oh, oui, c’était une très bonne idée. Le mandarin, ça se met entier dans la bouche et hop on croque. La clémentine s’ouvre et le chocolat fond. C’est très très bon. Avant de manger le mien, je l’ai observé dans son petit sac transparent. Je l’ai trouvé vraiment mignon avec sa petite pointe de chocolat sur le dessus. Il me faisait penser à Tintin. J’ai tenu le sachet devant la fenêtre. La lumière faisait apparaître l’intérieur de la clémentine, je pouvais distinguer ses petits quartiers. J’ai également eu l’impression d’observer un petit soleil. Oui, la clémentine confite vue à travers la lumière me rappelait les images du soleil qu’on peut voir dans les documentaires sur l’espace. Allez, assez d’observations, me suis-je dit. Et le mandarin a disparu.
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