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A Bonjour AB avenue I learned 
French with Alexa for another 

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podcast. 
Now this series is quite simple.

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You're going to hear a small 
text based on a fun fact about 

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me Alexa Polidoro. 
Now, if you learned it here just

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because the algorithm took it 
here, you may not know who I am,

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but I'm a French teacher, Alexa 
Polidoro from Learn French with 

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Alexa. 
Now stick with us, OK, because 

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you're going to do an exercise, 
a listening exercise. 

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I'm going to run you through 
some grammar as well as we go 

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along. 
Let's listen to another fun fact

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about me. 
Alexa Politoho. 

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I'm going to ask you a question 
after the first reading of this 

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text and maybe a second question
if we've got time. 

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Listen very carefully. 
Equity attentive MO Noel 

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Gallagher Busave le chanteur de 
groupe de Roc Oasis EMOI Avon 

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shows and coma Eno SE NI PA 
montalon musical male rosmo nu 

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parte Jean le meme anniversaire 
SE tadir le vant northeast par 

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Contra no El Gallagher a quetron
de prize que Moi bizarme SE to 

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silla that Danny Versaire de 
John Fitzgerald Kennedy. 

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OK, this is another fun fact 
about me. 

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As you know, this whole series 
of the podcast is all about fun 

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facts about Alex Apolidoro. 
Not that people care, but I 

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thought I would use that as a 
subject for my text. 

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Anyways, here's the first 
question. 

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Can't ask just Winnie. 
Com means when. 

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Can't ask just Winnie. 
Now juh swiney is the way. 

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In French we say I was born. 
Bizarrely, we're using sui am I 

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am born. 
So you may wonder, but why when 

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I say I was born in French we 
say I am born? 

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That's because the verb net to 
be born is used in a passe 

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composite, as in the past tense 
with the auxiliary verb to be. 

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And when we do a pasi compose, 
we use an auxiliary verb in the 

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present tense and we add a past 
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I've lost you, haven't I? 
Well, let me rewind now. 

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Je means AI, si means AM 
northeast N EE in that case is 

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born and northeast Here is a 
past participle of the verb 

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netre net, which is considered 
as a movement verb. 

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Weirdly and all the movement 
verbs are using the auxiliary to

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be in the basic composite. 
So can't translate it by I was 

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born. 
No, can't do that in French. 

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You have to say I am born and 
weirdly, and this is a fun fact,

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not about me, but when you use 
to die, it is also constructed 

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the same way. 
So if you wanted to say I I am 

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dead or I died, not that you 
would ever do that because you'd

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be dead, but imagine I died. 
It would be I am dead. 

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OK, so GE three more because the
verb is more here and Maurier is

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also considered like a movement 
verb and therefore in the passe 

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composite is used with the 
auxiliary verb ETR. 

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OK, so in order to answer this 
question, can't ask contesques 

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just when was I born? 
Listen to the text one more 

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time. 
Listen very carefully. 

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Noel Gallagher Mousavi le 
chanteur du groupe de Roc Oasis 

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ET Moi avoir en chosen coma Eno 
SE EPA montalon musical MI le 

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rosmo nu parta Jean le meme 
anniversaire SE tadier le vant 

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noff me par contr no El 
Gallagher a quatrone de plus 

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cumois bizarre MO SE tosi la de 
de niversa de John Fitzgerald 

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Kennedy, Right. 
Can you answer? 

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When I was born, Did you hear 
that in a text? 

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Yeah. 
Le van Neve me the 29th of May, 

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but we said the 29th May le vent
northeast may see la dat de mun 

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naniversaire. 
It's my birthday, the date of my

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birthday. 
Can you tell me when yours is 

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kele la dat de votre 
anniversaire? 

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So to answer this question, you 
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naniversaire ay, and whenever 
your birthday is. 

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Now here's the second question 
esque Noel Gallagher a Prussian 

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como. 
Is Noel Gallagher younger than 

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me? 
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tell me we Oh no Noel Gallagher 
Mousavi le chanteur de groupe de

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Roc Oasis EMOI avoin chosen coma
Eno SE EPA Montano musical mala 

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rosmo nu parte Jean le Mani 
versaire southeast a die 

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relevante nafme a contr Noel 
Gallagher a catron de preuss que

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Moi bizarmo SE to silla DA de 
niverse de Jean Fitzgerald 

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Kennedy. 
OK, so to answer esque Noel 

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Gallagher E Preuss Jean que Moi.
Is Noel Gallagher younger than 

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me now? 
Preuss Jean que more young than 

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preview que would be more old 
than now. 

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This is called a comparative OK 
plus plus adjective and then CU 

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OK and if you had more plus 
adjective and then CU it will be

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less than now. 
Can you answer whether Noel 

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Gallagher is younger than me or 
not? 

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Well, in the text that say Noel 
Gallagher are Catron de plus CU 

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MO, what does that mean? 
Noel Gallagher is 4 years older 

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than me ILA Catron four years 
more than me ILA Catron de Prix 

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Comois. 
OK, when you're going to give 

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your age, you don't say I am for
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You would say in French I have 
35 years, so JE Tran St. con. 

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So the same goes for well, he is
4 years older. 

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You would say he has four year 
more than you Don Quix Ella 

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catron de Proust catois or 
quinoa For me in that case, to 

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answer the question, is Noel 
Gallagher younger a Persian 

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quinoa then you would say no. 
Noel Gallagher a preview Quetois

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Elie preview is older by four 
years. 

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OK, so this is quite difficult. 
OK, fun fact, Noel Gallagher was

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born in 1967. 
That tells you my age. 

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Now if you've listened to the 
text, I am not going to reveal 

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my age unless you're very good 
at maths. 

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Well, you don't need to be very 
good at maths to work out how 

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old I am, OK? 
Anyway, we're going to read it 

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one more time, OK, with the 
translation to help you a bit 

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more, and that should become 
much clearer. 

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Noel Gallagher, Mousavi Le 
Chanter, the group the rock 

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Oasis. 
So Noel Gallagher, you know, the

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lead singer of the rock band 
Oasis, the group the rock EI Moi

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avoir in shows and comma. 
So Noel Gallagher and I and me, 

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we have nu savant unchos en 
coma. 

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One thing in common, No SE 
northeast par montalon musical 

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and no, it's not my physical 
talent. 

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You know, Malo Rosmo, 
unfortunately, Malo Rosmo nu 

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parte Jean le meme anniversaire.
We share the same birthday sita 

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dia, which means Levant neuf may
Levant neuf may the 29th of May 

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Noel Gallagher a Catron de 
Prisco noir. 

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Noel Gallagher is 4 years older 
than me. 

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Now remember what I've said, 
when you give your age you need 

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to use avoir. 
So je Trinton, I'm 30 years, J 

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Sanconto I'm 50 years and so on.
OK? 

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Do not say je suis Sanconto, je 
suis ton doesn't work in French.

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OK? 
Now Noel Gallagher is 4 years 

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older than me, OK? 
Bizarre. 

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Strangely, bizarrely. 
OK, so to see like that Danny 

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Verser de John fits the old 
Kennedy, I can't say it. 

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It is Also John fits the old 
Kennedy's birthday. 

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OK, and Latoya Jackson by by the
way, just in case, you know, you

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want to know, we did some 
research on who, what famous 

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person was born on the 29th of 
May, right? 

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So we've read that text, we've 
listened to it three times, OK, 

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and we've translated it. 
OK, Now what I want to emphasize

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on 2 words, Malorosmo and 
Bizarmo. 

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Now Manor rousman means 
unfortunately and bizarman means

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strangely or bizarrely. 
Now these are called adverbs of 

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manner. 
OK? 

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And the way we create those we 
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Take an adjective Manor, which 
is unhappy. 

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OK, in order to form Manor 
rousman, what we've done is that

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we take Manor Roux, the 
masculine adjective form, put it

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into its feminine adjective 
form, which is malorose, and all

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we need to do afterwards is add 
more malorose MO, unfortunately.

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And so we do the same for 
bizarre MO. 

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Bizarre is the adjective, it is 
bizarre. 

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The feminine adjective for 
bizarre is bizarre because it 

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ends with an E anyway, and we 
add more bizarre MO. 

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Now, can you form an adverb 
using rapid? 

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Rapid, that means fast. 
Now rapid, this adjective, what 

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would be rapidly or fast, rapid 
de Mont, exactly. 

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OK, you get it. 
I cover how to form in great 

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detail the adverb of manner, and
I also run through tons of 

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different adverbs as well in my 
complete French course Learn 

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French with Alexa, which you can
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alexa.com. 
And if you don't know who I am, 

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I am the YouTube Alexa Polidoro 
from the very popular YouTube 

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channel Learn French with Alexa.
That's it for me. 

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Au revoir abiento bisu bisu.