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Bonjour et bienvenue at Learn 
French with Alexa, the podcast. 

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The podcast. 
Now, in this podcast, I'm going 

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to read you a short passage in 
French based on a fun fact about

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me, Alexa Polidoro. 
And you may think, "Well, who 

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are you?". 
Just in case the algorithm has 

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taken you to me, well, I'm Alexa
from Learn French with Alexa, 

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and you are here to learn some 
French, just in case you don't 

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know what you're doing here. 
Anyway, quite simple, I'm going 

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to read you a fun fact about me,
and we are going to ask you, or 

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we, as in I, myself and I, are 
going to ask you a question 

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based on this. 
So what we are going to do is 

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read it the first time, then I 
will ask you a question based on

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this very fun fact of mine. 
Okay? 

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Are you ready? 
Now, the focus of today's 

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passage is about adjectives, 
okay? 

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So try to spot the adjectives. 
So listen really carefully to 

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the text, and try to spot the 
adjectives, if you can. 

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If you cannot, it's okay. 
I'm going to point them out in a

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minute. 
Okay. 

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Écoutez attentivement. 
Il y a plusieurs choses que je 

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déteste dans la vie. 
En voici deux. 

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D'abord, c'est d'avoir des 
chaussettes mouillées. 

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Il n'y a rien de pire que de 
marcher dans l'eau en 

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chaussettes. 
Pour moi, la sensation est 

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tellement désagréable que je 
dois les enlever tout de suite. 

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Et puis, je n'aime pas quand les
gens ne respectent pas mon 

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espace personnel. 
Il n'y a aucune raison de se 

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coller aux autres. 
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So this is another fun fact 
about me. 

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Did you get it? 
Now, the question is going to be

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quite leading, and you're going 
to understand what the text is 

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about. 
Here's the question. 

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Qu'est-ce que je déteste le plus
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Now, if I start a question with 
'qu'est-ce que,' it means what 

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is it, okay? 
Now, literal translation is what

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is it that. 
Qu'est-ce que. 

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What is it that je déteste, I 
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most. 
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Now, listen to the text a second
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Qu'est-ce que je déteste le plus
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What is it I hate the most? 
Here we go. 

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Il y a plusieurs choses que je 
déteste dans la vie. 

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En voici deux. 
D'abord, c'est d'avoir les 

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chaussettes mouillées. 
Il n'y a rien de pire que de 

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marcher dans l'eau en 
chaussettes. 

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Pour moi, la sensation est 
tellement désagréable que je 

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dois les enlever tout de suite. 
Et puis, je n'aime pas quand les

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gens ne respectent pas mon 
espace personnel. 

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Il n'y a aucune raison de se 
coller aux autres. 

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Okay. 
Now we've listened to the text 

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twice. 
We know the question: Qu'est-ce 

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que je déteste le plus ? 
What is it I hate the most? 

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What did you hear? 
Hmm. 

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I heard the word 'chaussettes' 
twice when I read it. 

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Chaussettes. 
That means socks. 

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But what is it I hate the most 
about socks? 

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Now, the adjective 'mouillées' 
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Mouillées means wet. 
Mouillées. 

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Chaussettes mouillées. 
Wet socks. 

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Now, usually in French, and this
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is that the adjective comes 
after the noun, except for some,

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and there is an exception to the
rule, okay? 

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Now, in this case, chaussettes 
mouillées is wet socks. 

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So mouillées is wet, and 
chaussettes is socks. 

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Okay? 
Mouillées. 

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Mouillées. 
Can you say that? 

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Mouillées. 
So les chaussettes mouillées is 

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one of the things I hate the 
most. 

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Don't ask me why. 
I don't know why, okay? 

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Je déteste avoir les chaussettes
mouillées. 

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Okay? 
Pourquoi? 

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Parce que c'est une sensation 
désagréable. 

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Now, here's another adjective. 
Désagréable. 

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Désagréable, c'est le contraire 
d'agréable. 

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Agreeable. 
Désagréable, disagreeable. 

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And do you know what is the 
second thing I hate the most? 

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Did you hear 'mon espace 
personnel'? 

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Yes. 
My personal space. 

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Okay? 
Quand les gens ne respectent pas

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mon espace personnel. 
It's when people, les gens, ne 

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respectent pas, do not respect. 
Here you've got the negation 

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'ne,' and then the verb 
'respectent' and 'pas,' which is

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not. 
Ne pas. 

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When they do not respect my 
personal space. 

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Okay? 
And then I add on to the text 

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'il n'y a aucune raison de se 
coller aux autres'. 

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There is no reason, aucune, as 
in not at all, no reason to 

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stick to someone else or to be 
really close. 

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De se coller. 
Now, coller means to glue or 

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stick, okay? 
De se coller. 

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So it's to stick right up 
against other people, les 

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autres. 
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So to answer the question: 
Qu'est-ce que je déteste le plus

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? 
Je déteste les chaussettes 

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mouillées parce que la sensation
est désagréable. 

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Et la deuxième chose, je déteste
quand les gens ne respectent pas

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mon espace personnel. 
Now, here's my question. 

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I'm going to read the text 
again. 

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What do you hate the most ? 
Qu'est-ce que vous détestez le 

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plus ? 
Here's the text again. 

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Listen really carefully. 
Il y a plusieurs choses que je 

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déteste dans la vie. 
En voici deux. 

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D'abord, c'est d'avoir les 
chaussettes mouillées. 

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Il n'y a rien de pire que de 
marcher dans l'eau en 

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chaussettes. 
Pour moi, la sensation est 

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tellement désagréable que je 
dois les enlever tout de suite. 

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Et puis, je n'aime pas quand les
gens ne respectent pas mon 

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espace personnel. 
Il n'y a aucune raison de se 

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coller aux autres. 
OK. 

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Now we've read this text three 
times. 

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How much of it do you 
understand? 

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And could you write down what 
you hate the most? 

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Ce que je déteste le plus. 
What I hate the most is. 

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Ce que je déteste le plus, 
c'est... 

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And then you tell me. 
It could be anything. 

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This is only two of many things 
that I hate the most. 

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And you will hear about that 
because I have some really odd 

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quirks. 
Now, let's have a look at the 

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text one last time and we are 
going to translate it together. 

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Il y a plusieurs choses que je 
déteste dans la vie. 

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There are several things I hate 
in life. 

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En voici deux. 
Here are two of them. 

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D'abord, c'est d'avoir les 
chaussettes mouillées. 

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Firstly, I hate having wet 
socks. 

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First is d'abord. 
Il n'y a rien de pire que de 

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marcher dans l'eau en 
chaussettes. 

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There is nothing worse, pire, 
worse, than walking through 

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water in socks. 
En chaussettes. 

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In your socks. 
Pour moi, for me, la sensation 

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est tellement désagréable que je
dois les enlever tout de suite. 

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The feeling is so unpleasant 
that I have to take them off 

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straight away. 
Tout de suite. 

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Straight away. 
Et puis, and then or secondly, 

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je n'aime pas quand les gens ne 
respectent pas mon espace 

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personnel. 
I don't like it when people 

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don't respect my personal space.
Il n'y a aucune raison de se 

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coller aux autres. 
There is no reason to stick 

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right up against other people. 
Don't you think? 

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Of course, this is my personal 
opinion, by the way. 

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And I can imagine that some 
people would enjoy the 

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chaussettes mouillées... or not.
I don't know. 

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Tell me. 
I want you to tell me what you 

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hate the most. 
OK? 

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Or is it just me and my funny 
pet peeves? 

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Right. 
Now, the adjectives that I 

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wanted you to have a look at 
were mouillées as in wet, 

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chaussettes mouillées, 
désagréable, disagreeable, 

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personnel, espace personnel, 
personal space. 

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Again, here the adjective comes 
after the noun. 

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There are many adjectives that 
come before the noun and there 

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are rules. 
And I follow all of that at 

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Learn French with Alexa, my 
complete and very popular 

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See, I sponsor my own podcast. 

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Well, you may as well. 
Now, remember, all adjective has

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to agree in gender and number 
with the word it is related to. 

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If chaussette is feminine, then 
mouillée will be feminine. 

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If chaussettes is feminine 
plural, mouillées will have to 

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reflect that feminine plural. 
In my case, mouillées ends in 

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'-ées'. 
You can't hear it, but it's 

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definitely written like that. 
Otherwise, it's a spelling 

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mistake. 
And for more like this, keep on 

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