Speaker 1: An American is driving in Paris and stops to ask
for directions.
Speaker 2: It is a conversacion, excuse me, play school, messervig pleas here,
gues curvu l place sat, Michel la.
Speaker 3: Place, Michelle Massage cramon we kill nimeroche chevu nimerova treat
le mercibien.
Speaker 2: First conversacion, excuse me, masilvou play at school, messervig pleas here.
Speaker 4: Le bla sa Michel la place, Michelle Vermont kellimeroche chevu
lenmrever treat.
Speaker 5: Mercibien.
Speaker 1: Suppose you're on your way out the door, say to
your friend, I'm going to the post office, J visa
that post Do you have some letters.
Speaker 5: As whole did alva.
Speaker 1: Commanding too to take? Yes, you can take the letters
we s you do dear these.
Speaker 5: Letters, selet.
Speaker 1: Say selet, keeping in mind that it is letter, say
this letter, these letters.
Speaker 5: Set letter say letter.
Speaker 1: Set say you can take these letters? Did I write.
Speaker 6: J three?
Speaker 1: Do you write a lot of letters?
Speaker 5: Ask you the booklet? Who the book?
Speaker 1: Yes? I always write a lot of letters, letter Q
and thanks a lot.
Speaker 6: He mercibu.
Speaker 1: Now suppose it's another day and you're driving looking.
Speaker 5: For laplace Sat Michel.
Speaker 1: You stop a passer by and say, excuse me, ma'am,
excuse me, ma madame, can you help me?
Speaker 5: Please? Play play?
Speaker 1: The woman asks how can I help you?
Speaker 5: Come?
Speaker 3: I say that you're looking for la place.
Speaker 5: Michel joceche la place sat.
Speaker 1: Michel ask if she knows where Saint Michael Square is.
Speaker 5: Escuevu save will la place Sat? Michel? Savevu will la place?
Sa Michel?
Speaker 1: She tells you that it's not here, Sonny Passi. Unfortunately
I cannot help you.
Speaker 3: Melo rose Mosen purpausidi. Melo rose Mosen purpausidi.
Speaker 1: You stop your car and ask another person, say excuse me, ma'am,
excuse him, my madame? She asks, can I help you? Ask?
Speaker 7: Can you tell me where cathedral square is? La place
de la Catedral, de uila place, la carel puve med
uila plea la Cadral.
Speaker 1: Yes, of course, will be as sieur, it's not here.
It's far from here, son si seland see.
Speaker 5: Rather far equite iripe a.
Speaker 6: S luan, I say, I say.
Speaker 5: A s luin commanded too?
Speaker 1: Rather, I say, it's rather far from here.
Speaker 5: So that's one.
Speaker 1: See ask at how many kilometers.
Speaker 5: A combien kilometra a combn kilometra.
Speaker 1: And maybe at three or four kilometers, but that.
Speaker 6: We get toculo met. That was we get toculo met.
Speaker 1: If you take the right way, it.
Speaker 6: Could sim chuma chuma.
Speaker 2: Chamini command dita.
Speaker 6: Chuml lau chamin.
Speaker 1: The right way. Try to ask which.
Speaker 5: Way ken Schumer keun schumer, madame ripont take this way?
Take this way there, Pela.
Speaker 6: La chamela.
Speaker 1: Do you see it?
Speaker 6: Scool llou?
Speaker 1: Do you see this street?
Speaker 3: Scoue? Take this street there, prone Trila, prone Trila, straight ahead.
Speaker 5: Tu droits.
Speaker 1: And cathedral square.
Speaker 6: In lapls Caral, in Laplas Caral.
Speaker 1: Is that three or four kilometers from here?
Speaker 6: That was get metro DC laplace do cal That was
get metro DC.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lot and goodbye.
Speaker 5: Mesibuku iru revoir.
Speaker 1: When you get there, you find that all the shops
are closed. You see a woman standing in front of
a shop, say excuse me, ma'am, excusing women of them
looking over to the other shops, say everything's closed.
Speaker 5: To feel me? Do to feel me?
Speaker 1: How so come sa, come sa, Yes, everything's closed U
because it's a holiday today.
Speaker 6: BASc bascudeed.
Speaker 1: The pharmacy over there is also closed.
Speaker 5: La farmacy Labite.
Speaker 1: I need something at the pharmacy.
Speaker 5: Pharmacy, pharmacy.
Speaker 3: She tells you. There is a pharmacy open Leaine, Farmacy
Verte Illa in Farmacy.
Speaker 1: Verte, not far from here.
Speaker 3: I give you the address, jevou don Ladres, jevodn je
voudn Ladres.
Speaker 1: It's only at three hundred meters from here, s Metro dc.
Speaker 6: Selmont.
Speaker 1: Take to the right and afterwards take this street over there.
She asks, do you see it esc yes, thank you
very much, h.
Speaker 5: Ui mircibuku.
Speaker 1: I see it.
Speaker 5: Jelevois, jeu levois.
Speaker 1: And I can read the word farmacie. Over there.
Speaker 4: Is l farmacill leba, le moux is farmacie leba. Say
goodbye to her, oh madam.
Speaker 1: Now suppose you and a French acquaintance are discussing how
fast people drive in America and in France. She says,
one drives slowly in America equit irrepity, one drives.
Speaker 6: Douis douis conduis oh.
Speaker 1: DUIs and now slowly repity lot more, no one drives slowly?
Did one drive slowly in the United States? Rather slowly?
Speaker 6: I see a Tom.
Speaker 5: Died.
Speaker 1: But in France one drives fast.
Speaker 5: Mayor France, May of France.
Speaker 1: Very fast, pave it faster, prove it, prove.
Speaker 5: Prove it.
Speaker 1: In France, one drives h.
Speaker 8: Of France uncle dry faster than equite irrepity, preve it
coup coup wit coup prevate coup.
Speaker 9: Faster than in the United States. Repity, preve it, case its,
preve it coup oh, is it as you need, prevd
case it as you need, prev it, cause it.
Speaker 5: As you need.
Speaker 1: Commanding faster than.
Speaker 5: Preve it couph prove it.
Speaker 1: A command to faster than in the United States.
Speaker 5: Prev you need.
Speaker 1: One drives fast un in France, one drives faster.
Speaker 5: Of France.
Speaker 1: Faster than in the United States.
Speaker 5: Prev prevsdeed.
Speaker 1: Cars are more expensive, say the cars.
Speaker 5: Leveaure so prouche prucher.
Speaker 1: Gas is more expensive.
Speaker 5: Lessane pruche lessane prouche.
Speaker 1: L d yes. One drives fast in France well condo France,
command too more slowly than plu lor to moncux. In
the United States, one drives more slowly.
Speaker 6: Is it as unil to.
Speaker 1: Then in France.
Speaker 6: Conference conference.
Speaker 5: Commanding to less more more.
Speaker 1: Less expensive, and gas is less expensive. In the United States.
Speaker 6: Listen, listance, listen.
Speaker 1: Try to say that the roads in the United States
are very good.
Speaker 6: Let bon.
Speaker 5: Bon, commanding too the road lar route, the roads le route.
Speaker 1: Yes, the roads are good.
Speaker 5: We le ruts bon.
Speaker 1: Le ruts Bon, but one doesn't drive fast.
Speaker 5: Masson con Pavitt.
Speaker 1: How much does gas cost? Equite irrepiity comia.
Speaker 6: Quit listens quote quote, listens to.
Speaker 1: Combian, how much does gas cost in the United States?
Speaker 6: Comia listen, listens to.
Speaker 1: You make a rapid conversion of gallons to leaders and
say gas costs one franc. The leader.
Speaker 5: Listens, put lulit lissen scut.
Speaker 1: Of course price will vary, but for now, let's say
it's one franc per leader. Now say perhaps one frank
the leader is he the dea not more.
Speaker 5: But Pruce Pruce, paprus.
Speaker 1: Not much more or not a lot more, pab not
much more than one Frank the leader.
Speaker 9: Babaco, Bruce Camfron, knab Pruce Camfron.
Speaker 1: Now say less one your acquaintance says that gas is
less expensive in the United States. Laissance, it's much less
expensive than use l for it elibucu moncherke, much less
expensive than in France. Conference in the United States, the
roads are very good.
Speaker 6: Le rutz trebon, le rutz trebon.
Speaker 1: In France, the gas is more expensive.
Speaker 6: Of horse, listench of fanse listener, and.
Speaker 1: One drives faster. Now, I suppose you and a French
friend are driving to a restaurant for lunch. Use the
familiar to form did avrami marie, you're driving very fast,
Marie to con.
Speaker 8: Conduis to conte repont.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not driving fast, nonpavit contradictor yes, yes, you
drive too fast CiCi to condritro vit you were doing
one hundred and forty.
Speaker 5: Do you Saint Carente.
Speaker 10: To feed you, Saint Carte, do Saint Carrote to feed you,
Saint Carde.
Speaker 1: L d if you want.
Speaker 3: Citi vu, Citi vu. I can go more slowly, jepolimo.
Speaker 5: Died.
Speaker 1: Yes, plays a little more slowly.
Speaker 5: We ship to play, ship to play.
Speaker 1: Agreed, But we have only one hour to have lunch.
Speaker 6: Say poor dishoni decor disoni, poor disioni.
Speaker 5: Digni.
Speaker 1: And the restaurant is still far.
Speaker 5: A restaurant.
Speaker 6: I don't Carlouin, Hello, restaurant, Carlouin.
Speaker 1: You don't want her to speed up? Again so you say, Marie,
it's better like that.
Speaker 5: Just listen, Marie, simukum sir, Marie simukum sir. The girl.
Speaker 1: This is the end of Unit twenty