French people and their bistrot - the CAFÉ CULTURE | Learn French with French culture!

French people and their bistrot - the CAFÉ CULTURE | Learn French with French culture!

7 Video Views·Dec 21, 2025

French people love their bistrots, to be au café. In this French intermediate episode, we talk about French culture, the café culture!

This is an episode spoken in French, inspired by a French radio program called "Grand bien vous fasse" on France Inter.

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The radio programme: Grand Bien Vous Fasse
You can listen in replay to the episode about café culture here:

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinte...

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Books from the guest of the radio program we are discussing:
(When available, I will use affiliate links and may earn a commission)

**Petite éloge des cafés by Léa Wiazemsky
https://amzn.to/4bkfaZd (Amazon)

**Journal d'un café de campagne by Pierre Bourgault
https://amzn.to/3xGRjUN (Amazon)

**Au bonheur des bistrots by Pierre Bourgault (a beautiful photo reportage on French cafés, hardback)
https://amzn.to/3U38uYh (Amazon)

**La France sous nos yeux by Jérôme Fourquet and Jean-Laurent Cassely
This book is a different genre, a societal study of the big changes in France society, and their impacts as a whole.
https://amzn.to/3JqztIj (Amazon)


👂 VOCABULARY
Look at the vocabulary used in the practice sentences on a regular basis so the new words become familiar.


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A careful blend to avoid you getting stuck.


💌 FRENCH AVEC INGRID'S ETHOS
Be patient and kind with yourself on this journey learning a new language, and always remember that:

• we learn through our mistakes
• we learn faster when playing
• you do not have to understand every single word to be able to make sense of a situation in a foreign language
• and you will be understood even if your French is not 100% correct and you speak with a less than perfect (read: cute) accent!

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00: the café culture - an intro
02:35: the radio programme Grand bien vous fasse
03:40: What is a café for their regular customers
05:20: Cafés as second home
07:56: Les terrasses des cafés
08:48: French cafés in danger?
10:40: Grammar - the subjonctive tense (verbe faire)
12:24: Authentic French - FAST & SLOW listening exercise