法語學習 P12 - 口語系列 #12 用法語談論天氣

With these Can Do videos you'll see real-life situations where you need to introduce yourself talk about your family or share your contact information so by the end you'll be able to handle them confidently Practice speaking French This video is a small part of our Can Do course To access the full course complete with translations grammar tools and assessment tests click the link in the description Welcome to Can Do French by FrenchPod101 com Bonjour à tous je suis Lia Mercier Hi everyone I'm Lia Mercier In this lesson you'll learn how to discuss the weather in French This is Karen Lee and she's in sunny Paris She's on a long-distance call with Mathilde Martin her former homestay mother Mathilde asks how the weather is What's the weather like Listen to the conversation and focus on the response Ready What's the weather like The weather is nice Once more with the English translation How's the weather It's nice weather It's nice weather Wondering how you can master these conversations even faster Here's how One Read along You get the lesson conversation and translations inside our dialogue tool so that you see Each word as you hear it and understand it all Two Practice speaking By shadowing what you hear you can also record and compare yourself with native speakers using our voice recording tools And three Take our assessment tests and see how much you remember These tools are part of our Can Do course Just click the link in the description to get them Let's take a closer look at the conversation Do you remember how Mathilde asks how's the weather What's the weather like Let's begin with the word temps meaning weather Temps In French all nouns have grammatical gender and are either singular or plural Temps is masculine and singular a fact that will determine the form of other words in the sentence Before that temperature what What Masculine and singular to agree with Temps Together it's quel temps What weather Quel temps Next is is it Literally makes it But translates as in this context Is it First is fact Translating as is in this context Done Note fait comes from the verb faire meaning to do or to make However when referring to the weather it translates as "to be " Faire After fait is the subject pronoun il Translating as it in this context Il Pay attention to word order when forming questions The verb comes before the subject il Fait-il When this inverted word order occurs in French a hyphen must be placed between the verb and the subject as in fait-il All together it's quel temps fait-il Literally what weather makes it But translates as how's the weather What's the weather like Pronunciation note Pay attention to the rising intonation that signals a question What's the weather like Let's take a closer look at the response Do you remember how Karen always says it's nice weather The weather is nice First is il It Il Next is done Translating as is in this context Done Last is beau Beautiful or nice As in nice weather Handsome All together it's it's nice weather Literally it does nice weather But it translates as it's nice weather The weather is nice The pattern is it' s weather adjective It's weather adjective To use this pattern simply replace the weather adjective placeholder with a suitable adjective In this lesson you'll learn adjectives related to the weather that you can use with this pattern Imagine it's bad weather Awful It's bad weather say Ready It's bad weather In French you can't use just any adjective with the construction il fait—it's limited to a small set of adjectives such as those covered in this lesson and a few others Warm Hot Cold [-] Cool Heavy Heavy Oppressive Gris Gray When discussing the weather in French it's common to use certain impersonal verbs Impersonal verbs are those without a clearly stated subject and are conjugated in the third person singular For example "it's raining" in French is "il pleut " It' sraining It's raining First is it It Next is it rains As in It rains Derived from the verb pleuvoir meaning to rain Together il pleut literally means it rains but translates naturally to it's raining It's raining Pay attention you'll see another example of this pattern shortly Let's examine some examples Listen and repeat or speak along with the native speakers The weather is nice It's cold It's hot It's snowing Can you figure out what the final sentence means Wondering how you can master these conversations even faster Here's how 1 Read along You'll find the lesson conversation and translations inside our dialogue tool so you can follow along seamlessly Say every word as you hear it and understand everything 2 Practice speaking By micking what you hear you can also record yourself and compare your pronunciation with native speakers using our voice recording tools And 3 Take our assessment tests to see how much you remember These tools are part of our CanDo course Just click the link in the description to get them It' ssnowing It's snowing Literally it means it snows But it translates as it's snowing It's snowing First is Il It [-] Next is Neige It's snowing As in it's actually snowing Snow Derives from the verb Neiger meaning to snow Neiger Together It' ssnowing [-] Let's go over the key terms Cold [-] [-] Warm Hot Hot It is raining To rain It's raining It' sraining [-] Neiger To snow Neiger It's snowing [-] Let's review Respond to the prompts by speaking aloud Then repeat after me focusing on pronunciation Ready Do you remember how to say nice Like nice weather Handsome Do you remember how Karen Lee says "Nice weather " The weather is nice Do you remember how to say weather Time And how do you say what Source Do you remember how Mathilde asks How's the weather What's the weather like Do you remember how to say It's raining It's raining Do you remember how to say "cold" Cold And how do you say "hot" Hot Let's practice Imagine you're Karen Lee and it's raining Respond to the question Ready What's the weather like It's raining Listen once more and repeat It's raining Let's try another Imagine you're Mathilde and it's sweltering Ready What's the weather like It's hot Listen once more and repeat It's hot Let's try one more Imagine you're Hugh Henry and it's cold Ready What's the weather like It's cold Listen again and repeat It's cold This is the end of this lesson Now here's what you can do to cement this conversation in your head Review the conversation using our dialogue tool and lesson transcripts Study the key words and phrases using our spaced repetition flashcards Review the essential grammar and cultural insights in the lesson notes And test your knowledge with our assessment quizzes So click the link in the description right now and sign up for your free lifetime account to get access to our CanDo course Now you know how to talk about the weather in French That's all there is to it Keep practicing and move on to the next lesson