8 Minutes of French Conversation: At the Bakery | A2 Listening Practice

Learn French with an A2 listening practice: The Saturday Promise (La promesse du samedi). A real French conversation, one sentence at a time: hear it first with no subtitles, then read it with the English while a teacher explains it, then say it out loud. Since Nora moved out, her father Paul has kept a promise: a croissant every Saturday at the bakery. This week she comes, but with news: she is too busy to come every week. They find a quiet new way to keep the promise. ▶️ Watch next: The Fête de la Musique (World Music Day) (La fête de la musique)    • The Fête de la Musique (World Music Day) i...   📩 Free weekly email for learning French: https://www.mandarinshadow.app/newsle... How it works: 🎧 Listen to each sentence with no subtitles and guess what it means 👀 Read it with the English 💡 Hear what it means and one useful point (tip cards for grammar and words) 🎤 Say it out loud in the Your turn pause 🔁 Follow the whole conversation at the end: how much do you understand now? 💬 Tu as compris combien la première fois ? How much did you understand the first time? Comment it below Level: A2 (CEFR, beginner) · About 8 min · Slow, clear native French narration 🎧 Listen & Learn: 16 sentences of one conversation (At the Bakery), each heard first with no subtitles, then explained, then repeated. The whole conversation plays straight through at the end. 💡 Tips in this video: • Ça fait: it has been. Use ça fait plus a duration to say how long ago. • plus calme que: quieter than. Use plus plus an adjective plus que to compare two things. • il faut: we must, it is necessary. Il faut plus an infinitive works for general obligations. • Je vais en garder: I'm going to keep some. Je vais en garder: I'm going to keep some. En goes before the infinitive: je vais en garder. Chapters 0:00 Part 1: sentences 1 to 4 1:49 Part 2: sentences 5 to 8 3:33 Part 3: sentences 9 to 12 5:12 Part 4: sentences 13 to 16 6:52 The whole conversation Key words • un croissant: a croissant • la promesse: the promise • le samedi: on Saturdays • vide: empty • calme: quiet • il faut: it is necessary • seul: alone ⚠ Watch out for • promettre. A B1 word. • alors. A B1 word. Transcript 1. Tu es venue ! Je n’y croyais plus. You came! I didn't believe it anymore. 2. Je l’ai promis, papa. Un croissant, le samedi. I promised, Dad. A croissant, on Saturdays. 3. Ça fait trois semaines que tu n’es pas venue. It's been three weeks since you last came. 4. Je sais. Mon nouveau travail est très long. I know. My new job has very long hours. 5. Ta chambre est vide, tu sais. Your room is empty, you know. 6. Je sais. Ton appartement est plus calme que le mien. I know. Your flat is quieter than mine. 7. Oui, trop calme. Je mange seul le matin. Yes, too quiet. I eat alone in the morning. 8. Moi, je ne mange pas. Je cours vers le métro. Me, I don't eat. I run to the metro. 9. Papa, je ne peux pas venir chaque samedi. Dad, I can't come every Saturday. 10. Je comprends. La vie change, c’est normal. I understand. Life changes, that's normal. 11. Mais je ne veux pas arrêter la promesse. But I don't want to stop the promise. 12. Alors, il faut trouver une autre solution. Then we must find another solution. 13. Un samedi sur deux, tu viens ici. Every other Saturday, you come here. 14. Et l’autre samedi, tu en achètes pour moi ? And the other Saturday, will you buy some for me? 15. D’accord. Je vais en garder un pour toi. Okay. I'll buy one for you. 16. Alors, à samedi prochain, papa. C’est promis. So, see you next Saturday, Dad. I promise. 🎧 Listen on the go: French Shadow Daily, the daily podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7uMYIdq... More A2 videos are in the A2 playlists. Subscribe for new French stories, quizzes and conversations every week. #LearnFrench #A2French #FrenchListening #FrenchShadowing #FrenchLesson #FrenchForBeginners #SpeakFrench #FrenchListening #FrenchStories