Can You Understand This French Conversation? In a Stuck Lift (A1)

Learn French with an A1 listening practice: The Lift Contest (Le concours de l'ascenseur). 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. Two strangers stuck in a lift bet on who can guess the other's job. The shy winner turns out to be the repairman they are waiting for. ▶️ Watch next: At the Market (Au marché)    • At the Market in French | A1 Lesson   New here? Start here:    • Start Here: Learn French by Shadowing (A1)   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: A1 (CEFR, beginner) · About 9 min · Slow, clear native French narration 🎧 Listen & Learn: 20 sentences of one conversation (In a Stuck Lift), each heard first with no subtitles, then explained, then repeated. The whole conversation plays straight through at the end. 💡 Tips in this video: • ne marche pas: does not work. Put ne before the verb and pas after it. • Je suis dentiste: I am a dentist. After être, jobs usually have no article. • Alors: so, then. Use it to link ideas in conversation. • le technicien: the technician. le technicien: the technician. For a woman, add -ne: la technicienne. Chapters 0:00 Part 1: sentences 1 to 4 1:39 Part 2: sentences 5 to 8 3:03 Part 3: sentences 9 to 12 4:23 Part 4: sentences 13 to 16 5:49 Part 5: sentences 17 to 20 7:14 The whole conversation Key words • l'ascenseur: the lift • un jeu: a game • un café: a coffee • le gagnant: the winner • un sac noir: a black bag • d'accord: okay ⚠ Watch out for • l'ascenseur: the lift. Long word; stress the last syllable and say the s as s. • devine: guess. Not like divine in English; say duh-VEEN. • technicien: technician. The ch sounds like k; the end sounds like yan. • ascenseur. A A2 word. • étudiant. A A2 word. Transcript 1. Oh non ! L’ascenseur ne marche pas. Oh no! The lift isn't working. 2. Oui, c’est vrai. Il est arrêté. Yes, it's true. It's stopped. 3. Je m’appelle Léa. Et toi ? My name is Léa. And you? 4. Moi, je suis Hugo. Bonjour. I'm Hugo. Hello. 5. Nous avons le temps. Un jeu ? We have time. A game? 6. D’accord. Quel jeu ? Okay. What game? 7. Je devine ton travail. Tu devines mon travail. I guess your job. You guess my job. 8. Le gagnant a un café ! The winner gets a coffee! 9. Tu es professeur ? Non ? You're a teacher? No? 10. Non ! Je suis dentiste. No! I'm a dentist. 11. Dentiste ? Tu as un grand sourire ! A dentist? You have a big smile! 12. Merci. Et toi, ton travail ? Thanks. And you, your job? 13. Tu as un sac noir. Tu es étudiant ? You have a black bag. Are you a student? 14. Non, je ne suis pas étudiant. No, I'm not a student. 15. Alors, tu es cuisinier ? So, are you a cook? 16. Non plus ! Dernière chance, Léa. No again! Last chance, Léa. 17. Je ne sais pas. Tu es qui ? I don't know. Who are you? 18. Je suis le technicien de l’ascenseur ! I'm the lift technician! 19. Quoi ? Tu as un sac d’outils ? What? You have a bag of tools? 20. Oui. Tu gagnes, mais moi, j’ai le café ! Yes. You win, but I get the coffee! 🎧 Listen on the go: French Shadow Daily, the daily podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7uMYIdq... More A1 videos are in the A1 playlists. Subscribe for new French stories, quizzes and conversations every week. #LearnFrench #A1French #FrenchListening #FrenchShadowing #FrenchLesson #FrenchForBeginners #SpeakFrench #FrenchListening #FrenchStories