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French Made Easy
178 - 7 Shapes in French
In this episode, you’ll learn 7 shapes in French. 🔺🔵
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Bonjour à tous, hello everyone, welcome back to the French Made Easy podcast. This is episode 178, numéro 178. Today, we’ll be learning some shapes in French. Basic vocabulary that we haven’t learned yet! So we’ll do a part 1 today, and we’ll learn more shapes in a part 2.
Before we start, as always, if you're new to the podcast, welcome! Please make sure you have your lesson's cheat sheet handy so you can see the spelling of the words while you listen. And when you finish this episode, you can head over to the French Made Easy Exercise Library to download your lesson's exercises and practice what you've learned today. You'll find all the download links in the episode notes. It’s free!
Let’s get into it, we have 7 shapes, plus example sentences! Make sure you repeat after me so you can also practice your pronunciation.
- le cercle 🔵 (circle)
- Il a dessiné un cercle sur le papier. (He drew a circle on the paper.)
- le carré ◼️ (square)
- Le carré a quatre côtés égaux. (The square has four equal sides.)
- le triangle 🔺 (triangle)
- Un triangle a trois côtés. (A triangle has three sides.)
- le rectangle ▭ (rectangle)
- Un rectangle a deux côtés longs et deux côtés courts. (A rectangle has two long sides and two short sides.)
- le losange 🔷 (diamond)
- Le losange ressemble à un carré incliné. (The diamond looks like a tilted square.)
- le cœur ❤️ (heart)
- Elle a un tatouage en forme de cœur. (She has a heart-shaped tattoo.)
- l’étoile ⭐️ (star)
- Une étoile a cinq branches. (The star has five points.)
Quick Recap:
- le cercle (circle)
- le carré (square)
- le triangle (triangle)
- le rectangle (rectangle)
- le losange (diamond)
- le cœur (heart)
- l’étoile (star)
Et voilà! We’ve covered 7 shapes in French today, and that’s the end of today’s episode! We’ll do a part 2 in a future episode. I hope you’ve enjoyed it. Don’t forget to head over to the French Made Easy Exercise Library to download your exercises. 👩🏻🏫✨ All the links are in the episode notes. I’ll chat with you next week! À bientôt.