Chapter 39 is on French Lesson Marketing Advertising and drills down to some helpful French Grammar and French Verbs.
keep reading you’re improving really well! this chapter is all about discussing advertisement which is really handy in the work place. You can see the whole set here.
Above all you need to ensure that you are listening to Fench for Business as its actually spoken – the best way to this is to listen to Hands Free Business French audiobooks, and to watch French movies with subtitles. More on this later.
When I started learning French, I purhcased about 6 different audiobooks and listened to them on the train each monring to work.
- “an advertisement”: « une annonce »
Example sentence
“Can you put out the advertisement for the HR officer position today?”
« Pouvez-vous publier l’annonce pour le poste de responsable RH aujourd’hui ? »
Breakdown
- “CAN” is translated as « POUVOIR »
“CAN” is a modal verb in English, which is very specific. It modifies a verb, and it can only be used with another verb. The French « POUVOIR » can be a standalone verb. But it works just the same.
e.g. “I can do this”: « je peux faire ça ». “CAN” is the conjugated verb, “DO” is in the infinitive. Same thing in French, « peux » is conjugated, « FAIRE » is in the infinitive.
- “TO PUT OUT”: « PUBLIER »
This is yet another example of a prepositional verb in English. It’s a vivid image that is rendered in French with a concept: « PUBLIER »: “TO PUBLISH”/“TO MAKE PUBLIC”.
- “HR officer”: « responsable RH »
Again, we see that someone who is in charge of something is responsible for it, « responsable RH ».
- “a position”: « un poste »
Quick tip: “an advertisement”
When you’re advertising for a product or a service, “an advertisement” is « une publicité ». “an ad” (short for advertisement) is « une pub ».
You might want to check out our related article on a French Meeting Agenda ones like this.
