French listening practice with transcript and grammar notes
Liven up your French practice with a catchy song! This music video includes interactive subtitles (click any word for translation and more).
Video courtesy of Tal Official.
Linguistic features added by Lawless French Immersion (Ilini). Supplementary materials for students and teachers (quizzes, puzzles, hand-outs…) are available at LF Immersion: Rien n’est parfait, de Tal.
Listening comprehension
Expressions
Grammar
- rien n’est – negative pronoun
- Ça ne doit pas – negative adverbs
- t’empêcher, Tu l’as dit – direct objects
- cette rage – demonstrative adjectives
- Tu l’as dit – passé composé
- c[e n]’est pas, [ne] te laisse pas – informal negation
- Elle te fait – indirect object
- Il faut que – from falloir
- tes colères, ta place – possessive adjectives
- Bats-toi – pronominal verb in the imperative
- [Il] y a – informal pronoun
- t[u n’]as plus – informal pronoun + informal negation
- la vie ne t’en donne pas – adverbial pronoun en
- Je suis là – ici vs là



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