Bonjour! Learning a new language is like dancing. One step at at time, each one in sync with the other. Let's roll!
Dans means in. It is a preposition. It show the relation between 2 nouns.
J'habite is a phrase used here. J'habite means I stay.
J'habite dans un appartement.
J'habite dans une maison.
un appartement - an apartment
une maison - a house
J'habite dans un appartement - I stay in an apartment.
J'habite dans une maison - I stay in a house.
Conversation:
Marc: Bonjour, je m'appelle Marc. Et vous?
Annie: Bonjour, je m'appelle Annie.
Marc: J'habite dans une maison. Et vous?
Annie: J'habite dans un appartement.
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Marc: Bonne soirée Annie
Annie: Bonne soirée Marc.
Vocabulary is as important to a language as grammar. As children, we picked up new words that eventually led to sentences. Happy learning!
Culture tip:
The apartment culture which is an integral part of today's housing options came from Paris.
Paris embraced the apartment in 1800's. It was initially called "Parisian flats" by the Americans who came to Paris for their cultural education.
Throughout the nineteenth century "the apartment house" dominated Parisian urban landscape.
Two reasons were primarily identified for its success:
1. Apartments provided spatially compact housing in a city with increasing population.
2. Apartments provided opportunity for investing in relatively inexpensive and profitable properties.
This post is written as a part of #BlogchatterA2Z
Never knew that the fashion (hahaha) of apartments started from the fashion capital of world, Paris! Thats a great gift to the world in general and metro cities in particular.
ReplyDeleteFashion of apartments. Good one.
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Wow the video helped me recite the line and learn this too properly. thanks for teaching us french all this month.
ReplyDeleteNice that it's helping you do something different
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