Coffee Break French

CBF 1:23 | Problems with your stay at a hotel

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May 30, 2008
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ADVICE

Qualifying Adjectives

  • Use "trop" to say "too" (e.g., "trop petit" means "too small").
  • Use "très" for "very", "assez" for "quite", and "extrêmement" for "extremely".
ADVICE

Expressing Temperature in a Room

  • Express "too hot" or "too cold" by saying "Il fait trop chaud dans la chambre" or "Il fait trop froid dans la chambre".
  • This structure means "It is too hot/cold in the room."
ANECDOTE

Parisian Heatwave

  • Mark Pentleton recalls a sweltering July in Paris with a non-opening window and broken AC.
  • This illustrates a real-life scenario of needing to complain about hotel room conditions.
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