Spoken French: shorten words

“Je sais” becomes “ché”

“Je suis” becomes “chu”

“Puis” becomes “pis”

In spoken French, we double the pronom personnel:

• “Nous, on va manger”
• “Eux, ils vont à Paris”
• “moi, je suis professeur”
• “lui, il” etc….

In spoken French, we often begin sentences with:

• “bin”/”bah..”(eh bien)

And we often end sentences with:

• “…là”
• “…t’sais” (tu sais)
• “…quoi”

In spoken French, we shorten words like:

• “il” (when it’s followed by a word beginning with a consonant) > “y”
• “y m’a dit que…”

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