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Business French Trancript Lesson

This document provides a lesson on introducing yourself in a business meeting in French. It includes a sample dialogue where a new trainee, Thomas, meets his supervisor Laurène. It then lists vocabulary from the conversation and provides the key phrases "Vous devez être" meaning "You must be" and "Enchanté de vous rencontrer" meaning "Pleased to meet you." The lesson focus explains that when introducing yourself, you should provide your full name, company, and position. Examples are given of self-introductions in professional settings.

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Business French Trancript Lesson

This document provides a lesson on introducing yourself in a business meeting in French. It includes a sample dialogue where a new trainee, Thomas, meets his supervisor Laurène. It then lists vocabulary from the conversation and provides the key phrases "Vous devez être" meaning "You must be" and "Enchanté de vous rencontrer" meaning "Pleased to meet you." The lesson focus explains that when introducing yourself, you should provide your full name, company, and position. Examples are given of self-introductions in professional settings.

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LESSON TRANSCRIPT

Business French for Beginners S1

Introducing Yourself in a Business


Meeting
CONTENTS
2 INTRODUCTION
2 DIALOGUE
2 POST CONVERSATION BANTER
3 VOCAB LIST
5 KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES
5 LESSON FOCUS

INTRODUCTION

Laurent: Bonjour, I'm Laurent.


Sydney: In this lesson, you’ll learn how to introduce yourself when meeting your
supervisor for the first time. The conversation takes place in an office.

Laurent: It's between Laurène and Thomas.


Sydney: The speakers are strangers, therefore, they will speak formal French. Okay,
let's listen to the conversation.
DIALOGUE
Laurène: Bonjour, vous devez être notre nouveau stagiaire, le directeur m'a
prévenu que vous arriviez.
Thomas: Tout à fait c'est bien moi. Je m'appelle homas Mol. Enchanté de vous
rencontrer
Laurène: Je m'appelle Laurène Pali. Enchantée également. Je suis votre
responsable.
Sydney: Listen to the conversation one time slowly.
Laurène: Bonjour, vous devez être notre nouveau stagiaire, le directeur m'a
prévenu que vous arriviez.
Thomas: Tout à fait c'est bien moi. Je m'appelle T homas Mol. Enchanté de vous
rencontrer
Laurène: Je m'appelle Laurène Pali. Enchantée également. Je suis votre
responsable.
Sydney: Listen to the conversation with the English translation.
Laurène: Hello, you must be the new trainee, our director told me you were coming.
Thomas: Indeed it's me. My name is Thomas Mol. Very nice to meet you.
Laurène: I'm Laurène Pali. Nice to meet you too. I'm your supervisor.

POST CONVERSATION BANTER


Sydney: We just heard a nice, professional and polite business greeting.
Laurent: Yes, that was a great example of how to introduce yourself.
Sydney: When you meet someone in a business setting in France, is it common to
hand over business cards?
Laurent: They’re not commonly used in France, no.
Sydney: I guess technology has rendered business cards obsolete.
Laurent: For a lot of people, yes. It’s a lot easier to just give a phone number or
social media account.
Sydney: Are there any professions that use business cards?
Laurent: Some freelancers, salespeople, and self-employed workers will, but not all.
Sydney: I’m sure that even freelancers have their own websites these days.
Laurent: that’s right. Business cards really are rare in modern France.
Sydney: So if you’re working for a company, there’s not really any need to have any
made.
Laurent: No. But if you do, you might say: Voici ma carte de visite.
Sydney: "Here’s my business card." Okay, now onto the vocab.
VOCAB LIST
Sydney: Let’s take a look at the vocabulary from this lesson. The first word is...
Laurent: stagiaire [natural native speed]
Sydney: "trainee"
Laurent: stagiaire [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Laurent: stagiaire [natural native speed]
Sydney: Next we have...
Laurent: être [natural native speed]
Sydney: "to be"
Laurent: être [slowly - broken down by syllable]

Laurent: être [natural native speed]


Sydney: Next we have...
Laurent: directeur [natural native speed]
Sydney: "director"
Laurent: directeur [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Laurent: directeur [natural native speed]
Sydney: Next we have...
Laurent: prévenir [natural native speed]
Sydney: "to inform"
Laurent: prévenir [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Laurent: prévenir [natural native speed]
Sydney: Next we have...
Laurent: responsable [natural native speed]
Sydney: "person in charge of"
Laurent: responsable [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Laurent: responsable [natural native speed]
Sydney: Next we have...
Laurent: rencontrer [natural native speed]
Sydney: "to meet"
Laurent: rencontrer [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Laurent: rencontrer [natural native speed]
Sydney: And last...
Laurent: moi [natural native speed]

Sydney: "me"
Laurent: moi [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Laurent: moi [natural native speed]

KEY VOCAB AND PHRASES


Sydney: Let's have a closer look at the usage of one of the phrases from this lesson.
The phrase is...
Laurent: Vous devez être ~
Sydney: meaning "You must be ~".
Sydney: Let’s look at the words in this phrase.
Laurent: First is vous, which is the personal pronoun "you" in plural form.
Sydney: It’s plural because this is formal speech.
Laurent: Next is the verbal phrase devez être.
Sydney: This means "must be."
Laurent: devez is a conjugation of devoir, which means "to have."
Sydney: This conjugates irregularly, so you need to learn the conjugations by heart.
Can you give us an example using this phrase?
Laurent: Sure. For example, you can say... Vous devez être notre nouveau voisin.
Sydney: ...which means "You must be our new neighbour."
Sydney: Okay, now onto the lesson focus.

LESSON FOCUS

Sydney: In this lesson, you'll learn about meeting your supervisor for the first time.
How do we introduce ourselves in a business setting?
Laurent: You should give your full name first, followed by your company name.
Sydney: Okay, name, then company. Can you give us an example?
Laurent: Je m’appelle Linda Baker d’Alpha.
Sydney: "I’m Linda Baker from Alpha."

Laurent: It’s also polite to then say something like Enchantée de vous rencontrer.
Sydney: "Pleased to meet you." Let’s hear that altogether.
Laurent: Je m’appelle Linda Baker d’Alpha. Enchantée de vous rencontrer.
Sydney: "I’m Linda Baker from Alpha. Pleased to meet you."
Laurent: If you’re talking to someone from another company, you should say your
position too.
Sydney: Yes, that’s important! Let’s hear some examples of how we can add that
into our self-introduction.
Laurent: Je m’appelle Guillaume, délégué pour les boulangeries Paul. C’est un
plaisir..
Sydney: "I’m Guillaume, the representative of Paul’s bakery. It's a pleasure."
Laurent: Enchanté de vous rencontrer, je suis le directeur de Delta.
Sydney: "Nice to meet you, I am the director of Delta." What do we do if the other
person introduces themselves first?
Laurent: You can introduce yourself in basically the same way.
Sydney: That sounds easy enough.
Laurent: Je m'appelle Thomas Mol. Enchanté de vous rencontrer.
Sydney: "My name is homas Mol. Very nice to meet you." T hat’s all you need!
T he second sentence there is a formal sentence you can use when you meet
someone for the first time.
Laurent: Yes, Enchanté de vous rencontrer. Enchanté means "delighted" and
rencontrer means "to meet".
Sydney: In-between those words is a preposition.
Laurent: Yes, de can be translated to "of." T here is also vous.
Sydney: We spoke about that earlier, it’s the plural form of "you" and is used in
formal language.
Laurent: If you’re meeting someone your age or a friend’s relative you can say
Enchantée également instead.
Sydney: "Nice to meet you too."

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