Unité 2

cajun 101 - learn louisiana french at home

Leçon 1 - Donne-moi donc du fromage.

Donne-moi donc du fromage.
dun-mwah don du froh-mahj

Give me some cheese (please).

When we first started learning French at home, one of our goals was to be able to pass our time at the dinner table speaking French, so the first words we tried to learn where those related to the kitchen, dining room, and the process of having dinner together.

My son loves cheese. Today's phrase gives one way of asking for some cheese. Notice the addition of the word donc, which usually means therefore, so, then, or hence, makes this demand more polite.

If the cheese is already on the table add you can't reach it, you could say, Passe-moi donc le fromage and someone would hand you the cheese plate.

To build our vocabulary, I asked my son to come up with a set of words he wanted to know how to say in French. This is what he came up with:

• une tomate, a tomato
• une fourchette, a fork
• un couteau, a knife
• un plat, a platter
• une cuiller, a spoon
• une assiette, a plate
• le fromage, the cheese
• du poulet, some chicken
• manger, to eat
• le manger, the food
• le sel, the salt
• le poivre, the pepper

I put together a Quizlet set so he could practice these words.