Fête de la Musique: Suggesting moving to next street for different band

💬 Tu veux plus an action is an easy way to suggest a plan. Try Tu veux manger ? "Do you want to eat?".

🇫🇷 On the Fête de la Musique night, every street has its own stage, so drifting to the next street for a different band is exactly what locals do.

💬 In everyday speech the question word quoi can sit at the end of the sentence. It's casual, and you'll hear it far more than the textbook form.

💬 The -ent you might expect isn't here, but the final e of commence is silent anyway, so it sounds like (koh-mahnss).

💬 French times often use the 24-hour clock, so 9 pm is vingt et une heures. Une matches heures, and it joins it in one sound (vant-ay-oon-nur).

🇫🇷 Event times, posters and programmes in France use the 24-hour clock, so expect 21h written on the Fête de la Musique schedule.

💬 French keeps le before a type of music or thing you like in general, where English drops it. Same for J'adore le rock "I love rock".

💬 Il here doesn't mean he, it's just a placeholder like English it. The l of quelle links into heure (kel-lur).

💬 Minutes go straight after heures with no word for past or after. So vingt heures dix is 8:10 pm.

💬 On is everyday speech for we, and y stands for there. On y va ? alone is a handy way to say "Shall we go?".

💬 The s of allons links into y, so it sounds like (ah-lohn-zee).

💬 À gauche uses à for direction. The opposite is à droite "on the right", and straight ahead is tout droit.

🇫🇷 Bakeries are on nearly every block, so locals use them as landmarks when giving directions.

💬 Après means after in time, but with places it means past or just beyond. Juste avant "just before" works the same way.

💬 The final t is silent: (par-feh).

💬 L' is la shortened before a vowel and must attach to the next word. Merci pour works with any noun: Merci pour le café "Thanks for the coffee".

🇫🇷 A warm, slightly polished reply to thanks. Among friends De rien "You're welcome" is just as common.

💬 Allez here isn't really go, it's a nudge like English "come on". Friends say Allez ! alone to hurry someone along.