Hostage Negotiations: Hostage: A Pizza Delivery Guy
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Key Phrases
Combien de voulez-vous
How many do you want
Gardez la pizza au chaud
Keep the pizza warm
Vous m'apportez plus de sauce à tremper
Bring me more dipping sauce
Skills You'll Learn
Negotiating in a conversation
Négocier dans une conversation
Requesting specific items
Demander des articles spécifiques
Expressing urgency
Exprimer l'urgence
Lesson Roleplay
Imagine a humorous scenario where you demand the release of a man because he has your pizza with stuffed crust pepperoni. The person holding the man demands three pots of barbecue sauce in return, claiming they really enjoy it. You reluctantly agree to bring the sauces as you negotiate to get your pizza back while making sure it stays warm.
Laissez cet homme partir, il a ma pizza avec bordure farcie au pepperoni !
Let that man go, he has my pizza with stuffed crust pepperoni!
Je le libérerai seulement si vous m'apportez plus de sauce à tremper.
I will release him only if you bring me more dipping sauce.
Combien de sauces voulez-vous exactement ?
How many sauces do you want exactly?
Trois pots de sauce barbecue, s’il vous plaît.
Three pots of barbecue sauce, please.
Trois ? C’est beaucoup pour une pizza !
Three? That's a lot for one pizza!
Lesson Vocabulary & Phrases
Laissez
Leh-say
Let
Cet homme
Set Om
This man
💬 [Cet] becomes [cette] before a feminine noun: [cet homme], but [cette femme]. The final [t] in [cet] is normally silent.
See breakdown →Partir
Par-teer
Leave
💬 After verbs like [laisser], French often uses another verb in its basic form: [laissez partir], [laissez entrer]. It is the same pattern as [let him go] / [let him in].
See breakdown →Laissez cet homme partir
Leh-say Set Om Par-teer
Let that man go
💬 French uses [laisser] plus another verb for [let someone do something]: [laissez cet homme partir], [laissez-moi parler]. [Cet homme] means [that man] here in natural English, even though [cet] literally points like [this/that] depending on context.
See breakdown →Il a
eel ah
He has
💬 [Il a] runs together in speech, often close to (ee-lah). The [l] links straight into [a], so do not pause between the words.
See breakdown →Ma pizza
Mah Peet-zah
My pizza
Il a ma pizza
eel a ma pee-tsa
He has my pizza
Avec
Ah-vek
With
Bordure farcie
Bor-dure Far-see
Stuffed crust
💬 With food words, French often puts the describing word after the noun: [une bordure farcie], [une croûte fine]. So think [crust stuffed], not [stuffed crust], when reading it literally.
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