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Visite guidée de l’ISS avec Thomas Pesquet — Real French
space vocabulary · spoken French · on for nous
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet gives a guided tour of the International Space Station — real, natural spoken French about space, science and daily life in orbit. A brilliant B1 listening workout with authentic vocabulary.
🎬 About this episode
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet gives a guided tour of the International Space Station — real, natural spoken French about space, science and daily life in orbit. A brilliant B1 listening workout with authentic vocabulary.
🔊 Key phrases for this topic
Bienvenue à bord !Welcome aboard!
Ici, on flotte en apesanteur.Here, we float in weightlessness.
La Terre est magnifique vue d’ici.Earth is magnificent seen from here.
C’est ici qu’on dort.This is where we sleep.
On fait des expériences scientifiques.We do scientific experiments.
🔑 The language point
- Tour-guide French: ici, c’est… / c’est ici que… — pointing with words.
- on replaces nous in natural spoken French: on flotte, on dort, on fait.
- Science nouns are often near-cognates: une expérience, la gravité, une station spatiale — B1 gold.
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