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Pour les Français, il y a 6 continents !
geography vocabulary · articles with places · numbers
Culture shock in 30 seconds: French schoolbooks count SIX continents (l’Amérique is one!). Great numbers-and-geography French, and a fun fact for your next conversation.
🎬 About this episode
Culture shock in 30 seconds: French schoolbooks count SIX continents (l’Amérique is one!). Great numbers-and-geography French, and a fun fact for your next conversation.
🔊 Key phrases for this topic
Pour les Français, il y a six continents.For the French, there are six continents.
L’Europe et l’Asie sont des continents.Europe and Asia are continents.
C’est différent chez vous ?Is it different where you are?
Ah bon ? Je ne savais pas !Really? I didn’t know!
C’est intéressant !That’s interesting!
🔑 The language point
- Continents take the article: l’Europe, l’Afrique, l’Asie — geography nouns are never “naked” in French.
- « Ah bon ? » — the perfect surprised reaction; file it with our small-talk phrases.
- More francophone geography in our French-speaking world guide.
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