Bonjour !
Enjoyed reading the transcript. Really every bit of sentence is true after having experienced giving DELF!
Just unable to get the sentence of a teacher “ Pour moi, c’est vraiment des séasames à tous les niveaux.”
The transcript reads -“ For me , it really opens doors at all levels” but it’s not the literal translation I suppose. Could you expand a bit ?
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Comments: 4
Sésame comes from the expression "open Sesame," a magical phrase used to open doors.
I always thought that the phrase was " Open, says a me." and that the "a" was a way of making an English sentence sound foreign and exotic to young audiences. I remember it from children's television in the 1950's. I am astonished that the term is used in French. Here is some additional information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sesame_(phrase)
This is a foreign language and bears no relation to the French taught in schools and colleges.