Une journée dans ma vie d'au pair

"Une journée dans ma vie d'au pair" has been shared to the blog from the French reading practice section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills.


French listening practice: B1
French reading practice: A2*

Spend a day as an au pair with this video. Scroll down for the transcript in our bilingual reader: click any French phrase for the English translation and related grammar lessons.

Click any word in the text to see its translation and related grammar lessons.

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Author info

Aurélie Drouard

Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since.  She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!

Laura K Lawless

Laura is a French expert and Kwiziq's Head of Quality Control. Online educator since '99, Laura is passionate about language, travel, and cooking. She's American by birth and a permanent ex-pat by choice - freelancing made it possible for her to travel extensively and live in several countries before settling permanently in Guadeloupe. Laura is the author of Lawless French, Lawless Spanish, and other websites and books on French, Spanish, Italian, English, and vegetarianism. She spends most of her spare time reading, playing with food, and enjoying water sports.

Comments: 2

La fille parle bien trop vite pour niveau A. Il faut se rendre compte que ce sont plutôt les débutants qui y écoutent, et que bien que ce soit la vitesse naturelle pour les jeunes.... c'est quand-même trop difficile de suivre pour les étudiants.

Bonjour Cécile !

Nous sommes conscients que parfois, le niveau de langue de l'écrit diffère du niveau de compréhension orale, c'est pourquoi nous précisons deux niveaux au début de nos articles : "French listening practice" and "French reading practice".

Le niveau de compréhension orale de cet article est en effet B1, et non A2, car comme vous l'avez noté, la jeune fille parle assez vite :)

Bonne journée !