You're listening to Chapter 1: Automne, Brice & son Berger Maremme of the French Short Learning Story At the Dog Park in Paris (original title: Au Caniparc). This story immerses you in the world of French dog-related vocabulary. Through a realistic story—punctuated with a few unexpected twists—you’ll discover over 20 useful expressions from everyday life with a dog, across four chapters set in Paris. Bonne écoute en français ! Would you like to access the worksheets for more active listening and writing practice? Until they're publicly available, feel free to reach out to the podcast hostess, linguist and author Léa Tirard-Hersant, on her personal website www.LEACAFE.org (http://www.LEACAFE.org) Bonne écoute ! -- PAR CŒUR — French by Heart is a French learning podcast inspired by the art of oral learning traditions, designed to improve listening comprehension, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary through structured listening, repetition, and spoken rhythm. French vocabulary you remember. French grammar you don’t forget. French pronunciation that stays. French you keep in your heart. Hosted by Léa Tirard-Hersant, a pioneer of online French teaching since 2013 and founder of www.Leacafe.org and the Staircase® learning method, the podcast reflects a long-standing commitment to deep, human-centered language learning. Just as Léa was among the first to build serious French-learning experiences online, she is now among the first French teachers to enrich her teaching with generated voices, thoughtfully crafted using ElevenLabs, to expand learners’ exposure to spoken French. These additional masculine and feminine voices, along with varied accents, complement the host’s voice and offer learners precise vocal models to imitate. As in music and song, pronunciation is learned through listening and vocal mirroring — hearing different voices, matching their rhythm, and gradually making the sound one’s own. One step at a time, French by heart. Each episode focuses on deep learning rather than accumulation: one essential French expression or idiom one grammar structure (verb patterns, prepositions, or tricky verbs like manquer) one French sound or pronunciation challenge (nasal vowels, liaison, or the famous French R) All elements are repeated through guided listening and drills until they become yours. This is where French moves from ear to memory. 💡 Did you know? With over 10,000 hours taught since 2013, Léa Tirard-Hersant is a popular online French tutor and an active contributor to language-learning communities and conferences. Visit www.leacafe.org (http://www.leacafe.org) to discover the complete Par cœur French program and schedule your first lessons. Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Bienvenue ! In this fourth and final episode about the French verb manquer, you’ll explore the expression manquer à — used when someone fails to respect a duty, a promise, a responsibility, or a moral obligation. You’ll hear phrases such as: Manquer à son devoir. Manquer à sa promesse. Manquer à ses responsabilités. Manquer à sa parole. Manquer à la loyauté. This time, manquer takes us into the territory of duty, trust, loyalty, promises, and betrayal. To make these structures memorable, the episode brings together unforgettable characters and stories: Severus Snape and his promise to protect Harry Potter, Assane Diop from Lupin and the responsibilities he sometimes fails to honor, and finally the Dreyfus Affair, through a fictional dialogue centered on duty, loyalty, and justice. Different characters, different moral choices — but the same French structure: manquer à + something one is expected to respect or fulfill. CE QUE VOUS ALLEZ ETUDIER ✦ WHAT YOU’LL PRACTICE • manquer à + noun • manquer à son devoir / à sa promesse / à ses responsabilités • manquer à sa parole / à la confiance / à la loyauté • Vocabulary related to duty, morality, trust, responsibility, and betrayal • Recognizing how manquer à differs from manquer de and manquer quelque chose COMMENT UTILISER ✦ HOW TO USE THIS EPISODE Écoutez plusieurs fois Répétez à voix haute, even when the sentence feels easy À PROPOS ✦ ABOUT Hosted by Léa Tirard-Hersant, French tutor, founder of Leacafe, and creator of Par cœur and the French-learning audio series Le Vignoble, this podcast helps learners retain French through carefully designed repetition, listening drills, storytelling, and spoken rhythm. Rather than overwhelming you with rules, each episode takes one small step at a time:une expression essentielleune structure grammaticaleun son ou une difficulté de prononciation On écoute. On répète. On reconnaît. Et, peu à peu, le français devient familier. If you believe language is learned par cœur — by heart, not by endless scrolling — this podcast is for you. 💡 DANS LES COULISSES DE PAR CŒUR ✦ BEHIND THE SCENES Par cœur also uses ElevenLabs AI tools to bring guest voices and immersive situations to life. Alongside Léa’s own voice, you may hear different speakers, accents, dialogues, and sound environments — all in engaging, vivid, and at times humorous stories designed for French learners. 💡 LE SAVIEZ-VOUS ? ✦ DID YOU KNOW? With over 10,000 hours taught since 2013, Léa Tirard-Hersant is an experienced online French tutor and contributor to language-learning communities and conferences. Visit www.LEACAFE.com (http://www.LEACAFE.com) to discover the complete Par cœur French program and schedule your first lesson. Merci d’avoir suivi cette série en quatre épisodes sur le verbe manquer. Maintenant, il ne reste plus qu’à répéter — encore et encore — pour que tout cela devienne naturel. Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Bienvenue ! Tu me manques. Tu me manques tellement. Si tu savais comme tu me manques… Few French phrases carry as much tenderness as tu me manques. In English, we say “I miss you.” In French, the feeling seems to move in the opposite direction: tu me manques — you are the one missing from my life, from my days, from the space beside me. And in this episode, manquer becomes a language of absence. Maxime leaves the shared apartment he once filled with music, bad habits, and friendship, and his former roommates write to tell him how much he is missed. Then love enters the story. When Maxime’s girlfriend leaves for six months abroad, the apartment suddenly feels too quiet. The mornings are different. The evenings are longer. The empty side of the bed becomes impossible to ignore. So Maxime writes her a poem: Tu me manques le matin. Tu me manques le soir. Tu me manques sur le canapé. Tu me manques sur l’oreiller. Tu me manques dans le salon silencieux. The same French structure returns again and again, but each repetition carries a slightly different shade of longing. And far away, his girlfriend begins to ask herself the same question: qu’est-ce qui me manque vraiment ? France? Montpellier? Her family? Home? Maxime? CE QUE VOUS ALLEZ ETUDIER ✦ WHAT YOU’LL PRACTICE • tu me manques / tu nous manques / ils me manquent • Understanding the emotional logic behind “I miss you” in French • X me manque / X nous manque • ce qui me manque / ce qui me manque le plus / le moins • Talking about the people, places, habits, and moments that leave an empty space when they are gone COMMENT UTILISER ✦ HOW TO USE THIS EPISODE Écoutez plusieurs fois Répétez à voix haute, even when the sentence feels easy À PROPOS ✦ ABOUT Hosted by Léa Tirard-Hersant, French tutor, founder of Leacafe, and creator of Par cœur and the French-learning audio series Le Vignoble, this podcast helps learners retain French through carefully designed repetition, listening drills, storytelling, and spoken rhythm. Rather than overwhelming you with rules, each episode takes one small step at a time:une expression essentielleune structure grammaticaleun son ou une difficulté de prononciation On écoute. On répète. On reconnaît. Et, peu à peu, le français devient familier. If you believe language is learned par cœur — by heart, not by endless scrolling — this podcast is for you. 💡 DANS LES COULISSES DE PAR CŒUR ✦ BEHIND THE SCENES Par cœur also uses ElevenLabs AI tools to bring guest voices and immersive situations to life. Alongside Léa’s own voice, you may hear different speakers, accents, dialogues, and sound environments — all in a street-life, engaging, fun and at times humorous story! 💡 LE SAVIEZ-VOUS ? ✦ DID YOU KNOW? With over 10,000 hours taught since 2013, Léa Tirard-Hersant is an experienced online French tutor and contributor to language-learning communities and conferences. Visit www.LEACAFE.com (http://www.LEACAFE.com) to discover the complete Par cœur French program and schedule your first lesson. À bientôt pour le quatrième et dernier épisode de la série sur le verbe manquer ! Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Bienvenue ! In this French learning episode, you’ll explore the use of the verb "manquer", as in: Manquer son bus. Manquer son avion. Manquer une information. Manquer un appel. Manquer sa cible. Gaston races across Paris trying not to miss his flight. A tired student keeps missing important information in class. Julie misses calls and messages from her friends. And a young recruit repeatedly misses her target. Different situations, same structure: manquer + direct object. CE QUE VOUS ALLEZ ETUDIER ✦ WHAT YOU’LL PRACTICE • manquer + direct object • manquer son bus / son train / son avion • manquer un appel, un message ou une information • manquer une cible, un but ou un panier COMMENT UTILISER ✦ HOW TO USE THIS EPISODE Écoutez plusieurs fois Répétez à voix haute, even when the sentence feels easy À PROPOS ✦ ABOUT Hosted by Léa Tirard-Hersant, French tutor and founder of Leacafe and the Staircase® learning method, this podcast helps learners retain French through carefully designed repetition, listening drills, storytelling, and spoken rhythm. Rather than overwhelming you with rules, each episode takes one small step at a time:une expression essentielleune structure grammaticaleun son ou une difficulté de prononciation On écoute. On répète. On reconnaît. Et, peu à peu, le français devient familier. If you believe language is learned par cœur — by heart, not by endless scrolling — this podcast is for you. 💡 DANS LES COULISSES DE PAR CŒUR ✦ BEHIND THE SCENES Par cœur also uses ElevenLabs AI tools to bring guest voices and immersive situations to life. Alongside Léa’s own voice, you may hear different speakers, accents, dialogues, and sound environments — all in a street-life, engaging, fun and at times humorous story! 💡 LE SAVIEZ-VOUS ? ✦ DID YOU KNOW? With over 10,000 hours taught since 2013, Léa Tirard-Hersant is an experienced online French tutor and contributor to language-learning communities and conferences. Visit www.LEACAFE.com (http://www.LEACAFE.com) to discover the complete Par cœur French program and schedule your first lesson. À bientôt pour l’épisode 3 de la série sur le verbe manquer ! Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Bienvenue ! In this French learning episode, you’ll practice one of the most useful meanings of the verb manquer: manquer de quelque chose — to lack something, to be short of something, or to feel that something is missing. Through several everyday situations, you’ll hear and repeat natural phrases such as: Ça manque de sel. Il manque de lumière. Ce chien manque d’exercice. Je manque de confiance. From a disappointing quiche to an apartment with no charm, an unhappy dog, and a student struggling to make progress in French, the same structure comes back again and again until it starts to feel automatic. CE QUE VOUS ALLEZ ETUDIER ✦ WHAT YOU’LL PRACTICE • manquer de + noun • ça manque de… / il manque de… / je manque de… • Expressing that something is missing, insufficient, or lacking COMMENT UTILISER ✦ HOW TO USE THIS EPISODE Écoutez plusieurs foisRépétez à voix haute, even when the sentence feels easyTry to predict what comes after ça manque de…Come back later and create your own examples Regardez autour de vous : Qu’est-ce qui manque ? De quoi manquez-vous ? À PROPOS ✦ ABOUT Hosted by Léa Tirard-Hersant, French tutor and founder of Leacafe and the Staircase® learning method, this podcast helps learners retain French through carefully designed repetition, listening drills, storytelling, and spoken rhythm. Rather than overwhelming you with rules, each episode takes one small step at a time:une expression essentielleune structure grammaticaleun son ou une difficulté de prononciation On écoute. On répète. On reconnaît. Et, peu à peu, le français devient familier. If you believe language is learned par cœur — by heart, not by endless scrolling — this podcast is for you. 💡 DANS LES COULISSES DE PAR CŒUR ✦ BEHIND THE SCENES Par cœur also uses ElevenLabs AI tools to bring guest voices and immersive situations to life. Alongside Léa’s own voice, you may hear different speakers, accents, dialogues, and sound environments — all carefully structured and paced for French learners. The result: Du français que vous comprenez. Du français que vous répétez. Du français que vous retenez. 💡 LE SAVIEZ-VOUS ? ✦ DID YOU KNOW? With over 10,000 hours taught since 2013, Léa Tirard-Hersant is an experienced online French tutor and contributor to language-learning communities and conferences. Visit www.LEACAFE.com (http://www.LEACAFE.com) to discover the complete Par cœur French program and schedule your first lesson. À bientôt pour l’épisode 2 de la série sur le verbe manquer ! Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

Bienvenue ! Merci à Brad d'avoir rendu cet épisode possible. This episode drills one of the most reliable patterns in French: nouns ending in -tion are overwhelmingly feminine. You'll hear, repeat, and remember 37 of them — transformation, conversation, décision, motivation, libération — inside a story rather than a grammar table. Nicole vient d'arriver à Paris après une séparation difficile. Elle commence une nouvelle vie, se reconstruit, observe la ville — et, petit à petit, change de regard sur elle-même. CE QUE VOUS ALLEZ PRATIQUER ✦ WHAT YOU'LL PRACTICE37 noms en -tion, en contexteL'accord des adjectifs ✦ adjective agreement : belle, douce, forte, longue, lenteDe la répétition jusqu'à l'automatisme COMMENT UTILISER CET ÉPISODE ✦ HOW TO USE THIS EPISODEÉcoutez plusieurs fois — listen more than onceRépétez à voix haute, even brieflyTry to anticipate the words before Nicole says themRevenez-y avant de dormir — sleep supports memory Pas besoin de tout mémoriser d'un coup. À PROPOS ✦ ABOUT Hosted by Léa Tirard-Hersant, French tutor and creator of Le Vignoble, an audio series with a companion workbook. Par cœur helps you retain French through storytelling, listening drills, and spoken rhythm. Un pas à la fois — one step at a time. Each episode goes deep on a single element:une expression essentielle ou idiomatiqueune structure grammaticale — verb patterns, prepositions, tricky verbs like manquerun son ou une difficulté de prononciation — nasal vowels, liaison, le fameux R français On écoute. On répète. On reconnaît. Et, peu à peu, le français devient familier. If you believe language is learned par cœur — by heart, not by endless scrolling — this podcast is for you. 💡 VOUS AIMEZ L'INNOVATION ? ✦ DO YOU LIKE INNOVATION? Par cœur uses ElevenLabs AI tools for guest voices and immersive scenes. Alongside Léa's own voice you may hear des voix masculines et féminines, différents accents, des dialogues, et les bruits d'une rue parisienne. La technologie au service de l'apprentissage — every episode is still written, structured, and paced by hand. Du français que vous comprenez. Du français que vous répétez. Du français que vous retenez. ✦ Over 10,000 hours taught since 2013. Léa also contributes to language-learning communities and conferences. Visit www.LEACAFE.org (http://www.LEACAFE.org) for Le Vignoble — audio series and workbook — and to schedule your first lesson. À bientôt — et surtout, continuez ! Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.