Hello and welcome!
So come with me! Let's go!
Hello everyone!
Hello everyone! I'm astonished! Flabbergasted! I thought I was on a cheese stand.
In fact no! I'm going to ask this gentleman to introduce himself.
Hello, my name is Edouard Sicart. I'm 26 years old and I created
Le Petit Frenchie two years ago.
It's not a cheese?
It's not a cheese. It's a type of patisserie which has the shape and the look of a cheese
which we sell in a wooden box.
As if it were cheese.
Exactly, as if it were a cheese and we've even given it the shape, the mould
a bit like on a cheese, the trompe-lœil is really pushed to the extreme.
It's true - it tricks the eye. OK, but it does not trick the mouth.
So it's a pastry?
Exactly, it's a pastry. It's made of meringue with a cream which can be
of different flavours.
Fantastic! So it's your first year at the France Show?
Yes, it's our first year, the first development in England and in London,
so the first time at the France Show.
So what I love when you're at the France Show, its that - of course you can learn French
by listening to Coffee Break French - but there are other stands
and here, for example, we have a stand in fact where you can learn French
by going to France. So it's a bit like what we call "immersion", so we're going to
speak a bit about that. Let's go! I'm going to speak in English and I'm going to introduce ..
well I'm going to invite this lady to introduce herself.
So Florent, you're one of the teachers. Can you explain to us
how it works?
Yes of course. So the students arrive on Saturday from the airport or from the train,
they spend the afternoon with us, with Jane, with the teachers. On Sunday too
we start to do the visits, we speak with them to try to identify a bit their level
and from Monday morning we get started on the lessons. So it's groups of
five or six people normally. You have one and a half hours with a teacher
and one and a half hours with another teacher (there are three teachers) and then in the afternoon you have
guide tours in French - everything inFrench from dawn to dusk.
And how can we find out more about your organisation, about your language school?
You just need to go to the site frenchinthedordogne.com.
So I'm arriving at another stand and I'm a bit intrigued here because I don't know
what it is so I'm going to ask this charming young man to introduce himself. Hello!
Hello! I'm Estellio Estienne, pleased to meet you! We're here on the Boulogne-sur-Mer stand.
Oh Boulogne, I think I detect a little bit of a Ch'ti accent there...
Ah yes, I'm Ch'ti. Boulogne-sur-Mer is Ch'ti country, well Coastal Ch'ti country anyway!
OK. so could you explain what you do?
What are you involved in?
Well we run hotel/restaurant in Boulogne-sur-Mer, la Matelote.
For 40 years we've been running la Matelote, father and son. We're opposite the Nausicaá.
So what exactly is the Nausicaá?
The Nausicaá is the biggest aquarium in Europe:
hammerhead sharks, seals, manta-rays, you see.
OK, very good. So you have spoken about a family business which is called
la Matelote, ok, so what do you actually do?
Well, we have several activities: we have a restaurant - we've had a Michelin star
since 1982. We're also hoteliers, we do catering for outdoors receptions
in marquees. We also have our own banqueting hall for weddings.
We are also bakers,
with three bakeries in the centre of Boulogne.
There's something that I'm really interested in: what I'd like is for you to teach us
something in Ch'ti.
OK, listen : [he speaks the Ch'ti dialect]
OK, perhaps we should repeat that for our listeners...
In French, ok listen: sometimes there's fish, sometimes there's no fish;
if there isn't any today, there will be some on the next catch.
And once more in Ch'ti?
[He speaks Ch'ti.]
Excellent! I feel like I'm listening to Danny Boon!
[Music]
Hello everyone! So we are at the France Show inLondon, ok.
It's great to have this opportunity to meet our customers and actually
I'm with one of our customers, so I'm going to ask him to introduce himself. Hello!
Hello.
Excellent. Can you introduce yourself please?
Yes, my name is Keith. I'm from Hertforshire in England.
Great, thank you very much.
So there you go, finished for another year.
Yes, unfortunately, but we had a great time even so, didn't we?
We had a great time, yes, and we spoke to lots and lots of people.
Yes, there were lots of stands. I particularly liked the one
from the north of France.
The Ch'ti guy?
The Ch'ti guy, yes.
Do you remember the phrase he taught us?
Something about fish - that's all I remember!
"Poiching" or something about "meringue".
I've forgotten.
Yes that was very interesting. It was in the shape of a camembert.
It is the France Show this weekend after all.
So we're going to talk a bit more in French, or rather we're going to talk about French above all.
Exactly. So, thank you very much. Thanks to you and thanks to the whole team.
Thanks Flora and Kristina !
Until the next time! Good bye!