French jokes and puns - blagues en français 5 (with audio)

20 Mar 2012
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French jokes and puns - blagues en français 5 (with audio)

Today, I am going to tell "Toto" jokes. These are very popular jokes among elementary school children, and there are thousands of them. They also have been part of the French culture for a while. "Toto" is a young school boy, an impertinent dunce, who talks back and is lazy but usually not mean - I believe his name would be "Little Johnny" in English. Most jokes evolve around school, homeowk, talking back to adults and are very short and use colloquial language.

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Toto rentre de l'école :

- Papa! Tu vas être fier de moi! J'ai été le seul à répondre à la question du maître! 

- Et c'etait quoi la question?
- C'était: qui a posé une punaise sur ma chaise?

Toto comes back from school:

- Daddy! You’re gonna be proud of me! I was the only one who answered the teacher’s question!
- And what was the question?
- It was: “Who put a tack on my chair?”

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La Maman de Toto lui demande:

- Alors Toto, tu as appris beaucoup de choses à l'école aujourd'hui?
- Pas assez en tout cas, ils veulent que j'y retourne demain.

Toto's Mom asks him:

- So, Toto, did you learn a lot of things at school today?
- Not enough, I guess [literally “anyways”], because they want me to go back tomorrow.


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La maîtresse demande:

- Toto, avoue que ton père t'a aidé à faire ton devoir.
- NON! M'dame, je vous jure!
- Sur ?
- Ah ça, j'en suis sur... Il l'a fait tout seul ...

The teacher asks [Toto]:

- Toto, [do you] admit that your father helped you with your homework?
- No! Miss, I swear he didn't!
- [Are you] sure?
- Oh, yeah; I’m sure... He did it all by himself …


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Mostafa Abedinifard

I am doing my PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta. In my research I use three languages: Farsi, English, and French. The first is my mother tongue, and the second has been the language of instruction in my studies during the past decade. As for French, I dare to say that my familiarity with Camille’s great products has been a turning point in my relationship with this language. Thanks Camille!

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