Bonjour à tous !
Time for another video in easy French. This time I am taking you to the lake of Poulafret in my hometown of Paimpol, Brittany, where I often go to jog or just to enjoy a nice walk. It’s 5mn away from my house!
1 – French Lake Vocabulary
- la marée basse / haute – low/high tide
- jusqu’ici – until here
- plusieurs fois par semaine – several times a week
- à disposition de – at the disposal of
- je vous y emmènerai- I’ll take you there (note how I glide over the e of the “erai” future ending)
- trouver ça étrange – to find it weird
- comme ça – this way
- le sol – the ground
- recouvrir – to cover up
- cet espace – this space
- on est arrivés – we’re here
- la base de loisirs – literally “leisure base” – meaning place to practice sports

Spend a week in the beautiful harbour town of Paimpol on the North Coast of France.
- les sports aquatiques et nautiques – water-based and nautical sports
- la gym – exercises
- arriver à – to manage to
- un lac artificiel – artificial lake
- retenir – to keep
- une plage – a beach
- un moulin – a mill
- une écluse – a (water) lock
- par ici – this way
- un panneau – a sign
- faire du jogging – to jog
- faire des abdominaux – to do situps
- faire des pompes – to do pushups
- là-dessus – over there
- une oie – goose
- un canard – duck
- un cygne – swan
- être petit(e) – in the context of age, to be young
- surtout – above all
- formidable – great
- un paysage – landscape, view
- au gré – according to as in following the will of
- j’espère que ça vous a plu – I hope you liked it
2 – Poulafret Easy French Video
Now that you know the vocabulary, watch my easy French video and learn about the Poulafret artificial like in Paimpol, Brittany, France.
3 – Pictures of Poulafret Lake

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