# EP 3 | Quand est-ce que je suis née ? (When was I born?)

An episode of [The Learn French With Alexa Podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/120975641), 11 Jun 2026, 12 min.

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Description: In today's episode of Learn French with Fun Facts, Alexa talks about her birthday. Do you know when it is? Practise listening to easy A1/A2 level French and learn more about one of the most renowned French teachers on YouTube! Need extra guidance for this episode? We've got you covered! Visit my podcast page for support guides from each episode in this new series. These include: • questions & answers • translations • and more!

## Transcript

[0:00] A Bonjour AB avenue I learned French with Alexa for another
[0:04] podcast. Now this series is quite simple.
[0:08] You're going to hear a small text based on a fun fact about
[0:13] me Alexa Polidoro. Now, if you learned it here just
[0:18] because the algorithm took it here, you may not know who I am,
[0:22] but I'm a French teacher, Alexa Polidoro from Learn French with
[0:26] Alexa. Now stick with us, OK, because
[0:29] you're going to do an exercise, a listening exercise.
[0:34] I'm going to run you through some grammar as well as we go
[0:37] along. Let's listen to another fun fact
[0:39] about me. Alexa Politoho.
[0:42] I'm going to ask you a question after the first reading of this
[0:45] text and maybe a second question if we've got time.
[0:49] Listen very carefully. Equity attentive MO Noel
[0:55] Gallagher Busave le chanteur de groupe de Roc Oasis EMOI Avon
[1:01] shows and coma Eno SE NI PA montalon musical male rosmo nu
[1:08] parte Jean le meme anniversaire SE tadir le vant northeast par
[1:14] Contra no El Gallagher a quetron de prize que Moi bizarme SE to
[1:21] silla that Danny Versaire de John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
[1:27] OK, this is another fun fact about me.
[1:30] As you know, this whole series of the podcast is all about fun
[1:33] facts about Alex Apolidoro. Not that people care, but I
[1:37] thought I would use that as a subject for my text.
[1:40] Anyways, here's the first question.
[1:44] Can't ask just Winnie. Com means when.
[1:48] Can't ask just Winnie. Now juh swiney is the way.
[1:54] In French we say I was born. Bizarrely, we're using sui am I
[2:00] am born. So you may wonder, but why when
[2:03] I say I was born in French we say I am born?
[2:07] That's because the verb net to be born is used in a passe
[2:13] composite, as in the past tense with the auxiliary verb to be.
[2:18] And when we do a pasi compose, we use an auxiliary verb in the
[2:23] present tense and we add a past participle.
[2:27] I've lost you, haven't I? Well, let me rewind now.
[2:32] Je means AI, si means AM northeast N EE in that case is
[2:39] born and northeast Here is a past participle of the verb
[2:44] netre net, which is considered as a movement verb.
[2:49] Weirdly and all the movement verbs are using the auxiliary to
[2:55] be in the basic composite. So can't translate it by I was
[3:01] born. No, can't do that in French.
[3:04] You have to say I am born and weirdly, and this is a fun fact,
[3:09] not about me, but when you use to die, it is also constructed
[3:18] the same way. So if you wanted to say I I am
[3:25] dead or I died, not that you would ever do that because you'd
[3:29] be dead, but imagine I died. It would be I am dead.
[3:36] OK, so GE three more because the verb is more here and Maurier is
[3:43] also considered like a movement verb and therefore in the passe
[3:46] composite is used with the auxiliary verb ETR.
[3:51] OK, so in order to answer this question, can't ask contesques
[3:56] just when was I born? Listen to the text one more
[4:00] time. Listen very carefully.
[4:03] Noel Gallagher Mousavi le chanteur du groupe de Roc Oasis
[4:08] ET Moi avoir en chosen coma Eno SE EPA montalon musical MI le
[4:14] rosmo nu parta Jean le meme anniversaire SE tadier le vant
[4:20] noff me par contr no El Gallagher a quatrone de plus
[4:25] cumois bizarre MO SE tosi la de de niversa de John Fitzgerald
[4:29] Kennedy, Right. Can you answer?
[4:33] When I was born, Did you hear that in a text?
[4:36] Yeah. Le van Neve me the 29th of May,
[4:42] but we said the 29th May le vent northeast may see la dat de mun
[4:48] naniversaire. It's my birthday, the date of my
[4:52] birthday. Can you tell me when yours is
[4:55] kele la dat de votre anniversaire?
[4:59] So to answer this question, you would say la dat de mun
[5:03] naniversaire ay, and whenever your birthday is.
[5:08] Now here's the second question esque Noel Gallagher a Prussian
[5:14] como. Is Noel Gallagher younger than
[5:18] me? Now listen really carefully and
[5:21] tell me we Oh no Noel Gallagher Mousavi le chanteur de groupe de
[5:28] Roc Oasis EMOI avoin chosen coma Eno SE EPA Montano musical mala
[5:34] rosmo nu parte Jean le Mani versaire southeast a die
[5:38] relevante nafme a contr Noel Gallagher a catron de preuss que
[5:44] Moi bizarmo SE to silla DA de niverse de Jean Fitzgerald
[5:49] Kennedy. OK, so to answer esque Noel
[5:52] Gallagher E Preuss Jean que Moi. Is Noel Gallagher younger than
[5:57] me now? Preuss Jean que more young than
[6:03] preview que would be more old than now.
[6:07] This is called a comparative OK plus plus adjective and then CU
[6:13] OK and if you had more plus adjective and then CU it will be
[6:18] less than now. Can you answer whether Noel
[6:24] Gallagher is younger than me or not?
[6:27] Well, in the text that say Noel Gallagher are Catron de plus CU
[6:35] MO, what does that mean? Noel Gallagher is 4 years older
[6:44] than me ILA Catron four years more than me ILA Catron de Prix
[6:49] Comois. OK, when you're going to give
[6:52] your age, you don't say I am for example 35.
[6:58] You would say in French I have 35 years, so JE Tran St. con.
[7:05] So the same goes for well, he is 4 years older.
[7:09] You would say he has four year more than you Don Quix Ella
[7:15] catron de Proust catois or quinoa For me in that case, to
[7:21] answer the question, is Noel Gallagher younger a Persian
[7:25] quinoa then you would say no. Noel Gallagher a preview Quetois
[7:33] Elie preview is older by four years.
[7:37] OK, so this is quite difficult. OK, fun fact, Noel Gallagher was
[7:43] born in 1967. That tells you my age.
[7:46] Now if you've listened to the text, I am not going to reveal
[7:51] my age unless you're very good at maths.
[7:55] Well, you don't need to be very good at maths to work out how
[7:58] old I am, OK? Anyway, we're going to read it
[8:03] one more time, OK, with the translation to help you a bit
[8:07] more, and that should become much clearer.
[8:11] Noel Gallagher, Mousavi Le Chanter, the group the rock
[8:15] Oasis. So Noel Gallagher, you know, the
[8:19] lead singer of the rock band Oasis, the group the rock EI Moi
[8:26] avoir in shows and comma. So Noel Gallagher and I and me,
[8:31] we have nu savant unchos en coma.
[8:35] One thing in common, No SE northeast par montalon musical
[8:40] and no, it's not my physical talent.
[8:44] You know, Malo Rosmo, unfortunately, Malo Rosmo nu
[8:49] parte Jean le meme anniversaire. We share the same birthday sita
[8:55] dia, which means Levant neuf may Levant neuf may the 29th of May
[9:03] Noel Gallagher a Catron de Prisco noir.
[9:07] Noel Gallagher is 4 years older than me.
[9:11] Now remember what I've said, when you give your age you need
[9:14] to use avoir. So je Trinton, I'm 30 years, J
[9:21] Sanconto I'm 50 years and so on. OK?
[9:24] Do not say je suis Sanconto, je suis ton doesn't work in French.
[9:29] OK? Now Noel Gallagher is 4 years
[9:32] older than me, OK? Bizarre.
[9:37] Strangely, bizarrely. OK, so to see like that Danny
[9:41] Verser de John fits the old Kennedy, I can't say it.
[9:46] It is Also John fits the old Kennedy's birthday.
[9:49] OK, and Latoya Jackson by by the way, just in case, you know, you
[9:57] want to know, we did some research on who, what famous
[10:01] person was born on the 29th of May, right?
[10:05] So we've read that text, we've listened to it three times, OK,
[10:10] and we've translated it. OK, Now what I want to emphasize
[10:14] on 2 words, Malorosmo and Bizarmo.
[10:18] Now Manor rousman means unfortunately and bizarman means
[10:22] strangely or bizarrely. Now these are called adverbs of
[10:26] manner. OK?
[10:28] And the way we create those we have to do 2 things.
[10:33] Take an adjective Manor, which is unhappy.
[10:37] OK, in order to form Manor rousman, what we've done is that
[10:42] we take Manor Roux, the masculine adjective form, put it
[10:46] into its feminine adjective form, which is malorose, and all
[10:51] we need to do afterwards is add more malorose MO, unfortunately.
[10:57] And so we do the same for bizarre MO.
[10:59] Bizarre is the adjective, it is bizarre.
[11:03] The feminine adjective for bizarre is bizarre because it
[11:06] ends with an E anyway, and we add more bizarre MO.
[11:11] Now, can you form an adverb using rapid?
[11:15] Rapid, that means fast. Now rapid, this adjective, what
[11:21] would be rapidly or fast, rapid de Mont, exactly.
[11:27] OK, you get it. I cover how to form in great
[11:31] detail the adverb of manner, and I also run through tons of
[11:37] different adverbs as well in my complete French course Learn
[11:41] French with Alexa, which you can find at Learn French with
[11:44] alexa.com. And if you don't know who I am,
[11:47] I am the YouTube Alexa Polidoro from the very popular YouTube
[11:54] channel Learn French with Alexa. That's it for me.
[11:57] Au revoir abiento bisu bisu.

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