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Un voyage difficile
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Un voyage difficile

A difficult journey

Reading time
4 min
Total words
818
Unique words
303
Avg frequency
#146

Story

, Bernard . Marc, , . Hélène, , . Léo Sophie, , . . , . ? ' '.

", j' ' Bretagne," Marc. " Paul -. . ."

" Bretagne ? ? , Marc. , j' Rome," Hélène. "L'Italie, c' . C' . ."

Léo, , . ", j' . . ."

" ! !" Sophie. ", . Rome, c' ."

Marc . "Sophie, . Bretagne , c' . , . ."

", ! , c' Rome ! Rome !"

Hélène Marc. "Marc, -. Léo Sophie . . Bretagne, ."

Marc . . . . Léo . Sophie . Hélène . , ' . Léo.

Marc stays calm. thinks. thinks deeply. Nobody speaks. Léo plays with his phone. Sophie waits. Hélène waits too. In house, you cannot hear anything. Just Léo' phone.

"'," Marc . " Rome. Rome, Bretagne. Paul. C' , c' ."

"," says Marc finally. "We're going to Rome. before Rome, we spend three days in Brittany. We see Paul. ' my brother, it' ."

Hélène . " , . , . l' l'Italie."

Sophie . Léo . " ? , ?"

", . . , c' ."

Léo ' . ' ' . . C' .

, , Sophie Rome. Léo . Marc . Hélène l'Italie .

, . . . . Bretagne ', Rome . c' , .

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Words in this story

Curriculum
126 words
# Freq Word
11êtreto be
22deof, from
33jeI
44avoirto have
55pasnot (in ne...pas negation)
66àto, at, in
77lethe (masculine singular)
89lathe (feminine singular)
911tuyou (informal singular)
1012una, an (masculine)
1113etand
1214ilhe, it (masculine)
1315cethis, that, it (demonstrative)
1416nenot (first part of negation)
1517lesthe (plural)
1618faireto do, to make
1719allerto go
1820enin, to (preposition); of it, some (pronoun)
1921onone, we, people (informal)
2022çathat, it (informal demonstrative pronoun)

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