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Jun 4
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266 — Rendez-vous au café à lettres, le ...

LAETITIA PERRAUT
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I don't know about you, but I don't write letters any more, at least not handwritten ones, because you could say that some emails are letters. So I was delighted to discover the café Pli in Paris, a letter café. My friend Lorena and I went there a few days ago. The café is located in an area of Paris that I know well, not far from the Place de la République. 

The formula is simple: you order a drink and they give you an envelope, a card and some paper to write a letter that will be sent in one, five or twenty years' time. Once your letter is ready, you place it in the rack that corresponds to the date it will be sent. The wall of racks is impressive, full of letters. 

What was it like for Lorena and me? That's what we tell you in this episode, recorded as we left the Café Pli. 

In the notes that accompany the transcript, we'll be looking at the words ‘ambiance’ and ‘moment’ to see how we like to describe them in French. There will also, of course, be a conjugation strategy around a particularly useful verb, because just because a verb is useful doesn't mean it's useful to know all its tenses. You need a strategy. 

So if you want to cultivate your French in a letter or with a strategy, I invite you to subscribe to the transcript. 

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