FREN 3051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Tap Dance, Freediving, Kayaking
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French and english share a lot of the same vocabulary for sports, so don"t hesitate to try to slip a sport related english word if you don"t know the french one: for that subject, it might actually work! However, there are some important pronunciation differences, and it won"t work all the time: french does have different sport words such as (cid:1688)un arbitre(cid:1689) = a referee, (cid:1688)un terrain(cid:1689) = a field, a court . 1 faire de + sport, jouer + sport. French uses the verb faire de (contracting into du, de la, des ) to talk about practicing a sport: je fais du tennis et de la natation (swimming), elle fait du foot (soccer) et des claquettes (tap dance) If the sport is also a game, you can use jouer (contracting into au, aux) : je joue au foot, au volley, au rugby .
