🤓Today, we will continue to move around, I will teach you a fun trick to remember the days of the week; and we will start learning our prepositions.  Meet my good friend Caroline from Plougastel Daoulas, in Brittany. 
Caroline and I are on a video conference and we are making plans for the upcoming week:

-Coucou Caro! 
-Coucou, Cathy! Tu es chez toi?
-Non, je suis au restaurant. J’ai très faim!
-Tu vas à Paris, lundi?
-Non. Lundi je vais à Brest
-Ah, OK. Tu veux aller au musée dimanche? 
-Oui, le musée est à Brest?
-Oui. Le musée a des belles peintures, on y va?
-Super! À dimanche!

1-What do we already know?
To be “ETRE”: 
Je suis, tu es, il est, nous sommes, vous êtes, ils sont.
Tu es chez toi? (You’re home?)
Je suis au restaurant (I am at the restaurant)
Je suis à Brest (I am in Brest)
Le musée est a Paris? (the museum is in Paris?)

To have “AVOIR”.
J’ai, tu as, il a, nous avons, vous avez, ils ont
J’ai très faim! (I am very hungry!)
Le musée a des belles peintures (The museum has beautiful paintings)

To want “VOULOIR”
Je veux, tu veux, il veut, nous voulons, vous voulez, ils veulent
Tu veux aller au musée? (Do you want to go to the museum?)

To go “ALLER”
Je vais, tu vas, il va, nous allons, vous allez, ils vont
Tu vas à Paris? (you are going to Paris?)
Je vais à Brest (I am going to Brest)
Tu veux aller au musée? (Do you want to go to the museum?)

On y va?
I hope you will remember the pronoun “on” for “nous” as it will come up often.
Here, “on y va?” means: Are we going?

2-New vocabulary:
“COUCOU”
We already know how to greet a person with “Bonjour” et “Salut”, but I have one more option for you! 
Coucou, Caro!
Coucou, Cathy! 
“Coucou” is used among family members and good friends only. I know that “Coucou” in English means “Silly”, but it French, it is actually a nice way to say: “Hello!”

The Days of the week: Les jours de la semaine
In French, the days of the week are quite easy to remember because they are all referring to the planets. The Romans named the days of the week based on the 7 stars they could recognize, and the suffix” “DI” means “Day” in Latin:
Lundi – The day of the moon (la lune in French) lune(di)
Mardi – For the planet Mars
Mercredi – Mercury
Jeudi – Jupiter
Vendredi – Venus
Samedi – Saturn
Dimanche - in English, Sunday means “the day of the Sun” but in French, in means: “Dies Dominicus”, i.e the day of the Lord.

Can you translate the following sentences?
Tu vas à Paris, lundi? (Are you going to Paris on Monday?)
Non. Lundi je vais à Brest (No, on Monday, I am going to Brest)
Tu veux aller au musée dimanche? (Do you want to go to the museum on Sunday?)
À Dimanche! (See you on Sunday!)
Note here that “À” before the day of the week is a very easy expression that means: “See you on”: À lundi, À mardi! À mercredi! À jeudi, À vendredi! À Samedi, À Dimanche!

 3-Grammar: French Prepositions
"Chez", "au", "à" are all prepositions and can be translated by: at and to

-The preposition “chez” is used when you are in or you go to a person’s place:
Chez moi
Chez le Docteur
Chez John

The preposition “à” is used for places in the feminine form: 
Je vais à Paris (Paris is feminine because it implies “the city of”: “la ville the Paris”
Il va à Brest

The preposition “au” is used for places in the masculine form:
Je suis au restaurant
Tu es au supermarché
Il va au musée

📬If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at: Bbunclody@gmail.com

A bientôt! Merci beaucoup, Caro!💕

 Credits:
🎶 Music: Ballade somnifère, Winston, Passe​-​temps (2014)
🎙Voice: Caroline Denis
🖼Image: (Pixabay)