To make it clearer, let me give you some examples

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We may wonder where this expression comes from, "des vertes et des pas mûres", but it does not really have a known origin. You know, sometimes we have expressions that have a clear meaning or origin; here, it is not quite the case. On the other hand, if we take the meaning of the words, we can have an idea. You imagine that a fruit that is not ripe, it is not good to eat, therefore it is bad. And often, a fruit that is not ripe, it has a green color. That's what I was telling you about the banana earlier. A ripe banana is yellow. Well, a banana that is not ripe, it is green.

So if we imagine that we are ultimately talking about a life experience that is green and not ripe, well we would be talking about an experience that would be difficult to face and that is a bit the meaning of this expression. When we say today "green and not ripe", we are talking about things that are intense, excessive. Often, we use this expression to designate trials that we must go through, quite simply.



The first example would be someone who says: "This year, we've really seen some bad things. Can't wait for next year." The person who says that is impatient to move on to the next year because this year, they've had a lot of problems, they've gone through a lot of trials, they've had a lot of difficulties. A lot of intense and excessive things have happened in their life, so they say: "we've seen some bad things." That means we've encountered a lot of trials.

Another example: I have a busy week, I'm russia whatsapp number data going to see some green and some unripe ones, that's for sure. So here, you can imagine someone who is at work and who has a very busy schedule, a very busy calendar, full of appointments, full of projects, and this person anticipates difficulties, anticipates trials. And to describe this, she says that she is going to see some green and some unripe ones.

Last example: He is in the middle of an exam period. I think he is going through some tough times. Here, once again, we conclude from the fact that our friend is in an exam period to say that it is difficult for him, it is intense for him, he is going through some challenges, it is something complicated and we summarize that by saying that he is going through some tough times or that he is going through some tough times, quite simply.

So now that this expression or its meaning no longer holds any secrets for you, I invite you to work on your pronunciation. And for that, today we are going to work on the difference between the "è" of "verte" and the "é" of "des", because we say des vertes and des pas mûres, so we have the two "é", the "e" with a grave accent that we pronounce "è" and the "e" with an acute accent that we pronounce "é". So I am going to give you a certain number of words in "è", which you are going to repeat, I will give you time for that, and a certain number of words in "é", which you are going to repeat, I will give you time for that too, and we will repeat the expression afterwards. Here we go.