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010. Listen to beauty tips in French: Whitening your teeth

Challenge yourself to listen to this video without a full transcription. If you have trouble understanding, you’ll find a list of phrases below from the video.

0:08 helllooo, les poulettes!
(poulette, term of affection for a girl)

0:11 vous avez été plusieurs à me demander
many of you asked

0:37 pour faire une histoire courte
to make a long story short

0:44 j’ai eu des broches
I had braces

0:53 j’avais pas les dents croches
I didn’t have crooked teeth

1:12 puis là mes dents sont toutes droites
and now my teeth are all straight

1:20 vous avez un paquet de choses dans la bouche
you’ve got all kinds of stuff in your mouth

1:25 des choses au palais
things on the palate (of the mouth)

1:26 tout le Home Depot dans votre bouche
the entire Home Depot in your mouth

1:29 vous avez plein de quincaillerie
you’ve got all kinds of hardware (in your mouth)

1:32 j’ai même fait de la gingivite
I even got gingivitis

1:40 mes dents avaient forcément un petit peu jauni
my teeth had of course turned a little yellow

2:07 quand j’sens que mes dents commencent à rejaunir
when I feel that my teeth are going yellow again

2:10 je fais jamais ça non-stop
I never do it non-stop

2:53 allez pas jusqu’en arrière
don’t go all the way back

3:28 qu’on voit des fois dans les pâtes à dents
which you sometimes find in toothpaste

3:33 frotter des fraises sur les dents
to rub strawberries on the teeth

4:18 en bas de cent dollars
under one hundred dollars

4:26 c’est ça mon astuce pour avoir les dents blanches
that’s my trick for getting teeth white

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