Bande-annonce des voyages de Julie en Italie

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A2 French listening practice · French from France · Curated for beginners

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What does “ça vous botte” mean in French?

ça vous botte ?
idiom · informal
“Fancy that?” / “Sound good to you?” — a casual French way to pitch an idea.

Ça vous botte ? is the casual French way to ask 'Are you into it?' or 'Does that sound good?'. The verb botter literally means 'to kick,' but in this idiom it means to appeal. Julie Andrieu opens the trailer with the exact pitch: « Partir en voyage avec Julie Andrieu, ça vous botte ? ».

Use ça me botte to accept, or ça ne me botte pas to turn it down. It sits next to ça te dit ? but feels a touch more playful. You’ll catch it from friends pitching plans, hosts welcoming guests, and French magazines teasing food or travel features.

Vocabulary frequency

How common is the vocabulary in this A2 French listening practice listening practice?

87.4%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common French words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday French.

General French frequency

80%
Top 1,000
87.4%
Top 2,000
97.9%
Top 5,000

Spoken French frequency

85.5%
Top 1,000
97.6%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Conversational vocabulary
This reel’s words appear more often in subtitle-based spoken-French data than in general usage, so it may feel closer to everyday conversation.

Words above this video’s level

Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s A2 level.

dolce
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
sweet (food)
habillez
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
dress (you plural/formal)
vénitienne
1×
Rare / outside top 5,000
Venetian (female)
la dolce vita
1×
the sweet life or luxurious lifestyle

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · Lexique 3.83 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.

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