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    30-Day French Challenge "Paris Edition"

    Day 6 – Resources & Extra vocabulary

    Les transports

    1 - Le métro

    It runs in Paris and la petite couronne (= “the small crown”, the towns around Paris proper.)

    ● Map of the Parisian metro and its 14 colored line

    ● Parisian metro tickets – The small cardboard ticket for one trip (“ticket t+”) is being phased
    out in favor of a pass (“Navigo Easy”). You can load it up with single-trip tickets, or buy a
    day-pass for your day around the city. You can also use a mobile app.

    ● Serge le lapin - Serge the rabbit, the safety mascot you’ll see in stickers near all metro
    doors.

    “Attention ! Ne mets pas tes mains sur les portes, tu risques de te faire pincer très fort.” = “Be
    careful! Do not put your hands on the doors, you might get pinched very hard.”
    2 - Le RER

    This train network runs in Paris and l’Île-de-France (the Parisian area.) Its five lines each have
    a color and a letter. It’s run by the national office of train travel (SNCF) instead of the
    Parisian office of transportation (la RATP.)

    ● Larger map of transports around Paris, including RER

    Beware, you might need different tickets than the métro if you ride the RER outside Paris.
    The area is divided in five zones, in concentric circles around Paris.

    Or in other words: outside Paris, the further you go, the more you pay.

    La zone 1 includes Paris and most touristic sites. La zone 4 includes places like Versailles or
    Disneyland Paris. La zone 5 includes the airports of Charles de Gaulle and Orly.

    When in doubt, ask at le guichet (= the counter / the window) or read carefully the
    information on the ticket-vending machine.

    2 - Everything else
    La grève (= a strike) is an infamous annoyance for tourists in Paris. Parisian (and national
    train) transportation regularly goes on strike to support current political issues. It happens
    (very roughly) around a few days every six months, but it’s not easy to predict, as strikes
    happen in reaction to current political events.

    La voiture (= car) in Paris often gets bogged down by le feu rouge (= red lights) and un
    bouchon (= un embouteillage = traffic jam.) Especially on le boulevard périphérique (or for
    short, “le périph” [pey-reef]), the ring road / beltway around the city.

    Les taxis are part of Parisian landscape at least since World War I, where the French army
    used them to get to the unexpected new front between Paris and Belgium, in the area of river
    Marne. It’s the episode of les taxis de la Marne.

    And finally: Walking Tours in Paris

    Carlito

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