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It's my day off so I decide to get out of Lyon and visit the Roman theatre in nearby Vienne.
Hakim at train station ticket window - Un billet pour Vienne, s´il vous plaît.
- A ticket to Vienne, please.
- Aller simple ou aller retour ?
- One way or return?
- Un aller retour. Merci.
- A return. Thank you.
- Le train part de quelle voie ?
- What platform does the train leave from?
- La voie C.
- Platform C.>

Hakim checks his watch - Il part à quelle heure ?
- What time does it leave?
- À onze heures cinquante, et toutes les
   demi-heures.

- Eleven fifty and every half hour.

Hakim asks a woman for directions outside Vienne's train station - Pardon, mais le théâtre romain, c'est loin ?
- Excuse me, but the roman theatre, is it far?
- Non, non, c'est dix minutes à pied.
- No, no, it's ten minutes on foot.
- Merci bien.
- Thanks a lot.
- Ça ouvre à quelle heure ?
- What time do you open?
- Merci.
- Thank you.
- Nos musées ouvrent le matin à
   neuf heures et demie
  jusqu'à midi et demi, et l'après-midi
  de quatorze heures à dix-sept heures.

- Our museums open at nine thirty in the morning
   until twelve thirty,
   and in the afternoon from two to five.

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