>>>>On the Pimsleur Basic French tapes they use a phrase which they refer to as emphatic "Yes, I want to." The way it sounds on the tape is as "Je veux" and then a word that sounds like "bien" (this is my spelling). So the entire phrase sounds like "Zhe vu bien". What is the 3rd word in this phrase?
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>>>>Thank you in advance for your help.
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>>>perhaps "Je voudrais bien" - I would (well) like to.
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>>>The emphatic yes BTW in French is "si" as in Spanish/Italian (as in "yes, [I insist that is correct despite your disagreeing with me]"
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>>Thank you, Terry. Btw, I didn't disagree with you.
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>How'd you mean? Disagree with me in saying what?
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>BTW does my suggestion sound like the expr. on the tape?

Terry, I must have taken a stupid pill this morning <g>. I understood your example above [I insist...] as a kind of joke that someone (maybe me) will disagree with you. I just put my head under cold water for 10 minutes and I think I am clear now <g>.

Your suggestion sound right only in part. I believe that they use the "want" form and not "would like." That is, they use a phrase as "Je veux bien." But important thing is I wanted to be sure that what I heard as "bien" at the end is "bien."

I think you are a very good person to ask questions when learning French. As I find that people who learned a language (and not native) are often times better at explaining to beginners.