>>>>>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?
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>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>.
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>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."

It's just that it's usually polite to say "I would like" (je voudrais) than "I want" (je veux), just as it is in English. But then again you are American and thus less used to the politer forms of asking (more used to "can I get ...") :-)

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>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.

Merci, tu es très gentil. je t'empris, mon brave.