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Welcome to ListenToFrench.org, the sister site to sonsenfrancais
Because learning to listen is so hard, the level here is intended to be
intermediate, that is to say extracts up to the starting level in
sonsenfrancais. It's about the same as the magazine
You might also want to check out another excellent magazine What I want to do here is use the experience gained over four years of listening to the French language through radio, tv and films, as well as of editing the sonsenfrancais site, to present some exercises that will be useful to students at an intermediate level.
The other thing I want to do is use video rather than the audio that is still the norm even with the best of the audio magazines. Video helps enormously. Body-language, the movement of the lips, the context of the images. Traditionally we've always used radio - because it's easier. Video is better, much better. Not to mention that TV gives us interesting and varied content
At this level, the content will be news and documentaries, with some discussions. However, I like to laugh, and I'm going to add some comedy clips, not as exercises, just to cheer us up from time time. The clips are accompanies by subtitle files, so I hope that you will find even the most difficult clips useful. Learning a language is hard. email me : David Archer
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New here ? The video clips on this site are mostly from French Television. As well as the video file you get a subtitle file. The subtitles can be switched on and off. You also get a text document and an audio version. If you have trouble playing the clips, read the advice on the tools page
I have received clips from kind people,
and I am very willing to put the clips that interest you up here, as well as
transcribe and subtitle them. No 'complete works' - ie song tracks. And because
you will email them to me as attachments, they need to be reduced to about
30Mb per five minutes. Instructions on the software
page
2010
29 January Here's a piece from How it's made, dealing with a strange instrument called the Pedal Steel Guitar
30 January Coming to the end of the month with an excellent but harrowing film from the Stephen King stable, La ligne verte
31 January Last one for this month, from the American series Mentalist.
01 February We start February with a rattling good piece of satire on the President from Karl Zéro, and a faithful user of this site. Thank you ! Here is Sarko
02 February Welcome to Finistère, and a piece about Menhirs, trolls and horses
03 February As promised back in July, a second extract from France 2's documentary on Marilyn Monroe
04 February The Yellow Peril, French style. Chinese students offering money to university teachers to help them get diplomas. Whatever next ?
05 February An excellent version of David Copperfield which makes for a perfect listening exercise.
06 February A rather good TF1 News enquiry on our habit of wasting food in large quantities.
07 February One of these completely mad, but very watchable end-of-the-world prediction, Apocalypse 2010
08 February An excellent listening exercise in the series Comment c'est fait on Outriggers
A very funny play, Art, which I've put up on sonsenfrancais.org, but here it is with subtitles
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Clips by level of difficulty
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What does 'level of difficulty mean ?' Level 1 should be very clear and immediately comprehensible - typically documentaries with voice-overs. Level 2 gives the ear more to work on - often news items where interviews are inserted, or anglo-american films dubbed into French Level 3 is to aim for in the future - often comedy sketches which can be followed with the text or subtitles |
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