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Welcome to ListenToFrench.org, the sister site to sonsenfrancais The site sonsenfrancais.org was started to provide listening practice in French at an advanced level for English speakers. There are many resources on the internet for beginners: there are audio magazines which will take you to an intermediate level, such as Authentik en français, as well as magazines such as Champs Elysées at a more modest level. If you find the material here just too difficult - don't get depressed, check out BBC French, TV5 Monde, or Radio France Internationale. If your ambition is one day to be able to watch and understand any French film or television programme, and you already have a good level of French, you will find many hundreds of video clips here - mostly of five minutes, with text, subtitles which can be switched on or off, and an audio only version. This site offers video clips which are mostly rather more accessible than on sonsenfrancais.org - but even if you find them difficult to follow, watching with subtitles will help you improve your listening skills.
The big change in 2012 has been the provision of Flash video which can be viewed in the browser, with the subtitles, and a considerable increase in the number of visitors. No-one really knows how to teach listening, so I try out new ideas all the time. But the object remains the same - to help you improve your aural comprehension skills with the widest possible selection of videos extracts from French television programmes
email me : David Archer or use the feedback form
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I use subtitling a lot on this site, and regularly
I receive emails from people who think - reasonably - that they should
be able to play any subtitled video with Windows Media Player which
comes bundled with Microsoft Windows. Sadly, no. I suggest either AlShow or GomPlayer. They both play subtitles and allow you to rewind a few seconds |
This is the
French TV programme guide I use. Essentially the chaînes principales
and TNT.
If you see a programme coming up that would make a good
extract - email me !
Here's a site well worth visiting. It's the
French
radio station for the French who live in London. However, because many
British people also listen to it, the broadcasters speak rather clearly - by no
means beginner level, but easier than France Inter or Europe 1. Try the Reécoutez/Listen
again links
2012
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If you're new here - here's a good place to start Pick of the Site and see also download help A new and still very experimental idea - a site archive. One video post every day means a lot of data and it is necessary to make space on the production server. However I have received a number of emails from those of you who look through the earlier material, and so we have decided to make an archive. It's got lots of disk space but not much power - you might have to queue up if someone is downloading ahead of you. But let's see how it goes... |
| If you are a teacher, and you make
your own transcriptions of YouTube videos for your students (or
if you are a student and you make transcriptions for practice)
why not share them ? Email the link with the transcription
attached to
admin@sonsenfrancais.org.
Don't worry, if you're a student, and you know the transcription
is a bit wobbly - it can be tidied up. And finally, if there's a French YouTube video that you would like to see subtitled on the site and you haven't got a transcription - send it along and I'll see what I can do The great advantage for the site is we'll get fresh ideas, a new look at listening to French - and that is always necessary |
01 May Into May with a traditional laugh from Leslie Nielson Y a-t-il un flic pour sauver l'humanité, which you may know as 2001, a Space Travesty.
03 May Here's a nice little documentary on real tea-drinking from France 5. The programme was called Thé ou café
05 May Michelin is the great tyre-maker in France.. here's what you need to know about him
07 May The second clip from the Petit Journal, this time on the BAC and how to help your child study. Excellent.
09 May For those trying to lose weight, the documentary Régimes gave some good advice
11 May John Wydham's science fiction story brought up to date - here's a clip from the modernised version of The day of the triffids
April 2010 files have been archived and a selection moved to Pick of the Site - page 2
13 May Thanks to Des Racines et des ailes for a super number on our capital city - Londres
15 May We all know the song Lili Marlene, but here is the story of how it came to be written, and then sung by both German and Allied troops during the Second War
17 May It's been a while since my favourite technology programme Comment c'est fait has been featured, so here's one on the manufacture of car seats.
19 May Although I tend to avoid politics here, it's a subject that fascinates the French, and is an important part of modern French history. So here is La soirée électorale.
If you need the video in format .avi, that is also possible
AVI Page
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Clips by type I have started to archive videos from July 2009, apart from those selected for the Pick of the site page. If you need a video that has disappeared from this site, try the Site Archive
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Clips by level of difficulty I have started to archive videos from July 2009, apart from those selected for the Pick of the site page. If you need a video that has disappeared from this site, try the Site Archive
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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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Thank you !