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| sebngwa3 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6155 days ago 200 posts - 217 votes  Speaks: Korean*, English | Message 1 of 9 18 May 2014 at 8:41pm | IP Logged |
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Is there a resource where a French person reads through a text very slowly so that one could get an idea of how to pronounce the words?
If not, I would like to request a native speaker to make a YouTube video. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5227 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin | Message 2 of 9 18 May 2014 at 9:05pm | IP Logged |
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You could use a program like Audacity to slow down an audio file to allow you to better understand it.
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| sebngwa3 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6155 days ago 200 posts - 217 votes Speaks: Korean*, English | Message 3 of 9 18 May 2014 at 9:28pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you. Where might one find a resource for recordings of some text so that you can follow along as it is being read?
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| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4090 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 4 of 9 18 May 2014 at 9:43pm | IP Logged |
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https://librivox.org/
http://www.litteratureaudio.com/ http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%C3%A9gorie:Article_audio (some articles have been updated since the recording) http://ted.com/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5523 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 9 18 May 2014 at 9:54pm | IP Logged |
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First, a fun commercial option: If you're musically inclined, and you want slow French audio, detailed phonetic instruction, and personal feedback on your pronunciation, Idahosa Ness's "Mimic Method" courses are quite good. They're fairly expensive at US$97, but they're cheap compared to professional accent training. (I paid a reduced price for the French course as a beta tester.)
If you're technically inclined, subs2srs will take movie dialog and subtitles, and pretty much burn it into your brain. You know how you can pretty much mimic the intonation of a song you've heard non-stop on the radio for 3 months? Same idea. Just be sure to delete lots of cards—I aim for at least 90%. If you don't delete, you'll drown under junk cards. If you want parallel text and audio, so that you can slow down the audio with Audacity, the following might help: Assimil New French with Ease (Amazon.uk) (an excellent beginner course, too) One thing in a French day (daily life) RFI Français Facile (radio news, but not especially facile) Fluent French Now (real-life conversations with transcripts, including some from Quebec) TV5MONDE (I don't know if you can download the audio for use with Audacity, though) 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| sebngwa3 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6155 days ago 200 posts - 217 votes Speaks: Korean*, English | Message 6 of 9 18 May 2014 at 10:17pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you!
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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4435 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 7 of 9 18 May 2014 at 11:17pm | IP Logged |
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You can try Yabla French video Immersion online. They have all sorts of videos with subtitles. You can press the
button for slow motion and go through each video as many times as you wish. Here is the link: Yabla French Video Immersion 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7196 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 8 of 9 19 May 2014 at 3:03am | IP Logged |
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Several of the youtube videos for Français
Authentique are spoken very slowly and clearly. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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