sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5389 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish
| Message 161 of 165 13 March 2014 at 6:52am | IP Logged |
Salut ! I just posted this list of radio shows that I listen to on a regular basis in my log. I thought I'd copy it here so more people have a chance to check them out. On the whole, the France Culture shows are very advanced, whereas the others vary in difficulty from upper intermediate to advanced:
FRANCE CULTURE:
Concordance des temps - an historical show
La suite dans les idées - deep discussions of general topics of society, politics, etc
Les enjeux internationaux - a short analysis of international politics and events
L'économie en question - deep discussion of economic issues - this one is frequently
too difficult due to the subject matter, lack of familiarity with what's being
discussed, and general dry nature of the subjects
FRANCE INTER:
Service Public - a general interest show that discusses issues that effect French
people everyday
Si l'Amérique m'était contée - a show about the US from the French perspective. Really
insteresting!
Là-bas si j'y suis - a show by radio personality Daniel Mermet. The subjects are all
over the place from exploring the attraction the French have to Dieudonné and
investigating the Dassault vote-buying scandal to playing a recording of a woman going
into labor and giving birth. He tends to be very anti-mondialiste, and he likes to
present a lot of alternative views. He plays messages by callers at the beginning of
his program which can sometimes be a little unhinged.
Les petits bateaux - a show where experts in various subjects answer questions about
the world submitted by children. It's not too simple for adult learners.
Inter Activ - part of Patrick Cohen's show where he usually interviews someone in
politics or otherwise newsworthy.
La marche de l'histoire - another historical show. Lately they've done a few shows
where they reconstruct parliamentary debates with the help of actors from the Comédie
Française which have been pretty interesting.
Le téléphone sonne - a call-in show that features a different theme (typically based on current events) with a panel of experts who debate. It's fun seeing what themes will end up being the most heated debates. So far the notion of selling prescription glasses in large stores like Carrefour was the most heated debate (even more than the proposal to sell pregnancy tests in large stores, which was discussed in the same show).
Rendez-vous avec X - Stories about secret missions, the CIA, etc. Really fascinating!
RFI:
Accents d'Europe - various special-interest stories from around Europe.
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| Message 162 of 165 08 August 2014 at 10:54pm | IP Logged |
I have been working on improving my level in French even though I have not written
recently in my log.
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kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4887 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish
| Message 163 of 165 29 October 2014 at 1:40am | IP Logged |
I finally finished building my FSI Anki deck - 350 EN>FR sentences from Unit 24. I
put it on the shared deck page if anyone else could use it - it's a pretty
comprehensive review of all the material that has been covered to date. Expect lots
of subjunctive. I like these as they are mostly sentences I could stumble through if
needed; mastering them should give me a little more elegance when I speak.
FSI French Unit24
Sample sentences:
How about a few days to think it over?
Que diriez-vous de quelques jours pour y réfléchir?
I won't need it until next week.
Je n'en aurai pas besoin avant la semaine prochaine.
That could happen to anyone.
Ça pourrait arriver à n'importe qui.
I have to say what I think.
Il faut que je dise ce que je pense.
I'll have to be there too.
Il faudra que j'y sois aussi.
The associated audio is online at:
FSI French
Edited by kanewai on 29 October 2014 at 1:41am
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kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4887 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish
| Message 164 of 165 10 December 2014 at 1:03am | IP Logged |
This looks trés cool:
Le Petit Prince (2015)
The trailer is in French, but most of the actors listed on IMDB are American. I hope
it's released in French - I don't want to hear my Prince speaking English!
Edited by kanewai on 10 December 2014 at 1:36am
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sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5389 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish
| Message 165 of 165 10 December 2014 at 1:19am | IP Logged |
kanewai wrote:
This looks trés cool:
Le Petit Prince (2015)
The trailer is in French, but most of the actors listed on IMDB are American. I hope
it's released in French - I don't want to hear my Prince speaking English! |
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Nice! I imagine if it's animated that there will be a different cast for each language
release (as a "dub" but not really a "dub" so they can typically use known actors rather
than voiceover dubbers).
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