|
 |
Cool podcasts in French? | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Specific Languages |  | |
| Bakunin Diglot Senior Member Switzerland outerkhmer.blogspot. Joined 5135 days ago 531 posts - 1126 votes  Speaks: German*, Thai Studies: Khmer | Message 1 of 19 16 February 2013 at 7:19pm | IP Logged | ||
|
Hi everyone,
I love listening to podcasts like Spark, Radiolab, To The Best of Our Knowledge, Intelligence Squared, Little Atoms, etc., to give you a flavor. Are there similarly cool podcasts in French? I'm looking for specific recommendations, not general links to RFI, RSR, France Culture, etc. Thanks! 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| LtM Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5865 days ago 130 posts - 223 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 2 of 19 16 February 2013 at 7:57pm | IP Logged | ||
|
I'm not familiar with the podcasts that you list, but if you're interested in a top-quality science-oriented French podcast, then I highly recommend La Tête au Carré. It's 60 minutes long, with five episodes a week. Each day's episode centers on one main topic, discussed by host Mathieu Vidard and one or more specialists on that day's topic. Friday episodes are always entitled "Débat autour de l'actualité scientifique", with various specialists discussing recent events.
The only thing I don't much care for is that France Inter always puts a couple of musical breaks into their longer podcasts, so you have to either suffer through or fast-forward these three-minute musical "gems" (the first of which appears about five minutes into La Tête au Carré). The rest of the podcast, however, is excellent. http://www.franceinter.fr/emission-la-tete-au-carre Edited by LtM on 16 February 2013 at 7:58pm 10 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Bakunin Diglot Senior Member Switzerland outerkhmer.blogspot. Joined 5135 days ago 531 posts - 1126 votes Speaks: German*, Thai Studies: Khmer | Message 3 of 19 17 February 2013 at 9:13am | IP Logged | ||
|
Thanks, LtM, for your answer. I've been listening on and off to La Tête au Carré for quite some time, and while I agree with you that it's a good podcast, I find it much less captivating than the podcasts I mentioned in my earlier post. Maybe that's just my limited perception, but I find that the French have a tendency to present such topics in a official, formal, scholarly fashion, whereas the podcasts I mentioned earlier are often much more concrete, experiential and story-based.
1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5733 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 4 of 19 17 February 2013 at 10:59am | IP Logged | ||
|
I don't think that's what you're looking for but it might be of some help to someone. My favorite science podcasts are CQFD from the Swiss La Premiere and O Positif from the Belgian RTBF. In every podcast there are a couple of subjects raised, for example: the perception of time or why men like breasts. I sincerely recommend them. Edited by pesahson on 17 February 2013 at 11:01am 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7210 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 5 of 19 17 February 2013 at 11:53am | IP Logged | ||
|
Here are the URLs for CQFD and O Positif de RTBF. Edited by luke on 17 February 2013 at 11:53am 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Bakunin Diglot Senior Member Switzerland outerkhmer.blogspot. Joined 5135 days ago 531 posts - 1126 votes Speaks: German*, Thai Studies: Khmer | Message 6 of 19 17 February 2013 at 2:59pm | IP Logged | ||
I've just listened to O Positif, and I quite liked it. It's chatty and fun to listen to. Thanks for the recommendation! I will also listen to CQFD to check it out, it's, after all, from Switzerland :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5733 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 7 of 19 17 February 2013 at 8:10pm | IP Logged | ||
|
I'm glad you liked it. Science podcasts are the only thing I listen in French right now. I'm usually more into literature but the shows about books are super boring to me. Science shows on the other hand really catch my interest. It's a double win as well. I practice French and learn something useful about the world at the same time.
1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6587 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 8 of 19 18 February 2013 at 8:46am | IP Logged | ||
|
"Au coeur de l'histoire" is another great podcast, about diverse historical topics. If you're interested in history, I recommend it warmly. You can find it on iTunes.
3 persons have voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
