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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6626 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 17 of 18 07 February 2012 at 7:37pm | IP Logged |
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You could try French In Action maybe?
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| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5420 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 18 of 18 07 February 2012 at 10:43pm | IP Logged |
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French in Action would be good and maybe more entertaining than Assimil.
Check out these sites for recordings of spoken French with transcripts: http://www.france-bienvenue.fr/blog/ http://francebienvenue1.wordpress.com/ http://www.ielanguages.com/podcast/ Also check out her series highlighting the differences between formal French and how people really speak: http://ielanguages.com/frenchslang.html Same idea but with clips taken from French TV and film and graded for difficulty: http://www.listentofrench.org/ (intermediate) http://www.sonsenfrancais.org/ (advanced) There's also Frenchpod which is pretty good and offers a free week trial without having to provide a credit card up front. Before there were all these resources on the internet, there were other resources: SmartFrench (Beginniner and Intermediate/Advanced) - recorded live audio with transcripts written in more "standard" French with letters in red showing which ones get dropped, where you have liaisons, etc. Plus the audio has a slowed down version that you repeat after. With the free resources available now may not be totally worth paying for but if you can get it at the library or cheap used or whatever it can be worth it. Audio magazines such as Champs Elysees - never tried these but they were very popular with learners before we had the internet piping in as much French audio as we want. I think they tend to be quite pricey though... If you can, consider getting TV5 Monde (if you don't already have it) and let that be the only thing you watch on TV. I had it on all the time fluctuating between listening actively and passively and after a few months I had a "a-ha" moment where my listening comprehension seemed to jump significantly. In addition, just keep learning vocab focusing especially on idiomatic expressions and familiar language that gets used all the time in conversation. After learning words and phrases like "bosser" for "travailler" and "il faut que j'y aille" for "I have to go" I started hearing them all the time. And don't feel bad about not understanding a cartoon - I always felt that the hardest to understand was programming for older kids and teens. The vocabulary is different from what you learn to understand the news and literature. 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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