Christine Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6627 days ago 41 posts - 47 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Japanese, Modern Hebrew
| Message 9 of 15 27 February 2012 at 1:38am | IP Logged |
I just came across the material on Deutsche Welle and was really impressed. Since I obviously don't need it, the question concerning a French equivalent popped up in my head as well because I have a hard time understanding spoken French. The links above look excellent, I'll definitely check out the material on RFI and newsinspokenfrench.com. So thanks a lot for posting those links!
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4910 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
| Message 10 of 15 02 March 2012 at 4:29pm | IP Logged |
aodhanc wrote:
I recommend the newsinslowfrench.com website |
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I'm familiar with the other resources, but this looks really good. I sometimes listen to "Le journal en français facile", but it is still way beyond me. This news in slow French looks good because they are short podcasts (like 2 mins), and it looks like you can download free vocabulary sheets. Thanks!
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iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5263 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French)
| Message 11 of 15 03 March 2012 at 2:04am | IP Logged |
Have any of you tried Deutsche Welle's Learning by Ear? They're radionovelas intended for Africa. Pdf Transcripts are available and many of the same podcasts/pdf's are also available in English, Portuguese, Swahili, Amharic and Hausa.
You can imagine the possibilities for listening/reading and making your own bilingual texts by copying and pasting into a two column word format. The French is African, so if you have to have a Parisian accent beware.
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4910 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
| Message 12 of 15 07 March 2012 at 7:20pm | IP Logged |
iguanamon wrote:
Have any of you tried Deutsche Welle's Learning by Ear? They're radionovelas intended for Africa. Pdf Transcripts are available and many of the same podcasts/pdf's are also available in English, Portuguese, Swahili, Amharic and Hausa.
You can imagine the possibilities for listening/reading and making your own bilingual texts by copying and pasting into a two column word format. The French is African, so if you have to have a Parisian accent beware. |
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That is awesome... but why is Deutsche Welle doing French language programming?
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squonk Groupie United States Joined 4747 days ago 44 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Irish
| Message 13 of 15 08 March 2012 at 9:49pm | IP Logged |
Christine wrote:
links above look excellent, I'll definitely check out the material on
RFI and newsinspokenfrench.com. So thanks a lot for posting those links! |
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Note that the URL is actually newsinslowfrench.com.
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iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5263 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French)
| Message 14 of 15 08 March 2012 at 10:13pm | IP Logged |
Jeffers wrote:
That is awesome... but why is Deutsche Welle doing French language programming? |
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Deutsche Welle, like the BBC, is a world broadcaster and broadcasts in French in order to reach the large French-speaking audience in Africa. Years ago, before the internet, shortwave radio was the way to contact an international audience. In Africa, even today, internet penetration is still low. DW, VOA, BBC, RFI and others still maintain language services into Africa in order to reach and influence French-speaking Africans.
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onurdolar Diglot Groupie TurkeyRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4653 days ago 98 posts - 147 votes Speaks: Turkish*, English Studies: Italian, German
| Message 15 of 15 12 March 2012 at 3:54pm | IP Logged |
I found DW really helpfull when i was studying German so i wonder if there is an Italian version as well. I saw this thread and didn't want to make a new one and decided to just post here.
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