rmel Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4242 days ago 20 posts - 24 votes Studies: French, Russian
| Message 1 of 13 09 September 2014 at 9:28am | IP Logged |
I am teaching myself French and on the look out for different resources, I thought it might be interesting to read French blogs. If anyone here reads French blogs I'd like the following:
The link
The subject of the blog
Why they would recommend it
Iam not just looking for language blogs or blogs about France, although I am interested in people's opinions on them too. But I am more interested in blogs French people write about their daily lives, their struggles, politics etc. Also something a bit more cultural e.g. French music, cinema, writings etc.
Thanks in advance
Edited by rmel on 09 September 2014 at 9:30am
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 2 of 13 09 September 2014 at 11:01am | IP Logged |
I found one which promises to teach you fluent English in just 30 days spending only 20 minutes a day. If
that is not the guarantee for a serious claim, I do not know what is :-)
French blog
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rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5237 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin
| Message 3 of 13 09 September 2014 at 12:24pm | IP Logged |
I have a list of RSS Feeds with EMK share, this has links to a lot of French websites for programming, comedy and comics. I can't figure out how upload a file here to this forum.
I can't find the thread now. I have exported an OPML file you can use to import into your own RSS feed reader.
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emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5533 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map
| Message 4 of 13 09 September 2014 at 12:43pm | IP Logged |
Here are all my favorite French blogs in OPML format. This list contains dozens of blogs, organized by category. You should be able to import them directly into most blog-reading software. (I use Feedly.)
For a very casual blog about personal life (and parenting), see Girls and Geeks. Warning: Some content is NSFW, but unless your coworkers read French, it's mostly just one image in the page header. This blog, by the way, is a great example of very casual spoken French from an adult with a writer's vocabulary.
For much shorter pieces about the minor disasters of daily life, the list includes Vie de Merde. If you're working on spoken French and day-to-day life, this is an amazing source of SRS cards, because the stories are highly memorable, pretty funny, and typically about a sentence or two long.
There's lots of other stuff on the list: Topito, humor sites, a lawyer's blog, an absolutely hilarious series of cartoons about life as a programmer, and so on. Enjoy!
Edited by emk on 09 September 2014 at 12:43pm
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shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4445 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French
| Message 5 of 13 10 September 2014 at 10:06am | IP Logged |
The blog I came across online:
Français Authentique started by Johan.
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eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4100 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian
| Message 6 of 13 10 September 2014 at 10:27am | IP Logged |
It might be a lot more useful for you to specify what kinds of blogs you enjoy reading. As it is, you're asking people to take time out of their day to go through their feeds and pick out the best of the best, and format their choices in a manner that you prefer, in the vague hope that you may have even remotely similar interests.
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Gatsby Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6163 days ago 57 posts - 129 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Dutch
| Message 7 of 13 17 September 2014 at 8:34am | IP Logged |
I really love the podcast/blog "One Thing In a French Day." It's written by a French woman who lives just outside Paris. She's a freelance writer raising three young daughters with her husband. She chooses an incident from everyday life and recounts the adventure, in French. Common topics include: favorite books, movies, family vacations, happenings at her daughters' schools, food.
http://onethinginafrenchday.podbean.com/
She also publishes a newsletter to go along with the podcast, highlighting key vocabulary and grammar structures. I don't get the newsletter, so I can't say more about it.
I really enjoy it, because it's like having a little window into French everyday life. You end up feeling that you really know this wonderful French family.
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Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5101 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German
| Message 8 of 13 17 September 2014 at 3:54pm | IP Logged |
emk wrote:
39">Here are all my favorite French blogs in OPML
format. This list contains dozens of blogs,
organized by category. You should be able to import
them directly into most blog-reading software. (I
use Feedly.)
For a very casual blog about personal life (and
parenting), see
Girls and
Geeks. Warning: Some content is NSFW, but
unless your coworkers read French, it's mostly just
one image in the page header. This blog, by the
way, is a great example of very casual spoken
French from an adult with a writer's vocabulary.
For much shorter pieces about the minor disasters
of daily life, the list includes
Vie de Merde.
If you're working on spoken French and day-to-day
life, this is an amazing source of SRS cards,
because the stories are highly memorable, pretty
funny, and typically about a sentence or two long.
There's lots of other stuff on the list: Topito,
humor sites, a lawyer's blog, an absolutely
hilarious series of cartoons about life as a
programmer, and so on. Enjoy! |
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How exactly do you add that into feedly? Is there a
way to make them all appear or do you have to put
in each one individually?
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