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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5969 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 8 02 August 2010 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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This weekend I worked on improving French listening comprehension. I searched YouTube for videos with subtitles and found a few helpful ones. I also found a few that are very funny! Have a look:
Why You Should Not Speak English: Ad for a Language School How to Speak French Bon Cop, Bad Cop: Violent, Profane and Hilarious Lesson 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| arturs Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 5273 days ago 278 posts - 408 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian, English | Message 2 of 8 02 August 2010 at 3:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Very interesting! :)
The third video is plain "Quebecois" swearing, but also funny. :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| michaelmichael Senior Member Canada Joined 5259 days ago 167 posts - 202 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 3 of 8 02 August 2010 at 5:34pm | IP Logged | ||
http://french. yabla .com/demo.php (delete spaces) They have a bunch of free videos with subtitles. Hope this helps. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5969 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 8 02 August 2010 at 9:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks, I know about Yabla and I'm going to try it. It looks very good. Right now I am playing with my new toy: Assimil!
I couldn't make much sense of Canadian French swearing, but it was still a good laugh! That looks like an interesting movie, though. I looked it up and it's a Canadian film in which the dialogue alternates back and forth in both English to French. It sounds very confusing, but it's an original concept. Has anyone seen it? Anyway, I try to avoid YouTube because I get distracted too easily and watch silly things all day - but this time at least I found some silly language things! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Adrean TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member France adrean83.wordpress.c Joined 6170 days ago 348 posts - 411 votes Speaks: FrenchC1 | Message 5 of 8 03 August 2010 at 12:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Hey the second video is a total spoof of Godard films. It was very well done! In paticular a filmed called 'Contempt'/'le mepris'. Very very good!
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| microsnout TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Canada microsnout.wordpress Joined 5473 days ago 277 posts - 553 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 6 of 8 03 August 2010 at 5:02am | IP Logged | ||
Yes, I have seen it. I does indeed switch between English and French every 5 minutes or so. The characters agree to speak French while in Montreal and English when in Toronto. Language is a big part of the film. It is easier to understand the french of Colm Feore who is the Toronto cop than Patrick Huard, the Montreal cop if you are not used to Québécois French. The producer of the film is working on another bilingual film called "French Immersion" : http://bravofrenchtutoring.com/ The Montrealer will make his feature directorial debut in May when shooting begins on “French Immersion”, which – like Tierney’s previous box-office champ, “Bon Cop Bad Cop” – is a fluently bilingual comedy that will once again try to make us laugh at the linguistic duality that defines Canada. As for the French Canadian swearing, it is mostly words related to the Catholic church like hostie, câlice, tabarnak (host, chalice, tabernacle) used in many clever ways like "ma câlice de vie" or just joined with 'de'. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5322 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 7 of 8 03 August 2010 at 8:01am | IP Logged | ||
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The following clip is partially in French and I don't think that you'll have problems understanding it even without subtitles.
And for variety here's some really bad Arabic. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5730 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 8 of 8 05 August 2010 at 6:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Great thread!
Here are some links to Eddie Izzard's thoughts on learning French. Very funny and actually has some smart reflextions. Enjoy Eddie Izzard French Being billingual And one another on a sligtly different subject. Ich bin ein Berliner Edited by pesahson on 05 August 2010 at 6:43pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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