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| vanityx3 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6453 days ago 331 posts - 326 votes  1 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 1 of 18 14 January 2008 at 10:54am | IP Logged | ||
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Hey everyone. I'm wanting to make myself a mini french immersion for myself just so I'm exposed to French for at least 6 hours a day even if it is only passively.
I'm wanting to find like auidobooks on mp3 or anything I can download and listen to that is longer than 1 minute, but I'm having trouble finding French audio I can listen too that is of a good length. Does anyone know of any websites where I can find french audio, (books or other things in mp3)? EDIT: I downloaded FSI French Chapters 1 and 2. I've spent about 2 hours listening and going through 1.1 to 1.4. I didn't realize how in depth FSI French was. It starts off easy but it quickly picks up once you start having to do drills and thinking quickly. One great thing I have noticed is since you don't have very much time respond to the drills, it forces you to only think in French; for if you try to translate everything in English than you will be Much to slow. I love the feeling of hearing something in French and not thinking about what it means in English, just knowing what it means in French. I've never expierienced this before and I really enjoy the feeling. :) Edited by vanityx3 on 14 January 2008 at 3:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Pixel33 Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 6158 days ago 44 posts - 42 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 18 14 January 2008 at 10:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi, I would suggest you to go on the Radio-Canada site. This is our national television network. Try the following links. In the 3rd one, in the right column (En direct) you can choose from RDI (Réseau De l'Information), Radio and Radio-Canada Television (our Montreal channel). By choosing those, you will be able to listen to live programs. Also on the same site, you can find old programs and reports. Direct television will offer you hours of listening.
On the first two sites, you will find podcasts (about 1 hour each) of a daily radio program. Hope you will get what you are looking for. http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/fr/ http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/fr/emissions/1957.shtml http://www.rcinet.ca/audio-video/index.shtml 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lloydkirk Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6405 days ago 429 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 18 14 January 2008 at 11:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wouldn't recommend French Canadian Radio. The differences between Standard and Canadian French are enough to cause confusion in the tender mind of a beginning student.
http://www.rfi.fr/radiofr/statiques/journauxFrancaisFacile.a sp The above link is radio france international. They have a daily updated news transcript in simple French with the recording. Are you familiar the French in Action videos? If not, google it, they're free. Edited by lloydkirk on 14 January 2008 at 11:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7138 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 4 of 18 15 January 2008 at 2:33am | IP Logged | ||
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You can get audio of the entire Assimil French course here and it will last you several hours of just French with no English commentary or instructions.
I did my own French immersion before travelling to France. I had a French breakfast of croissants and coffee, I listened to French music and read French books. I played through my French Assimil course and other French audio material that I had. I spoke to myself all day in French and read some French Mickey Mouse comics as well as study books. This is similar to what I did when I was living in Germany and visited France. I would speak to myself all the way to the border so I didn't have to make the switch when I arrived in France. I wish you much enjoyment (and success) in your efforts. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ponyboy Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6159 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes | Message 5 of 18 15 January 2008 at 6:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Im not sure about French but for Italian i went to the official site of Italys main tv channel where i can watch lots of Italian shows like soaps and such for free and in good quality. I can also watch live streaming news.
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| vanityx3 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6453 days ago 331 posts - 326 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Japanese | Message 6 of 18 15 January 2008 at 8:16am | IP Logged | ||
I wouldn't call myself a beginning French student. I'd say I have a high intermediate level of comprehension in reading and writing. But I would agree that I only have a basic understaning of Spoken French; possibly you were only talking of spoken French though. Merci for all the information you have given me. I have long break on mondays wednesdays and fridays after school and before work where I plan on doing FSI and maybe some FIA and french radio. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hokusai77 Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 7144 days ago 212 posts - 217 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Italian*, FrenchB1, EnglishC1 Studies: GermanB1, Japanese | Message 7 of 18 15 January 2008 at 9:45am | IP Logged | ||
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There should be some good, long podcasts on the website of France Culture (a programme of Radio France), too.
http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/sommaire/ Bonne écoute! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| labouillie Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6308 days ago 91 posts - 97 votes Speaks: Haitian Creole, English* Studies: French, Spanish | Message 8 of 18 15 January 2008 at 11:25am | IP Logged | ||
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The Live TV webcast at wwiTV has French programming available 24/7.
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