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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5082 days ago 2237 posts - 6731 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 9 of 21 02 July 2012 at 2:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Although you may not like the musical genre, listening to French rap could be helpful. Lyrics are generally easy to find on-line. The speech is faster and more colloquial. Obviously, I know nothing of French rap but I'm sure there are French rappers who rap about socially relevant subjects. My other suggestion would be to find a radio call-in type show podcast in French. You have to listen more closely because of the quality of the telefonic voice.
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| kaloolah Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 4685 days ago 16 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish | Message 10 of 21 02 July 2012 at 4:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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FRENCH RAP IS THE BEST!!
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 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5352 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 21 02 July 2012 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wow, thank you to everyone for all the excellent advice! I'm going to try out several of
these, including transcibing audio and loading tricky Buffy dialog into an SRS deck. Now to find a multiregion USB DVD drive so I can rip audio tracks…
It's certainly impressive. I've listened to an awful lot of MC Solaar this year. (There are some lyrics and links in my log today.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5082 days ago 2237 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 12 of 21 02 July 2012 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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The easiest and cheapest way, as an American, to find a stand-alone multi-region dvd player is through ebay. That way you avoid googling for region code hacks. Edited by iguanamon on 03 July 2012 at 3:34am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Kyle Corrie Senior Member United States Joined 4649 days ago 175 posts - 464 votes | Message 13 of 21 03 July 2012 at 3:07am | IP Logged | ||
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My preferred choice is to take a native language movie that I'm very familiar with.
Then I download that same movie dubbed in my target language, rip it to an MP3 and listen to it over and over again all day long. Since you're already familiar with the scenes and what's going on all you're focused on is what is being said and you should already understand what they're talking about because of your familiarity with the movie. For me this is a great way to learn how things are expressed in the target language rather than reading a word-for-word translation. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| CRHUSA Newbie United States Joined 5564 days ago 13 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB2, Spanish | Message 14 of 21 03 July 2012 at 10:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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The website for Radio France International, www.rfi.fr, has a lot of stuff for listening. On the menu at the top of the page they have something for "Langue Francaise." Click on that and there is a menu on the left of that page that lists many things including "exercises d'ecoute." Those are exercises where they play a short radio piece and they ask you questions about what you heard to see how well you understood. I've done some of these and found them helpful. Under that selection they have "TCF" which gives samples of the Test de Connaissance de Francais from the listening comprehension section. These are on the levels of B2, C1, and C2.
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| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5211 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 15 of 21 06 July 2012 at 3:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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www.sonsenfrancais.org has a ton of audio clips with transcripts graded for difficulty. Continuing to step
up the difficulty will make everything else seem eventually easy. Continue working on amassing a bunch of colloquial everyday vocabulary and expressions (can't understand a scene very well if you only understand less than half the vocabulary). Working on Buffy with the transcripts will be good for that plus music, vocab lists, reading French forums, twitter accounts, VDM, etc. Keep the audio on all the time and it will click. Once you feel pretty comfortable with Buffy (or even before) try French series (even the clips on that site will work) with transcripts. They'll be more difficult but when you go back down to Buffy it'll seem easy. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Philimon Newbie United States Joined 4215 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 16 of 21 14 November 2012 at 12:48am | IP Logged | ||
Indeed. I found one on Amazon for less than $90 and I use it all the time. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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