How can I get more practice LISTENING TO/UNDERSTANDING spoken French?:
- join a conversation group
- watch movies at home by turning on the French language track AND French subtitles
- watch YouTube channels that are geared toward learning French
- listen to French music
- Go to Lac Du Bois at Concordia Language Villages for French camp in the summer or for a 3 or 4-day weekend program during the school year
- go to a francophone country
- Listening Practice #1 : Listening to a language while reading along with the transcript is a great way to improve your comprehension as well as your pronunciation. These mp3s and mp4s were created by native speakers of French and they are free for teachers and students to download. All of them are spontaneous speech – nothing was scripted or rehearsed, and some were even recorded without the speaker’s prior knowledge for an eavesdropping effect..
- Listening Practice #2 : This includes audio files and videos. Each one includes side-by-side transcript and English translation for you to check your comprehension.
- Listening Practice #3 : Click on “Listening Exercises on Video News Reports” Not current, listed by topic, includes worksheets and vocabulary
- watch French news : this site has subtitles
- watch videos : this site has subtitles in French and English
- watch tv videos in French : this site allows you to choose the appropriate level and read a transcript
- watch current news in French
- listen to podcasts geared toward learning French
