Today, we’re listening to a journalist introducing Robert de Niro as the President of the Jury for the Festival de Cannes. The companion worksheet has the text and translation and games to learn Cannes vocabulary, as well as a chapter on final consonants in French.

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Welcome to this very advanced Podcast called Le français tel quel – French as it is – where you hear regular French people talk, and where you learn vocabulary and grammar along with it in the companion worksheet that you can get on the Web site. Le français tel quel features videos & audios of real French people talking, because we know that ‘French as it is’ isn’t always clear: people seems to speak fast and eat their words. We try to break it down and make it easier for you to get authentic French.

Today, we’re going to taste a new beer. It’s called ‘La Belle’ and is brewed in Lille, Northern France. This short excerpt triggers a whole list of vocabulary around beer, another one for saying people in their thirties, forties, and so on. And a grammar chapter about French verbs and their prepositions. For instance: décider uses de and means ‘to decide to (do something)’ whereas se décider uses à and means ‘to make up your mind’.

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La cueillette du muguet

On May 1^st, it’s the tradition to give a sprig of Lily-of-the-valley to the ones you love. We’re going to Nantes in the Loire-Atlantique département, where almost all of the lily-of-the-valley sprigs come from. In the companion worksheet, you’ll find the text and its translation difference between an adverb and an adjective. between BON and BIEN, and between SENTIR and SE SENTIR. I don’t want you to go around saying ‘I smell bad’ when you meant to say ‘I feel bad’.

Des brins de muguet qui portent bonheur.

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Les algues vertes

Today, we’re listening to a newsreel on the proliferation of green algae in France. This one is located in Plouha, Brittany. The algae are induced by the farmers’ over use of nitrogen and is polluting the shore all over France, and the authorities don’t quite know how to deal with it. The worksheet has the script and its translation, with practice on pollution and expressing time lapse.

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Les chocolats de Pâques

We’re visiting a high end chocolatier today. He’s letting us in his world for Easter, his second most profitable business week. The worksheet has it all with practice on Easter vocabulary and a review of adverbs of quantity.

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Welcome to this very advanced French Podcast called Le français tel quel – French as it is – where you hear regular French people talk, and where you learn vocabulary and grammar along with it in the companion worksheet that you can get on the Web site. Le français tel quel features videos & audios of real French people talking, because we know that ‘French as it is’ isn’t always clear: people seems to speak fast and eat their words. We try to break it down and make it easier for you.

We’re listening to a news broadcast about the Pasty World Championship that took place in Lyon. This is not an easy one to grasp, but remember, I’m here to help with this audio and its companion worksheet that also goes over verbs about cooking and collective numbers.

Anne is bringing you today’s French, with authentic and useful expressions. Merci et thank you for listening to FRENCH ETC. I hope you found this helpful, and if you want more, please visit www.frenchetc.org. I love questions, comments, and suggestions. Feel free to leave a reply in the post. Now, it’s time for you to make progress in French, become a member and get the worksheets.

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Welcome to this very advanced French Podcast called Le français tel quel – French as it is – where you hear regular French people talk, and where you learn vocabulary and grammar along with it in the companion worksheet that you can get on the Web site. Le français tel quel features videos & audios of real French people talking, because we know that ‘French as it is’ isn’t always clear: people seems to speak fast and eat their words. We try to break it down and make it easier for you.

Today, we’re listening to a mini pole on the Évin law, restricting people from smoking in public areas. Believe it or not, the French have mixed feelings about it. Most people understand non-smokers shouldn’t be bothered by cigarette smoke; yet, they wander about smokers freedom. In any case, it gives us an opportunity to learn a new vocabulary list – on smoking – another list on common traps in translation. I’ve compiled a list of them over the years and I want to share it with you.

Anne is bringing you today’s French, with authentic and useful expressions. Merci et thank you for listening to FRENCH ETC. I hope you found this helpful, and if you want more, please visit www.frenchetc.org. I love questions, comments, and suggestions. Feel free to leave a reply in the post. Now, it’s time for you to make progress in French, become a member and get the worksheets.

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Bonne journée française !

Welcome to this very advanced French Podcast called Le français tel quel – French as it is – where you hear regular French people talk, and where you learn vocabulary and grammar along with it in the companion worksheet that you can get on the Web site. Le français tel quel features videos & audios of real French people talking, because we know that ‘French as it is’ isn’t always clear: people seems to speak fast and eat their words. We try to break it down and make it easier for you.

We’re listening to the trailer of a movie called ‘Nos plus belles vacances – Our most beautiful vacation’. It’s about a Parisian family going to spend their vacation in rural Brittany and mingling with the locals. Fun! This trailer goes really fast. The companion worksheet will walk you through it and also explain ‘this’ and ‘that’ – demonstratives – as well as verbs that mean ‘to become’.

Anne is bringing you today’s French, with authentic and useful expressions. Merci et thank you for listening to FRENCH ETC. I hope you found this helpful, and if you want more, please visit www.frenchetc.org. I love questions, comments, and suggestions. Feel free to leave a reply in the post. Now, it’s time for you to make progress in French, become a member and get the worksheets.

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 Related : Quand même, etc. . ‘to become’ verbs . Demonstratives adjectives and pronouns .

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Welcome to this very advanced French Podcast called Le français tel quel – French as it is – where you hear regular French people talk, and where you learn vocabulary and grammar along with it in the companion worksheet that you can get on the Web site. Le français tel quel features videos & audios of real French people talking, because we know that ‘French as it is’ isn’t always clear: people seems to speak fast and eat their words. We try to break it down and make it easier for you.

Today, we’re listening to a man who chose to stay at home and take care of the children. He’s sharing that experience with us, saying that it’s not that easy with the French mentality. He says that after turning 50, it’s not easy to find a job. We’ll go over his words, and we’ll see when, in the present participle, the -ING isn’t necessarily and -ANT. We’ll also go over child rearing vocabulary.

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Welcome to this very advanced French Podcast called Le français tel quel – French as it is – where you hear regular French people talk, and where you learn vocabulary and grammar along with it in the companion worksheet that you can get on the Web site. Le français tel quel features videos & audios of real French people talking, because we know that ‘French as it is’ isn’t always clear: people seems to speak fast and eat their words. We try to break it down and make it easier for you.

Today, we’re listening to the news. First, the headlines and then wondering if Nicolas Sarkozy is using tax payer’s money to finance his campaign before he officially announces his candidacy. Let’s review politics in French in the Premium worksheet.

Anne is bringing you today’s French, with authentic and useful expressions. Merci et thank you for listening to FRENCH ETC. We hope you found this helpful, and if you want more, please visit www.frenchetc.org. We love questions, comments, and suggestions. Feel free to leave a reply in the post. Now, it’s time for you to make progress in French, become a member and get the worksheets.

C’est une rediffusion – This is a repeat

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Today, we’re listening to this marvelous famous tirade “C’est quoi ce bordel avec l’amour” – “What’s all that fuss about love?” by Romain Duris in the movie “Les Poupées Russes” “the Russian Dolls”. Romain is searching for love and doesn’t quite understand what it’s about. He uses a lot of idiomatic every day expressions. If your ear is a bit trained to street French, you’ll hear a few coarse words. In fact, if translated literally, this passage would probably be xed. Yet, I promise, this language Romain uses is pretty common, and not shocking at all. It will lead us to go over les gros mots in the companion worksheet. Les gros mots – fat words – are swear words. That way, you will all be linguistically-ready when facing a Paris airport strike for instance. The okay-to-use expressions are in blue, the cruder ones are in red in the worksheet. Also in the worksheet, the verb se plaindre – to complain – conjugated in 14 tenses and modes.

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Welcome to this very advanced French Podcast called Le français tel quel – French as it is – where you hear regular French people talk, and where you learn vocabulary and grammar along with it in the companion worksheet that you can get on the Web site. Le français tel quel features videos & audios of real French people talking, because we know that ‘French as it is’ isn’t always clear: people seems to speak fast and eat their words. We try to break it down and make it easier for you.

Today, we’ll hear about crêpe day. Crêpes are thin pancakes. But don’t go away if you’re not interested in crêpes. The lady we’re listening to uses colloquial French and it’s an excellent listening comprehension exercise. She does speak very fast as well, so this podcast is really only for very advanced students. I think you’d be frustrated if your level isn’t almost fluent. In the companion Premium worksheet, you’ll get to practice Crêpe Day vocabulary and study Verbs with the prefix RE-. Watch the video in the Podcast and see if you can ‘faire sauter la crêpe’ as well as the little boy in the video.

Anne is bringing you today’s French, with authentic and useful expressions. Merci et thank you for listening to FRENCH ETC. I hope you found this helpful, and if you want more, please visit www.frenchetc.org. I love questions, comments, and suggestions. Feel free to leave a reply in the post. Now, it’s time for you to make progress in French, become a member and get the worksheets.

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Today, what’s keeping the French busy is the snow on the ground. Listen to French people talk about how they cope with it in this ‘French As Is’ episode called ‘La neige perturbe Paris – Snow disrupts Paris’.  You might know ‘une bretelle’ as a supender, but do you know what it is on the freeway?  Or do you know what a peeing cow is in France? Find extra vocabulary road and weather-related words in the worksheet. Also, in the grammar part of the worksheet, review how to translate ‘What’ with ‘Ce qui, Ce que, Ce dont’.

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Bonne journée française !

Welcome to this very advanced French Podcast called Le français tel quel – French as it is – where you hear regular French people talk, and where you learn vocabulary and grammar along with it in the companion worksheet that you can get on the Web site. Le français tel quel features videos & audios of real French people talking, because we know that ‘French as it is’ isn’t always clear: people seems to speak fast and eat their words. We try to break it down and make it easier for you.

Today, we’re embarking for Batz Island. That’s an island that is very dear to me, as I often visit it. I invite you to go too. It’s on the Northern coast of Brittany, as big as stamp, and allows no cars. Antoine – famous singer and sailor – leads the visit. His presentation is short enough for us to handle, and yet, long enough to give us practice in hearing authentic French and review a few points. The companion worksheet has the text and translation, along with a review on articles: remember you say l’Île de Batz, la France and not Île de Batz and France like we’d be tempted to say, the worksheet also goes over when to say DE and when to use DES, and the pronunciation of final consonants.

That was Anne at frenchetc.org, bringing you today’s French, with authentic and useful expressions. Merci et thank you for listening to FRENCH ETC. We hope you found this helpful, and if you want more, please visit www.frenchetc.org. We love questions, comments, and suggestions. Feel free to leave a reply in the post. Now, it’s time for you to make progress in French, become a member and get the worksheets.

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French As Is Series

Today, another French As Is Series, listening to French people talk. It goes fast, and we’ll try to make sense of it. As many of you know, January is very festive in France. First, you get cards and calls from everyone you know, to wish you a happy new year. And also, you get to eat la galette des rois, king’s cake all the time. Learn more  in the worksheet about this January French tradition: finding a treasure in your dessert and becoming a queen or a king for the night. And get the recipe for this easy quickly made galette des rois. The Grammar part of the worksheet goes over sentences that start with a negative word such as aucun, or nul : ‘aucun risque, nul ne pense’.

I hope you’ll all be eating galette des rois this month. But I bet you won’t find a diamond in yours. Listen to this podcast and see how you may.

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Today, we’re going to Wambrechies, Northern France to the toy museum and we’ll listen to museum patrons talk about their experience there. There is background noise in this video, children talking and slight Flemish accent make it a bit harder to hear. And that’s why this podcast is here to help you sharpen your listening comprehension skill. In the worksheet that goes with it, along with the text and translation, review the plural of compound nouns such little ones – des tout-petits, rainbows – des arcs-en-ciel – and skyscrapers – des gratte-ciel. The culture capsule in the worksheet also goes over the specifics of a French Christmas. Make sure you visit FRENCH ETC. Christmas blog to complete this podcast.

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Welcome to this very advanced French Podcast called Le français tel quel – French as it is – where you hear regular French people talk, and where you learn vocabulary and grammar along with it in the companion worksheet that you can get on the Web site. Le français tel quel features videos & audios of real French people talking, because we know that ‘French as it is’ isn’t always clear: people seems to speak fast and eat their words. We try to break it down and make it easier for you.

Today’s lesson is called ‘Noël à Paris’. We’re listening to Alfonso Nsangu who says that his best Christmas was the one his spent in Paris with his wife when the two of them left their native Alsace for a few days, even though they had no money at all. That gives us an opportunity to review the agreement of past participles and to review vocabulary about money in the worksheet.

Anne is bringing you today’s French, with authentic and useful expressions. Merci et thank you for listening to FRENCH ETC. We hope you found this helpful, and if you want more, please visit www.frenchetc.org. We love questions, comments, and suggestions. Feel free to leave a reply in the post. Now, it’s time for you to make progress in French, become a member and get the worksheets.

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Related : Gospel Kids . T’was the night before Christmas in French . Christmas in France  . Vocabulary Game . Test . Flashcards .

Welcome to this very advanced French Podcast called Le français tel quel – French as it is – where you hear regular French people talk, and where you learn vocabulary and grammar along with it in the companion worksheet that you can get on the Web site. Le français tel quel features videos & audios of real French people talking, because we know that ‘French as it is’ isn’t always clear: people seems to speak fast and eat their words. We try to break it down and make it easier for you.

As you may know, oysters make a very popular appetizer for Christmas and the New Year. As such, they become coveted and they are watched by the local police force. This is what we’ll hear about in this news piece. It’s all in the worksheet – in French and in English – with an explanation about accents on French words such as ‘huître’ and what is it that French people typically eat at Christmas.

That was Anne at frenchetc.org, bringing you today’s French, with authentic and useful expressions. Merci et thank you for listening to FRENCH ETC. We hope you found this helpful, and if you want more, please visit www.frenchetc.org. We love questions, comments, and suggestions. Feel free to leave a reply in the post. Now, it’s time for you to make progress in French, become a member and get the worksheets.

Related : Accents on French words . Riec-sur-Belon .

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Welcome to this very advanced French Podcast called Le français tel quel – French as it is – where you hear regular French people talk, and where you learn vocabulary and grammar along with it in the companion worksheet that you can get on the Web site. Le français tel quel features videos & audios of real French people talking, because we know that ‘French as it is’ isn’t always clear: people seems to speak fast and eat their words. We break it down and make it easier for you.

Let’s go to a wine fair today and hear about the great wines of the Rhône region. Get the whole story plus wine related vocabulary, a set of unusual adjectives and a review sheet on the pronoun ON and on how to express time in the premium worksheet.

Anne is bringing you today’s French, with authentic and useful expressions. Merci et thank you for listening to FRENCH ETC. We hope you found this helpful, and if you want more, please visit www.frenchetc.org. We love questions, comments, and suggestions. Feel free to leave a reply in the post. Now, it’s time for you to make progress in French, become a member and get the worksheets with fun practice.

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Related: Les vins de France – French wines . No corkscrew ? No problem . Quiz on wines . Quiz on vocabulary .

Welcome to this very advanced French Podcast called Le français tel quel – French as it is – where you hear regular French people talk, and where you learn vocabulary and grammar along with it in the companion worksheet that you can get on the Web site. Le français tel quel features videos & audios of real French people talking, because we know that ‘French as it is’ isn’t always clear: people seems to speak fast and eat their words. We break it down and make it easier for you.

Today in “Les pirates de smartphones”, learn about protecting your Smartphone from being hacked. Explore the digital world with cell phones and other iPads in the companion worksheet, along with expressions with arriver and how to use ‘to use’.

That’s Anne at frenchetc.org, bringing you today’s French, with authentic and useful expressions. Merci et thank you for listening to FRENCH ETC. We hope you found this helpful, and if you want more, please visit www.frenchetc.org. We love questions, comments, and suggestions. Feel free to leave a reply in the post. Now, it’s time for you to make progress in French, become a member and get the worksheets with fun practice.

Related : Technology vocabulary . About arriver . 

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