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David Tolman
Category: Free French Listening Comprehension Practice
Here, you’ll find some of my older samples, which are longer. Most people prefer the newer, 8-second exercises. (You can find those from the links on the right-hand side of the page.)
But you are welcome to browse among these older samples. What you see on this page is a collection of articles bunched together into about 14 pages. Enjoy!
Tip: don’t make the mistake of clicking right on the play button you see on this page. Instead, scroll down through the different articles and, when you find one that interests you, click on the big black title line. (It will turn into a blue text when you hover over it.) Click on that text to go to that individual article.
Clicking into the individual article is better than clicking ‘play’ from this page because the sound-looping tool works better from the individual article pages than it does from this page.
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Hearing ‘je lui ai dit’ in spoken French
Some of you will make the mistake of thinking, ‘If it’s this hard, then I’m not ready for spoken French.’
Please watch this video for my thoughts on that.
Subscribers, this is from the Fleuriste interview. Original interview and slow-echoing version are here… Une Fleuriste à Saint-Rémy de Provence
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French pronunciation – be careful with SH sounds
Video for this exercise.
The two steps to correcting your pronunciation are…- notice that the word is NOT pronounced as you thought
- make the correct pronunciation automatic by saying it out loud a few times
Today’s lesson came to mind this weekend when I heard a fellow American pronounce the French word ‘dictionnaire’ with an SH sound. So, instead of pronouncing it as the French do, deek See oh naire, she said deek SHee oh naire.
Subscribers, this is from the Fleuriste interview. Original interview and slow-echoing version (like you hear in today’s exercise) are here… Une Fleuriste à Saint-Rémy de Provence
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Dropped vowels in spoken French
Video Lesson Tip: to focus on a particular word, move the green bars closer together.
Subscribers – get the whole interview here: Monsieur Halloumi – épicier à Paris
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French listening exercise – renting a cottage in Provence
Tip: to focus on a particular word, move the green bars closer together.
Original :
Slowed-down 25%
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