Free French Listening Resources Podcast
Listening to a language while reading along with the transcript is a great way to improve your comprehension as well as your pronunciation. The following mp3s were created by native speakers of French and they are free for teachers and students to download. All of the mp3s are spontaneous speech - nothing was scripted or rehearsed, and some were even recorded without the speaker's prior knowledge for an eavesdropping effect.
For the mp3s that have transcripts available, I've created individual pages so that you can now listen and read along or do a cloze (fill-in-the-blank) exercise if you prefer to work online. Each page will open in a new tab or window. Otherwise, you can simply download the mp3s and transcripts. I also post the podcasts at a traditional blog if you prefer the podcasts in the order in which they are uploaded, instead of grouped categorically as below.
NEW video podcasts! I am beginning to add video podcasts (through iTunes and Youtube) so that you can experience authentic language and culture in France. I hope to be able to add other Francophone countries as well.
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gâteau d'anniversaire
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l'Impérial Palace d'Annecy
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spectacle d'otaries
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le bonhomme
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Mélina et gâteau
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les fonctionnaires / les grèves
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quelque chose de different...
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interview / avec Mamie |
Thanks to jpljpl, Lancelot, and bbernrd at Rhinospike.com for helping with transcriptions!
les diaporamas
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Common Reductions in Speech |  |
Common Expressions |
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Common Nouns for People |
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d'autres sites pour ecouter (et lire) le francais
Apprendre le français |
Regarder la télé francophone |
Regarder les infos / Ecouter la radio |
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TFO (Ontario, Canada) RTBF (Belgium) TSR (Switzerland) CRTV (Cameroun) RTS (Senegal) AbidjanTV (Côte d'Ivoire) Outre-Mer (French DOM-TOMs) TNTV (Tahiti, French Polynesia) |
RTL (France) RTBF Radio (Belgium) RSR (Switzerland) RTN (Switzerland) Journal de TNTV (Tahiti) Radio One (Mauritius) |
This work by Jennifer Wagner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. You may use, adapt, distribute, and edit these mp3s for personal and educational purposes as long as Ms. Wagner is attributed. No commercial use is allowed. French Listening Resources is listed in MERLOT, the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning Online and Teaching.
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