French update

by Dietsch on November 17, 2003

in Learning French, Reading and writing

activities offered as part of the BBC’s languages series. Without buying the videos, of course, I can’t view the Beeb’s French programs, but the website offers interactive modules that allow you to listen to and practice conversational French.

It’s standard introductory material–asking for directions, ordering a drink or a meal, buying Metro tickets, inquiring about the price of a piece of merchandise–but it’s a good start to picking up the sounds of French words.

{ 11 comments }

1 Nagl 11.18.03 at 6:02 pm

I’d recommend listening to french-language radio online, if possible. I enjoy Radio 21 in Brussels primarily for the music, but hearing the speaking between tracks rubs off on you, and makes concerted french listening or speaking that bit easier/natural. Theres a link from my blog, and it can be listened to on iTunes and recorded on RadioLover.

2 Dietsch 11.18.03 at 6:30 pm

Hey, that’s a great idea! Thanks, Jon.

3 Dietsch 11.18.03 at 6:39 pm

Oh, well now:

“Record your favourite Internet radio streams as separate songs. Listen to your favourite radio shows on your iPod.”

Dayam.

Nagl, you’re my latest hero.

4 Nagl 11.19.03 at 10:54 am

Everyone should be a RadioLover lover.

Highly recommend the 2 hour Cocktail Party prog on Radio21 on Saturdays, by the way. Music’s always ace and the DJ has the most divine voice. It’d be on around 11am your time, I think, so you could set RL to record it for you. SHMOOV!

5 mizanne 11.20.03 at 3:34 pm

I know this is an unrelated topic to french, but have heard about RSS feeds? It’s really interesting stuff, and you should check out this site if you want to learn more about it:

http://www.bloglines.com/

I haven’t yet tried it myself, but I’m going to get signed up so I can monitor all of my blogs more easily. Groovetacular!

6 Dietsch 11.20.03 at 8:45 pm

I have an RSS aggregator that I was using pretty regularly, but for some reason I haven’t checked it in a while.

I have an RSS feed here, so if you want to add me to your Bloglines account, feel free.

Alas, I lost the link to your blog, so send it back to me in e-mail. Do you have an RSS feed?

7 Kelly Sue 11.20.03 at 9:23 pm

Jon, I’ve been meaning to thank you for the Breut recommendation. I *love* her.

8 mizanne 11.24.03 at 1:26 pm

Hey Dietsch,

I will add you, but I’m new and I can’t find the RSS feed link on your page. Heeeeelp!

9 Michael Dietsch 11.24.03 at 2:55 pm

Hey Anne,

Here’s the link to my RSS feed:

http://www.michaeldietsch.com/index.rdf

Go nutty.

10 Nagl 11.25.03 at 3:07 pm

Kelly Sue - cool! Breut is lovely, hopefully there’ll be live dates one day. If you’re interested in more French-language music, there’s the Belgian equivalent of Amazon which is in English and has helped me out a few times with CDs unavailable outside of Belgium or France - http://www.proxis.be - if you like Belle & Sebastian, Melon Galia are well worth buying, and there’s 2 compilation CDs of the Radio21 show Cocktail Lounge that have a lush mix of tracks, some English, some French, some instrumental, all gorgeous!

11 Kelly Sue 11.25.03 at 10:48 pm

I like you. Thank you.

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