Improving listening comprehension
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Listening is often the hardest skill in French, because of speed, liaisons and words that "disappear" in speech (je ne sais pas → chais pas).
Method
[modifier | modifier le wikicode]- Choose a recording at your level: you should understand the gist.
- Listen once without a transcript, for general meaning.
- Listen again with the transcript or French subtitles.
- Listen once more without help.
- Repeat sentences out loud (shadowing: speaking along with the recording).
Resources
[modifier | modifier le wikicode]- news in easy French;
- podcasts for learners, then podcasts for native speakers;
- series with French subtitles (not subtitles in your language);
- songs with the lyrics.
See Podcasts, radio and TV and Films and series for learners.
Understanding informal speech
[modifier | modifier le wikicode]Spoken French differs a lot from written French: see Spoken vs written French.
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