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FanDeAliFee 03-07-2011 03:20 PM

French in Action - FREE online video intro course
 
<big><big>Residents of the US and Canada with high-speed Internet access have the opportunity to watch a FREE video course teaching introductory conversational French. There are 52 half-hour episodes, which teach using a contrived visual immersion method, rather than translation.
<table><tr><td><big><big>This video series, filmed in Paris, is called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_in_Action"><i>French in Action</i></a>. Textbooks and workbooks are also available for it.
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The course was developed in 1987 in the United States through a collaboration between WGBH television in Boston, and the venerable New England universities of Wellesley and Yale. Creation was directed by Professor Pierre Capretz, a French native who began teaching at Yale in 1956. By 1990. the course had sold about 70,000 textbooks and was used by more than 1,000 colleges and secondary schools. Read reviews of it and about its awards <a href="http://www.learner.org/catalog/awards/ficomments.html">here</a>.</big></big></td><td><a href="http://www.amazon.com/French-Action-Beginning-Language-Textbook/dp/0300058217"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SCiLOLzBL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg"></a></td></tr></table>

In 2010, Yale hosted a 25th (sic.) anniversary reunion in celebration of the program's success. (Previously at Alizee America, I curated a video lecture on Napoleon by Yale professor of French history John Merriman.)

A nontrivial portion of the course follows the romance between Robert, a <s>lecherous geriatric</s> young American man, and an attractive young French woman named Mireille. Mireille is portrayed as an object for desire that gets young men to learn French, claimed a Yale teaching assistant in 1990 (before it was OK to be a lesbian in America, LOL!) The camera often lingers on Mireille's legs or her chest, for example.

DAMN!!! Why, oh why did I have to mention THAT part? Now I've scared away 90%+ of the visitors to Alizée America! :p

Access the course videos here.

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Bigdan 03-07-2011 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by FanDeAliFee (Post 200913)
[SIZE="2"]Residents of the US and Canada with high-speed Internet access have the opportunity to watch a FREE video course teaching introductory conversational French. There are 52 half-hour episodes, which teach using a contrived visual immersion method, rather than translation.

This video series, filmed in Paris, is called French in Action. Textbooks and workbooks are also available for it.

The course was developed in 1987 in the United States through a collaboration between WGBH television in Boston, and the venerable New England universities of Wellesley and Yale. Creation was directed by Professor Pierre Capretz, a French native who began teaching at Yale in 1956. By 1990. the course had sold about 70,000 textbooks and was used by more than 1,000 colleges and secondary schools. Read reviews of it and about its awards here

In 2010, Yale hosted a 25th (sic.) anniversary reunion in celebration of the program's success. (Previously at Alizee America, I curated a video lecture on Napoleon by Yale professor of French history John Merriman.)

A nontrivial portion of the course follows the romance between Robert, a <s>lecherous geriatric</s> young American man, and an attractive young French woman named Mireille. Mireille is portrayed as an object for desire that gets young men to learn French, claimed a Yale teaching assistant in 1990 (before it was OK to be a lesbian in America, LOL!) The camera often lingers on Mireille's legs or her chest, for example.

DAMN!!! Why, oh why did I have to mention THAT part? Now I've scared away 90%+ of the visitors to Alizée America! :p

Access the course videos here.


Is Pierre Capretz really so famous in US ?:blink:
And Valerie Allain ?


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User22 03-07-2011 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Bigdan (Post 200921)
Is Pierre Capretz really so famous in US ?:blink:
And Valerie Allain ?


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Never heard of them if that says anything :p

FanDeAliFee 03-07-2011 09:45 PM

Big French fish in a very small American pond
 
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Originally Posted by Bigdan (Post 200921)
Is Pierre Capretz really so famous in US ?:blink:
And Valerie Allain ?

They do not have Q scores. - but, incredibly, neither do Audrey Tautou or Leslie Caron! Also, please remember that very few people in the United States learn a foreign language compared to Europeans!

The continuing advance of English has academic fallout. Only 44% of US high school students and less than 8% of US university undergrads study foreign languages. The fraction of European Union high school students who study a foreign language is 48% in the UK, 81% in Ireland and 96% to 100% in other nations.

Roughly speaking, 1.6 million Americans age 5+ speak French at home. Six times as many adults (age 18+), about 10 million, can converse in French, and comprise 4.4 percent of US adults. In contrast, in the UK, a fraction twice as large, about 9 percent, of adults (age 15+) have more than basic French skills. In France, about 20 percent of adults (age 15+), and 33 percent of those ages 15-29 have more than basic English skills.

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Originally Posted by Aaronius31 (Post 200924)
Never heard of them if that says anything :p

The following may explain why

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Originally Posted by Aaronius31 (Post 200854)
Yeah my name's john smith. I'm 7 years old....

We will save Mireille's future-jailbait younger sister, Marie-Laure, for you! ;)

Close your eyes, Aaron. I am now going to make Valérie Allain a bit more popular in les États-Unis!

P.S. Who has the address of the YouTube video in which Alizée teaches a little French to her Mexican chat-show hosts?

Merci Alizée 03-07-2011 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by FanDeAliFee (Post 200931)
P.S. Who has the address of the YouTube video in which Alizée teaches a little French to her Mexican chat-show hosts?

This one?

[2008-03-04] MSN Prodigy Day 3 - Radio & TV Promotion

Sorry, if it's wrong video. I can't access youtube.

Fèvier 03-07-2011 10:19 PM

I think he refers to this one

It's uploaded in two parts and I'm on iPod so I can't embed. If someone would like to have the honors of doing that it would be helpful. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldvwA...e_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3JK_...e_gdata_player

FanDeAliFee 03-09-2011 04:03 AM

Alizée translates Spanish to French
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Merci Alizée (Post 200932)
This one?

[2008-03-04] MSN Prodigy Day 3 - Radio & TV Promotion

Sorry, if it's wrong video. I can't access youtube.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fèvier (Post 200933)
I think he refers to this one

It's uploaded in two parts and I'm on iPod so I can't embed. If someone would like to have the honors of doing that it would be helpful. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldvwA...e_gdata_player

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3JK_...e_gdata_player

Thanks, guys!

The stuff I requested is found in
Part 2 Alizée in Los 10 Mas Pedidos Sub. Eng (AC Mix...) wherein Alizée and the chat show host provide French trans;ations of Spanish phrases.

When I have more time, maybe I can work on a way of leveraging French in Action to make Alizée better known in the US - I have some ideas.

For those outside Canada and the US, below is a portion of a lesson from the TV series French in Action,


French in Action Leçon 2 part 1.

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alfredalfred 05-21-2016 07:20 AM

Alizée teaches a little French to her Mexican chat-show hosts?

Scruffydog777 05-21-2016 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by alfredalfred (Post 255891)
Alizée teaches a little French to her Mexican chat-show hosts?

I like in the second video where he asks her to translate into French...."I wish this moment would last for ever.." and her reaction to that around the 5:00 mark.

Welcome to the forum Alfred!

deligna 05-21-2016 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Scruffydog777 (Post 255892)
I wish this moment would last for ever.." and her reaction to that around the 5:00 mark.!

Haha! "PFFRRTT"
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Originally Posted by alfredalfred (Post 255891)
Alizée teaches a little French to her Mexican chat-show hosts?

Welcome to the forum Alfred!


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