French TV or Radio

[Matrix]

Can someone provide links to french television or live radio? I would be interested in watching some french TV

[HibyPrime]

Move to where I live, and then turn the TV to channel 12, 13 or 66

[Matrix]

Are you saying I have to subscribe to french cable tv to watch? lol

I want to watch french TV to see if it is true that forty percent of all english words come from the french language.

[Twitch]

Just google it, I did and found a bunch of free streamed internet TV channels, but I don't bother with internet TV because half of the channels I get now are French. I found stuff like this when I google it but the ones I checked didn't have anything I wanted to watch...

http://beelinetv.com/
http://www.multilingualbooks.com/online-tv-french.html

PS: For some of them it didn't automatically open my media player I had to copy the URL in my browsers address bar and paste it in the open URL in my media player.

EDIT: This had some crazy stuff on it LOL TV when I tunned in I saw a bunch of household appliances trying to kill each other while fighting over a beer, it started with a vacuum stealing it out of the fridge to get jumped by a washing machine and it continued until the whole place got trashed...not to mention QashQai car games (craziest car stunts I've seen), or the speed control bikini bandits... Probably won't help your French but great for some laughs.

[garçoncanadien]

www.tv5.org

click on "L'actualité mondiale" then click on any of the three big pictures at the top of the screen.

www.tf1.fr is also good

[atra201]

Originally Posted by HibyPrime

Move to where I live, and then turn the TV to channel 12, 13 or 66

and where do you live?

Originally Posted by Matrix

Are you saying I have to subscribe to french cable tv to watch? lol

I want to watch french TV to see if it is true that forty percent of all english words come from the french language.

you don't have to listen to a french dialog it is written in any English dictionary that some english words are french.

[atra201]

Originally Posted by garçoncanadien

www.tv5.org

click on "L'actualité mondiale" then click on any of the three big pictures at the top of the screen.

www.tf1.fr is also good

thanks i was looking for that tv5 stream

[Matrix]

Merci for the links.

[spysmasher]

Originally Posted by Matrix

I want to watch french TV to see if it is true that forty percent of all english words come from the french language.

Hmm. As a Latin teacher, I have always heard that more than 60% of the words in English come from Latin. If 40% come from French, that would, at first glance, seem to cover every English word out there! In fact, though, there’s a big overlap, since many of those French words came from the Latin. That is to say, many words came into English from Latin … by way of French. So here’s one case where 40 + 60 does not equal 100!

[CFHollister]

And I've heard that 80% of english word are derived from Latin and Greek combined. Any words that came into English via any romance language, in my opinion really originate in Latin. The romance language would just be a carrier, imparting its own flavor of course.