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03-07-2011, 04:20 PM
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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. <p> 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!  Access the course videos here. <object width="640" height="510"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/tuw90IniF5E?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/tuw90IniF5E?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="510"></embed></object> </big></big>Last edited by FanDeAliFee; 04-09-2011 at 04:18 AM.. Reason: add book cover and link to book at Amazon 
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03-07-2011, 08:36 PM
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Is Pierre Capretz really so famous in US ?  And Valerie Allain ? .
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03-07-2011, 10:45 PM
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Big French fish in a very small American pond
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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. Quote:
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 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? Last edited by FanDeAliFee; 03-07-2011 at 10:56 PM.. Reason: mention more French actresses without Q scores
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03-07-2011, 11:10 PM
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[2008-03-04] MSN Prodigy Day 3 - Radio & TV Promotion Sorry, if it's wrong video. I can't access youtube. Last edited by Merci Alizée; 03-07-2011 at 11:12 PM..
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03-09-2011, 05:03 AM
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Alizée translates Spanish to French
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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. <object width="960" height="750"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/ETc50aZ9CO8?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/ETc50aZ9CO8?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="960" height="750"></embed></object> Last edited by FanDeAliFee; 03-10-2011 at 03:12 AM.. Reason: mend minor typo
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05-21-2016, 08:20 AM
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Alizée teaches a little French to her Mexican chat-show hosts?
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05-21-2016, 10:03 AM
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Welcome to the forum Alfred!
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05-21-2016, 07:11 PM
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