Go Back   Alizée America Forum > Other Subjects > Apprendre le français

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 03-07-2011, 03:20 PM
FanDeAliFee's Avatar
FanDeAliFee FanDeAliFee is offline
Life's a beach & then you dive
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Lili Town
Posts: 870
FanDeAliFee is on a distinguished road
Smile 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&amp;hl=en_US&amp;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&amp;hl=en_US&amp;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 03:18 AM.. Reason: add book cover and link to book at Amazon
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 03-07-2011, 07:36 PM
Bigdan's Avatar
Bigdan Bigdan is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Paris, France
Posts: 1,853
Bigdan is on a distinguished road
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by FanDeAliFee View Post
[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!

Access the course videos here.

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


.
__________________
-------------------------------------------------------
http://alizeeamerica.com/forums/image.php?type=sigpic&userid=1448&dateline=1276377  065
------------------MISS ALIZEE -----------------
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 03-07-2011, 08:07 PM
User22's Avatar
User22 User22 is offline
Favorite: JEAMizée
 
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: USA
Posts: 7,683
User22 is on a distinguished road
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigdan View Post
Is Pierre Capretz really so famous in US ?
And Valerie Allain ?


.
Never heard of them if that says anything
__________________
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 03-07-2011, 09:45 PM
FanDeAliFee's Avatar
FanDeAliFee FanDeAliFee is offline
Life's a beach & then you dive
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Lili Town
Posts: 870
FanDeAliFee is on a distinguished road
Smile Big French fish in a very small American pond

Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigdan View Post
Is Pierre Capretz really so famous in US ?
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.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Aaronius31 View Post
Never heard of them if that says anything
The following may explain why

Quote:
Originally Posted by Aaronius31 View Post
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?

Last edited by FanDeAliFee; 03-07-2011 at 09:56 PM.. Reason: mention more French actresses without Q scores
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 03-07-2011, 10:10 PM
Merci Alizée
Guest
 
Posts: n/a
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by FanDeAliFee View Post
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.

Last edited by Merci Alizée; 03-07-2011 at 10:12 PM..
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 03-07-2011, 10:19 PM
Fèvier's Avatar
Fèvier Fèvier is offline
Mňau ^_^
 
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: under your bed
Age: 30
Posts: 1,463
Fèvier is on a distinguished road
Default

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.



__________________

Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 03-09-2011, 04:03 AM
FanDeAliFee's Avatar
FanDeAliFee FanDeAliFee is offline
Life's a beach & then you dive
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Lili Town
Posts: 870
FanDeAliFee is on a distinguished road
Smile Alizée translates Spanish to French

Quote:
Originally Posted by Merci Alizée View Post
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 View Post
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.



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.

<object width="960" height="750"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/ETc50aZ9CO8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;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&amp;hl=en_US&amp;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 02:12 AM.. Reason: mend minor typo
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 05-21-2016, 07:20 AM
alfredalfred alfredalfred is offline
Junior Member
 
Join Date: May 2016
Age: 28
Posts: 1
alfredalfred is on a distinguished road
Default

Alizée teaches a little French to her Mexican chat-show hosts?
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old 05-21-2016, 09:03 AM
Scruffydog777's Avatar
Scruffydog777 Scruffydog777 is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Boston
Age: 70
Posts: 8,109
Scruffydog777 will become famous soon enough
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by alfredalfred View Post
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!
Reply With Quote
  #10  
Old 05-21-2016, 06:11 PM
deligna's Avatar
deligna deligna is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: Norway
Posts: 95
deligna is on a distinguished road
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Scruffydog777 View Post
I wish this moment would last for ever.." and her reaction to that around the 5:00 mark.!
Haha! "PFFRRTT"
Quote:
Originally Posted by alfredalfred View Post
Alizée teaches a little French to her Mexican chat-show hosts?
Welcome to the forum Alfred!
__________________

Last edited by deligna; 05-21-2016 at 06:13 PM..
Reply With Quote
Reply

Tags
action, capretz, french, immersion, video

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 11:44 PM.