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Old 04-08-2008, 10:53 PM
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I'm going to concentrate on non-slang French for now, although if I pick up some colloquialisms on the way that will be fine with me.

I'd also recommend not going with the subtitles. I find it difficult to listen and read at the same time, even in the same language; in two different languages it would be impossible.

I like the links that GC presented. It's got visual content as well as audio, e.g. news broadcasts, so I can pick up a lot from the visual context. Plus words I recognize, of course.

My feeling is that if I just keep listening, for an hour or more every day, it will start to gel. Especially since I already have a fairly decent French vocabulary from studying the written language.
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Another resource introduced to me by my French teacher is the Champs-Elysées program, which centers around contemporary French issues (which, according to this month's issue, include "Le restaurant d'Alain Ducasse sur la Tour Eiffel," "Moulin Rouge et French Cancan à Montmartre," "Jean-Jacques Aillagon Président du Domaine de Versailles," etc.) and includes an audio CD and an accompanying full text transcription which includes various footnotes and possible unknown terms.

Here's the site if you're interested: http://www.champs-elysees.com/

I still mostly learn spoken French by listening to news reports on sites like those provided by GC.
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