Transcribing to learn french

[Arnaud]

Good catch on "mortels!" I did think about it for a second when I went through it, but I believe now that you are right.

Perhaps not, I just read but not listened: if there is no liaison, mortel can be considered as a subtantive and be at the singular, so perhaps I made an "overcorrection": that happens often in french.
Edit: after listening, it's probably mortel at the singular, sorry.

[DaveBee]

Good catch on "mortels!" I did think about it for a second when I went through it, but I believe now that you are right.

Perhaps not, I just read but not listened: if there is no liaison, mortel can be considered as a subtantive and be at the singular, so perhaps I made an "overcorrection": that happens often in french.
Edit: after listening, it's probably mortel at the singular, sorry.

I have a copy of this video with subtitles. In that 'mortels' is used. So Arnaud was right, and Arnaud was wrong. Well done Arnaud!

[Adrianslont]

I have used the program Subtitleedit when transcribing videos. That can then make .srt files with a click and I have then used subs2srs to make anki cards.

I have done this with Indonesian which has an orthography that closely matches pronunciation. If there are words I don't know, I simply write xxx. When that card comes up in anki I often can hear it better and edit it in the app!

[reineke]

I think the point Arnaud was trying to make was that you should ideally practice with something that comes with a good transcript and that you shouldn't sweat the small stuff.

[Finolia]

While reading this post I just remembered a website (http://fondationpgl.ca/audio/) our French teacher gave us during my semester abroad. It's a website where you can practice dictées . You can type it directly and it will correct your text automatically or just write by hand and compare it to the text afterwards. I thought it might be useful to one or the other ^^