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Re: French resources

Postby Kraut » Mon Aug 31, 2020 9:21 am

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Re: French resources

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Sun Oct 11, 2020 7:07 pm

Mediaclasse: a vlog entitled "La littérature analysée et illustrée en vidéo pour les lycéens, les étudiants en Lettres et
pour tous les passionnés de culture !"

On offer are roughly 200 video analyses of various French writers from the classics through the 19th century. The vlogger speaks at, If not "street-French" speed, at least normal conversational speed. Quite useful is the fact that many but not all of the videos have subtitles.

Here is one of the lectures from Oeuvres et Analyses: Balzac

The vlog also links to five other vloggers, (under the heading la Communauté), with similar content, though few of their videos have subtitles.
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Re: French resources

Postby Kraut » Thu Nov 26, 2020 6:08 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6e1oWi ... e=youtu.be
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Re: French resources

Postby Kraut » Fri Jan 15, 2021 7:03 pm

French Canadian: How does the learning brain work?
Comprendre pour apprendre

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Comment fonctionne notre cerveau en situation d'apprentissage?
Les neurosciences ont fait des bonds de géant depuis vingt ans. Mais comment ces nouvelles connaissances pourraient nous aider à mieux apprendre? Nous suivons, en compagnie de la neuropsychologue Karen Debas, des étudiant.e.s de tout âge dans leurs défis d’apprentissage, et nous découvrons comment maximiser nos fonctions cognitives et atteindre nos objectifs.

Cette série a bénéficié du soutien financier du Fonds des médias du Canada et de la collaboration du Conseil supérieur de l'éducation.
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Re: French resources

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Re: French resources

Postby jeffers » Sun Jan 31, 2021 11:04 am



I like the format of the dictations on Dictaly, the fact that you can replay individual sentences at a click of a button is great! However, I quickly hit a snag because the special character list is too limited. I guess they expect us to have the means to put accents on lower case vowels quickly, but I still don't.

A site I use occasionally (and really should use more often) is https://dictee.orthodidacte.com/. However, the problem is that the dictation comes from a video and you are forced to listen to all the repititions, even if you are finished with a sentence.
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Re: French resources

Postby DaveAgain » Sat Feb 13, 2021 5:58 pm

FranceCulture.fr have a dictée programme: La Dictée géante.
Une dictée proposée par Rachid Santaki à l'antenne et sur les réseaux sociaux, faite par les auditeurs à l'écoute et en studio par un petit club d'adeptes de l'orthographe.
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Re: French resources

Postby Kraut » Tue Feb 23, 2021 12:09 pm

free Cousera course

Étudier en France: French Intermediate course B1-B2


https://www.coursera.org/learn/etudier- ... Nv3lkqEDzA
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Re: French resources

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Sat Mar 27, 2021 4:51 pm

Wikipedia lists the following French novels about World War 2. Not all of them are set in France. The books by Régine Deforges and by Céline make up trilogies. The links point to the Wikipedia list, not Amazon or other vendor.

Le Sang des autres Simone de Beauvoir
Rigodon Louis-Ferdinand Céline
La Rencontre Henri Troyat
Le Pont de la rivière Kwai Pierre Boulle
L'Orage de juillet Henry Castillou

Nord Louis-Ferdinand Céline
La Mort dans l'âme Jean-Paul Sartre
Les Montagnards de la nuit Roger Frison-Roche
Mon village à l'heure allemande Jean-Louis Bory
Un métier de seigneur Pierre Boulle

Kinderzimmer Valentine Goby
Jan Karski Yannick Haenel
Ils partiront dans l'ivresse Lucie Aubrac
HHhH Laurent Binet
Le Gardien des ruines François Nourissier

Education européenne Romain Gary
D'un château l'autre Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Le Diable en rit encore Régine Deforges
Les Communistes Louis Aragon
Collabo-song Jean Mazarin

Le Chasseur Zéro Pascale Roze
La Bicyclette bleue Régine Deforges
Au bon beurre Jean Dutourd
Au balcon d'Hiroshima Jean Amila
L'Abbé C. Georges Bataille

101, avenue Henri-Martin Régine Deforges
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Re: French resources

Postby Carmody » Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:30 pm

MorkTheFiddle,
Thanks so much.
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