Exploration in depth
| French Language Audiobooks Audio CD, transcript, translation, workbook and notes |
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Audiobooks offer you the chance to explore a chosen topic in depth and get your ear in tune with French native-speakers.
Each professionally mastered CD contains more than an hour of interviews and field recordings gathered from around France. The accompanying book contains a full transcript, the full translation in English and notes to help you out.
Listen on your home CD player or your ipod... in the train, the plane, the kitchen or the classroom: no computer is required. There are three titles in the series to choose from.
With each audiobook package come two exercise workbooks to download - one with answers, one without. The version that you'll preview in the online demonstration comes with the answers.
Paroles d'Artistes - Sophie Mandrillon
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To be an artist in France. They are painters, a ceramicist. There are five of them. We wanted to discover their universe. How does a day unfold? Where do they work? Where does the inspiration come from? What does recognition mean? To create, to advance, to go beyond yourself. In this series of interviews, they give us a part of themselves. |
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| Sample an extract | Exercise workbook |
Au fil de la soie - Julie Stauber
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It was in the XIIIth century that industrial spies first smuggled silkworms into Marseilles and thus began the story of silk production in France. Discover how Louis XIV used silk's charms to ruin his plotting nobles. Enter the gruelling world of reeling and spinning. Find out why the silk weavers from Lyon revolted - but didn't live up to revolutionary hopes. Explore the silk industry's magnificent architectural heritage and learn how fibre optics are helping to keep traditional techniques alive. In this extract silkworm breeder Lixiane Coste explains how in olden times the noise of silkworms munching used to make a noise like thunder. |
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| Sample an extract | Exercise workbook |
Il n'a rien de plus beau que mon village - Richard Good
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The people of St-Michel-en-l'Herm have a proud and independent history. But their village is being transformed under the influence of new technology and modern communications. How is it possible to maintain traditions while remaining open to change? What must outsiders do to find acceptance? Through a series of interviews and portraits - from mayor to priest, from farmers to teachers - a picture is built of life in the French countryside today. In this extract Philippe and Patrice are out fishing for crayfish - armed with a net made out of nylon stockings they've caught almost a thousand in just one week. |
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| Sample an extract | Exercise workbook |
Purchase Details
As soon as you purchase your audiobook you'll gain access to a downloadable version that you can listen to straight away. Your CD and accompanying book will be sent by priority mail and will be sent out on the day of delivery.
Bought separately, each audiobook costs €35 euros / $42 USD. You can take advantage of our 3 for 2 online promotion and receive all three for € 70 euros / $84 USD.
If you're an ipod or mp3 player user, you can make additional savings by opting out of the CD / book presentation and selecting just the downloadable sound and PDF text version. The cost of each downloadable title is €28 euros / $35 USD or you can take all three for €56 euros / $70 USD.