Welcome to FRENCH CLASSES. Here you’ll find more than 80 hours of transcribed sound recordings from French native speakers.
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À L’ÉCOUTE DE LA LANGUE FRANÇAISE
French lessons to stretch your mind. 108 classes at beginner’s, intermediate and advanced levels.
BEGINNER’S CLASS
1. Une dame et un petit garçon regardent tranquillement le paysage
Masculine and feminine nouns – how adjectives agree – the first group of verbs – verbs and prepositions.
COURS INTERMÉDIAIRE
1. Je connais un type qui sait jouer du violon
La distinction entre les verbes «savoir» et «connaître»
COURS AVANCÉ
1. «D’autres» ou «des autres»?
Choisir le bon déterminant
LA GUINGUETTE
Audio reports to train your ear. Society, Culture, Travel and more.
SOCIÉTÉ
Je suis malheureux sans ma montre
We spend the year dreaming about going on holiday but do we really manage to relax when we get them? Loic Dupas went to Lacanau Océan village on the Atlantic coast to find out.
CULTURE
La Demeure du Chaos… miroir de notre monde
Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d’Or is a historic village, inhabited since Roman times. And since 1999 it has also been home to the Demeure du Chaos – a gigantic collection of contemporary sculptures. For its detractors, la Demeure is a monstrosity that should be knocked down. But for enthusiasts, who are increasingly making the pilgrimage, it is one of the most important works of contemporary art in the world.
VOYAGES
Les combats de coqs
Forbidden on French territory, cock-fighting is nevertheless tolerated in Martinique as an ancestral tradition. Axel May reports.
120 DICTÉES
Nine readers, five styles of text. Deduct a point from your stock of 20 for each mistake you make. The perfect exercise for learning precision.
La soupe à la grimace
Une épouse délaissée montre à son mari qu’elle est fâchée.
LES BLOGS
LA LETTRE DE FRANÇOISE
A unique mash of cultural and linguistic insights from French Classes founder Françoise Le Roux.
L comme… quelle heure est-il?
Dans l’expression quelle heure est-il, le il est dit impersonnel car il ne représente pas une personne (un monsieur, un enfant, un ami), ni un animal (un chat, un cheval, un papillon, un poisson), ni un objet inanimé (un piano, un jardin, un garage) de genre masculin singulier.
TABLETTES DE CHOCOLAT
Mental workouts to help you on your way.
Travaillons la phonétique, s’il vous plaît
Improving your pronunciation is above about teaching your mouth and tongue to move in unusual ways. Conversely, that also means stopping them from moving the ways you’re used to.