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French movies/videos with French subtitles
There is an amazing site called Les films français avec
sous-titres where one may find a plethora of films to watch of different genres (comedies, dramas, adventures and the like).
Very useful: TEDx ...
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Do French kids have difficulty learning their spellings?
They indeed likely have more difficulty than Spanish, Italian and German kids who use much more regular spelling and phonetic rules.
However, English speaking kids are reported to have more ...
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What are ways that I could have found out that "C'est correct d'être différent" means "It's okay to be different"?
Regional expressions can be hard to find depending on the limitations of any work of reference. If you go to a resource or dictionary that is a little dated or just not expanded, you hit a wall. ...
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Is the following sentence grammatically and meaningfully correct ?
There are a few things to change:
Your verb is in the passé composé, which is good. However, this tense requires an auxiliary. In the case of aller, the auxiliary is être. Conjugate être for je in ...
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French movies/videos with French subtitles
You have also really nice Youtube channels to learn (or improve) french for free among which:
Learn French with Vincent
Vincent is a French teacher with his own YouTube channel, and he will teach ...
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Online French newspapers, magazines, etc, with English translation
Simple French
Unfortunately I can't comment yet, because I'm not sure if something like French English News is quite what you're looking for or if it is a little too simple. Therefore I'll leave that ...
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Origin of the "Dr. and Mrs. Vandertramp" mnemonic
The oldest reference search engines are able to find seems to be this 1984 document :
Experiment in International Living. School for International Training, Peace Corps (U.S.). Information ...
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Pourquoi les Français parlent-ils plus vite que les autres francophones (et qu’avant)?
Il est difficile de dire que "les français parlent rapidement": la France est un grand pays, et chaque région de ce pays a ses subtilités dans l'utilisation de la langue.
Le français qu'on entend à ...
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What are ways that I could have found out that "C'est correct d'être différent" means "It's okay to be different"?
@silph The expression "c'est correct" is typically a Canadian French expression. In France, this expression is never used, preferring the term "c'est acceptable", (that's ...
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What movies or TV series can I use to improve my French?
I recommend both Jean de Florette and Manon des sources (Manon of the Spring), based on the novels of the respected author, Marcel Pagnol. The language is clear, unhurried, and nuanced.
If you watch ...
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Short French podcast used to transcribe?
There are dozens of exercises here. They include a transcript, so you can listen and try transcribing yourself, then compare what you've done to the official version.
Bon courage !
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What French children songs do most native French speakers know?
Au clair de la lune
mon beau sapin
Do, do, l'enfant do
Cadet Rousselle
Fais dodo, Colas mon petit frère
Meunier tu dors
un kilomètre à pied, ...
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Quelques revues françaises comme The Economist ?
L'équivalent de The Economist tant par la teneur et le sérieux du contenu que par l'utilisation par les enseignants et étudiants dans les cours de FLE (Français Langue Étrangère) est Le Monde. Les ...
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Is this french? what has been said?
It sounds like "Mais bon c'était un but avec un penalty donc...".
It translates to "But well, it was a penalty goal so..."
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Unable to find exact meaning of Title of the paper which is in French
I follow the hypothesis of "Papa Poule" about the term "innité" that you wrote and that doesn't exist in French. I think he is right to suppose the original word was "infinité". So the sentence would ...
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Beyond memorisation and time, how can you master grammatical gender in French?
As Christine said it in the commentary, I would recommend to read a lot in French.
Except for a small number of words*, gender is intuitive for every native speaker (except maybe the younger ones). ...
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Modern French prose/fiction authors to read/listen for French language learner
Why not Maxime Chattam books ? :)
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Good and simple book series for beginners like Oxford Bookworms series
La série Easy Readers offre diverses lectures en français simplifié avec quatre niveaux: A, B, C et D.
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D'où vient « Mais où est donc Ornicar ? » ?
Le "mais ou(ù) e(s)t donc" a un sens et est donc indiscutable. Heureusement, puisque cela divise par 840 le nombre de possibilités.
Mais il n'existe pas de nom commun réalisable avec les trois ...
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What movies or TV series can I use to improve my French?
Try News in Slow French.... https://www.newsinslowfrench.com/.
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Monolingual learner's dictionary with small defining vocabulary
I do not think that such a dictionary about the French language (as far as I know) exists.
To the best of my understanding of your question the books below could consist of a starting point for ...
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Should I use l'Alliance Française if I want to get a certification in French?
You can try the DELF diploma for the levels A1-B2.
You can find easily information by googling.
The principal page is:
http://www.ciep.fr/delf-dalf
or
http://www.ciep.fr/en/delf-dalf
In brief, B1 ...
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How to learn from mistakes?
Probably a familiar problem for many learners.
I think there are several key elements here:
Understand the mistake: if there is a more general grammar rule behind it, then there is no point to ...
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Learning French from English or Spanish
Lol I'm having the same issue but with the difference that I'm a native Spanish speaker who is perfectly fluent in English.
I've been learning for a month now (almost exclusively French/English) and ...
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Learning a bit of French with not much time
With as little time as a week provides, it may be smart for such a person to commit to learning common phrases rather than the correct masculine and feminine attributes or the informal and formal uses....
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Learning a bit of French with not much time
You have to start with, what are you learning French for? If you are a temporary visitor who needs to ask how to get to the washroom, Pimsleur or the Rosetta Stone might do the trick. If you are a ...
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