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Upper-Intermediate French Practice

Listening Practice

Bouchons

Bouchons
Traffic jams are one of the worst and most inevitable parts of summer vacation in France. Learn more while practicing your French listening comprehension with this video.
Fun with French

Breton Accent

Flag of Brittany
Put your French listening comprehension and sense of humor to the test with this faux news report poking fun at Brittany and the Breton accent.
Fun with French

Dictées

Dictées
Dictées are a classic way to practice French, even for native speakers. For them, dictées are a test of grammar (particularly agreement) and spelling - sort of like super-charged spelling bees. For French students, dictées are an excellent form of combined listening and writing practice.
Listening Practice

Édith Piaf

Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf was a French cabaret singer and international star. In this short interview, she talks about why she sings so many love songs.
Listening Practice

FluentU – French Videos

FluentU French videosFrench videoFrench learners are always looking for new sources of French listening practice, and FluentU is one of the best. This subscription site offers videos for all levels of French, enhanced with quizzes, spaced repetition, and other tools to help you practice what you know and learn at your own pace.
Listening Practice

Folies Bergère

Aux Folies Bergère
Le légendaire théâtre des Folies Bergère de Paris est l'un des plus célèbres établissements proposant des spectacles dansés et de variété de la Ville Lumière. (French listening comprehension with English translation)
Listening Practice

French Fluency Club

French fluency club From Yabla, with their huge selection of authentic videos, comes a terrific new daily study feature called Fluency Club. Every day, you listen to a short video clip and then do a set of exercises, including a dictation and speaking.
Listening Practice

Giverny

Monet's Giverny
A former official gardener at Giverny talks about the development and maintenance of Claude Monet's lovely gardens in Normandy.
Expressions

Histoire d’animaux

Animals
Learn some fun idioms featuring animals while practicing your French listening comprehension in this cute bilingual tail tale.
Listening Practice

Immigrer au Canada

Immigrer au Canada
Watch this official video about the requirements and procedures for immigrating to Canada while practicing your upper-intermediate French listening comprehension.
Listening Practice

La Négritude

Négritude
The literary and political movement Négritude was created in the mid-1930s by a group of young, intellectual noirs francophones from Africa and the Caribbean. Learn about the birth of this anti-colonial philosophy in a video clip extracted from the movie Le Prix de la Liberté.
Listening Practice

LingQ

LingQ
Learn and practice French vocabulary and listening at any level with LingQ, an online learning system and language community.
Listening Practice

Listening Tips

French listening tips
Understanding spoken French is harder for some students than others. But unlike speaking, listening can be done on your own - whenever and wherever you like. Even so, the best way to practice isn't always obvious - here are some tips.
Listening Practice

Louvre

Le Louvre
Work on your French as you watch this short introductory video to the Louvre's "treasures and secrets."
Listening Practice

Marcel Marceau

Mime
Learn about the famous mime Marcel Marceau while improving your French listening skills with this upper-intermediate audio article.
Expressions

Romance au marché

Romance au marché
Learn some fun idioms featuring food while practicing your French listening comprehension in this story of love at first bite sight.
Listening Practice

Scribe – Dictées

French dictées
Dictées, or dictation exercises, are excellent for working on your French listening comprehension as well as spelling, vocabulary, and grammar all at the same time. Scribe is a very sophisticated program that provides real-time feedback as you listen and type.
Food and Drink

Service au restaurant

Service au restaurant
Enjoy a humorous animation about how big restaurants have too much service while practicing your French listening comprehension, including some slang.
Listening Practice

Simone, la voix de la SNCF

French train
Ever wondered about the face behind the voice you hear at every train station and on every train in France? Find out about the woman who has been recording those announcements for 40 years in this video with transcript and translation.
Food and Drink

Terroir

Terroir en France
Listen and learn about the notion of "terroir" as it relates to food and drink produced in France.
Linguistics

Un mot sur le français

Un mot sur le français
Fun video in and about French: author and cartoonist Riad Sattouf talks about his favorite expression, least favorite word, and some possibilities for a new word yet to be created. Considering it's only 2½ minutes long, the grammar in this video is extremely rich and varied.
Listening Practice

Yabla French Videos

Yabla French videosFrench videoEager for a new way to work on your French listening comprehension? Take a look at Yabla French, a subscription site with a massive collection of original videos featuring native speakers to help you learn and practice French at any level.

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