Listening Practice

Listen to French

Écouter le français

Work on your French listening comprehension with short audio files and videos. Each one includes the French transcript and side-by-side English translation.

French listening exercises by level: A1 | A2 | B1 | B2 | C1 What’s my level?

Dictées (combined listening and writing practice)
Improve your listening comprehension

Tricky numbers exercise (60-99)
Videos with interactive subtitles
More French listening practice – Transcript, click-to-reveal translation, and links to related grammar lessons

Listening Practice

À l’hôtel

Listen to this short dialog between a hotel receptionist and a customer checking in.

A1 - Beginning French • travel French

Listening Practice

A1 Proficiency Test

Video of an A1-level oral proficiency test, with links to the grammar and vocabulary you need to know in order to pass.

A1 - Beginning French

Linguistics

Accents régionaux et discrimination linguistique

Like every language, French is spoken in a variety of different ways across the country (and around the world). Learn about the discrimination speakers of "non standard" French may face in this video with interactive subtitles.

C1 - Advanced French

Listening Practice

Achats dans une grande surface

Listen to short dialogs throughout a supermarket.

A1 - Beginning French

Holidays and Celebrations

Advent

Advent is a multi-week period of celebration leading up to Christmas - learn a bit about it in this French video.

A2 - Low-Intermediate French

Listening Practice

Aimé Césaire

L'homme est l'une des figures contemporaines les plus importantes des Antilles françaises, et le nom d'Aimé Césaire a dépassé les frontières des Antilles pour atteindre une notoriété mondiale au cours du vingtième siècle.

C1 - Advanced French

Listening Practice

Alors on danse, de Stromae

Fun with French! This catchy music video will have you dancing and singing along, even to the slang thanks to interactive subtitles.

C1 - Advanced French

Fun with French

Alsatian Accent

Put your French listening comprehension and sense of humor to the test with this faux news report poking fun at Alsace and the Alsatian accent.

C1 - Advanced French

Learn French

Améliorer son français

Listening comprehension exercise with tips on improving reading comprehension.

B1 - Intermediate French

Listening Practice

Arc de Triomphe

Qui n'a jamais vu, ne serait-ce qu'une seule fois, dans des atlas géographiques ou des manuels d'histoire, l'imposante majesté de l'Arc de Triomphe de Paris, sur lequel débouche la magnifique avenue des Champs-Élysées, et dont l'allure caractéristique représente si bien la France ?

B2 - Upper-Intermediate French

Listening Practice

Au cirque – Dictée

Practice your French listening and writing skills with this A2-level dictée:

Au cirque

Note: You must be logged into your Progress with Lawless French account to do this exercise. If you don't have one, sign up - it's free!

A2 - Low-Intermediate French

Food and Drink

Au restaurant

Listen to a short, easy conversation between a waiter and two diners.

A1 - Beginning French • travel French

Listening Practice

Au Restaurant de la plage – Dictée

Practice your French listening comprehension with this B2-level dictée:

Au Restaurant de la plage

Note: You must be logged into your Progress with Lawless French account to do this exercise. If you don't have one, sign up - it's free!

B2 - Upper-Intermediate French

Listening Practice

Baby-sitter

Short conversation between a couple and their babysitter.

A2 - Low-Intermediate French

Listening Practice

Bayonne et street art

Visit the southwestern French city of Bayonne during a street art festival. B2-level video with interactive subtitles and a grammar kwiz.

B2 - Upper-Intermediate French

abbreviations		accents
adjectives		adverbs
agreement		articles
conjunctions		demonstratives
exclamations		faux amis
fillers		formalities
franglais		French in English
gender		indefinition
informalities		lesson plans
negation		nouns
plurals		politeness
possession		prefixes
prepositions		pronouns
proverbs		questions
spelling		suffixes
synonyms		travel French
verbs		word order