Sunday 15 January 2012

Great aid to speaking French

Watching French TV is one of the best ways to improve your French. You can buy a little weekly booklet called Tele Z at the Presse for 40 centimes or The Depeche on Sunday has the  programmes for that week.On a morning we tend to switch from English to French news and are always surprised how often  France tells English news but not the other way around.
We watch the local news at 7pm France3 Albi with 'sous titres,'[ sub titles] annoyingly always one step behind. Then I tend to watch a film or TV drama at 8.30pm . I try to stay away from dubbed American films of which there are a lot. If you find a french film and use the sous titres which go at the same speed as the film that works well. Keep a notebook next to you for words you did not understand and check them later. Happy viewing.