Duolingo French Podcasts

SweNedGuy · Post by **SweNedGuy** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 2:21 pm

Since June 2019 Duolingo has been publishing French Podcasts for intermediary speakers.

A narrator is introducing the story in English, while he protagonist is talking French, at a reduced speed and well pronounced.
As of today, 65 episodes have been published, the latest one on March 22.

Enjoy listening.

dakanga · Post by **dakanga** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 9:31 pm

I agree with you !

One of my favorites is : viewtopic.php?t=1977-lupin-so-much-more ... r-learning

I also love it that Duolingo has the transcript as well.

That story is a great one - about the 2020 Vendée Globe
And you can listen to other videos as well on that https://www.vendeeglobe.org/en ; being here : https://www.vendeeglobe.org/en/web-tv
Thanks for sharing this [mention]SweNedGuy[/mention]

Had you heard of the Vendée Globe before this ?

dakanga · Post by **dakanga** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 9:36 pm

I wonder how you could add to , for example that resource to make it even more of a class resource ?

dakanga · Post by **dakanga** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 9:40 pm

Some ideas of resources

can people recommend some others ?

dakanga · Post by **dakanga** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 10:11 pm

Could someone be interested in assisting in making word lists in French, either from words from the podcast,
or for this topic - being about sailing.

And perhaps we as a community could create some puzzles.

One site that looks interesting is : https://www.puzzlefast.com/
Though I have not yet run it through its paces.
Do people have some other recommendations, ideas, for making puzzles on a topic like this ?

dakanga · Post by **dakanga** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 10:30 pm

sigh - https://www.puzzlefast.com/ will not do, as it does now allow characters from the French language with accent marks like ë é

So I will need to keep looking .....

SweNedGuy · Post by **SweNedGuy** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 11:22 pm

Mots-croisés faciles pour débutants (mais probablement pour débutants francophones; je ne crois pas y arriver facilement)

Mots croisés

Jeu du pendu (Hangman). Lorsque tu mets 'e', il t' ajoute les accents nécessaires. Pas insurmontable!

Jeu du pendu

dakanga · Post by **dakanga** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 11:32 pm

Merci ! C'est fantastique !

SweNedGuy · Post by **SweNedGuy** » Sat Apr 30, 2022 4:58 pm

https://motsbleus.pages-informatique.co ... BA012.html

Censé être le plus facile. Oui mais. La dernière parôle horizontale est 'potables', ce qui ne correspond pas à la déscripption de téléphones mobiles. Il y manque la 'r'. Tel qu' écrit, c'est un adjectif comme dans 'eaux potables'.

vero-bis · Post by **vero-bis** » Sat Apr 30, 2022 5:22 pm

En effet ! ça devrait être "portable", mais ça ne marche pas avec le reste, ou plutôt "portables" mais ça ne rentre pas !

Madame Sensei · Post by **Madame Sensei** » Sat Apr 30, 2022 11:34 pm

dakanga wrote: ↑Fri Apr 29, 2022 9:36 pm
I wonder how you could add to , for example that resource to make it even more of a class resource ?

Hello, my dear friend daKanga!

I have been slowly recording the episodes with pictures. Here is an example, which I put on my YouTube channel. As much as possible, I tried to use Duolingo pictures (Many of which you helped me collect ), but some of the pictures probably have copywright problems... I am using them for educational purposes, so I hope it is okay.

Duolingo has made available some study guides for educators. I have my students write sentence fragments in the listening comprehension section, because I know what it is like on the AP French exam: The student starts to write, and says, "Hey! I know that word!" and then as the student writes the word, they hear a word from the next sentence, and they say, "Hey! I know that word!!" But then the first word flutters out of their brain. So I am trying this as a way to train them for a harder listening exercice.

Recapping: I have the students write the sentence fragments on one page, and then after the podcast is over, I have them re-write their sentence fragments into whole sentences on a separate page. That is working pretty well.

My French 2 students (French 2, which is really French 1 1/2 because of the crazy year we had last year...) are a little frustrated: They realize that they would not be able to follow the podcast without the visual aids. But they don't want to try it without the visual aids yet.

Any other educators on here who would like to collaborate on this project?

Madame Sensei · Post by **Madame Sensei** » Sat Apr 30, 2022 11:36 pm

dakanga wrote: ↑Fri Apr 29, 2022 10:11 pm
Could someone be interested in assisting in making word lists in French, either from words from the podcast,
or for this topic - being about sailing.

And perhaps we as a community could create some puzzles.

One site that looks interesting is : https://www.puzzlefast.com/
Though I have not yet run it through its paces.
Do people have some other recommendations, ideas, for making puzzles on a topic like this ?

I found a couple on Quizlet. Search for Duolingo Podcast. Here is an example: https://quizlet.com/_8htmve?x=1jqt&i=2qv9di. I was only able to find four total. I may make some of my own. Anybody want to help?

SweNedGuy · Post by **SweNedGuy** » Sun May 01, 2022 12:47 am

Il y a la transcription. Cela peut servir pour une liste de vocabulaire. Les verbes ne seront pas à l'infiinif, mais soit.

dakanga · Post by **dakanga** » Tue May 03, 2022 4:43 am

I have also been made aware of this resource that is made available by Duolingo - to assist learning through podcasts :

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14Qg ... CnkII-pzfg

dakanga · Post by **dakanga** » Thu May 12, 2022 1:26 am

Also to note, our Madame Sensei has published many other resources, some you can check out here :

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXHEK- ... O5avtqEkmQ

It continues to be an honor to work with creating further resources for language learning.

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