Miscellaneous extracts with text - Archive 1
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France 2 screened Home last Friday. A very beautiful film, and particularly good for students practising at this level. The voice (I think of Jacques Gambin) is neutral, level, moderately paced. But note that the content is more complex, and more literary than that of a news report, and so more difficult |
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A nice documentary on Concorde with an actress doing the voice-over. A little harder because the voice uses some of the short-cuts that you hear in everyday spoken French. But it is still very clear. |
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I include this clip to demonstrate that the difficulty of an extract is as much to do with content as with pronunciation or speed of delivery. The voices in this philosophical discussion are clear and moderately-paced. But the content is very difficult to follow the first time you hear it. |
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We have had this extract from a documentary on the Parisian police during the Occupation before, but not with the text. No comment is needed... |
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Here is George Marchais, the celebrated communist leader. Clips are often screened to raise a smile. But he was a bully, and I was happy to see, at the end of this extract, Lionel Jospin get the better of him. |
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Le grand journal of Michel Denisot. Chat shows are an source of colloquial French, although the content, as here, is often mind-numbingly horrid. |
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Here is an extract from Noblesse Oblige, the French title of the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. The Edwardian style and sound quality make it less than simple to follow. The actress who does Sibella catches perfectly the sound of the voice of Joan Greenwood |
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This is Bloc-Notes, the cultural moment in
the breakfast show Télé-Matin
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For our top two places we first have Roland Magdane in La visite de Paris. A very thick accent, and some vocabulary to add to your list of things not to say when visiting France. |
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Finally this week, Fabrice Luchini. A favourite clip from the book show La grande librairie where two writers nearly came to blows, and Luchini intervenes with Moliere. |