Lively audio lessons

La Gazette Audio is a lively monthly e-mail lesson for upper-beginner, intermediate and advanced learners.
It is based on short texts and real-life conversations about French current affairs and everyday life in France.

Level: upper-beginner to advanced.
In each lesson a new topic related to French current events or daily life to improve your vocabulary.
Short texts with essential vocabulary.
Real life conversations (not interviews) with full transcript and translation.
Formal and colloquial French.
Listen and repeat to improve your French pronunciation
Listening comprehension exercises, dictations, grammar, crosswords, etc.
Monthly subscription: US$ 5 / UK£2.80 / EUR 4
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Every month you receive an issue by e-mail. The lesson consists of a text and a conversation recorded at regular and slow speed, full transcript, translation into English, exercises and games with answer keys to develop your listening skills, vocabulary, pronunciation, spelling and grammar. You may download the lesson to study off-line.

In each issue there are: 

Recordings at slow and regular speed of a short text and a real-life conversation between two or three people, their full transcript and  translation, in addition to games and exercises.

An off-line version to download if you wish to listen to the recordings and do the activities off-line.

Activities (one or two hours of study, depending on your level in French):

• Listen to the recording, choosing between slow and regular speed. Play and pause to repeat after the speakers to improve your pronunciation.
    
   
• Do the first listening comprehension exercise ("Mais qu'est-ce qu'ils disent ?" = What are they talking about?)
  
• Study new vocabulary with the transcript and the translation where the vocabulary is highlighted. The transcript reproduces exactly what the speakers say in real-life spoken French. Spoken French is different from written French (and is hardly taught in most textbooks).
  Studying spoken French will greatly improve your listening comprehension skills.
  The equivalent in written or formal French is given.
  
• To improve your listening comprehension, as well as your spelling and grammar, do a gap fill exercise.
  
•  Each "Gazette" offers a grammar review and a grammar exercise.
  

• Play with "Mots croisés": crossword to review key words.
  
•  Finally, follow the links for further readings on the Internet.
  

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