Having completed the French course and now currently doing the infinite play I’ve been browsing YouTube for additional resources to build my French.
I’ve found the channel ListenEF to be quite enjoyable. It consists of short 5 minute stories repeated 3 times, first with text, then with English translation, then finally no text and no translation.
The content is probably about a 90% match with SSiF, and the stories are illustrated so you can infer from context much of the remaining 10%
Have you come across Lawless French and Quizzik I find it useful for mapping the weaknesses in my grammar. Clear explanations of grammatical points and plenty of practice exercises to reinforce them. Bon courage!
Hi here are some of the podcast and youtube channels I use:
Languatalk and InnerFrench - I listen to these on Spotify when doing other stuff. Both are at intermediate level but they speak very clearly and it’s possible to follow.
These have various videos from A1 to advances and use the comprehensible input principle.
For a channel which discusses more specifically grammar/ how the language works I use: Guillaume Posé - Professeur de français - YouTube
It’s all in French but he explains things very well
I quite like ‘Français avec Pierre’ on YouTube. He has different levels and speaks more slowly in the beginning ones, and usually there’s a transcript as well.
Hmmm, difficult to judge. My listening skills aren’t anywhere near my speaking skills yet so a two way conversation would be difficult for me at the moment.
With a patience French speaking friend or colleague I’ve been happy to give it a go.
Keep an eye out for delivery people from Burkina Faso. I had a very quick French exchange with one this morning, after I heard him answer “D’accord” when I offered to take a neighbour’s delivery, and he picked that I’m not Spanish. We were both quite happy with the unexpected opportunity.
Those random interactions are always great confidence boosters. I need a refresher but when I was practicing Spanish a lot it was often in the most unlikely places you’d get chance to speak it.
