French Songs/Podcasts??

geography!

Hey!
Does anyone know of any useful french songs/podcasts that could help with the Oral??
Thanks!

007driver

http://www.youtube.com/user/lsfrench?feature=watch

this channel has a lot of videos thats helpful. well for me anyway

geography!

Thanks so much!

Canard

Coeur de Pirate:
Printemps, Comme Des Enfants, Adieu, Francis

Yelle:
Safari Disco Club, Comme Un Enfant, À Cause Des Garcons, Je Veux Te Voir

Marie-Mai:
La Prochaine Fois, C.O.B.R.A. (a real favourite of mine :P), Sans Cri Ni Haine

Simple Plan:
Jet Lag (ft Marie-Mai for the French version )

Carla Bruni - Quelqu'un M'a Dit

These songs are all excellent imo and if you listen to them, look up the lyrics and not even learn them off but just be aware of them, then you'll learn SO many new words, so many constructions to help you with writing, and you'll be used to hearing words spoken quickly together so the aural becomes so easy! I can't stress how easy French becomes when you do this, sorry, I just get a little excited. :pac:

geography!

Thanks a million! Will give them a shot!

ScummyMan

Patchy~ wrote: »

Coeur de Pirate:
Printemps, Comme Des Enfants, Adieu, Francis

Yelle:
Safari Disco Club, Comme Un Enfant, À Cause Des Garcons, Je Veux Te Voir

Marie-Mai:
La Prochaine Fois, C.O.B.R.A. (a real favourite of mine :P), Sans Cri Ni Haine

Simple Plan:
Jet Lag (ft Marie-Mai for the French version )

Carla Bruni - Quelqu'un M'a Dit

These songs are all excellent imo and if you listen to them, look up the lyrics and not even learn them off but just be aware of them, then you'll learn SO many new words, so many constructions to help you with writing, and you'll be used to hearing words spoken quickly together so the aural becomes so easy! I can't stress how easy French becomes when you do this, sorry, I just get a little excited. :pac:

Sorry to butt in, but I hear a lot of people saying that listening to French music is a great way to tune your ear to French. Stupid question, how do you actually do this? :L
Like, do you follow the lyrics when your listening or what? I downloaded a song or two from Coeurdepirate the other day and tried listening to them, but I ended up totally lost without a clue what was going on in the song :pac:
So do you translate in your head as its playing or just listen?

Thanks!

Canard

Man.UnitedLad wrote: »

Sorry to butt in, but I hear a lot of people saying that listening to French music is a great way to tune your ear to French. Stupid question, how do you actually do this? :L
Like, do you follow the lyrics when your listening or what? I downloaded a song or two from Coeurdepirate the other day and tried listening to them, but I ended up totally lost without a clue what was going on in the song :pac:
So do you translate in your head as its playing or just listen?

Thanks!

Haha dont worry, its perfectly normal to be lost when you dont look at the lyrics!

What I generally do is listen to the song to see if I like how it sounds (no point listening to music you dont like), then look up the lyrics in French and listen again to see what I know, then look up words I don't know. It's handy because if, for example, it was something like "running along the hill" and you knew what "running" and "along" were, you'll learn the word "the hill" effortlessly because you'll hear it and know from the English lyrics that it means hill.

There are a lot of words in the songs I listen to that I don't actually know, its impossible to learn them all right away, but if you keep the English translation in mind while listening then youll learn it. My method sounds kind of tedious when I read over it, maybe it is for some, I just enjoyed it because I love French So to summarise:

1. Listen to the song (even if you wont understand it)
2. Look up the French lyrics. See what you understand.
3. Translate the words you don't know and keep them in mind.
4. Listen to the song as many times as you like
5. Learn loads of French

ScummyMan

Thanks a lot, that's a great help.

NegativeCreep

This. She's hot and the tune is great.

ella.cole

Omg thanks guys so much for posting these! These will really help with my french!

kingcobra

Look up Sexion D'Assaut and their songs maybe specifically Ça Chuchote...it's rap and so it mightn't be to your taste but if you can understand that you can get by ANYTHING! :P

Dietsquirt

Sniper - Grave dans la roche

straight up gangster rap:p

007driver

kingcobra wrote: »

Look up Sexion D'Assaut and their songs maybe specifically Ça Chuchote...it's rap and so it mightn't be to your taste but if you can understand that you can get by ANYTHING! :P

Canard

Cant believe I forgot this one - most of the ones I listed I found during the summer, but this was one I found before my leaving cert, and it's definitely one of the best. :P

little sis...

I find these podcasts helpful


http://www.francaisauthentique.com/

ChemHickey

Also, TAL "le sens de la vie" and Emmanuel Moire "Mon essentiel" are also very good.

But yeah. Sexion d'Assaut "Ma Direction" is a great French rap song! So catchy and the French is not too hard either :P

ella.cole

Patchy~ wrote: »

Cant believe I forgot this one - most of the ones I listed I found during the summer, but this was one I found before my leaving cert, and it's definitely one of the best. :P

I have a french oral test tomorrow, hopefully this will help me

Canard

Hopefully! Just make sure to manipulate the sentences...I said something last year like "il faut sors un peu de sa bulle" instead of sortir, my teacher was like wtf fix that :pac:

ella.cole

Patchy~ wrote: »

Hopefully! Just make sure to manipulate the sentences...I said something last year like "il faut sors un peu de sa bulle" instead of sortir, my teacher was like wtf fix that :pac:

lol! Im currently learning my document so i'll make sure of that when i'm preparing for the general convo!

Suil Eile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF5etHMRMMM and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FlfZrMfvd4 are great songs from BB Brunes. Some of their older stuff isn't great but their recent album is pure gold, check it out.

Also, you can't go wrong with Alors On Danse.

Oh lord, Sexion D'assaut are fine music but good luck picking up much french from them. :P

Here's a good site for podcasts too. http://www.lemouv.fr/podcasts

007driver

anyone find any new songs. Need something new , listen to the others too much

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Theres two if anyones interested.

Canard

These are both great! I haven't actually looked for translations really because I've been lazy, but bits of them aren't too hard to understand, particularly the first one.

ViveLaVie

Stromae is brilliant. He's Belgian but a native French speaker. Alors on danse obviously and I also love the remix House'ellujah.

oryxandcrake

Roller Girl-Anna Karina

C'est le temps de l'amour-Francoise Hardy