French language podcasts

I AM a great believer in listening to the spoken word when working on improving your French language skills.

Not only does it give you a chance to hear how words are pronounced it gives you the chance to listen to actual sentences ‘in the wild’, as opposed to reading them from a book.

A French based website podblaster.net brings the latest technology, podcasting, to the language allowing you to listen wherever you like.

The site is a directory of French language podcasts, which are just recordings in a format that allows you to easily copy them to a CD or download them to an MP3 player.

So you can listen in your car to news headlines and magazine style articles, or even be building up a sweat in the gym, whilst topping up on your French.

But what is also good about the site is that if features recordings that people have put together themselves, for example, a description of a trip to Brighton.

And it is by listening to these that you get an understanding of how French is really spoken, as opposed to the flat style of a book or language CD.

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Comments

[Willow Wright]

OK, I've clicked on Podblaster.net...I agree, listening to podcasts in French would be very helpful, but I cannot find them. Podblaster.net shows a list of links to other sites, but even when I click on Podcasts in French or French Language podcasts....I just get another list of links that have to do with learning french....but no actual podcasts in French. When I scroll down and get to other links, I end up back here at This French Life and your blog about how great French podcasts would be......so around and around we go. Can anyone supply me with a URL that actually has links to actual podcasts in French?

Thanks so much. WCW

[Craig McGinty]

Hi Willow, I see what's happened there, the Podblaster site has closed since I wrote this article, I'll update it.

In the meantime there is a section on the site that draws together many of the French language resources I've written about in the past, please see:

http://www.thisfrenchlife.com/thisfrenchlife/learn_french/

All the best, Craig