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Category Archives: Advanced
French Pronunciation: A Good Address
Improve your speech, eliminate your accent or simply get entertained. Continue reading »
Subjunctive or Conditional?
Which one to use when? Some help. Continue reading »
Reading Practice: Mother Earth, Sister Moon…
Test your reading comprehension here. Continue reading »
Listening Practice: Police Brutality In Montreal
Today’s listening practice is better suited for intermediate to advanced learners. It is a Radio-Canada story about a recent incident in Montreal involving a policewoman chocking a man, then using disrespectful language while reporting the intervention to her superior… a “private”conversation which later found itself on Youtube as the phones she had confiscated recorded it. The story made … Continue reading »
Reading Practice: For The Fashionably Inclined
This reading practice is better suited for intermediates to advanced, as well as anyone with an interest in clothes and fashion. Continue reading »
Listening Practice: Detroit: L’agriculture reprend ses droits
Today’s listening practice is better suited to intermediate to advanced levels. It is a 13 minutes long videoclip from the Canadian TV show “La semaine verte”. There are three steps to this practice: some vocabulary to help you with comprehension; viewing the video itself; and a 10 question quiz to verify your comprehension. . Bonne … Continue reading »
Expect The Best
Say it with flair. Continue reading »
Listening Practice: Le roi et l’oiseau PART 2
Part two of this wonderful French film. Continue reading »
Listening: Will Indie Music Reconcile The Two Solitudes? WITH TRANSCRIPT
Another great documentary on Dimanche magazine, about Montreal’s music scene and how it is bringing together francophones and anglophones in the most unexpected ways. Culture has always been vibrant in Montreal, but the two main linguistic groups were never really in communication, evolving alongside each other as if the other didn’t exist. This phenomena is … Continue reading »