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Learn French with the news

Real French radio reports from France Inter, France Culture and franceinfo, TV news clips and a press article, each turned into a guided listening lesson with the words as they were spoken.

Version française

The news is the French you need to live in France: the same words come back every day, and you already know the story from your own news, so you can follow more than your level suggests.

A1 · beginner

A2 · elementary

B1 · intermediate

B2 · upper intermediate

How a lesson works

  1. Watch or listenThe real scene, song or report, with French subtitles or the transcript beside it.
  2. UnderstandHover any French word for its English. The words worth knowing are picked out for you.
  3. PractiseQuestions on what you just heard, and one grammar point explained step by step.

Teaching French?

Every lesson here can be sent to a student in one click, with its homework. Parisly also turns today's news into a ready-to-teach lesson in about 30 seconds.

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