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When you're talking to someone outside the homeland, the first step is finding out which language you can both speak well enough to be able to communicate with as little hand signals and exaggerated facial gestures as possible. In today's podcast, we travel to a Moroccan bazaar where we have a lesson on foreign languages and learn how to say in French which ones you speak and how well.
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billkaulitzlover says
July 14, 2008
Amaury, vous parlez l'espagnol couramment aussi?!!. Dónde aprendiste a hablarlo? Cuánto tiempo te tomó aprenderlo? ça c'est ma langue maternelle. :)
Erica, Arabe votre prochaine langue à apprendre?! Bonne Chance on learning it haha! :) ça langue semble très très difficile. Mais l'arabe est une langue très importante . :)
I wonder how many and which languages the Frenchpod listeners can speak fluently....
amaurylibeer says
July 14, 2008
Salut eruworld,
Oui je parle espagnol couramment aussi (j'ai quand même besoin d'écouter SpanishPod!). C'est une langue que j'apprécie énormément. Je l'ai apprise à l'université et et au cours de voyages en Espagne (je n'ai jamais eu la chance de me rendre en Amérique latine). Pour me débrouiller en espagnol, il m'a fallu deux ans de cours mais ensuite, lorsque j'ai passé cinq mois à Madrid et à Pamplona, j'ai vraiment appris autant que durant les deux années d'étude.
Espero ir de vacaciones de pronto en un país hispanohablante para practicar.
Hi eruworld,
Yes I speak Spanish fluently too (I still need to listen to SpanishPod though!). It is a language I like a lot. I learnt it at university and during travels in Spain (I never got the chance to go to Latin America). To be able to speak Spanish, it took me two years of classes, but then, when I spent five months in Madrid and Pamplona, I learnt as much as during the two years classes.
I hope to go on holiday soon in a country where people speak Spanish so I can practice.
bosbos11 says
July 14, 2008
i am speak english and arabic.because i am egyptian i am doing my best to learn french so it could be my third lanuage.i am living in canada which is english/french country
pinkjeans says
July 15, 2008
Je suis penta-lingue, mais pas couramment en tous. Je communique le mieux en anglais. Ma langue maternelle est cantonais, et je connais aussi malai. Maintenant, j'apprends mandarin (avec Chinesepod, bien sur!) et toujours français.
Quand j'ai habité à Doubai pendant deux ans, je n'ai pas arrivé à apprendre arabe, sauf les chiffres et quelques phrases touristiques. Je trouve qu'arabe est assez difficile, mais je pense que c'est peut-être plus facile pour les francophones naturelles parce que les deux langues utilisent beaucoup des tons nasillards. L'écriture n'est pas aussi difficile que celui du chinois parce qu'il emploie l'alphabet. Peut-être ça sera ma sixième langue...
ericat says
July 15, 2008
Whoa, pinkjeans, quelle polyglotte! Bravo!
ericat says
July 15, 2008
Bonjour, eruworld! I've always been fascinated with la culture et la langue arabe. It would be so fun to learn how to pronounce those interesting sounds. Thanks for the bonne chance :)
And that was a great question to find out from the FrenchPod listeners...Alors, quelles langues parlez-vous couramment?
If French is your first foreign language, it would also be interesting to know:
Quelle est votre langue maternelle (what is your native language)?
hwaboon says
July 15, 2008
Ma langue maternelle est l'italienne et je parle aussi l'anglais couramment.
pinkjeans, wow! so many languages!
anugrah says
July 16, 2008
I speak English, and I would say Upper Intermediate Indonesian. I live in NYC, USA and my parents are Indonesian. Learning French will make it my third language if i can master it. I can speak Malay if I want to, because it isn't that hard to learn if you know one of the languages. But it is harder to learn Malay- Indonesian rather than British English- American English.
rashlien says
July 17, 2008
Ma langue maternelle est l'anglais. Je parle un peu de français et un peu de l'espagnol. J’utilise mon espagnol plus a ma travail. Je veux pouvoir parler le chine, l’allemand, et le russe aussi. J’espère voyager à l’avenir, mais pour maintenant je vis délégué par d’autres.
My first language is english. I speak a little french and a little spanish. I use my spanish mostly at my work. I want to speak chinese, german and russian also. I hope to travel in the future, but for now I live vicarously through others.
spanishlearners says
July 18, 2008
Arabic Mother tongue, English second, Spanish (elementary), French (Lower Newbee). Trying to learn Italian and Chinese(Lower Lower Newbee). If anyone want to learn a bit of Arabic just feel free to ask.
ericat says
July 19, 2008
I might take you up on that someday, spanishleaners :)
That's great that you have un travail where you can parler une langue étrangère, Rebecca!
croft says
September 15, 2008
i think i really like these French Pods, cause it really helps me to speak the language. and its a cool language to speak it.
naz_saim786 says
September 18, 2008
I WAN TO LEARN TO TALK & WRIET IN FRENCH
christela says
September 18, 2008
Hi naz_saim786!
If you want to learn how to speak and write French, the FrenchPod website can be of great help! With the dialogues and podcasts, the audio review of the new vocabulary for each lesson, you will learn spoken French and assimilate paterns and new words easily as well as improve your listening comprehension.
And with the transcripts of the dialogues, the expansion section and the exercises for each lesson, you will learn written French, improve your reading and writing!
We wish everyone all the best in their French studies!
yamiurw says
September 30, 2008
I speak Spanish, Hebrew and English fluently.
I was born in Argentina, now I live in Israel and in a few months I'll be in Switerland for a year (in Geneva so I'm learning French). I'd like to learn German too!
ericat says
September 30, 2008
Bonjour, yamiurw, and bonne chance with your French studies!
sweetyboy8 says
October 7, 2008
what i really like in these site is useful words and communcate with other partner.
amaurylibeer says
October 7, 2008
Merci beaucoup pour ton commentaire sweetyboy8.
francophile says
November 14, 2008
thanks
ericat says
November 14, 2008
De rien, francophile!
alse45 says
November 16, 2008
je parle l'espagnol, ma langue maternelle, l'anglais et un petit peu le français. :)
amaurylibeer says
November 19, 2008
On dirait que tu parles déjà bien le français alse45. Quel est ton niveau? De quel pays hispanophone viens-tu?
makmak says
November 28, 2008
I like this lesson. I'm from Morocco but I don't speak French. I'm learning French everyday with Frenchpod.
Thanks ^^
Amin
penhui says
December 31, 2008
<i>I wonder how many and which languages the Frenchpod listeners can speak fluently....</i>
Seulement anglais, malheureusement (?).
Using this page as a guideline,
http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/november/learningExpectations.html, I'm keeping track of my hours of language learning. I started in August, as though I were just beginning each language and so far have logged 178 hours of Mandarin, 17 hours of Spanish (though I have three years of high school Spanish and one year of college Spanish), and 6 hours of French.
I think I have a way to go before I'm fluent in any of them. 8-D
dyanne says
January 1, 2009
I really want to learn other language and I hope that french will be one of them
amenassie2002 says
January 4, 2009
Hi there!
I'm Amon from Houston, Texas. I just subscribed for Frenchpod and I kinda like it, but I studied French back in Africa in a French school for a couple of summer so many years ago, but still my problem is with Vocabulary and I think I'm in need of more intense and more advanced lessons. What should I do in your opinion? You have no idea how much I love French and the people too . Take care.
amaurylibeer says
January 4, 2009
Bonjour Amon et bienvenue à FrenchPod,
Since you can take advantage of the seven days free trial, we suggest you listen to some of the higher level lessons -elementary, intermediate, upper intermediate, advanced or advanced media- and see which level is more appropriate to you. You will be free then to subscribe to a 1 month or 6 months basic subscription (for instance) that will give you access to all the FrenchPod lessons. You can get more information on the different subscriptions in the 'Help Subscription Information' section. We are happy to hear you love French and we want you to progress.
If you have any query, don't hesitate to contact us.
A bientôt
ladysnow says
May 26, 2009
i dont speak french but iwant to learn
amaurylibeer says
May 27, 2009
Bonjour ladysnow et bienvenue à FrenchPod.
We would advise you to listen to all the newbie lessons.
Good luck with your French studies
jojo12345 says
June 14, 2009
This helped me pass an exam
amaurylibeer says
June 15, 2009
Salut jojo12345,
Nous sommes vraiment contents de cela.
We're really happy of that.
Merci de nous le faire savoir.
Thanks for let us know.
christinei says
6 days ago
I have never learned a language before this, and I'm finding it hard to think about being fluent in multiple languages! What language do you think in???
amaurylibeer says
4 days ago
Salut christinei,
If you've never learned a language before, it's better to focus on one language than thinking about being fluent in multiple languages. When you start learning a new language, you shouldn't think about being fluent straightaway, I think. You'll find out there's already so much pleasure being able to speak the basics.
Personally, I think in French and English, depending on the language I'm using so I would say it's 50/50.
Good luck with your French studies. If you have any query, don't hesitate to contact us.