<p>Hello everyone, I want to know how to improve one's French listening skills? I am good when it comes to the writing and reading, etc. but when it comes to the listening part, I need some improvement on that. So can anyone help me? What would/did you do when/if you needed to improve on your listening skills, maybe not in French, but maybe in Spanish, German, Mandarin, Russian, Italian, or whatever other language you desire?</p>
<p>Listen to French radio, watch movies in French, listen to French songs, speak to French people?</p>
<p>Pretty much have to actually start applying what you know. Practice makes… perfect? In this case, yes.</p>
<p>^What they said. Listen to a wide variety of voices: different accents, male/female, young/old, etc.</p>
<p>We watch a clip from monjtquotidien each day. They’re short 2 minute clips and we listen to them like 2-3 times and understand what they say writing down key words to understand it. French TV is the best! Repetition works nicely.</p>
<p>This is something I used for French class:
[One</a> thing in a French day](<a href=“http://onethinginafrenchday.podbean.com/]One”>http://onethinginafrenchday.podbean.com/)</p>
<p>It’s a ton of podcasts in French which our teacher made us listen to and write about. It also includes the script for each podcast, which you can look at after listening to the podcast a couple times.</p>
<p>That looks neat. Thanks for posting. =)</p>
<p>AP French is killing me… it’s definitely my hardest class this year.</p>
<p>I would start listening to things in French more. But that’s just me.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the responses. I especially liked the podcast idea and it seems interesting, so thanks a lot :D</p>
<p>Having tried basically everything that was suggest above, I’d go for movies in French. If you watch a movie with French subtitles, you’ll learn better because you’ll still understand, but you’ll connect what you hear with what you read. Even better, watch a movie you know very well without subtitles. It does the same thing: you don’t have to worry about getting lost, and there’s the added bonus of you’re not reading.</p>
<p>I’ve thought of that, but never really knew any good French movies. Do you have any that you would recommend?</p>
<p>^I’ve watched Jean de Florette and its sequel, Manon des Sources in French class, and they were both really good. I also watched La Tete en Friche when I went to France. I can’t really explain it that well because I saw it in a theater with no subtitles, so I only half knew what was going on. Lol. From what I understood though, it was pretty good. I don’t know if it’s on DVD yet, though.</p>
<p>Amelie, 8 Femmes (more sickeningly hilarious than anything else), Le Diner de Cons, Paris Je T’aime, er, probably some others, but that’s all I can think of for now.</p>
<p>^I second Le Diner de Cons and Amelie! Le Diner de Cons was hilarious. Did you see the American remake with Steve Carell? I can’t remember what they called it.</p>
<p>Le Diner des Cons=Dinner with Schmucks (or something like that)</p>
<p>Good French movies: La gloire de mon pere, L’argent de poche, Les choristes, Manon des sources, Les Miserables (the modern one with English/French versions was the one I watched)</p>
<p>I watched Ponyo in French with French subtitles since I didn’t want to listen to a Cyrus and a Jonas for 90ish minutes. That taught me a lot too.</p>
<p>^Yea, it was something like that. Thanks!</p>
<p>Watch the Hunchback of Notre Dame! How Frenchy that is. lol. We watched that in French 2 or 3… I love that movie.</p>
<p>Just go and watch Disney movies with easy language and put it in French. That’s what we’ve always done. Like in Spanish in middle school, we watched Shrek… but it was dubbed in Spanish and we had Spanish subtitles.</p>
<p>Most American movies are dubbed in French.</p>