Day One French | Beginner News-Focused French Course
by LinguaWire · 20 episodes
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French Day One is a 20-episode beginner French podcast for absolute beginners who want to understand slow French news. No prior French is needed.Visit https://linguawire.com/dayone/french for all learning materials and homework to test your knowledge. --- In five minutes a day, learn the essential French words, verbs, phrases, grammar patterns, and listening skills you need to start listening to our main podcast - LinguaWire A1 French News. In that feed, we post a new episode every day discussing the latest real news stories in simple A1 French. -- This podcast is perfect for learners who...
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Episode 2 — The prime minister has two children and lives in the capital
Episode two of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Today you learn the verb avoir (to have), the apostrophe that welds j'ai into a single sound, the family words, and yesterday'…
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Episode 3 — The government, the police and the army are on the streets
Episode three of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. The day every French learner remembers: the words for 'the'. You'll meet le, la and les, plus l', the apostrophe French uses…
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Episode 4 — More than ten thousand people are at the demonstration
Episode four of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. News is obsessed with counting, today you unlock the big numbers: cent, mille, dix mille. And you meet the most gloriously ma…
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Episode 5 — The doctors and the teachers are on strike today
Episode five of Day One French, with Louis and Claire, the week-one finale. Today: fifteen professions, the silent plural (ten doctors sound exactly like one, the article does all…
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Episode 6 — The election is on Sunday and the polls are very close
Episode six of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Week two begins: one news domain a day, starting with the biggest, politics. Today: the election, the word-family trick (learn…
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Episode 7 — It is forty degrees in the south and there is no rain
Episode seven of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Every news broadcast on earth ends the same way, the weather. Today: it is forty degrees (French says 'it makes forty degree…
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Episode 8 — The trains are full and the airport is closed
Episode eight of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Transport chaos is a news perennial, today you learn the trains, the station, the airport, open and closed, plus a name-chec…
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Episode 9 — Prices are high and people have less money
Episode nine of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. The story that never leaves the front page: the cost of living. Today: prices, money, more and less, expensive and its very F…
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Episode 10 — The French national team plays tonight in front of 80,000 fans
Episode ten of Day One French, with Louis and Claire, you're halfway! Sport closes every bulletin: today you learn l'équipe de France, Les Bleus, to play, to win, to lose, the matc…
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Episode 11 — The minister says: bread and milk are more expensive this year
Episode eleven of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Week three is the verb week, and it opens with the single most-used verb in French news: dire, to say. Plus the news colon,…
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Episode 12 — Thousands of people are coming to France for the festival
Episode twelve of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. People moving, to festivals, to borders, to safety, is half the news. Today: venir and aller, the map of the world, nationa…
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Episode 13 — The summit begins on Monday and ends on Friday
Episode thirteen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Every news story is pinned to a date. Today: the seven days of the week, Monday is the moon's day, Tuesday belongs to Mar…
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Episode 14 — In the north there is no electricity and the schools are not open
Episode fourteen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Bad news is news, and bad news is full of negatives. Today's quirk is the most French piece of grammar so far: the negati…
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Episode 15 — Who is the new minister and what does she want?
Episode fifteen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire, the week-three finale. News exists to answer questions, so today you get the question kit: qui, que, où, quand, pourquoi,…
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Episode 16 — The president said yesterday: the war is over
Episode sixteen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Final week. News is mostly about things that already happened, so today you learn to recognise the French past: avoir plus…
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Episode 17 — An earthquake hit the region in the night
Episode seventeen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. A milestone: your first full two-sentence news story, exactly as breaking news is written. Today: the earthquake, un tre…
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Episode 18 — The company is going to build a new factory and create 3,000 jobs
Episode eighteen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire. Yesterday the past, today the future, and in French the future is just going: aller plus a verb in its dictionary form. P…
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Episode 19 — The prime minister in Washington
Episode nineteen of Day One French, with Louis and Claire, the penultimate episode. Headlines don't speak full French; they speak telegram: the verb deleted, the heavy words left s…
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Episode 20 — Graduation: your first French news bulletin
The Day One French finale, with Louis and Claire. Graduation day: a full French news bulletin, election, heatwave, strike, sport, built entirely from the last twenty days, read twi…
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Episode 1 — The new president is 62 years old
Day One French takes you from absolute zero to listening to news in simple French — including our A1 news podcast, LinguaWire A1 Daily French News — in four weeks. Twenty episodes,…