Here’s how to do it, for those who are not at a high level of understanding French.
At first viewing of a French movie it can just sound like a mix of burble and machine-gun chatter, if you are at a early level of learning French.
Then with your Franco and dictionary you can transcribe the parts of the French movie that you did not understand. Franco will help you with:
Anyway, get yourself and Franco a drink and start watching movies for your homework.
1) Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain: a happy French movie
2) Les visiteurs: Back to the future à la française!
3)Le Pere Noel est une ordure: Funny French film
4) Le grand bleu: a French spectacle movie - un film à grand spectacle
5) La Grande Vadrouille: Historical French comedy flick
6) “Les Bronzés”: Modern French Comedy film
7) Les bronzes font du ski: More French movie laughs
8) Le diner de con: More French Movie fun
9) Taxi: Movie action - a la française!
10) Alvin et les chipmunks
- Get the DVD or video of your choice. Amazon has loads of them. You are best doing this at home because they tend to be unwilling to stop movies at the local cinema.
- Get a pen and paper or your laptop.
- Get your French-English dictionary.
- Most French DVD's now have sub-titles in English so you can start out with these on, and turn them off on later viewings.
- Ideally get your French teacher or a friend who is fluent in French and English. Let’s call him/her Franco, because he/she is a Francophone.
- Be patient.
At first viewing of a French movie it can just sound like a mix of burble and machine-gun chatter, if you are at a early level of learning French.
Then with your Franco and dictionary you can transcribe the parts of the French movie that you did not understand. Franco will help you with:
- spelling,
- understanding the slang and colloquialisms, the regional twists and the inevitable double entendres, and plays on words.
- unravelling the speedy speech and translating it into the French that your text book has…
- will explain the humour and subtleties which can often go sailing over your head.
Anyway, get yourself and Franco a drink and start watching movies for your homework.
1) Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain: a happy French movie
2) Les visiteurs: Back to the future à la française!
3)Le Pere Noel est une ordure: Funny French film
4) Le grand bleu: a French spectacle movie - un film à grand spectacle
5) La Grande Vadrouille: Historical French comedy flick
6) “Les Bronzés”: Modern French Comedy film
7) Les bronzes font du ski: More French movie laughs
8) Le diner de con: More French Movie fun
9) Taxi: Movie action - a la française!
10) Alvin et les chipmunks