{"id":723,"date":"2018-08-30T13:31:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T20:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/?p=723"},"modified":"2018-08-30T13:31:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T20:31:21","slug":"french-podcasts-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/2018\/08\/30\/french-podcasts-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"French Podcasts for Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some podcasts which would be excellent for beginning French learners:<\/p>\n<p><strong>How Are You?<\/strong> 28min: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/cbf-1-01-how-are-you\/id263170419?i=1000163412494&amp;mt=2\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/cbf-1-01-how-are-you\/id263170419?i=1000163412494&amp;mt=2<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis podcast is from Coffee Break French, which has several seasons of podcasts for learning French for beginners. The first episode introduces the phrase \u201c\u00e7a va?\u201d and its possible responses. Although the host is non-native (and has a Scottish accent), his pronunciation is not bad. Expressions are introduced in French and English, with plenty of room to practice and repeat phrases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Alphabet<\/strong>  12min: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/5-a-look-at-the-alphabet\/id160256534?i=1000010654926&amp;mt=2\">https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/5-a-look-at-the-alphabet\/id160256534?i=1000010654926&amp;mt=2<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis Podcast, presented by Learn French by Podcast, introduces the French alphabet and pronunciation in French. The speakers use French and English to describe the pronunciation of each letter, including words which use those letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some podcasts which would be excellent for beginning French learners: How Are You? 28min: https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/cbf-1-01-how-are-you\/id263170419?i=1000163412494&amp;mt=2. This podcast is from Coffee Break French, which has several seasons of podcasts for learning French for beginners. The first episode introduces the phrase \u201c\u00e7a va?\u201d and its possible responses. Although the host is non-native (and has a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/2018\/08\/30\/french-podcasts-for-beginners\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;French Podcasts for Beginners&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,69,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginner","category-french","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}