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Great site for independent listening

I have spent a fair amount of time over the years searching for good online French resources, but every now and again I come across a site that I have missed. This is one such site:

http://fr.ver-taal.com/index.htm

It has the not too catchy title Exercices de français pour étrangers, but that's what it is, so fine.It is a fully interactive site with some grammar, but the best content is the listening material which is quite extensive and includes video snippets accompanied by interactive tasks - all at advanced level.

Areas covered include songs, TV news extracts and adverts. This would be an excellent site for students to work with independently, maybe during the revision season when they ask "How do we revise listening?"

By the way, there is also a thematic vocabulary area which students may find useful.

I've no idea who produces the material; they prefer to remain anonymous.

Add it to your favourites.

Comments

  1. Stéphan17 September 2013 at 13:31

    I'd like to suggest the link to our website where we have media videos with quiz and transcript in quite the same approach as the link you suggested.

    The level is rather advanced.

    http://www.frenchplease.com

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  2. Stéphan17 September 2013 at 13:31

    I'd like to suggest the link to our website where we have media videos with quiz and transcript in quite the same approach as the link you suggested.

    The site is very new, the level is rather advanced.

    http://www.frenchplease.com

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