Get ready for immersion – use a new language to express yourself and understand someone else.
Listen to the conversation, follow along with the interactive transcripts, and you will be amazed to discover that you know more French than you think!
We offer various subscription levels to meet your needs, from an audio-only podcast to a rigorous educational course including interactive transcripts, grammar and expressions lessons, grammar quizzes and pronunciation.
See for yourself if our program is right for you! Our free demo episode will give you a sense of what we offer without having to sign up for anything.
Not quite there yet? We’ll help you get up to speed. Check out our Get Up to Speed (G.U.T.S.) program.
Ready for more? Try a change of pace. This program takes you to the next level of immersion. It’s a collaboration of French writers, journalists, and linguists bringing you a mix of cultural insights, opinions, in-depth news analysis in real everyday French.
- You don’t have to register to navigate the entire site or try our demos.
- Subscription packages and prices are clearly outlined.
- We are proud to be entirely funded by the support of our subscribers and we do not accept corporate sponsorship.
- No automatic renewals! We consider it to be a bad practice.
News In Slow French is an essential part of my studies. My teacher is impressed by the improvement in my command of the French language since I found your site.
For a number of years I have struggled trying to learn French. After much effort with every manner of home study course and with private tutors, I managed to become fairly fluent reading, writing and speaking French. But, after saying something appropriate and intelligent (I think), I would not understand a word of the response and there went my French conversation. I simply could not understand the spoken French with all it's "glidings", "slurs", and rapid fire rat-a-tat-tat.
Then I happened upon "news in slow french". At my age, I no longer believe in over night miracles, but I do believe I've found a way around my problem hearing French. The slower speed is allowing me to comprehend more of the spoken language. No matter how many times I'd listen to a recording of a Frenchman speaking at his normal speed, I'd never understand what he had said. Now I'm beginning to grasp what I previously was missing by listening at a slower speed.
I wanted to say how great news in slow french is. I've been struggling for years to learn french and I'm still struggling to speak! I've tried different programs and while they were all ok, nothing is as good as news in slow french. Before I would download the weekly podcast and listen and 50% of the time zone out because I didn't understand half of it. Since signing up for a subscription and viewing the complete transcript of the conversations, it makes such a difference. It is so worth it. Reading the transcripts forces you to focus and you're not missing words. It really improves your vocabulary learning new words and structures of sentences. Listening to it over and over and reading the transcript at the same time really works.
The dialogues are very entertaining and I'm enjoying it a lot. Highly recommend.
Thanks,