Allan Milne Lees
1 min readAug 20, 2020

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A nice list, Gabi. Perhaps we can also add France24, streamed live every day. The presenters speak in well-accented French and slowly enough that an early-phase beginner will be able to hear everything clearly. Likewise for beginners, YouTube has an assortment of cartoon series like TinTin and Asterix where, again, the vocab is simple and the speech is slow enough for a beginner to hear clearly. Once we're at intermediate level, it's possible to find online a wealth of French texts ranging from novels to history. For contemporary vocab and moeurs the novels of Aurelie Valognes are a breeze and the guaranteed happy endings will please many. I'd also suggest beginners/intermediate folk stay clear of Canadian French as the accent is atrocious to the ears of French people and a lot of the vocab and grammar differs from "French French" in the same way US English differs wildly from British English.

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

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Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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