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The Earful Tower: Paris

How to improve your French

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Arts

4.8796 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

How well do you speak French? If you're anything like me, you could probably use some improvement.

This week's guest is Camille Chevalier-Karfis, the founder of the French Today website, which teaches both traditional and modern French.

She talks about some simple tricks for how to improve your French speaking. In fact, she gives five simple tips. 

Regular listeners might remember Camille from Season Two, where she talked me through the ten hardest French words to pronounce.


This time around, she's in the studio talking about the French language in general, as well as a chat about how she learned English and a bit about how I learned French.

Camille hung around for a bonus chat for Patreon subscribers at the $1 level and above. If you're keen to hear it, find all the details here.
And if you haven't subscribed to The Earful Tower's new YouTube channel, now is the perfect time to do it!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

If it'll teller listeners, hello guys. It's Monday in Paris, and you all know what that means.

0:04.3

It means another episode of the Earful Tower, and that's a show where we figure out France

0:08.5

with the help of one guest at the time every week. And, well, when it comes to figuring out France,

0:14.6

I think you'll agree with me that one of the biggest parts to figure out is the French language. So that's what we're going to focus on today. We've got the

0:21.5

guest Camille, who is the voice and the brain behind the hit language learning website, French

0:26.4

today. And what she's doing is she's giving me and, well, she's giving us all five tips on how

0:31.9

to improve your French, whether you're good at it already, whether you're rubbish, just some

0:36.4

tips that she talks through and we

0:38.0

have a bit of a rollicking chat about how she learned English, how I learn French, and

0:43.5

you know, just in general ways that you can speak better French.

0:46.6

She was also very generous with her time and hung around for an extra 15 minutes at the

0:50.9

end for Patreon members and we had a big old discussion about the difference between

0:54.7

Voo and 2 which both mean you and you'll figure if you listen to that very quickly that I can't

1:00.8

even pronounce one of those words. Yeah so before we get started you know that we don't have

1:06.4

ads on the Eiffel Tower but one thing that we do have is Patreon supporters and just allow me a second

1:12.4

to firstly say a thank you to the 100, almost 100 people who have opted in to pay a monthly

1:18.6

subscription for this show. You guys are awesome. Thank you so much and I hope you're enjoying the bonus

1:22.4

content. But for all you other people who maybe enjoy the show, maybe want to see it flourish, maybe

1:28.5

want to help out, I would urge you to consider.

1:31.6

I wouldn't urge you, but I would suggest gently that you consider supporting on patreon.com

1:37.0

forward slash the yearful tower.

1:38.8

Where from, well, as little as a dollar a month, you can really help secure the future of

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