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LanguaTalk Slow French: Learn French With Gaëlle | French podcast for A2-B1
Hosted by LanguaTalk.com · FR
Learn French with Gaëlle, an experienced French teacher.
99% in French and designed for students with a basic level (A2) or lower intermediate (B1). Gaëlle speaks slowly to make it easier to understand. If you have an intermediate level, you can always increase the playback speed in your app.
Each week, you’ll improve your French whilst also learning about French culture, society, history, and much more.
Go to LanguaTalk.com/frenchpod to read an interactive transcript of each episode as you listen. This will help you follow along and allow you to study the sentences.
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Les verbes rendre et arriver
3w ago00:20:07Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Gaelle explains the different meanings of those two verbs - which she often hears being misused by her students. If you want to learn how to say “it makes me so happy”, “I can’t do it!”, and “I’ve realised”, this episode is for you.Check out Langua, a cutting-edge AI platform to help you become fluent in French: https://languatalk.com/ai-french-tutor?via=gaelleClaim your free trial, and if you like it, save 20% on the annual unlimited plan with code FRENCH20.You can find an interactive transcript for this episode on Langua, and you can see the vocab list here: https://languatalk.com/blog/podcast/french?via=frenchpodLooking to learn French fast with a tutor like Gaëlle? Meet a tutor for a free trial session.
Transcribe →Interview avec Baptiste (part 2) - Journalisme de solutions
Apr 1000:18:40Tap to summarizeIn this episode, the second part of our interview with Baptiste, we left the field of traditional journalism to explore a different approach: solution journalism. After years of terrible experiences working for 24h news channels, Baptiste created his own media channel to be an actor of a positive and necessary change.Check out Langua, a cutting-edge AI platform to help you become fluent in French: https://languatalk.com/ai-french-tutor?via=gaelleClaim your free trial, and if you like it, save 20% on the annual unlimited plan with code FRENCH20.You can find an interactive transcript for this episode on Langua, and you can see the vocab list here: https://languatalk.com/blog/podcast/french?via=frenchpod
Transcribe →Interview avec Baptiste (part 1) - être journaliste
Mar 1900:29:50Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Gaelle interviews Baptiste, a French journalist. In this first of a 2-part series, Baptiste talks us through the reality behind the camera: the long hours, the poor work conditions, the exhaustion and the emotional drain. Absolutely enlightening for anyone who isn’t working in that profession.Check out Langua, a cutting-edge AI platform to help you become fluent in French: https://languatalk.com/ai-french-tutor?via=gaelleClaim your free trial, and if you like it, save 20% on the annual unlimited plan with code FRENCH20.You can find an interactive transcript for this episode on Langua, and you can see the vocab list here: https://languatalk.com/blog/podcast/french?via=frenchpodLooking to learn French fast with a tutor like Gaëlle? Meet a tutor for a free trial session.
Transcribe →Le palais idéal du facteur Cheval
Feb 2600:27:17Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Gaëlle takes you to explore an extraordinary place in southern France. A remarkable crossover between art and monument, the Ideal Palace of Postman Cheval stands unique in the world. This masterpiece—the work of one man with his stones and unwavering dreams—remains for us to discover and admire over a century later.Check out Langua, a cutting-edge AI platform to help you become fluent in French: https://languatalk.com/ai-french-tutor?via=gaelleYou can find an interactive transcript for this episode on Langua, and you can see the vocab list here: https://languatalk.com/blog/podcast/french?via=frenchpodLooking to learn French fast with a tutor like Gaëlle? Meet a tutor for a free trial session.
Transcribe →Pour que et bien que + subjonctif
Feb 500:19:40Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Gaelle will help you get more familiar with two structures which require the subjunctive: “pour que” and “bien que”. This episode is addressed to listeners who are already familiar with this conjugation and want to widen their understanding and be able to use it in new contexts.Check out Langua, a cutting-edge AI platform to help you become fluent in French: https://languatalk.com/ai-french-tutor?via=gaelleYou can find an interactive transcript for this episode on Langua, and you can see the vocab list here: https://languatalk.com/blog/podcast/french?via=frenchpodLooking to learn French fast with a tutor like Gaëlle? Meet a tutor for a free trial session.
Transcribe →La Nouvelle Calédonie et le nickel
Jan 1500:24:26Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Gaelle talks about Nouvelle Calédonie, an archipelago in Oceania, far from mainland France and yet, politically connected to it - a remnant of 19th century colonisation. There, a precious metal is found in abundance: nickel. You will discover why this resource is both crucial and devastating, and what part it plays in the political unrest the island is going through since the 80’s.Check out Langua, a cutting-edge AI platform to help you become fluent in French: https://languatalk.com/ai-french-tutor?via=gaelleYou can find an interactive transcript for this episode on Langua, and you can see the vocab list here: https://languatalk.com/blog/podcast/french?via=frenchpodLooking to learn French fast with a tutor like Gaëlle? Meet a tutor for a free trial session.
Transcribe →Biographie de Suzanne Noël
Jan 100:25:48Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Gaelle talks about an incredible French woman, Suzanne Noël. She was the first woman in the world to practice cosmetic surgery - at the beginning of the 20th century. She lived through two world wars and built a strong ethic and amazing techniques, considering plastic surgery like a feminist tool. Come and hear about this pioneer who was so readily erased from history books, only because she was a woman…Check out Langua, a cutting-edge AI platform to help you become fluent in French: https://languatalk.com/ai-french-tutor?via=gaelleYou can find an interactive transcript for this episode on Langua, and you can see the vocab list here: https://languatalk.com/blog/podcast/french?via=frenchpodLooking to learn French fast with a tutor like Gaëlle? Meet a tutor for a free trial session.
Transcribe →Interview with Annabelle - la vie en van
Dec 1100:27:15Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Gaelle interviews Annabelle, an incredible and inspiring woman, mum of two young girls and traveling all over Europe in her van with her little family. You might never wish for such an adventurous life, but trust me, you want to listen to the great stories Annabelle has to share.Check out Langua, a cutting-edge AI platform to help you become fluent in French: https://languatalk.com/ai-french-tutor?via=gaelleYou can find an interactive transcript for this episode on Langua, and you can see the vocab list here: https://languatalk.com/blog/podcast/french?via=frenchpodLooking to learn French fast with a tutor like Gaëlle? Meet a tutor for a free trial session.
Transcribe →Le musée du Louvre et deux célèbres vols
Nov 2100:26:38Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Gaelle takes the opportunity of the astonishing robbery in the Louvre museum in October 2025 to talk about the Louvre itself and explore its rich and long life as a royal palace. But because talking about the Louvre without talking about its treasures wouldn’t make sense, you will also hear about 2 thefts that happened a century apart, each time shaking French society.Check out Langua, a cutting-edge AI platform to help you become fluent in French: https://languatalk.com/ai-french-tutor?via=gaelleYou can find an interactive transcript for this episode on Langua, and you can see the vocab list here: https://languatalk.com/blog/podcast/french?via=frenchpodLooking to learn French fast with a tutor like Gaëlle? Meet a tutor for a free trial session.
Transcribe →La Grande Mosquée de Paris
Oct 2900:27:20Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Gaelle talks about a quite unique building in Paris: the Great Mosque. Located in the quartier Latin, next to Jardin des Plantes et la Sorbonne, you can easily go and visit it and discover this architectural jewel. But why is there such an old and beautiful mosque in the heart of Paris?Check out Langua, a cutting-edge AI platform to help you become fluent in French: https://languatalk.com/ai-french-tutor?via=gaelleYou can find an interactive transcript for this episode on Langua, and you can see the vocab list here: https://languatalk.com/blog/podcast/french?via=frenchpodLooking to learn French fast with a tutor like Gaëlle? Meet a tutor for a free trial session.
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