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Hello. All

This video is for parents of high schoolers

who have been learning French since 6th grade.

I made this video because studies have shown that

students may suffer academic loss after high long break,

like the summer break.

And as

a language teacher,

I know from experience that the less you practice a second language,

the more likely you are to progressively forget what you have learned.

Now. They are a few things that are readily available.

You might know about Alexa and her famous online tutorials

on Youtube.

Um, but I would like to go off the beaten as a beaten academic path

and make a few suggestions.

Um that are easy to follow my first one here.

Very simple one is give your child some good books to read.

Now the question is here,

what are the books that might be interesting and

accessible to your child at his or her level?

I am going to recommend here classic books

that are famous but also here in the version of graphic novels.

Because I believe that uh,

this form of a book will make the language more

accessible With the support of the illustrations that said,

if your child wishes to read the original version of the book,

that's perfectly fine.

And these books

should be easily found online uh,

in the pdf form because there are now in the public domain.

Now,

my first here recommendation is lille otan circa the

island of 30 coffins by uh Maurice Leblanc,

a famous turn of the 20th century author.

This book here was adapted by Mark Lee's annual

Maurice Leblanc is famous for having created a character called cassandra.

This is not a story with where this character appears much, it's still a mystery.

Uh it's a very dark and gruesome mystery.

So it's only for those who like the genre and

it takes place in the north of France in Brittany.

Another classic here that I have is the phantom of the opera.

You probably have heard of it here as a musical,

the phantom Deluca Ha written by Gaston Leroux.

It's adapted here by christophe, Good Ship

We Have here too.

Mhm.

Book one and book to its beautifully illustrated

and uh Gaston who wrote here um piece of Gothic literature that is much darker

and much deeper than all the other later versions that you might have heard of.

And this one, the three musketeers

musketeers by Alexandre Dumas.

And it was adapted by Fabricio lobianco and Andres, josie muscle.

This one is a tale of friendship,

Of heroism, romance with larger than life characters.

And it will appeal to those who like maybe more of a historical context to the story.

It takes place in the 17th century under the reign of Louis XIII.

My last selection here is Little G The

Stranger by Albert camus adapted by Jack Fernandez,

it's a philosophical tale, so very different from the previous books.

It's also fairly short. The language is simple.

So it's uh in my opinion, pretty accessible, even though um

tell it tells the story of the absurdity of life and society.

Now my second tip here is increased as much as you can,

your child's exposure to the language.

How could we do that?

Well,

you have as a parent as we all have access to

many resources online and many of those resources are free.

I would like to recommend a few that I think are not only free but very reliable.

Now, this one here is a website where you can practice testing,

you have demo testing and the point here is not to test for academic purposes,

but the test to practice and these uh

short tests can help you.

Perhaps your child practice the his reading, writing,

listening skills and even speaking skills.

This website works in partnership with the

the american council on the teaching of foreign language which

tells you that it is a very reliable website.

Another way to increase exposure to a language

is to listen to podcasts or radio stations.

This can be very convenient for the learners who do

not wish to stay behind a desk or a computer.

You can practice in a way on the go.

However, for beginners, I would say make sure you are not in a crowded space.

A very noisy space where because your ear is not yet accustomed to the language.

Now this is news and slow french, it is made for learners,

it will give you access to transcripts,

it is free for beginners and intermediate levels.

However, the higher levels need a subscription.

It is good for learners because you will have transcripts but you have more

than just the news.

You have quizzes, dialogue stories that can help you practice the language.

So there is a more of a variety there that is accessible.

Um, these two links will um,

gives you access to news, radio stations that are, that give you news from

journalists

and these are stations that are listened to around the world by french speakers,

R. F. I N F. E and frantz santa.

They also offer transcripts and they also offer articles online.

They speak very clearly and I would say fairly slowly.

Um and that's why they are also very good for learners.

Now my last recommendation to increase the exposure to a new language is to

regularly watch movies or tv shows in the language you are learning and here I

am going to recommend a few shows that are in french Now maybe you've

noticed that there are streaming websites that offer more and more shows in french.

The first one that I am going to show is

from one of those websites

so it's not a free of charge.

Um this is a character that was created by the author

moist lowland that I mentioned at the beginning of this video.

It's called loop from the character accent

to this is a modernized version. The character was reinvented here.

It's a very fun show and even though it's not free, it it's worth watching.

The next movies that I'm recommending can be uh of course watched

on streaming websites but they can also be found online free.

And some of them are popular enough that they can be found here in um

at your public library.

Now, this one is a throwback to the 1980s.

It launched a famous French actress called Sophie

Marceau do when she was a young teenager.

It's called La Boom. It's a very sweet coming of age story.

This one here a great classic that you've probably

heard of the beauty and the beast Labelle.

Il a bet. Uh there are many versions of this story.

I am recommending the 1946 version made by the way, Jean Cook too.

It's in black and white and uh it's often rated as one of the greatest movies made.

My left recommendation here,

Isla Guadalupe or The Glory of my father.

The book was made by Marcel Panel, very famous author.

So it's an adaptation of his childhood memoir. Uh and it's a very lovely escapist

adaptation that captures perfectly Summers in the south of France

At the turn of the 20th century.

Now you have many web sites that recommend movies,

french movies and I'm going to give you a list of those

websites that can give you either descriptions of movies or trailers.

And um with these websites, you will find links where you can find the movies

um that might interest you

now

here.

Uh,

this is french culture dot org and the poster I put

up here is one of the movies media alien villain.

That is recommended by this website.

Another website cuckoo french classes dot com.

Where you is recommended this classic movie called Live Below the Red Balloon.

And finally

this is an Enemy here. That is recommended on the website, paste magazine dot com.

A monster in paris and most Apari is uh was made only

a few years ago and it was very popular in France.

So these websites again will tell you where to find these these popular movies.

The links,

of course are on my video and you will find also all these links on the school web page.

So now I hope this video was helpful

and um, I hope you found it interesting.

Thank you very much for watching and have a great Summer.

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