One Thing In A French Day or Cultivate Your French are very useful tools to work on your French listening comprehension and to understand spoken French, but they have more positive effects !

Those two podcasts are different than podcasts focused on learning a language. They are not lessons, but their effects on your French might be as good as lessons !

Let me tell you why.

The podcast in itself is between the audio blog (because I tell you about my life as a French woman and my family life) and the cultural Interview podcast about France (because I meet French professionnals or friends that tell me about their passion or their work). I tell you about life in France.

Shortly, you will enjoy the episodes for what is being said, rather than just trying to understand the language.

When you learn French or need to keep up with your French, at one point, your first goal is to master listening, because listening is the key to the 3 other basics Language learning skills : speaking, reading and writing.
You need to seperate the words you hear from each other. With both my podcasts, this will happen naturally because you will get used to the way I speak.

❝I have been listening to this podcast for four years. When I began listening, I didn't understand very much though I enjoyed hearing the french. I had to read the podcast in order to understand it. Four years later, I find that I understand most of the podcasts the first time I hear it.❞ CLL73 , 01/20/2021

❝Once my French improves enough so that I could actually grasp a bit of what Laetitia was saying, I began to really love this podcast. I still try to listen twice without the transcript, then listen while reading the transcript to figure out all the words I’ve never seen/heard before (of which there as so many!), and finally listen again to try to hear and understand it all at normal French conversational speed. SO helpful!❞ SlowReaderLiz , 02/25/2020

But will you be able to understand other French people ?
Yes, of course, because once your brain is used to the way I speak, it will very easily adapt to other people way of speaking.
You will easily check this when there are other people speaking on the podcast.
This way, you will be able to start understanding and enjoying more media and have more nice conversations with teachers or friends.

❝It was my first trip to France since listening to your podcasts and I was delighted (and quite surprised myself) how more confident I was at speaking French.❞ Charlotte, UK.

Transcript : sounds, pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar
Of course, the transcript is a very useful tool because it allows to practice listening and reading at the same time. It’s a way to master the sounds of the French language because you follow along in the written version.

When you master the sounds, you get a better pronunciation, and when you get a better accent you boost your confidence !
With the transcript, you can repeat aloud a sentence, a paragraph, a conversation ! This is a great way to improve your pronunciation at your pace.

The transcript is also a tool that reinforces learning words and grammar. You integrate the right sentences order of Modern French. I also highlight for you some expressions that are very natural in French and that you could use in your own conversation.

This way, you can collect interesting expressions or sentences to build your best phrases book.

You will also find examples on how to use those expressions. I also like to focus on a particular sentence and point some particularities (sentence order, grammar, rythm, etc).

Transport yourself to France
Last but not least, as you understand what is being said, you get the amazing sensation of being transported to France. The photos that you get with the transcript (Cultivate Your French and One Thing In A French Day with notes) will enhance this amazing feeling.

Alors, à très vite, chers auditeurs !

Laetitia ♡