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They said “Yes”… A civil wedding.

Styxlad — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:00:31 +0000

I invite you to attend a civil marriage in Paris. A brief ceremony where I was the groom’s witness. A good opportunity to study some official wedding vocabulary.

Jacques Secques, a great Shotokan Sensei – Part 2

Styxlad — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:40:34 +0000

In this second part, Jacques continues to tell us about about his lifelong practice of karate, and also about how and why everyone could benefit from this practice.

118 French Cities and Towns Names

Styxlad — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:23:44 +0000

Are you planning to visit France in the near future ? Using the audio dictionary, you can learn how to pronounce the names of the 118 French cities and towns that have more than 50.000 inhabitants.

Jacques Secques, a great Shotokan Sensei – Part 1

Styxlad — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:27:54 +0000

Jacques Secques is a karateka who has practised this martial art for forty five years. He now is a black belt, 5th Dan. Jacques is my karate teacher, so I wanted to interview him to learn more about his background and this martial art, its history and its great figures in France.

With simultaneous audio translation in English

Styxlad — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:32:27 +0000

Jacques Secques, a great Shotokan Sensei – Part 1

Using The French Pronunciation Audio Dictionary

Styxlad — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:32:45 +0000

In this third video podcast, I give some tips about how to use my Audio Dictionary. I hope these tips will make using the dictionary easier for everybody.

My friend Jorge, stamp and chick lover – Part 3

Styxlad — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:19:12 +0000

In this last part, Jorge continues to talk about the objects that philatelists collect. He finally tells us why he has chosen to collect hen, chick and rooster related stamps.

With simultaneous translation in English

Styxlad — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:01:38 +0000

My friend Jorge, stamp and chick lover – Part 3

My friend Jorge, stamp and chick lover – Part 2

Styxlad — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:37:46 +0000

This is the second part of my conversation with Jorge, a philatelist friend. In this part, Jorge tells us about his collection, and about all the different objects that philatelists like to collect.

With simultaneous translation in English

Styxlad — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:47:07 +0000

My friend Jorge, stamp and chick lover – Part 2

My friend Jorge, stamp and chick lover – Part 1

Styxlad — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:06:37 +0000

Today, I am happy to present Jorge, a philatelist friend who tells us about his stamp collections and more particularly about one collection that has a pretty surprising theme.

With simultaneous translation in English

Styxlad — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:36:10 +0000

My friend Jorge, stamp and chick lover – Part 1

How to use the T3 tramway in Paris

Styxlad — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:54:03 +0000

In this second video podcast, I tell you about the new T3 tramway which was inaugurated in Paris in December 2006, and its operating hours. I also added some tips and Internet links in the transcript.

Eva at the summer camp

Styxlad — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:40:26 +0000

Eva is 13 years old. Although she was unwilling to go to summer camp in the Jura, she enjoyed her stay there and made a lot of new friends. She tells us with humour about the summer camp and the good memories she brought back from it.

With simultaneous translation in English

Styxlad — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:29:17 +0000

Eva at the summer camp

New !

Styxlad — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:50:41 +0000

I am happy to announce a new feature in the podcasts. In addition to each podcast in French, we will publish another podcast with a simultaneous translation in English, courtesy of Marc.

Meeting Sadio, a driving instructor

Styxlad — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:34:13 +0000

At the age of eighteen, Sadio left Bamako, Mali, to start Law Studies in France. His dream had always been to become a corporate legal adviser. Today Sadio is a driving instructor. Sadio tells us about his first years in France and about the different jobs he has held before this one.

With simultaneous audio translation in English

admin — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:17:51 +0000

Meeting Sadio, a driving instructor

New vocabulary and pronunciation video module

Styxlad — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:46:18 +0000

I have thought about how to improve french-podcasts.com and have decided to try podcasting videos. Here is my first vocabulary and pronunciation module, that covers a simple subject: my desk. This video podcast can be directly downloaded to mp3 players supporting the .mp4 video format, and it is also available through iTunes.
Please, let me know which subjects you would like me to cover.

Julien, Musician And Web Designer

Styxlad — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:05:53 +0000

Julien is a guitarist. He plays, or rather he used to play with an electronic music band. He tells us about how he started to play guitar and also about how difficult it is to pursue his passion for music while working as a web designer.

With simultaneous translation in English

Styxlad — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:27:27 +0000

Julien, Musician And Web Designer

Jade : a beautiful name for a lovely five-year old girl.

Styxlad — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:28:35 +0000

I have wanted for a while to produce a series of podcasts with children. So I recently asked a good friend whether I could start this series with her daughter Jade. I am very happy to publish my conversation with Jade, who tells us about her life as a five-year old girl.

With simultaneous translation in English

Styxlad — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:00:03 +0000

Jade : a beautiful name for a lovely five-year old girl.

Give credit where credit is due !

Styxlad — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:08:28 +0000

Once again, I would like to credit Marc for his great work. Marc not only does spend quite some time translating the podcasts into English, but he also adds explanations to make them easier to understand (see the last podcast “Meeting a Jurançon winegrower”).

Many thanks to you Marc !

Meeting a Jurançon winegrower: Mr. Casaubieilh, at the Domaine Guirardel

Styxlad — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:46:47 +0000

Jean Casaubieilh produces golden looking and wonderfully tasting Jurançon wine in Monein, in the middle of the Béarn countryside. He shares with us his enthusiasm about winemaking and tells us under which particular circumstances he became a winemaker.

With simultaneous translation in English

Styxlad — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:22:49 +0000

Meeting a Jurançon winegrower: Mr. Casaubieilh, at the Domaine Guirardel

Teaching German ? Mit Freude !

Styxlad — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:42:46 +0000

Mariette, a dear friend of mine, teaches German in a school near Paris. What does teaching mean today? How do teenagers choose which foreign language to learn? Why do they choose German rather than English or Spanish? Mariette responds to my questions with a lot of kindness and enthusiasm.

With simultaneous translation in English

Styxlad — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:35:39 +0000

Teaching German ? Mit Freude !

A new feature for French-Podcasts.com: transcripts now come with english translations

Styxlad — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:52:48 +0000

I am glad to announce a new improvement to this Blog. I have the great pleasure to welcome Marc, a new contributor who likes my podcasts and therefore wished to contribute by translating the transcripts to English. Marc is Canadian. He just graduated from university with degrees in English and Psychology. Marc is fascinated with languages. In addition to French, Marc is also learning Spanish, and then Mandarin which will come in handy when he teaches English as a second language in China.

Marc has already translated the 2 transcripts of “L’oeil du courlis: a beautiful photo-blog by a talented amateur photographer”. Thanks to Marc, others translations will follow very soon.

Here is what he says about learning French with this blog:

“I am interested in the “Learning with French-Podcasts” blog because, first of all, I believe that learning another language should be free and secondly, this blog is unique in that it provides transcripts of real conversations which are difficult to obtain among the many, many language resources that exist.”

L’oeil du courlis: a beautiful photo-blog by a talented amateur photographer – Part 2

Styxlad — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:57:41 +0000

Here is the continuation of the preceding podcast about the photo-blog of my friend Zabelle. She talks with enthusiasm about her photographs.

With simultaneous translation in English

Styxlad — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:50:25 +0000

L’oeil du courlis: a beautiful photo-blog by a talented amateur photographer

L’oeil du courlis: a beautiful photo-blog by a talented amateur photographer – Part 1

Styxlad — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:15:06 +0000

My friend Zabelle tells us why she decided to create her photo-blog. She talks about the tools she uses, and gives some advice on how to achieve beautiful photographs.

Clémentine: the eyes of her owner – part 2

Styxlad — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:42:50 +0000

Here is the continuation of the preceding podcast about Clémentine -who soon will be a guide dog for visually impaired people- and her stay with me during one week. How does Clémentine manage to change both host-family and home for a while ?
To see the Clémentine’s album, click here.

Show of Guide Dogs training at “Visually Impaired People Institute” of Paris.

Styxlad — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:00:08 +0000

As an illustration of the previous podcast about Guide Dogs for visually impaired people, here is a video showing how the dogs are working, for example when searching free seats for their owner in public places.

Clémentine: the eyes of her owner – Part 1

Styxlad — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:21:12 +0000

Clémentine is a one year old beautiful Curly Coated Retriever. In a few months, Clementine will leave her host family to undergo extensive training at the “Guide Dogs for Blind People” Institute in Paris. Sweet Clementine was my guest for one week.

Paris subway new operating hours: now we can go out late at night.

Styxlad — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:50:11 +0000

My brother Serge works for RATP, the company that runs the Paris subway. In this podcast, we talk about the recent extension of the operating hours of the Paris subway, and the changes it brings to both users and staff.

Is the job of upholsterer-decorator a lucrative one ? – Part 2

Styxlad — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:27:32 +0000

Is the job of upholsterer-decorator a lucrative one ? – Part 1

Styxlad — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:43:23 +0000