Learn French with Anthony

#22 (A2) Blog et nouveau podcast

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https://explorefrenchblog.podbean.com/
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⭐ In this special A2 level episode, I would like to tell you about my new Podcast channel. So this is actually not a real podcast... But as usual I will talk in French first, and then I will translate and explain all what I said in English, sentence by sentence.
⭐ ⭐ Contents: 1/ Une nouvelle chaîne de podcasts 2/ Un nouveau format de podcasts 3/ Du Blog au Pod ! 4/ Explorez, et n'arrêtez jamais !

#21 (A1) Feng shui, couleurs et mobilier

⭐ To make the most of this podcast, transcription and language activities are available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐ In this A1-level podcast, I will speak about furniture and Feng shui. We will talk about maids’ rooms in Paris, how to equip small spaces and how to organise your interior according to the Chinese art of Feng shui. We will practise the vocabulary for colours, rooms and furniture, we will clarify the difference between “falloir” and “devoir” to translate “must/have to”, we will practise advanced prepositions of location, such as “near, next to, opposite, between, far from” and much more.
⭐ In the first part of this podcast I will speak French only, and in the second part I will translate and explain everything I said in English. 
⭐ Contents: 1/ Les chambres de bonnes 2/ Les meubles multifonctions 3/ Les pièces et leur utilité 4/ La couleur des pièces 5/ Le Feng shui 6/ Quelques règles de Feng shui 

#20 (B2) Agriculture et initiatives locales

⭐ To make the most of this podcast, transcript and language activities are available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐ In this B2-level podcast I will talk about agriculture, sustainable development and local agricultural initiatives in France and Africa. We will practise the vocabulary related to plants, pesticides, farming, livestock farming, intensive and mechanized farming, we will learn many French idioms with names of food and animals, and much more!
⭐ In the first part of this podcast, I will speak French at normal speed, and in the second part I will repeat everything I said at slow speed with some explanations in English.
⭐ Contents: 1/ L'évolution de l'agriculture 2/ La question des pesticides 3/ Des initiatives agricoles au Maghreb 4/ Une initiative agricole à Madagascar 5/ L'élevage et l'écopâturage 6/ Les expressions paysannes

#19 (A2) Gastronomie et consommation alimentaire

⭐ In this A2-level podcast I will talk about gastronomy and French people’s habits when it comes to eating and buying food. We will see how to savour a meal and we’ll speak about markets and supermarkets in France. We will practise the imperative, we will see how to express your opinion, and we will review the vocabulary related to the five senses and sense organs, as well as adverbs of intensity such as “little, quite, rather, very, much”, among many other things.
⭐ In the first part of this podcast I will speak French only, and in the second part I will translate and explain everything I said in English. To make the most of this podcast, please use the transcription available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐ Contents: 1/ La gastronomie française 2/ La dégustation d’un plat (1) 3/ La dégustation d’un plat (2) 4/ Les sens, les saveurs et les textures 5/ Les habitudes des Français à table 6/ La consommation alimentaire des Français 7/ les Supermarchés 8/ Le marché de Rungis

#18 (A1) Logement et décoration d’intérieur

⭐ To make the most of this podcast, transcription and language activities are available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐ In this A1-level podcast I will speak about housing and interior decoration. We will see what are the different types of housing, how to talk about real estate and how to describe a house. We will practise the prepositions of place, we will see the difference between “c’est” and “il est / elle est”, we will learn many adjectives to describe a house, and much more.
⭐ In the first part of this podcast I will speak French only, and in the second part I will translate and explain everything I said in English. 
⭐ Contents: 1/ Les types de logements 2/ Les loyers 3/ L'immobilier 4/ Les pièces 5/ Chez moi 6/ Mes pièces préférées 7/ Le mobilier et la décoration 8/ La décoration chez moi

#17 (B2) Urbanisme, mobilité et big data

⭐ In this B2-level podcast I will talk about the main trends in urbanism, new means of transport and big data, and we will wonder if privacy is already a concept from the past. We will see many ways to express the consequence in French, we will practise the vocabulary related to sustainable development, renewable energies and new technologies and much more!
⭐ In the first part of this podcast, I will speak French at normal speed, and in the second part I will repeat everything I said at slow speed with some explanations in English. To make the most of this podcast, please use the transcription available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐ Contents: 1/ L’urbanisme du futur 2/ Les écoquartiers 3/ Les espaces de vie 4/ La mobilité urbaine 5/ Le big data urbain 6/ La disparition de la vie privée 7/ La littérature d’anticipation

#16 (B1) Moi, mon parcours, mon travail

⭐ In this B1-level podcast I thought I would tell you a bit more about myself and my activities as a teacher, both on my website and on social media. This will be the chance to see how to speak about one’s educational background and work experience and how to talk about websites and social networks. It will also be the chance to explore the vocabulary related to languages and to language learning and teaching.
⭐ In the first part of this podcast, I will speak French at normal speed, and in the second part I will repeat everything I said at slow speed with some explanations in English. To make the most of this podcast, please use the transcription available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐Contents: 1/ Mon parcours universitaire 2/ Mon parcours professionnel 3/ Mes cours de français 4/ Mes podcasts 5/ Mes livres audio 6/ Flashcards & "Skill Practice" 7/ Autres ressources 8/ Les réseaux sociaux

#15 (B1) Contes et légendes

⭐ In this B1-level podcast I will speak about fairy tales, myths and legends. We will see where tales originate and how they developed in Europe, Africa and Asia, and why reading tales can make children more intelligent, according to Einstein. We will learn the name of many tale characters in French, we will practise the stressed pronouns and review the vocabulary for feelings and moral values, and much more.
⭐ In the first part of this podcast, I will speak French at normal speed, and in the second part I will repeat everything I said at slow speed with some explanations in English. To make the most of this podcast, please use the transcription available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐Contents: 1/ Pourquoi lire des contes (1) 2/ Pourquoi lire des contes (2) 3/ Charles Perrault et les Frères Grimm 4/ Les personnages de contes 5/ Le conte de Blanche Neige 6/ Les contes en Afrique de l’Ouest 7/ Les contes en Chine 8/ Les fables, les mythes, les légendes

#14 (A2) Cuisines locales et nouvelles tendances

⭐ In this A2-level podcast I will talk about local and traditional food in France and French overseas territories, as well as new trends in cuisine. We will see how to express progression with “more and more” and “less and less” in French, we will practise the pronoun “en”, we will review the vocabulary for food and cooking, and much more!
⭐ In the first part of this podcast I will speak French only, and in the second part I will translate and explain everything I said in English. To make the most of this podcast, please use the transcription available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐ Contents: 1/ La gastronomie du sud-est 2/ La gastronomie de l'est 3/ La gastronomie du nord-est 4/ La gastronomie du sud-ouest 5/ La gastronomie des Antilles 6/ La gastronomie de l'île de la Réunion 7/ La gastronomie du Pacifique Sud 8/ Vieux légumes et cuisine fusion 9/ Des fleurs et des restes

#13 (A1) La famille et le couple

⭐ To make the most of this podcast, transcription and language activities are available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐ In this A1-level podcast I will speak about family, modern and traditional types of unions, and the evolution of couples in our modern society. I will speak about my own family, the Simpsons and former presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande, we will learn all the vocabulary for family links and see how to speak about one’s family, we will practise the possessive adjectives, the difference between “c’est” and “il est / elle est”, as well as adjectives to describe people’s character, and much more.
⭐ In the first part of this podcast I will speak French only, and in the second part I will translate and explain everything I said in English. 
⭐ Contents: 1/ Les liens de parenté 2/ Les appellatifs 3/ Les types de familles 4/ L'exemple des Simpsons 5/ A chacun son caractère ! (1) 6/ A chacun son caractère ! (2) 7/ Le couple 8/ L'exemple des présidents Sarkozy et Hollande 9/ Les mariages mixtes

#12 (C1) Yoga, méditation et zénitude

⭐ In this C1-level podcast I will talk about yoga, meditation, Buddhism and people’s search for harmony, well-being, and a more balanced life.
⭐ In the first part of this podcast, I will speak French at normal speed, and in the second part I will repeat everything I said at slow speed. To make the most of this podcast, please use the transcription available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐Contents: 1/ La recherche de l'harmonie 2/ Le boom du yoga 3/ Le yoga en France 4/ Quid du yoga 5/ Entre Orient et Occident 6/ Zen, soyons zen 7/ Le bouddhisme 8/ La méditation

#11 (B1) Fêtes et traditions

⭐ In this B1-level podcast I will talk about celebrations and traditions. We will see how to give advice, how to express obligation and prohibition, how to highlight a particular word in a sentence, we will also practise the subjunctive, and much more!
⭐ In the first part of this podcast, I will speak French at normal speed, and in the second part I will repeat everything I said at slow speed with some explanations in English. To make the most of this podcast, please use the transcription available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐Contents: 1/ la perte des traditions 2/ Les fêtes populaires 3/ Noël et Pâques en France 4/ Le carnaval de Binche en Belgique 5/ La fête de l'Escalade en Suisse 6/ Le Hanami au Japon 7/ Traditions à découvrir à la Réunion 8/  Traditions à respecter au Vietnam 9/ Polémique autour du foie gras

#10 (B2) Villes et transformations

⭐ In this B2-level podcast I will talk about towns and cities, their beauty and ugliness, their development and transformation, as well as urban tourism. We will see many ways to express the cause and how to avoid repetitions when we speak, we will learn the nickname of many cities, and much more!
⭐ In the first part of this podcast, I will speak French at normal speed, and in the second part I will repeat everything I said at slow speed with some explanations in English. To make the most of this podcast, please use the transcription available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐ Contents: 1/ La ville et la campagne 2/ La ville d'hier et celle d'aujourd'hui 3/ La beauté des villes 4/ La laideur des villes 5/ Le tourisme de villes 6/ Le tourisme de ruines 7/ Les villes fantômes 8/ La transformation des villes 9/ Le devenir des villes

#09 (A2) Maladies, vaccins et médecines alternatives

⭐ In this A2-level podcast I will talk about common illnesses, covid, vaccines and the mistrust of vaccines, as well as alternative medicine such as homeopathy, aromatherapy and phytotherapy. We will practise the superlative and questions with subject-object inversion, we will review the vocabulary for the body parts, symptoms and illnesses, and much more!
⭐ In the first part of this podcast I will speak French only, and in the second part I will translate and explain everything I said in English. To make the most of this podcast, please use the transcription available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐ Contents: 1/ Les maladies 2/ Les vaccins 3/ Le rejet de la médecine moderne 4/ Les médecines alternatives 5/ L'homéopathie 6/ La phytothérapie et l'aromathérapie 7/ La zoothérapie et la musicothérapie 8/ Le massage

#08 (A1) Voyage et stéréotypes

⭐ To make the most of this podcast, transcription and language activities are available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐ In this A1-level podcast I will speak about travelling and stereotypes. We will speak about where French people are travelling, clichés about French people and French people’s clichés about other peoples, we will practise verbs of likes and dislikes, we will see how to say “me too”, “not me” or “me neither” in French, and much more.
⭐ In the first part of this podcast I will speak French only, and in the second part I will translate and explain everything I said in English. 
⭐ Contents: 1/ Le voyage 2/ Les stéréotypes sur les Français 3/ Les stéréotypes sur les étrangers 4/ Le Maroc 5/ La plage, le soleil... 6/ La montagne, les châteaux...  7/ Les souvenirs 8/ Le choix du souvenir

#07 (A1) Belgique et culture belge

⭐ To make the most of this podcast, transcription and language activities are available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐ In this A1-level podcast I will speak about Belgium, Belgian people and the Belgian culture. We will speak about arts, comics, food and festivals, we will review names of countries and see how to translate “in”, “to” or “from” a country, we will practise basic question words such as “who, what, where, when, how, which” in French, and much more.
⭐ In the first part of this podcast I will speak French only, and in the second part I will translate and explain everything I said in English. 
⭐ Contents: 1/ La Belgique 2/ Les Belges 3/ Un pays multiculturel 4/ Bruxelles 5/ Tintin 6/ Le chocolat 7/ Le spéculoos, la bière 8/ La Zinneke Parade 9/ Les langues

#06 (B1) Bonheur et avenir

⭐ In this B1-level podcast I will talk about happiness and the search of happiness, migration and expatriation, and will also tell you a bit about my family’s origin and about myself. We will see how to express unsatisfaction, how to speak about future plans, we will practise the imperfect and the compound past and much more.
⭐ In the first part of this podcast I will speak French only, and in the second part I will translate and explain everything I said in English. To make the most of this podcast, please use the transcription available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐Contents: 1/ la journée du bonheur 2/ Le bonheur dans le monde 3/ Migration et expatriation 4/ De l'Espagne à l'Algérie 5/ De l'Algérie à la France 6/ De la France au Royaume-Uni 7/ Les "repats" 8/ De la Terre à la Lune

#05 (A2) Objets, art et technologie

⭐ In this A2-level podcast I will talk about objects and inventions, the development of smart objects in our daily lives, and the denunciation of consumerism by artists such as Jean Tinguely and Romuald Hazoumé whose work is based on recycled objects. We will practise the demonstrative pronouns and the compound past, and we will review the vocabulary for daily life objects, activities, and much more!
⭐ In the first part of this podcast I will speak French only, and in the second part I will translate and explain everything I said in English. To make the most of this podcast, please use the transcription available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐ Contents: 1/ Les objets 2/ Les inventions 3/ Les inventions françaises 4/ Raoul Parienti et le Concours Lépine 5/ Le smartphone 6/ Les objets connectés 7/ La pollution, le recyclage 8/ Jean Tinguely 9/ Romuald Hazoumé

#04 (A1) La France et les Français

⭐ To make the most of this podcast, transcription and language activities are available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐ In this A1-level podcast I will speak about France and French people. We will review names of countries, we will see how to describe the basic characteristics of a country and its people, how to make basic comparisons, and how to tell the profession of men and women in easy French.  
⭐ In the first part of this podcast I will speak French only, and in the second part I will translate and explain everything I said in English. 
⭐ Contents: 1/ La France 2/ Les pays voisins 3/ Les régions, les départements 4/ Les DROM-COM 5/ Les montagnes, les mers, les océans 6/ Les Français 7/ Le mariage, les naissances 8/ Les professions 9/ Métier d'homme ? Métier de femme ?

#03 (B1) Mémoire et généalogie

⭐ In this B1-level podcast I will talk about our memory, we will see how it works, how we recall things and why it’s important in the construction of our personal identity. We will also talk about genealogy, peoples’ origins, music with Stromae, literature with Marcel Proust, and philosophy with Daniel Dennett. And we will review the vocabulary for senses and emotions, we will practise the gerund and much more.
⭐ In the first part of this podcast I will speak French only, and in the second part I will translate and explain everything I said in English. To make the most of this podcast, please use the transcription available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐Contents: 1/ la mémoire 2/ Le fonctionnement de la mémoire 3/ La madeleine de Proust 4/ Mémoire et identité 5/ La généalogie : histoire de nos ancêtres 6/ L'essor de la généalogie 7/ Migration et origines 8/ Stromae

#02 (A2) Consommation et minimalisme

⭐ In this A2-level podcast I will talk about consumption, the development of online shopping, initiatives to consume less and differently, and minimalism. We will practise the relative pronouns and the comparative, we will see how to describe the use and function of something, how to ask questions, and we will review the vocabulary of everyday life objects.
⭐ In the first part of this podcast I will speak French only, and in the second part I will translate and explain everything I said in English. To make the most of this podcast, please use the transcription available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐ Contents: 1/ La tendance générale 2/ Le e-commerce en France 3/ Le profil des consommateurs 4/ La consommation responsable 5/ Donner des objets, au lieu de les jeter 6/ Echanger des services, au lieu de les acheter 7/ Le minimalisme 8/ L'art du rangement 9/ Que faire ?

#01 (A1) Paris et le métro

⭐ To make the most of this podcast, transcription and language activities are available on my website www.explore-french.com
⭐ In this A1-level podcast I will talk about Paris and the underground. We will review the alphabet and the numbers, we will see how to spell names, how to count and how to speak about a city and the underground in easy French.  
⭐ In the first part of this podcast I will speak French only, and in the second part I will translate and explain everything I said in English. 
⭐ Contents: 1/ La ville 2/ Les monuments 3/ Les musées 4/ Les parcs 5/ Le reste 6/ Le métro 7/ Les lignes de métro 8/ Les arrondissements