Easy French Poetry Reading & Analysis

Can you understand a 5 minute long French recording made for intermediate speakers?

What about a 30 minutes long one?

With my French poetry reading & analysis, you will:

• challenge your understanding on a longer, yet reachable French recording
• memorize everyday vocabulary and verb tenses, as well as more "upscale" vocabulary
• study the linking words and expressions that really make someone fluent
• hear formal as well as modern pronunciation of French
• learn about famous French poems and poets, deeply engrained in French culture

Try our free sample and see (hear!) for yourself: Le Corbeau et le Renard de Jean De La Fontaine

"Camille's analyses are among the most unique and brilliantly instructive teaching methods I have come across"

Mariève Rugo, BA Harvard University, MA and Adjunct, Brown University, USA

"Your voice gives meaning to the poems"

Maria from Greece

"The content is interesting and intriguing, keeping the listener engaged on several levels. Superb"

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"I understood every word you said in the middle part and learned a few new words through the poem"

Annick from Germany

Structure of the analyses

Each analysis comes with a French transcript and English translation, and consists of 5 parts:

1. A slow reading of the poem
2. An explanation in every day French of the poem's vocabulary
3. An overview of the life of the author
4. A reachable verse by verse analysis of the poem
5. A personal and faster reading of the poem

How to work with these poem readings & analyses?

Audio

The more you listen to the audio, the more you will understand. The slow reading and explanation of the vocabulary are easier. The life of the author and poem analysis harder. Concentrate on the part that is best suited for your level and repeat, repeat, repeat.

French transcript

If you don’t understand something in the audio – even after several repetitions – check in the French transcript. Why didn’t you get it? Was it because of the vocabulary or the pronunciation? Use the transcript to read out loud, mimicking my pronunciation.

English transcript

Use it as a last resort, to check the exact meaning of something.

These are only some pointers. You know best what you need to work on: understanding faster, working on your linking words, being able to stay focus over a long recording, or again work on your pronunciation. The uses of these analyses are endless, so find the combination that works best for you.

And remember, repetition is the key...

For access to free French poem readings and more, click here.