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French Listening Comprehension

Exercises to practice and improve your French listening skills

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Work on your French listening comprehension with these exercises, including a French sound file with study guide, transcript, and translation. Most also offer a short quiz.
 

French listening tips
This site includes dozens of French listening exercises for all levels, but sometimes it's difficult to figure out the best way to use them. Should you listen first, and then read the transcript, or is it ok to listen and read at the same time? This article offers ideas on how to make the most of the listening exercises on this site as well as your own audio tools.

 
French Number Practice

Learning to count in French is one thing, but it's another matter entirely to be able to think of a number without counting up to it, or to understand individual numbers when you hear them. Get better at understanding and using French numbers with long strings of numbers and random number generators.

 
Fluent French Audio
The numerous listening exercises from Fluent French Audio (read my review) include a choice of speeds: normal and slow. And some also include slow readings in a listen and repeat format to help you work on your French pronunciation.

 
Top listening exercises
There are over a hundred listening exercises on this site, ranging from simple dialogues to in-depth listening comprehension exercises. The most visited listening pages tend to be those that offer practical advice or discuss someone or something famous: here are the top 15.

 
Pas à pas
Learn some French expressions with pas as you work on your French listening comprehension.

Beginning French Dialogues
Practice your French listening ability with these beginning-level French dialogues featuring your choice of speeds: regular and slow.
Les portes tordues is a bilingual audiobook for beginning to intermediate French students (read my review). As the book proceeds, the French becomes progressively more difficult.
Une Semaine à Paris - bilingual audio book and travel guide to Paris (read my review). Each chapter includes a French dialogue, English translation, and related travel tips.
À Moi Paris
A beginning- to low-intermediate-level French story in sixteen chapters, each of which has been turned into a listening comprehension exercise.
 
Provence Podcast
Get some French listening practice with this podcast about a three-week trip to Provence.

 
More French listening comprehension exercises are added regularly, so bookmark this page.

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