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Not sure if this will help, but what my French professor did for us when I was in high school was that she had us listen to short youtube videos (and we did a transcription exercise with them), like this one that she used. We didn't have to transcribe the entire thing of course, just portions of it that corresponded to the questions she asked. That and we were able to listen as many times as needed, but the first time was without writing anything.

But even before this in our second year until our last, she actually showed us popular musicals (with subtitles, discussions, etc). Even if we didn't understand what was being said, it was still really entertaining to watch and one of the things that I really loved about the class.

EDIT: Reminded by what dzhen said, if you are able to get each student to use a computer in class lyrics training is a website that I really enjoy using.

Dude, you should already be listening to music if it's what you love. Don't worry if you don't understand everything. Enjoy the music and the occasional "hey, I know that word". Find a few songs you really like and can listen to again and again and amaze yourself as you figure out what more and more of the words mean until you can get the gist of the whole chorus. Duolingo will help you know what different words mean, but getting used to identifying them when spoken, and moreover sung, is a whole other ballpark.

Here is a website where you can listen to music in other languages and it's arranged by difficulty. There's also a game mode where you follow the lyrics and type the missing word.

Good Luck

Check out this website. You can change the language and search for Spanish songs, then select the difficulty (percentage of missing words) and then you have to fill them in as the song plays. There's 3 songs on there I really like, Me Enamoré by Shakira, La Vida (Respira El Momento) by Calle 13 and Mi Gente by J Balvin and Willy William. There's plenty to choose from and im sure you can find something you enjoy, while also directly interacting with the music.

Fist of, Duolingo is my favorite resource so continue with that. Depending on the language you're looking for, there are countless other resources. Free podcasts from RadioLingua in French/Spanish/German. Listen to music in your language of choice with lyrics. Go to your local library and find some beginner books from Berlitz,Teach Yourself, etc. so you can get grammar explanations. Watch some media to get a feel for how it sounds when spoken with a youtube channel or series like Extr@ (also on youtube). Once you're comfortable enough (aim for 3 months) try and find a language exchange partner to chat with on Skype, either on italki, /r/language_exchange or some other forum. Language learners are among the most kind, wordly and patient people I know, you'll find somebody out there to help you, and maybe you can help them.

As long as you don't try and hear or understand 100% of everything, then yes, in my personal experience it's great.

I was the same as you at Christmas. Since I've started to watch french movies or TV shows with subtitles almost every day my understanding has increased so much in the last six months. I'm also able to have basic conversations with native speakers now, and not feel terrified. Watch movies where every word is transcribed in the titles so you know what you're hearing. This is a great website for movies like that.

FilmFra.com Also lyrics work too: http://lyricstraining.com/fr

Unless there is a better place to hear native speakers speaking at regular speeds and know what the words they are saying, I think movies with subtitles is the best way to understand spoken languages once you have a large knowledge of the written language.

> with accurate subtitles

What do you mean exactly by that? If you mean exactly matching word-for-word subtitles, then your search is completely vain, at least for movies. First, it doesn't exist, in any language, and for good reason : it would be too long to read and it would cover the entire screen! Second, You don't need to have the exact words to understand the gist of what is being said. You can just relax and understand most by context, and when you'll get better, then try to decipher every last syllable if that really turn you on.

If you really want perfect subtitles, try video clips of French songs, where exact lyrics exist. There's even a website tailored to language learners that does just that : Lyrics Training.

Check out lyricstraining.com. It's pretty good at exposing you to popular artists. I don't know how popular they are, but Calle 13 has some very interesting songs (that have won awards), and I like Café Tacvba.

Man kann auch diese Seite besuchen: http://lyricstraining.com/de/, in der viele freie Videos mit Spielen sind, auf die man Deutsch übungen könnte, während er Musik höre.

(Höfflich gebrauche ich meine Nebesätzen richtig)

Here's a YouTube playlist of the album

Also, there's this website lyricstraining through which you can learn a language with music and lyrics, perhaps it'll interest you :)

Some more for you:

Music

Lyrics Training - Watch music videos, and fill in the blank on the missing words. Also has a "multiple choice" option. Can play at four different difficulty levels. Languages include French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, Japanese (Romanji), Turkish, and Catalan)

TV - No cops or detectives!

• Les revenants - Zombies. Mellow, French zombies.
• Ainsi soient-ils - Drama about first-year seminary students. Well done and moving, even if you're not Catholic.
• Kaboul Kitchen - It gets good reviews, but I haven't started it yet.

Oeuvres complètes

The kindle pop-up dictionary is wonderful for learning to read fluently. In the US it's mostly classic authors who are available in digital formats. For a few dollars you can get the complete works of (from easier to harder):

• Guy de Maupassant - Short stories and novellas. Bel ami is good place to start.
• Jules Verne - Easy to read, but has a lots of pages of filler
• Victor Hugo - Tough until you learn his style. Notre-Dame de Paris is one of my favorite novels of any language. Les Misérables is also fantastic, and is thankfully broken up into five books, but it also has very long and dry digressions.
• Gustave Flaubert - Start with Madame Bovary
• Émile Zola - Epic and powerful dramas. Start with Germinal.
• Marcel Proust - His sentences and clauses wrap around each other so much that I find him easier to read in hard copy.
• Honoré de Balzac - Maybe not as hard as the previous, but I was so irritated by Le Père Goriot that it was a chore to finish.

I haven't read Stendhal, Arthur Rimbaud, or Alexandre Dumas yet in French, but their works are also available.

Choose the language you want in the top right corner, then pick one of the videos presented. It will take you to a screen (example here) where you can select your difficulty level. Then, as the song plays, it will ask you to type in missing words during the lyrics.

EDIT: If you're going from the home page, clicking the featured video will just play it. If you click "Play Now" to the right, it will take you to the game itself.

Wow you guys suck at this...

Here's one, LyricsTraining

It won't help you OP, but it'll help someone learning a more common language. Off the top of my head they have French, Italian, German, Spanish, and English (for ESL). I only use it for German, I'm not sure if there are other languages.

Pumped as hell. Been learning French for 2+ years. By the end of this year I want to be able to say finally that I'm fluent in the language. Been a little rusty lately. Will start with a bit of review. Here's my list for this month:

• LyricsTraining 1 song per day at intermediate level. Hopefully move to Advanced level by end of the month
• Memrise 50 words a day from this course
• Review Michel Thomas Advanced
• Complete Mimic Method free 8 day course
• Watch at least one 4-5 minute episode of a TV show for kids every day after completing the above point. Implement Mimic Method while watching these

Alright. Let's begin!

Other than working on your duolingo tree?

Francais interactif - basic lessons & quizzes https://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/

Lyrics Training - type the lyrics you hear http://lyricstraining.com/

/r/french

Assimil is great for developing a deep, intuitive sense of the language, but I don't think it's good for activating a language - i.e. learning to produce it spontaneously.

How much time are you willing to put in to studying, and what's your time frame? If you're in no rush, and only have 30" a day, stick with Assimil. If you have more time, or need to speed things up, then the FSI French Basic course is full of hard core drills that will hammer the language into your brain.

I never found that listening to songs helped in any way, and Anki usually frustrates me - I spend more time setting up and managing decks than actually studying.

Other fun options that you might like are lyrics training (you need to fill in the blanks while watching videos of pop songs) and LingVist (the best on-line site ever, totally 'next generation.' It's still in beta and currently free).

lyricstraining - a virtual karaoke, works by using music videos to fill in lyrics (or missing words) using your keyboard

helprace - customer service software like zendesk (helpdesk, feedback community, knowledge base and free for 3 staff members)

Ohhh! I just stumbled upon Lyricstraining . It's not a blog, and I think it's in beta, but it kind of does the whole lyric and music thing in a few languages.

I made an account briefly to check out the English stuff, and it has YouTube videos with lyrics, and then this kind of fill in the blank activity while you're listening to the song.

If you like to learn using music, I can recommend two sites : Lyrics Training to learn with music videos (with fill-the-blank karaoke type exercises) and Lyrics Translate to read crowd sourced translation to many songs, you can ask for specific ones as well if they haven't been translated yet.

Do you know a website like this already exists?

And you should allow people to see what languages are supported before they sign up. I won't sign up for your website without knowing whether or not you support German. Luckily I came to these comments and found out that you don't, but as a user I'd be pretty pissed if you made me give you my email address just to find out you don't have the language I want.

How do you have support for 80 languages and no German, the 11th most spoken language in the world.