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The site sonsenfrancais.org was started to provide listening practice in French at an advanced level for English speakers.  There are many resources on the internet for beginners: there are audio magazines which will take you to an intermediate level, such as Authentik en français, as well as magazines such as Champs Elysées at a more modest level.  If you find the material here just too difficult - don't get depressed, check out BBC French, TV5 Monde, or Radio France Internationale.

If your ambition is one day to be able to watch and understand any French film or television programme, and you already have a good level of French, you will find many hundreds of video clips here - mostly of five minutes, with text, subtitles which can be switched on or off, and an audio only version.  This site offers video clips which are mostly rather more accessible than on sonsenfrancais.org - but even if you find them difficult to follow, watching with subtitles will help you improve your listening skills.

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