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How do you enhance your language learning once you've outgrown textbooks?
With curiosity, culture and new obsessions !
One Thing In A French Day bridges the gap between formatted classroom French and real life French as spoken in Paris. This podcast invites you into my Parisian daily life. Authentic stories from real encounters, with French that's carefully chosen but never artificial. Bienvenue.
As one of the pioneering voices in podcast-based language learning, this show has provided for nearly two decades what's surprisingly hard to find : French that exists nowhere else. Not textbook French, not simplified YouTube French, not literary French, not radio or TV French - but the French you only hear when you're actually there. Unscripted conversations that aren't simplified for learners, yet remain accessible. Each episode draws from genuine daily life in Paris - family moments with three daughters, cultural discoveries, interviews with French professionals met in person.
Every episode delivers vocabulary, sentence structures, and conjugation patterns within natural contexts. Topics span culture, food, literature, sports, and political life - offering the cultural immersion that textbooks can't provide.
Recent interviews include acclaimed novelist Leïla Slimani, renowned pastry chef Claire Heitzler, deputy Philippe Juvin, and four French students sharing what matters to them at 19. The Montmartre series explored the neighborhood's history, the Sacré-Cœur story, and meetings with local poet-artists.
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Wednesday Mar 12, 2025
Wednesday Mar 12, 2025
Le week-end dernier, nous avions la correspondante italienne de Lisa avec nous. Elle est arrivée mercredi et elle est repartie hier. Elle avait un programme chargé de visites les jours où Lisa était en cours, mais le week-end nous pouvions faire des choses avec elle. Nous avions pensé à un petit programme : des courses dans notre quartier le samedi matin (c’est la correspondante qui a demandé une baguette de tradition à la boulangerie), un déjeuner rapide et un tour à Paris avec passage aux Galeries Lafayette, notamment sur la terrasse d’où l’on peut voir tout Paris, une pièce de théâtre, un tour à Pigalle, un dîner dans une crêperie. En fin de soirée, Pietro nous a accompagnées en voiture jusqu’à la Tour Eiffel.
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