Videos

• Educational
• Entertainment
• For learning French
• For practising listening French

Educational

Entertainment

Audio	Subtitles	Title
F	E	A Bout De Souffle
F	E,C	Amelie From Montmartre 天使愛美麗
F	E,C	Augustin, King of kung-fu 愛在異鄉的故事
F,E	C,E	Barbarian Invasions/The 老豆堅過美利堅
F	C,E	Caillou et Gilbert + 21 autres aventures
F	C,E	Closet/The 攣工遊戲
F	C,E	Class/The 課室風雲
F	E	Cyrano De Bergerac
F	E	D’Artagnan’s Daughter
F	E	Diving Bell and the Butterfly/The 潛水鐘與蝴蝶
F	E	Dora L’ Exploratrice Chassez Les e’toiles
F	E	Dora L’ Exploratrice La chasse aux oeufs
F	E	Dora L’ Exploratrice Le Noel de Dora
F	E	Eighth/The 第八日
F	E	Hiroshima mon amour
F	E	Horseman on the Roof, The
F	E	Idol/The
F	E	Jean De Florette
F	E	La Cage Aux Folles
F	E	La Gloire De Mon Pere / Le Chateau De Ma Mere
F	E	La Prophétie des Grenouilles 嘩啦嘩啦漂流記
F	E	Last Metro / The
F	E	Le Bonheur est dans le Pre
F	E	Les Chiffres et L’Alphabet
F		Les Dames de la Côte (1 – 3)
F	E	Les Nouvelles Aventures De Caillou
F	E	Les Visiteurs
F	E	Leo et Popi
F	E	Manon Des Sources
F	E	Marquise 路易十四的情婦
F	E	Nine Months 九個月
F	C,E	Qual Des Orfevres 36 二捕曲
F	C,E	Paris, Je T’Aime 我愛巴黎
F	C,E	Ruby and Quentin 越獄瘋雲
F	E	Rue Cases Negres
F	C,E	Stolen Kisses 偷吻
F	C,E	Taxi 1 & 2 的士速逮 1 & 2
F	E	Three Men and a Cradle
F	E	Un Coeur en Hiver
F	E	Un Homme Et Une Femme
F	E	Une Pure Formalite 幽國車站
F	E	Woman Next Door/ The

For learning French:

“Bienvenue en France” is the only video-based general language learning course available in the Language Commons at present. Its 24 episodes follow the adventures of 2 young trainee receptionists, Vincent and Françoise, as they learn about working in the deluxe Parisian Hotel de la Concorde. The language is general and the situations humorous; basically, Vincent would like Françoise to be his girlfriend. Watch to the end of the cassettes to see if he succeeds

The first video (red) contains the first 13 episodes with grammatical explanations at the end of each in French only; it is accompanied by a copy of the students book, teachers notes, workbook and 4 audio cassettes (see “Recommended French Text Resources”) and is strongly recommended as supplementary material if you are learning French by following a course with a teacher. Try to watch at least one fifteen-minute episode per week to reinforce what you are learning in another course.

The remaining 3 videos cover episodes 13 to 24 and include introductions to each episode and further grammatical explanations by a team of three presenters in French and Putonghua.

“Linguaphone French Video” is a 2-cassette course not to be confused with the Linguaphone French and Linguaphone Intermediate French courses. Its 8 episodes cover many everyday situations in the city of Tours, and the bilingual presentation of the accompanying coursebook – English on the left, French on the right-hand pages – make understanding of the video extracts easy. See “Recommended French Text Resources”.

Strongly recommended for beginners as self-study or supplementary material.

The other video for general language use is “Accelerated Learning French”, a “total physical response” course which encourages the viewer to touch things and then proceed to move them. As the transcript manual informs you, the video is deliberately fast-paced to prevent you from translating in your head, so expect to have to watch each section several times. It is accompanied by an introductory study guide and games in English, word cards and 12 audio cassettes. See “Recommended French Text Resources“. Only French is used throughout the video, but the visual element makes this recommended for learning the words for everyday objects just dont try to move things around too much in the Language Commons!

For practising listening to French

See the materials sheet “Foreign Language Films – French” for a full list of the film titles available. They are varied in theme, carry summaries of the story on the cassette box and most have been specially chosen because they have been “remade” in English by American film companies. These, however, are the original French versions with English subtitles.

If you want more information about these or any of the 26000 other French language films the best place to look is the Internet Movie Database, part of amazon.com at http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Languages/French/ (Type the French or English title in the search box or search alpahetically)

Strongly recommended for leisure or to get used to French accents and intonation and maybe pick up a word or phrase by reading the subtitles.

There is also “Chansons Françaises dHier et d’Aujourd’hui” , a video cassette of music clips with an accompanying booklet of lyrics, but all the remaining videos are for learners of business French only. See “Recommended French Text Resources“.