{"id":53,"date":"2023-09-14T21:33:32","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T21:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/french-immersion\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2023-11-03T19:21:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T19:21:47","slug":"oral-language-4-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/french-immersion\/supporting-learners-in-grades-4-7\/oral-language-4-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral Language 4-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immersing oneself in a language helps develop comfort with the language and grow vocabulary. It is also a nice way to get exposure to a variety of accents and rates of speaking.<\/p>\n<p>Watching French shows is one way to do this. French learners could watch a show in French, including content from <a href=\"https:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/jeunesse\/scolaire\/emissions\">Radio-Canada Jeunesse<\/a>. Using subtitles while watching can also help link auditory cues with written cues.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to French podcasts or French audiobooks is another fantastic way to do this. A number of apps that you can use to access podcasts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepodcasthost.com\/listening\/how-to-listen-to-a-podcast\/\">This article<\/a> explains options for listening on various devices and <a href=\"https:\/\/reedsy.com\/discovery\/blog\/best-audiobook-apps\">this website<\/a> lists some app options for audiobooks.<\/p>\n<p>Alliance Fran\u00e7aise offers a selection of podcasts online as well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.francetvinfo.fr\/replay-radio\/salut-l-info\/\">Salut L&#8217;info!<\/a> &#8211; a podcast that presents and explains the news in French<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/play.acast.com\/s\/mythes-et-legendes\">Quelle Histoire<\/a> &#8211; a French podcast that makes you discover myths and legends from the world as you never heard it before!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immersing oneself in a language helps develop comfort with the language and grow vocabulary. It is also a nice way to get exposure to a variety of accents and rates of speaking. Watching French shows is one way to do this. French learners could watch a show in French, including content from Radio-Canada Jeunesse. Using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8716,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/french-immersion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/french-immersion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/french-immersion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/french-immersion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/french-immersion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/french-immersion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/french-immersion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions\/142"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/french-immersion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/french-immersion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}