About FrenchPlus
This website, freely provided, is designed to provide intermediate and advanced students of the French language an additional means of more quickly acquiring French via the use of audio and read-along transcriptions. We hope it also introduces you earlier in your learning stage to interesting and broad subject matter sources to help boost your own ability to find such subject matter.
About the Transcripts
These pages are chosen from a range of popular videos, typically found on YouTube. Please note we are hoping to boost the viewing for the creators of their interesting content for learning purposes. Hopefully we create more viewers & subscribers. Through these pages, students can access a quick view of the complete transcription and translation. Plus grammatical details that may be of interest. These can then be used for practice techniques, such as oral shadowing (e.g. mimicking the pronunciation, rhythm, and idiomatic style of the speaker/s).
We highly recommend you subscribe to the channels of the videos you find enjoyable. They provide wonderful resources, and typically expend enormous effort to generate and create the productions. And you are helping them out by subscribing.
The Tools Used
Some of the tools that have proved extremely handy have been:
This is an extremely useful tool for converting video or audio files, be they YouTube videos or Radio emissions, into a readable transcription. There is a free version, but the paid version is so handy that the subscription has always been well worth the price. For instance, the paid for version allows you to create a library of playback texts with audio. TurboScribe also provides a downloading tool. This is handy for pasting in a video link, then saving it to your device, and then uploading it to TurboScribe for a transcription.
If you're not already using it, go download the Chrome extension for the Chrome browser. It's completely free. You can also subscribe to get additional features, such as being able to save an ongoing list of words & flashcard functionality. The website itself has plenty of good functionality as well, such as catalogues of French content on YouTube and Netflix. Once you have downloaded and turned on the LanguageReactor extension, you can then watch YouTube videos or Netflix movies, with additional, and superb, translation functionality that you can't get from normal subtitles alone.
Audio Links
Headers of the individual transcripts should all have a link back to the original video. In addition, on the home page, where the transcripts are grouped by their creator, there is a link back to the creator's YouTube channel.
PDF Generation
It's easy to get a digital or hard-copy PDF of a transcription, which might help you in your shadowing practice. Simply press Ctrl-P while you're on that page (Ctrl-P generally being the shortcut for "Print" in most browsers). When the popup Print box appears, change the parameters according to your needs, or just go straight to the Destination menu item and make sure it's set to "Save as PDF" (assuming you don't want to print out the transcription).
Miscellaneous Recommendations
Again, if you find content you like, subscribe to those channels, where you will find far more content than we can provide. And on the LanguageReactor website, you can explore the menu to find an incredibly large amount of content, even sorted by subtitles for those channels. LanguageReactor, which was the old Language Learning with Netflix tool, is currently run as a small outfit, and continues to develop new functionality. Potentially that includes being able to categorize words by function (noun, verb, determinant, etc). You may similarly feel that for the reasonable price, it is a project worth supporting.