I invite you to attend a civil marriage in Paris. A brief ceremony where I was the groom’s witness. A good opportunity to study some official wedding vocabulary.

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In this second part, Jacques continues to tell us about about his lifelong practice of karate, and also about how and why everyone could benefit from this practice.

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Jacques Secques is a karateka who has practised this martial art for forty five years. He now is a black belt, 5th Dan. Jacques is my karate teacher, so I wanted to interview him to learn more about his background and this martial art, its history and its great figures in France.

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Jacques Secques, a great Shotokan Sensei - Part 1

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In this third video podcast, I give some tips about how to use my Audio Dictionary. I hope these tips will make using the dictionary easier for everybody.

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In this last part, Jorge continues to talk about the objects that philatelists collect. He finally tells us why he has chosen to collect hen, chick and rooster related stamps.

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My friend Jorge, stamp and chick lover - Part 3

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This is the second part of my conversation with Jorge, a philatelist friend. In this part, Jorge tells us about his collection, and about all the different objects that philatelists like to collect.

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My friend Jorge, stamp and chick lover - Part 2

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Today, I am happy to present Jorge, a philatelist friend who tells us about his stamp collections and more particularly about one collection that has a pretty surprising theme.

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My friend Jorge, stamp and chick lover - Part 1

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In this second video podcast, I tell you about the new T3 tramway which was inaugurated in Paris in December 2006, and its operating hours. I also added some tips and Internet links in the transcript.

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Eva is 13 years old. Although she was unwilling to go to summer camp in the Jura, she enjoyed her stay there and made a lot of new friends. She tells us with humour about the summer camp and the good memories she brought back from it.

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Eva at the summer camp

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I am happy to announce a new feature in the podcasts. In addition to each podcast in French, we will publish another podcast with a simultaneous translation in English, courtesy of Marc.

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At the age of eighteen, Sadio left Bamako, Mali, to start Law Studies in France. His dream had always been to become a corporate legal adviser. Today Sadio is a driving instructor. Sadio tells us about his first years in France and about the different jobs he has held before this one.

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I have thought about how to improve french-podcasts.com and have decided to try podcasting videos. Here is my first vocabulary and pronunciation module, that covers a simple subject: my desk. This video podcast can be directly downloaded to mp3 players supporting the .mp4 video format, and it is also available through iTunes. Please, let me [...]

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Julien is a guitarist. He plays, or rather he used to play with an electronic music band. He tells us about how he started to play guitar and also about how difficult it is to pursue his passion for music while working as a web designer.

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Julien, Musician And Web Designer

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I have wanted for a while to produce a series of podcasts with children. So I recently asked a good friend whether I could start this series with her daughter Jade. I am very happy to publish my conversation with Jade, who tells us about her life as a five-year old girl.

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Jade : a beautiful name for a lovely five-year old girl.

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Jean Casaubieilh produces golden looking and wonderfully tasting Jurançon wine in Monein, in the middle of the Béarn countryside. He shares with us his enthusiasm about winemaking and tells us under which particular circumstances he became a winemaker.

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Meeting a Jurançon winegrower: Mr. Casaubieilh, at the Domaine Guirardel

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Mariette, a dear friend of mine, teaches German in a school near Paris. What does teaching mean today? How do teenagers choose which foreign language to learn? Why do they choose German rather than English or Spanish? Mariette responds to my questions with a lot of kindness and enthusiasm.

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Teaching German ? Mit Freude !

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Here is the continuation of the preceding podcast about the photo-blog of my friend Zabelle. She talks with enthusiasm about her photographs.

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L?oeil du courlis: a beautiful photo-blog by a talented amateur photographer

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My friend Zabelle tells us why she decided to create her photo-blog. She talks about the tools she uses, and gives some advice on how to achieve beautiful photographs.

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Here is the continuation of the preceding podcast about Clémentine -who soon will be a guide dog for visually impaired people- and her stay with me during one week. How does Clémentine manage to change both host-family and home for a while ? To see the Clémentine?s album, click here.

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Clémentine is a one year old beautiful Curly Coated Retriever. In a few months, Clementine will leave her host family to undergo extensive training at the “Guide Dogs for Blind People” Institute in Paris. Sweet Clementine was my guest for one week.

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My brother Serge works for RATP, the company that runs the Paris subway. In this podcast, we talk about the recent extension of the operating hours of the Paris subway, and the changes it brings to both users and staff.

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