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By Megan Romer, About.com Guide to World Music

French Music From Around the World

Monday September 11, 2006
I recently vacationed to the lovely Francophone city of Montreal, and in preparation, I did some self-guided French language warmup exercises. Now, for me, a pretty comfortable French-speaker, I don't need to do verb charts or warm up on phrase books. Instead I turn to film, books and music to prime my ears... I watched Amelie and Delicatessen, read Le Petit Prince (I wasn't entirely in the mood for Camus this time around), and, of course, I listened to a lot of French music.

I find that my rusty French warms up pretty easily with music, possibly because I find myself singing along (and therefore get myself speaking and pronouncing French words), but even if it really didn't work at all, I think I'd still listen to these Francophone CDs, just because they're awesome.

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Comments

September 12, 2006 at 4:51 am
(1) tina98 says:

Although, I don’t speak and understan french. I still like hearing french songs. Maybe it is in the language that I find it so sexy and intriguing.

July 25, 2008 at 10:07 am
(2) Boeb'is says:

Hi, I’m french and I’m writing a blog in english, about French music. You can find some good tunes there.

have a look!
http://french-kisses.blogspot.com/

March 25, 2009 at 9:57 am
(3) billy says:

You guys should check out this band:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=265639464&s=143441

April 16, 2009 at 9:03 pm
(4) Rosel says:

Bonjour! I have a blog with translations of French music (mostly pop) into English. I’m mainly doing it as a student of the language to increase my command of its intricacies.

August 19, 2009 at 2:06 am
(5) Yoseph says:

Le français NOUVEAU, EN HAUT ET PROCHAIN PARLE ARTISTE A LA MUSIQUE PARFAIT AURA EST LE NOUVEL ALBUM « BONJOUR BABYLONE » RELACHE SUR ITUNES BIENTOT. IL EST TRES DOUE ET je VOUS ENCOURAGE A EXAMINER SON SITE INTERNET POUR APPRENDRE PLUS DE LUI ET ENTENDRE QUELQUES CHANSONS DE BONJOUR BABYLONE PAR PARFAIT. …

(NEW UP AND COMING FRENCH SPEAKING MUSIC ARTIST PARFAIT IS GOING TO HAVE IS NEW ALBUM “BONJOUR BABYLON” RELEASED ON ITUNES SOON. HE IS VERY TALENTED AND I ENCOURAGE YOU TO CHECK OUT HIS WEBSITE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM AND TO HEAR SOME SONGS FROM BONJOUR BABYLON BY PARFAIT….)

http://www.reverbnation.com/parfaitonline#tab=widgets

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