Podcast
French Shadow Daily
A new French lesson every day for English speakers, made for listening with no screen: graded stories to shadow, grammar taken apart, survival French for the boulangerie, the métro and the pharmacie, listening quizzes, a café chat between a learner and a native French speaker, a weekly audio drama and slow French news. Every episode is graded to a CEFR level (A1 to C2) and leaves you pauses to speak out loud.
Want to see the words as well as hear them? Every kind of lesson here has an illustrated video version on our YouTube channel, with the French and English on screen, for every level from A1 to C2.
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Every day of the week
Sunday
Slow French News
this week's news from France and the French-speaking world in simple French
Monday
French Story Time
a graded French story to listen to and repeat
Tuesday
French Grammar in Focus
one grammar point, taken apart and practised
Wednesday
Survival French
the phrases for one real situation in France
Thursday
French Listening Quiz
a listening quiz with spoken choices
Friday
French Café Chat
an English learner and a native French speaker chat about one topic
Saturday
French Audio Drama
a graded French audio serial, a new episode each week
Latest episodes
2026-10-19 · 12:06
French Story Time (A1): A Morning at the Market Une journée au marché
Listen to and repeat a simple story about Léa buying food at the market with her grandfather. You will practise greetings, food words, je voudrais, il y a and adjectives.