If you have dc doing French GCSEs and watch Lupin

[Charles11]

How do you watch it? We tried French with English subtitles but the French is too fast.

I've heard quite a few people say it helped their dc but I don't know how it could?

Bonjour! I was thinking whether French subtitles help? Anyones dc finding this useful?

If you're listening in English you won't watch the French subtitles. At least the other way round your ear is becoming attuned to hearing the language and you should start to pick up some words along the way. We watch a lot of subtitled TV and although I can't pretend it's allowed me to speak the languages it's definitely helped me pick up phrases and some pronunciation.
I suppose the next step is to watch in French without subtitles, when you already understand the story, not that I've ever done that myself.

French peppa pig is much more fun!

We watched it and loved it. We watched in French with English subs. I pointed out a few phrases but it's more 'subliminal' than that. You're listening and reading, something goes on. They got quite a bit out of it, and definitely the accent. Dh, who speaks no French, picked up a few bits, keeps calling DS2 "Mon fils".

Thanks! We're enjoying it regardless but if dc can pick up some French to help his GCSEs, then that's a bonus.
It's such a good show.

My teens enjoyed miraculous lady bug en français!

I think it's bound to help with listening (attuning the ear to fluent French) and speaking (accent).

The French is far too fast and difficult for someone at GCSE level to follow so you need the subtitles. However it will help with accent and intonation and the occasional word or short phrase will be picked up. Its a great series in any language.

It's a great show! I think you can change the playback speed on Netflix so you could try slowing it down to see if that helps

I watch it in french with French subtitles as it helps me catch the words. If I can see and hear a word it goes in better. Plus you can pick some out for vocab that way.

You used to be able to buy French newspapers and magazines in WH Smith. I did GCSE and then Alevel French and they both really helped.
Tbh for GCSE I would think concentrating on the tenses, verbs, nouns and constructing a short essay would be fine 🤷

When I did my GCSEs, I tuned my radio to a French station and that's all I listened to for a few months. Helped me loads.
I'm sure we had better teaching so I knew quite a bit. My dc don't even have vocabulary to learn and are clueless.

Slow the speed down on Netflix

Not Lupin, but for learning French, Audible has an option to listen to material at a slower speed. You could try fiction, maybe youth fiction, that DC is familiar with (hunger games, Harry Potter, Roald Dahl?)

Pick something where DC knows the plot so can follow what's going on even if missing quite a lot of words/sentences.

This really helps with having an ear for the language and hearing phrases used in context.

We watched d'Artagnan recently with 14 & 11 year old. No subtitles, stopped every now and again to check they'd understood. They got the gist of it even if they didn't understand most of the words.
Try an audiobook of something they know.

They should have vocabulary to learn / sentence builders or a similar resource to revise from. If their teachers haven't given them this and you know which exam board they are doing, you should be able to find the vocabulary list for that specification online.

There's loads of vocab by topic. Try and get hold of it.

I like Call My Agent, my French is minimal but I can pick up some words.