French in Action (French course - 52 videos)

French In Action (1987) This educational series teaches the French language and profiles cultural attributes. No attempt is made to use English in presenting skills and concepts. Wikipedia means: French in Action is a French language course, developed by Professor Pierre Capretz of Yale University. The course includes workbooks, textbooks, and a 52-episode television series. The television series — the best-known aspect of the course — was produced in 1987 by WGBH, Yale University, and Wellesley College, and funded by Annenberg/CPB, and since then, has been aired frequently on PBS in the United States, developing a cult following[1] for its romantic comedy segments interspersed among grammar lessons. Origins During the Second World War, Yale's Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages, Jean Boorsch, had produced for the American ASTP (Army Special Training Program) and the Navy V-12s (V-12 Navy College Training Program) an approach to oral french component, using an immersion technique that he published in 1944 as the "Méthode Orale de Français"[2], remarkable for its precision. It had two main characters Mireille and Robert. Between 1960 and 1961, Prof. Boorsch and Prof. Capretz worked on an oral method, which was never published, in which they had kept the names of these two characters. Prof. Capretz maintained these names in tribute to the "Method Boorsch" in each of the versions of his own "methods" before reaching the current FIA. He had the opportunity to progressively develop the characters themselves during this evolution. The episodes Each episode is half an hour long. The earliest episodes have four main elements: A classroom session, featuring Prof. Capretz explaining the basic ideas of the episode to a group of international students. An excerpt from an ongoing story, filmed especially for the series, and framed as a narrative that Prof. Capretz and his students are inventing in order to practice their French. The story focuses on American student Robert Taylor (played by Charles Mayer) and his French love interest Mireille Belleau (played by Valérie Allain). Clips from French films and television shows illustrating the new vocabulary words of the lesson. A brief Guignol-style puppet show recapping some element of the episode's story. In later episodes, the classroom section is omitted, and the episode begins with the excerpt from the ongoing story. The series uses context and repetition, rather than translation, to teach the meanings of words; except for the first episode, and a brief English language introduction at the beginning of each subsequent episode, the series is conducted entirely in French. NO RAR-FILES!

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angemylene (2010-02-26)

I wish there were more seeders =(

Ghostbiker (2010-02-27)

@angemylene
The first uploads are soon completed...

piman314 (2010-03-29)

This torrent is 43% smaller, yet contains the same videos:

topherschout (2011-04-11)

This was my favorite in College, thanks!

Wendys7 (2013-04-27)

Here is a better option and a quick download. Original video in .mp4 and original .mp3 audio tracks can be found at the link below. go to the link, click french in action, it asks you for user name and password (you don't have one - yet) Click on create guest account. Create a guest account, log in with it and look around - you will find it gives you the option to download original audio (both parts) for you ipod. also each lesson is listed to the right, click it each lesson and you will see original format video ready to play for each. I am sure you all know how to download video off from a webpage. Have fun.

ChillyCrossFoot (2013-12-13)

Your Torrent is No good. The First lesson crashes in VLC. WMV is a junk format. Please use standards like MP4. Who the hell uses WMV?

ChillyCrossFoot (2013-12-13)

Wendys7: You go right on ahead jumping through those hoops while we find a better way. Seriously? You want to listen to audio on your ipod while watching the video on your computer? Are you high?
It amazes me how stupid people are trying to learn languages but haven't gotten the grasp of common sense thinking just yet.

Wendys7 (2013-12-26)

Besides working on improving your french, there are some really great resources out there for improving your social and communication skills ( pay attention Chillycrossfoot ). One of the leaders in discovering who you are and your human condition is John Bradshaw, he has a number of books and dvd's. His best book is called Healing the Shame that Binds you. He shows how people from dysfunctional families use "shame" to put others down and mechanism behind why they pick that form of abuse - A very good read for people wanting to improve themselves when they have too much time on their hands.