One Thing In A French Day

About One Thing In A French Day

Dans One Thing In A French Day, je vous raconte quelque chose qui m’est arrivé dans la journée : une balade à Paris, une discussion en famille, une rencontre. Twice a week since 2006, I’ve been sharing a small piece of my day in France, in French. Not the postcard version of Paris, but real life, seen by a Frenchwoman who lives here. I’m not passing through; I’ve always lived in the Paris area. This podcast is for anyone who wants to gain ease in French and enjoy the feeling of living in France like a French person. Improving your listening comprehension improves so much else along the way: your French, your fluency, your vocabulary, your syntax, your curiosity. From the beginning, I’ve written day by day. I choose my topics from what happened to me a few days earlier, sometimes that very day. It’s not always comfortable, and it’s a little risky, but that’s what makes it an adventure. It also gives the podcast its logbook feel: it follows my life, the seasons, my travels, my encounters. Nothing is invented. You might think that writing episodes before recording them takes them away from natural spoken French. In fact, the writing is the podcast’s main asset for learners. I take great care with my sentences: short and long, simple and complex, with all kinds of tenses, plus snippets of dialogue when I report a conversation. Spontaneous speech is fascinating, but its syntax is very different. To express an opinion or tell a story well, you need to know how a sentence is built. These aren’t textbook sentences, though, and their contexts aren’t limited. You hear well-written French again and again, you notice how words are used in context, and those sentence patterns become instinctive. For several years, I’ve also shared interviews with people who live or work in France and whom I want to meet. I prepare my questions around their work or their approach, and I meet them in person, at their workplace or in a café. Hearing other voices trains your ear to new rhythms and new ways of saying things. And because listening often to one voice already does much of the work, adapting to others becomes easier. I’m not a French teacher, and the podcast letters that come with each transcript aren’t lessons. French is the language I live, think and write in, and I like showing you what is natural or useful for a learner. In the letters you’ll find useful phrases taken from the episode, along with playful exercises inspired by writers, poetry, researchers’ books, music, the history of indexes, encounters… They’re a lively complement to more formal lessons when you’re learning on your own. Written, recorded and produced by me, Laetitia, near Paris, France. Subscribe to the letters to support this independent, homemade podcast : www.onethinginafrenchday.com Contact: frenchday@gmail.com (mailto:frenchday@gmail.com) About this podcast: One Thing In A French Day is a French podcast for intermediate and advanced learners (B1–C1) who want to learn French with authentic, spoken French. Each episode is a true story about French daily life and life in Paris, with a full transcript. A good fit for French listening practice, real French vocabulary and Paris stories told by a native speaker.

Publisher

French with Laetitia Perraut

Category

education

Language

fr

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Mar 2022

Latest episode

22 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

572 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Oct 2026

   Dans la salle d’attente, Lisa vous raconte (A waiting room story)

   C’est Lisa qui vous parle aujourd’hui.

2. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Rencontre avec des fans de Céline Dion (Céline Dion Fans in Paris)

   Pourquoi autant de monde pour aller voir Céline Dion à La Défense samedi soir ?

3. 

   15 Oct 2026

   Ref, poésie de proviseur, aura et à nouveau Descartes (Aura Battle at a French High School)

   Cet épisode est le récit d’un déjeuner à la maison, cette semaine, avec mes trois filles qui suivent de près l’actualité des manifestations lycéennes.

Who has been a guest on One Thing In A French Day

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Aurélie
• Micaela
• Gilles Siouffi
• Lorena

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

274 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

136 ratings

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