I want to understand French better?

I'm taking French in high school right now (it's my second year). It's come to my attention that I can read French pretty well, but I can't understand it (unless it's coming from my teacher.) Native speakers speak so quickly, and my vocabulary level isn't the highest, so I'm having a hard time with that.

Does anybody know where I can find things to help me understand what's being said? For example, maybe a french television show with English subtitles? I'm already trying to learn by listening to songs, but I think that if I had a TV show or something, it would also help.

Ideas/answers are appreciated! Please and thank you!

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Permalink Reply by lauris on May 17, 2011 at 10:01am

There is some french tv show that you can watch to improve your comprehension, such as "scenes de ménages" or "un gars une fille" (although a little old now). Each episode is quite short, so you don't have to focus for a long time, and they use pretty common french. But I don't know if there is a lot of english subtitles for french tv shows.... but you don't find it, you can also try with french subtitles, it can work to.

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Permalink Reply by Ed la mouette on May 17, 2011 at 5:35pm

In France, we give to those who want to improve their english the advice of watching movies or tv shows in english, but also subtitled in english. It's more difficult to translate what's written and correlate it with what's listened that to directly read and think in French.

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Permalink Reply by Dai Lewis on May 18, 2011 at 8:00pm

I suggest you obtain a copy of the french film "Un homme et une femme" The spoken french is clear and you will soon get the gist of the expressions used.