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Call My Agent!
Dix pour cent
2015 · TV series · 52 min episodes · 4 seasons
Created by Dominique Besnehard, Fanny Herrero
At a top Paris talent firm, agents scramble to keep their star clients happy—and their business afloat—after an unexpected crisis.
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> Nope, learning multiple languages from the beginning has been shown to have many benefits.
Anecdata: I'm a native English speaker but as a little kid I was completely bilingual in French (dad was a USAF officer stationed in central France, we lived "on the economy" in a little farm village 30 miles from the base and my sisters and I started school in the village schools). I've long had the impression that native fluency in both languages had benefits; it certainly gave me easy A+ grades in high-school and college French classes, but otherwise I couldn't begin to articulate what those benefits might be.
These days my French is pretty rudimentary, but my wife and I like to watch some English-subtitled French TV series on Netflix and Acorn, e.g., Call My Agent, Candice Renoir, and Munch; it's fun to recognize idioms and sometimes not even need the subtitles.
TV/film - is there something new even remotely popular across the world that's French?
Indian here who doesn't know French - just finished watching all four seasons of Dix Pour Cent (Call My Agent) and really enjoyed it. I also watched Lupin (after learning that it stars Omar Sy who I loved in the movie The Intouchables).
I often watch French language tv shows or movies to keep up my language skills. I recently watched "Call my agent." Way better than "Versailles" ;)
Thing is, it's very difficult for me to understand. But I realized that if I put on CC in French, I can understand it no problem, almost as well as if the CC was in English. But without the CC, I can't understand it well enough to enjoy the show.
This leads me to believe that my difficulty in understanding spoken vs written French might not be so much grammar and vocab of spoken French, but rather the difficulty of translating sounds to words in real time.
I really should leave the CC off entirely, but I want to enjoy the show, so for now, my compromise is to watch with CC in French. I am almost certainly compromising my language skills this way, though.