Ensemble: French for Beginners Ep 1 to 4 

J'ai étudié le français il y a trois ans, j'ai adoré cette vidéo, très bonne, pour les étudiants de langue française. Merci d'avoir posté cette vidéo. Je suis brésilien.

This was the best French course I have ever taken. I came across my books and wondered if the tapes were still available. I am grateful to the person who put these on RU-vid. Thank you.

Probably the best ever French language course on BBC... ever. What's happened over the past 30 years... The BBC used to produce brilliant German, Spanish and Italian courses too... They were always supported by equally superb radio broadcasts too. The next stages I think were Sur le vif and Allez France. Also Franc Parler, France Extra and A vous la France. Learnt so much French from these superb courses.

The way the actors portray personality types you'd come across in France is spot on , also the fact that it does not patronise the learner and is realistically enacted is great too.

Figures that something from the 70's would do better than any modern day lessons, lol

I like how she calmly helps the bank robber. Complete with showing the map and explaining directions

when the famous people pictures showed up, i didnt know any of them lol

I came across these videos last summer and made my son watch them before he started taking French in high school. I can honestly say that he learned a lot from this video course. Thank you so very much for sharing! As a teacher of foreign languages myself, I really admire how these lessons are made; without much efforts one picks up vocabulary, reading tips, correct pronunciation, and a bit of grammar. Brilliant! I actually liked this course so much that I bought the book to go with it. From the book, I learned that there was also a cartoon and a soap opera to go along the book as well as a radio course (tapes). I wish I could get all of them. By the way, the actress who plays Madame Dupont in the very first skit played two French-speaking characters in the famous British TV show "Upstairs Downstairs".

This is the best french lesson Ive ever had !

This series is honestly pretty good... language chunking, grammar in context, some repetition and comprehensible input aka everything modern language teaching tries to focus on. Definitely ahead of its time.

I participated in this course through the radio & TV shows, bought the books & LPs (which I still have), attended classes at the local adult education college in Peterborough, England, did a "total French" weekend with other students & Elma Soiron in attendance - and finished up by taking the examination. I scored "one" in all categories (the highest grade). I might well have won the prize - a trip to France - but at that time, we finally managed to sell our house & moved to the U.S.A. I never found out who won. We did take a couple of trips to France & I was able to make myself understood well. I have to say that before taking this course in French, I had 2 yrs. of Latin in school & several of Spanish. That helped, plus my natural ability to learn languages. Great shows, great experience.

These is hands down the best videos on learning French. It's so easy to follow , could understand 90% of the conversation with ease. the pronunciation was clear and I was cracking up through the entire clip.

One of the best tv programmes of this type ever, including the books that accompanied it.

Thank you! Found my "French in Action" videos to watch again, and now these, which I didn't see originally, are a great addition. Really appreciate the uploads!

these lessons are much more better than the lessons we buy with money.

Thank you so much for posting these videos. Not only are they very helpful for learning French, but they are extremely cool and stylish, such a fun to watch:) What a shame you only have these tapes left...

Probably the best ever series for beginners to learn French... followed by Sur Le Vif and Allez France... all from the BBC. Television, video and cassette tape, books alongside radio. After an awful French language learning experience at school I decided to follow this series through to Allez France... language teaching methods at schools could have learnt a lot from this brilliant BBC series. Sadly there is nothing like it anymore on TV or radio...

The best series for utterly beginners French learners , explicit

Hahahah! I laugh so hard at the song called "Je ne sais pas" that was funny

These tapes are a tremendous instructional for french beginners as myself.I must thank you sir immensely for sharing, This is yet the best Methode de francais I ever came across and still use today for practising French

Je trouve cette video tres utile! Merci beaucoup pour la partager!

Thanks to my French teacher leading me to this series in 7th grade! I finally found it again

I love it! its fun to watch and easy to understand! Thank you.

One of the actors I think was in the "Gourmet Night" episode of Fawlty Towers! He's playing the long-haired customer at minute 16.

Thank you very much !!!!! I am glad I found you Super learning tool for beginners Excellent!!!!!!!! Thank you very much for the videos.

Very helpful for me thanks a lots for your support and sharing this beautiful lesson. Merci beaucoup 😘 😘 😘 😘.

Bonjour, Ensemble French! Super! Merci et à bientôt. Brasil 2018.

Thank you so much!! Been struggling to transition from writing and reading to listening.

Whoever it was that got her to dress as a nurse, well, there is a Pernod waiting here for you. The look at 08:22...

R.I.P. André Maranne (also known from the Pink Panther movies).

The girl in 8:48 is the same girl who presents a french course for the BBC called " A vous la France" a old one, from the eights

This is excellent much better then the modern travel loge type programs that have passed for language courses in recent years which are just aimed at middle class consumers.

these old videos are the best for the beginners haha

This is the first time I see someone getting robbed like that. Bon bon ça va lolololol

je l'ai aimé. Excellent... Merci--- Me gusto mucho... Gracias

Thank you so much for your very useful and excellent lessons ! Like and love your channel !

They put this on Sunday mornings

Am learning a lot from this...wow! Impressive!

Priceless footage, thanks

Carolle Rousseau is so beautiful. I'm gonna copy this to all these vids so people would know her name :D.

thank you so much my teacher for this course ! you make me able to speak french vry easily

Thank you very much for uploading these!!

I am presently studying the corresponding Russian course............ thank goodness i studied French beyond advanced level.

still trying to learn French in 2023. I started in 2021 during the pandemic. Will I ever speak the language? Je ne sais pas!!! Maybe... I´ll keep going... Thanks for the videos... Au revoir!!!!

I really like this. More videos, please and thank you.

I love this videos.

I love the intro; a Europe now going.

I hope, i will be able to speak French very good, thank you so much 👏

I feel bad I dont know these actors. They're before my time XD

French in Action was another good series

j'adore le programme

And that, kid, is how terribly fast references age.

love vintage stuff, ty for the upload, but who is the young man, i knew Bridget and Maurice

C'est parfait! J'adore le video. Merci beaucoup! ❤

Merci pour cette video!

quite helpful for A1 and A2 level -- Merci beaucoup

Thanks for posting this, it's great!

This is really awesome. I am enjoying this video a lot.

I ordered the book online Ensemble 1 Programmes 1-12 and it just came in today. I hope i can find the other books online

Thank you, obrigado, merci beaucoup!

It was very good conversation I learnt what something.

I am Eritrea and I like this program

Thank you, I have just started the course, it's verry helpful!

C'est géniale cette vidio pour l'étudie de la langue française. Merci

Not to mention; Sur Le Vif France Extra France Parler A Vous La France

Where can I the scripts of the videos? I'm enjoying learning with these videos.

Mlle Descartes c'est un babe fantastique! Any one know who the actress is? Hope she is still around - bet she is still fabulous. :)

Incroyable vidéo. Merci beacoup.

oh! perfait j'aime c'est program très bien 👍

Can someone tell me what the robber is saying at 14:56-57 and then at 15:02?

Very helpful. Thank you.

I love these! Merci beaucoup !

lolllll très bien .merci beaucoup monsieur c'est très bien vous avez m'aider

At the skit at 9:25 is the actor who is the theif André Maranne?!? He was in the pink panther

Mon dieu! Elle est très belle! Comment s'appelle-t-elle? And that is one hell of a bank robbery, that is :-)

can anyone explain the the bank robbery scene....i did not understand what the robber asked in the end...something like chat ??

found this from the book my grandma gave me, ensemble 1 french for beginners

Bonne continuation....Bravo

Je n’ai pas compris la blague de détective, en banque, ‘ce n’est pas chatre ‘ Il y a quelq’un qui m’explique, s’il vous plaît ??? Pourquoi il est décidé de sortir ?

At 3:11, let's appreciate the socially acceptable scores in those times.

Brilliant! Why does he say "fierement garçon" ? Not familiar with this expression

Thank you for this videos✅

What's the music playing at 10:30?

Muchas gracias justo lo que busca a!!!

I must admit I would have been "bien vivant" also...

Il y a un arrêt d'autobus par ici?

May I know the actors' names, please?

Merci beaucoup.

Merci beaucoup

Merci beaucoup!

Thanks 💚💜💛❤️

Beaucoup merci j adore la programe

Merci beaucoup pour cette video

anyone knows the actors name ??

Merci infiniment !.

I can understand almost everything but I can't speak or write french

Very very helpful thanks for sharing

Legend

This is good

C'est très bien pour moi ce video