Hi Zelda.
We`re heading quite far to the South but as I`m not organising this year I`m not too sure where we`re going but I know the gite we`re staying in is by the Gardon River, at the foot of the Cevennes Mountains if that`s any help.
I`ve got some MP3 French words and phrases that I listen to when I`m in the gym and some of it is sinking in (I can say I`m lost which will probably be useful although I won`t understand the reply

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I was just hoping as I`ve converted my reading to my be-book that I could find something to have on there and seeing these things play MP3s I would think it would be an obvious way of listening to the language spoken but then what do I know?