• Harry Potter à l'École des Sorciers

  • Harry Potter 1
  • By: J.K. Rowling
  • Narrated by: Bernard Giraudeau
  • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (279 ratings)

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Harry Potter à l'École des Sorciers

By: J.K. Rowling
Narrated by: Bernard Giraudeau
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Editorial reviews

Aucune collection de jeunes amoureux d’histoires fantastiques ne serait complète sans la série Harry Potter. Quand Harry, jeune orphelin de 11 ans, apprend qu'il est un sorcier, il découvre alors un monde étrange, rempli de magie, d'aventure et se fait rapidement de nouveaux amis. Le narrateur Bernard Giraudeau, véritable maître de son art, donne vie à chaque personnage avec une voix unique, donnant à la narration de Harry Potter à l’école des sorciers, un véritable aspect magique pour les jeunes auditeurs. L’imagination de ce monde fantastique par son auteur J.K. Rowling, a touché le cœur de millions de personnes avec ses histoires d'aventure, de magie et de batailles fondamentales entre le bien et le mal.

Publisher's summary

Orphelin, Harry Potter est élevé par un oncle et une tante qui ne l'aiment pas. Le jour de ses 11 ans, son existence bascule : un géant l'emmène à Poudlard, l'école de sorcellerie ! Voilà son incroyable destin : être sorcier. Jeter des sorts, utiliser des pouvoirs, ensorceler les trolls... À la maison Gryffondor, il rencontre Ron et Hermione, s'initie au Quidditch, un sport pratiqué sur un balai. La vie est excitante, mais Voldemort, Celui-Dont-On-Ne-Doit-Pas-Prononcer-Le-Nom, refait surface.

Initiation ou plaisir renouvelé, plongez dans le 1er tome du célèbre chef d'œuvre de J.K. Rowling ! Guidé par une voix envoutante, revivez le début de la série Harry Potter avec ce livre audio à télécharger.
©1997 J.K. Rowling (P)2000 Éditions Gallimard Jeunesse

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Very Difficult To Understand

So context, I am a fourth year university student (in Canada) taking French. I am fluent in French and fairly confident with my command of the language. That being said, I had a VERY difficult time understanding the narrator... Perhaps because I am not an native French speaker, but even with slowing down the narration I had such a difficult time understanding the voices. They seem mumbled, they seem too nasal and it causes me a lot of difficulty with this book.

I am hoping once I spend a little more time immersed in the French language I will be better equipped to understand that narration, but as someone who exclusively operates in the French language academically... I am not sure that that will happen any time soon.

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As a native speaker, you will enjoy this book
As a language learner, you will probably have difficulty with this book

TIP: if you listen to this while reading a physical copy of the book, you will be able to better understand the narration.

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Overall good, but a bit mumbly

The audio and the e-book differ every so slightly, which is annoying to follow a second language learner of French. The speed of narration is fast for me as a non-native speaker, but that's fine.

Overall, the acting is pretty good, but some of the characters he reads with a mumbled. bored, nasal voice which is unbelievably hard to understand. Ron and Neville come to mind, maybe Malfoy. I didn't feel like that added anything to the story.

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The narrator drove me nuts

What didn’t you like about Bernard Giraudeau’s performance?

First: he narrated wayyy too quickly. Second: I found myself adjusting the volume on my headphones far too often as he would go on long stretches of yelling (i.e., voicing Uncle Vernon) and whispering (i.e., voicing Peeves). Third: there were some painfully high-pitched female voices.

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Horrible Narrator

Am trying to learn Italian and French so was excited when the Harry Potter series came out in those languages. Unfortunately the narrator mangled the voices of almost every character to make their narration not only unintelligible, but occasionally downright painful. Yes, painful, stomach-churning pain trying to figure out who was talking and what was being said. The narrator was amazing when he wasn't doing the Dursleys or Hagrid -- I appreciated his effort in changing the tone and accent in order to portray the vast array of characters in the book, but it became overdone and over-the-top

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Don’t listen to with headphones

Too much voice acting, the voices for Ron and Hermione are terrible, he shouts and then talks quickly in an annoying character voice changing the pitch from high to low. Hard to understand the French eve for natives!

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Great reading voice until he starts doing the voices of the characters. Some of them sound ridiculous

Great reading voice until he starts doing the voices of the characters. Some of them sound so ridiculous, it’s hard to concentrate or take it seriously. Hagrid to start. Or Dumbledore? Awful.

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The narrator’s effusive style is distracting.

I imagine that if I were a french-speaking teenager, I’d find the narration exciting to listen to. Monsieur Giraudeau does distinctive voices for each character, and reads with much drama. But as a learner, I found this distracting.

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Fantastic book. Big challenge.

Well, it was a delight to listen to this book, it was also a big challenge. Harry Potter is the kind of book I will always read/listen no matter in what language I pick up. In this case, I choose french as an oportunity to pratice the language, but was very hard, I need to say. The narrative is faster than I was used to, and and sometimes was almost impossible to understand, as Hagrid for example. Was an exercise to come back again and again until I thought I got the meaning. After some chapters, I do not know if the narrative was slower if I got used to the pronunciation, but it was a easier to identify the text, but even so it was hard. I think so, It is almost an exercise in resistance. If you stop, you will never know what you are capable of.

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Love Harry Potter, Not a Fan of the Narration

I absolutely love the Harry Potter series. But the narration voices that are used are hard to understand and do not do the actual characters justice. Dumbledore sounded like he was about to drop dead and Hagrid sounded terrible.

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Bernard is annoying.

The narrator start well and then switch to acting for the worst. C'est dommage le début est bien. Mais la succession de personnages et de voix rendent le récit brouillon et parfois pénible à écouter.

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