I would highly recommend RFI's podcast (Le Journal en Français Facile). At first, it's intimidating, and, despite the name, doesn't feel easy at all. They use simpler vocabulary, but still talk at full speed. You might need to listen to each episode a few times in a row, and read the transcript. And that's exactly what makes it such an effective tool. Struggling through it is part of training your brain to make sense of the sounds of the new language.
There are other options out there that try to be easy for learners by speaking very slowly. That's a trap. It's absolutely easier to understand, but you're learning to understand the wrong thing. The phonics of many languages undergo some subtle mutations when they are spoken slowly. This is especially true in French. So if you only listen to slow language that's over-pronounced to make it easier for learners to understand, you'll end up training your ear to understand the phonics of slow language that's over-pronounced for learners. Which isn't how actual people actually speak.
I would highly recommend RFI's podcast (Le Journal en Français Facile). At first, it's intimidating, and, despite the name, doesn't feel easy at all. They use simpler vocabulary, but still talk at full speed. You might need to listen to each episode a few times in a row, and read the transcript. And that's exactly what makes it such an effective tool. Struggling through it is part of training your brain to make sense of the sounds of the new language.
There are other options out there that try to be easy for learners by speaking very slowly. That's a trap. It's absolutely easier to understand, but you're learning to understand the wrong thing. The phonics of many languages undergo some subtle mutations when they are spoken slowly. This is especially true in French. So if you only listen to slow language that's over-pronounced to make it easier for learners to understand, you'll end up training your ear to understand the phonics of slow language that's over-pronounced for learners. Which isn't how actual people actually speak.