How to get Daniel tiger in French?

December 21, 2019 12:37 PM

What is the best way for me to obtain Daniel Tiger episodes in French? I am in the US. Streaming, DVD, etc are fine, and a reasonable cost is fine.
posted by amy.g.dala to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

It's called Le Village de Dany in French and shown on France 5, a public channel. Some episodes can be watched for free on the France Télévision's website here and the show also has a French YouTube channel. I'm not sure about geolocking though.
posted by elgilito at 12:45 PM on December 21, 2019

Response by poster: Yes, the reason I’m asking is because of geolocking. I should clarify that I don’t know how to get around this and if I can pay for it somehow.
posted by amy.g.dala at 1:02 PM on December 21, 2019

If you're a Windows user you may use Captvty with a French http proxy. Captvty is a simple tool that makes it easy to download legally French TV shows that channels make freely available on their VOD platforms. Captvty doesn't bypass geoblocking by default, but there's an option in the bottom right where you can add a proxy such as those (use a https proxy, not a SOCKS).
Another way is to use the TOR browser and configure the exit nodes as shown here and redirect to France (ExitNodes {fr}). I've not tested it.
posted by elgilito at 3:38 PM on December 21, 2019

My daughter watches kids shows from Netflix and other streaming services in French - we just switch the language in the preferences. As to how accurate the translations are...I don’t know but it works great. She has watched pj masks, how to train your dragon and others.
posted by catrae at 8:22 AM on December 22, 2019