French Language Learning Links

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Search Engines

http://fr.yahoo.com/
http://www.wanadoo.fr/
http://www.voila.fr/
http://www.lycos.fr/
http://www.cocorico.com/
http://www.francite.com/
Francophone search engines, which will enable you to search subject matter in the French language in all categories.

Language Learning Sites

Sites in English

http://www.french.about.com
An incredibly comprehensive site for French tutors and learners. Has links to a range of useful information on France and the French language. Includes French for beginners, dictionaries and vocabulary databases and help with grammar. Includes listening activities.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/french/
Useful website for those interested in the French language at all levels. Includes a short on-line assessment of level, suggestions of which resources would be useful, an on-line course for beginners, links to the French Experience series and Accents D'Europe for more advanced learners. Includes listening activities and video clips.

http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/flteach-res.html#french
This is a general collection of useful links for language teachers. Includes links to media, radio stations, dictionaries, language teaching sites. A vast site but pretty good and worth a look.

http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/call/links/french.html
Another comprehensive list of French Internet resources put together by the University of Cambridge. Includes maps, search engines, news groups, learning materials etc.

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/langc/french.html
List of French Internet resources put together by the University of Sussex.

http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html
Tennessee Bob’s Famous French links home page. It’s actually quite good!

http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/french.html
Website of the French department at University of Oregon. Contains range of links to other potentially useful sites.

Sites in French

http://www.bonjourdefrance.com/
Easy to use website to aid both students and teachers of French. The Comprehension section has a range of suitable texts at all levels, Grammaire has explanations and exercises for a range of grammatical areas and there is also a limited business French section. Worth a look.

http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/home/accueil_inter.php
Learn and practise your French with TV5. Read a brief introduction and context, do a pre-watching task, then watch a video clip and answer questions. Wide range of subjects to choose from. Requires RealPlayer. Scroll down to nooSphère for a guide to useful French websites. Information for teachers is also available.

Help with specifics

http://www.liensutiles.org/languefranc.htm
Verb conjugating webpage. Key in the infinitive form of the verb required and receive a full conjugation of all the simple forms of the verb. It will also tell you about any irregular forms. Also contains extensive list of useful links.

http://membres.lycos.fr/clo7/plan.htm
Useful page containing links to sections such as history of the language, grammar and spelling, spoken and written expressions etc.

http://www.yourdictionary.com/grammars1.html#french
Comprehensive list of French grammars and other useful sites.

http://www.csrs.qc.ca/Goeland/proj/envolee/matieres/francais/accueil.html
This website looks at the grammar and usage of adjectives - from their position in the sentence to agreement with noun.