- Map of France which zooms in to regional maps.
- Google.fr - French version of the ubiquitous search engine, Yahoo! France similarly for the famous web directory. WoYaa! does a similar job for francophone Africa.
- ClicNet is a broad, well-maintained catalogue of Francophone resources on many subjects, intended for students and teachers of French.
Reciprocal Links Learn French
- Learn how to speak French online! - Get your private online French Tutor!
- Learn to speak French - Learn To Speak French is the golden opportunity that our online services provide you as an online learner or any of the interested learner.
- Learn Spanish or Learn to speak French with Seniority Languages Directory - find language courses, tips on learning a new language or add your web site to Seniority.
- French Learning Resources. Language resources directory - Spanish , English, German , French, Italian and many more language resources
- Europa Pages - Directory of Language Schools in France, Britain, Germany, Spain and Ireland - Extensive directory of language course providers in Europe. Also includes an au pair centre, international language job centre, free penpal service and more!
- FRENCH
TUTOR / ENGLISH TUTOR - This group welcomes all who are trying to learn or improve their French or
English, as well as those who are willing to help others learn their
language. Group members may choose to send their replies/comments to the group
or to the concerned person directly, off-list. Welcome !
Reciprocal Links different than Learn French Topic
- Webportal Malaysia - One-Stop Malaysian Portal catering mainly to the Malaysian Population - Malaysian Site that provides free membership, matchmaking, sms, auctions, search directory and engine, classified Ads & Advertisements, Hot Forums, Newsfeed
News & media on-line
- Le Monde - the full edition online (though a charge is made for in-depth stories).
- Libération offers a partial online service - each day's front page is available in Adobe Reader format, plus several top stories in full and the occasional special.
- Google Actualités France allows you to search and browse hundreds of continuously updated news sources.
- TF 1 is one of the TV channels. EuroTV has full schedules.
- France 2 : second French Tv channel, has a rich website, with a lot of backup materials. Again, EuroTV has full schedules.
- M6 is another French TV channel, which has useful 6 minute news slots available online. TV5 carries a good video summary too, with access to individual news items.
- Lyon Capitale is a Lyonnaise weekly news magazine.
- Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace is another regional newspaper.
- Radio France - the state broadcaster includes such stations as France Inter, France Info, Radio Bleu, and FIP
- Europe 1 is the leading independent radio station.
- Radio Caraïbes International serves Martinique and Guadeloupe.
- Sud Quotidien is one of Senegal's main daily papers.
- Le Soleil de Québec from Canada.
- Volcans, a French journal on the Caribbean and Central America.
- Presse francophone - a listing from ClicNet.
Teaching resources
Zut! provides interactive activities for
French teachers and learners, featuring hundreds of exercises, some of which
have audio samples of native speakers. It's all organised by year of study and
includes reading, writing and listening exercises. Charged in UK school
hours.
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FrenchAssistant.com aims to help you
learn French online for free through lessons and a random question generator.
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RealFrench.net is a collection of free
resources from Manchester Metropolitan University, including internet worksheets
aimed at enabling students to visit and learn from French websites. There are
also extensive intermediate and advanced grammar sections with exercises,
vocabulary games, messageboards, a verb conjugator, and well-chosen links pages.
- Orthonet from the Conseil international de la langue française.
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Dictionnaire multifonctions from TV5.
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Dictionnaire en ligne des synonymes from Université de Caen.
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Lexique du féminin from Laboratoire ATLIF (Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française).
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Le trésor de la langue française informatisé also from ATLIF.
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Base de données CRITER from the Ministère de la Culture.
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Les équivalents français from le Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel
- Polar FLE - murder mystery where you play the role of the Inspector Roger Duflair's assistant; choose your level (beginners to advanced) and practice listening comprehension, grammar and vocabulary in context. Includes worksheets and online activities for classroom use.
- BBC French - a large range of quality resources from French Steps, a self-contained online course for beginners, through to Le Mensuel, an intermediate audio magazine, plus transcripts and bonus material for their TV and radio courses, and much more.
- French Lessons by Jacques Léon, intended to allow you to understand written French. Includes audio pronunciation.
- Cours de phonétique (Université de Lausanne).
- WordPROF teaches and tests vocabulary at a variety of levels, including interactive scenes with audio.
- France à la Carte - includes a guide to current French events around the UK, films on UK TV, and Tandem, a bilingual magazine, as well as links to other relevant sites. From the French Embassy in London.
- Association for French Language Studies - UK organisation promoting French language teaching and research into French linguistics in Higher Education.
- Le français dans le monde - revue de la fédération internationale des professeurs de français
- Franc-parler.org is a worldwide community for French teachers. Also, the American Association of Teachers of French have produced a useful site on Teaching French with Technology.
- Centre Pédagogique of le quartier français du village planétaire - educational applications of the Internet.
- Really Useful French Teaching Site has a mixed bag of interactive exercises for students and worksheets, materials and ideas for teachers.
- Survival French - one man's account of the resources he found invaluable for survival in Neuchâtel.
- MOO Français is a
multi-user virtual environment, a textual place for students and enthusiasts of
the French language to meet and interact in an environment rich with excuses for
practicing conversational French. Click here to
take the plunge.
- What exactly is a MOO? Have a look at The Purpose of MOOs for more details.
Sources for further research...
- About.com Guide to French Language - original articles, lessons, exercises and lots of links, plus discussion forum and chat room.
- Bibliothèques Francophones - a sizable listing of Francophone libraries on the Internet.
- ARTFL Project (Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) - includes a corpus of around 2000 French texts for research (access restricted to some parts), a French/English dictionary, thesaurus, and a verb conjugator.
- Pages Jaunes - online yellow pages/residential phonebook from France Télécom
- Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links
- Sussex French Links