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Online Courses for learning French


We've searched the web for sites with tutorials for learning French.
Here's a short description of each site.

Do you have questions on how to conjugate French verbs? Scroll down.
Do you want to improve your French vocabulary, and hear how the word sounds? See below on this page.
There are sites with French idioms and sounds made by French animals.
How's your French spelling? Further on down this page you will find French spell checkers.
Would you like to learn French as it is spoken in the Canadian province of Québec? There are links on this page that will show you how.

The French verb is not as intimidating as that of the other Romance languages.
Many French people don't bother with the subjunctive any longer. Also, that strange agreement of the past participle with the direct object of the verb is often overlooked by modern French speakers.
Today's French people are constantly simplifying the complex rules of "liaison" (linking of sounds from one word to another), making the language learner's job easier.
Several French sounds are a challenge for the American speaker. However, you can be understood perfectly by the French even if you don't sound like a Frenchperson. French and British tourists to Paris torture the French language, but the French understand quite well. And chuckle a bit.

Bonjour à tout le monde !

Websites for Learning French

Face-to-face French instruction in Manchester CT USA area From Yoursecondlanguage.com

French Tutors From Wyzant Face-to-face lessons in French. Search in all US states and major cities.

Learn French Resources for teachers of French. Portail pour les professeurs de français langue étrangère

Learn French From Radio France Internationale. Real good! Listen Online too. Easy French news. Transcriptions. Download sound files.

News in slow French By Newsinslowfrench.com Much of the site is free.

Online French course By Jacques Leon Has sound files of French words and sentences.

French sounds Hear the sounds of French at Fonetiks.org Click on "pain" "coin" "croyant" "vin/fin" "terre" "vidéo".

French sounds at The French tutorial.com Hear the sounds of French.

French sounds: Article on French liasons. In French. at monsu.desiderio.free.fr

Great test on French liaisons from Lepointdufle.net Self-test to see how well you do liaisons in French.

French Spoken Vocabulary: Hear the most common words in French at Languageguide.org Mouse over and hear the word spoken. This is fun, and is good for learning and testing yourself.

French numbers at Languageguide.org Mouse over a number and hear it spoken.

French sounds: French audio dictionary. Hear the most common words in French at French.About.com Many good resources for French on the site.

French sounds: Online course. Hear the sounds at Jump-gate.com

French sounds: Links to good sites about listening comprehension in French at About.com

French text to speech at Text-to-speech.imtranslator.net.org Type in French text. It reads it aloud in French.

French text to speech by ATT

French Text to Speech From Acapela group.com

French Text to Speech at Imtranslator.net

French Listening Comprehension at Lepointdufle.net Many recorded dialogues for listening.

French Listening Comprehension at About.com Recorded French Dialogues for Listening Comprehension. With French transcriptions and translations. They are read slow.

French intonation at About.com Stress accent, pitch in French. Excellent, clear article.

French intonation at University of Ottawa In French

French Homophones From About.com Different French words with the same sound.

French words or homophones with different meanings according to their gender from About.com

French Numbers From About.com excellent page for learning, reading and hearing French numbers.

French Gestures From About.com

French Gestures from Auto Selection.com French automotive word list

Learn French Mille faux amis en langue française. Somewhat technical, but useful.

French proverbs From About.com

French proverbs From Wikipedia

French quotations From Vdaucourt.free.fr Famous sayings, like Vespasien: "L'argent n'a pas d'odeur", Marie-Antoinette: "S'ils n'ont pas de pain, qu'ils mangent de la brioche" (If they don't have any bread, let them eat cake). Note Brioche is not cake.

French expressions explained From Expressio.fr Amazing site that explains French expressions. Search facility and new expression every day.

French expressions From About.com

French expressions from Francparler.com Much good information about French

French expressions from Linternaute.com

Learn French online From Wikipedia

French grammar online By Softissimo Some French grammatical tools

Learn French online From University of Texas at Austin Very good online course.

Learn French online BBC

Learn French online French Language Guide Test yourself on how much French you know. Grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, verb congugation.

Review French grammar from Cliff Notes

Basic rules of French punctuation From about.com differences between English and French punctuation

French Symbols + Punctuation Marks: French punctuation From about.com

Basic rules of French punctuation From Etudes-litteraires.com in French

La ponctuation française By Centre de ressources informatiques de l'Université René Descartes in French, bien entendu !

French Acronyms and Abbreviations from French.About.com Acronymes et sigles français. Do you wonder what these mean in French: ADN, SDF, RMI, SMIC?

French Verlan slang From Wikipedia "Reversing" slang. keuf = flic, meuf = femme, beur = arabe, céfran = français.

French Verlan slang From About.com

French underworld slang / l'argot des voleurs from Alyon.org Example: Dévisser son billard = mourir.

French slang (in France) By André Bougaïeff, Professeur Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières A useful site.

Really useful informal French and slang From Ielanguages.com

On Line Encyclopedia in French From Wikipedia

On Line Encyclopedia in French From l'internaute Also is a dictionary.

French authors, online, twelfth century - twentieth century by Hs-augsburg.de "Chanson de Roland", Descartes, Victor Hugo, Guy de Maupassant, Blaise Pascal, Voltaire

Sounds made by animals, in French (cris d'animaux) From Slideshare.net The dog says "Ouah ouah !"

Names of sounds made by animals, in French (cris d'animaux) From Fr.wikipedia

Imitation of animal sounds in French and other languages From University of Adelaide

French baby names for things From l'internaute Babytalk in French, like Doggie - un toutou

French names for baby animals From Transparent Language A young pig is called a porcelet; a young toad is called a têtard.

Giving Commands to dogs in French From Talkingtails.com How to say sit, stay in French and other languages.

Letter writing in French - the right formulas From About.com Formules de correspondance personelle.

Letter writing in French - sample letters to a business From Adminet.com Formules de correspondance commerciale

The Words/Paroles of Alouette, gentille alouette here

The Words/Paroles of Sur le pont d'Avignon here

The Words/Paroles of Frère Jacques here

The Words/Paroles of Au clair de la lune here

The Words/Paroles of Qui a peur du loup here

The Words/Paroles of Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre here

The Words/Paroles of La p'tite hirondelle here

The Words/Paroles of Am, stram, gram here

The Words/Paroles of many French children's songs and comptines Mamalisa.com

The Words/Paroles of many French children's songs and comptines Comptine.free.fr Hear the songs, read the lyrics. Sur le pont du Nord, Tourne, tourne, Petit moulin, frère Jacques, Sur le pont d'Avignon,

The Words/Paroles of many French children's songs and comptines Rassat.com Hear the songs, read the lyrics. Gentille Alouette, Au clair de la lune

French Christmas Carols - Chants de Noël at Lyrics Copy.com Lyrics of many popular French Christmas songs

French Christmas Carols - Chants de Noël at About.com Lyrics of popular French Christmas songs

French Christmas Carol Douce Nuit, Sainte Nuit Song Sheet at Bogglesworldesl.com Lyrics of Douce Nuit, Sainte Nuit

Quebecois compared to French from Wikipedia

Quebecois compared to French from republiquelibre

Quebecois French cursing from Wikipedia

Quebecois vocabulary compared to French from Wikipedia

Quebecois French anglicisms from Wikipedia

Pronouncing Canadian French from University of Calgary PDF document. Technical.

Quebec French Lexicon from Wikipedia Words used in Quebec, compared to usage in France.

French in Quebec from Answers.com from a linguistic point of view.

Some French words used in Quebec and not in France from Immigrer.com Does not appear to be an official site.

Information about living in Quebec from Immigrer.com Does not appear to be an official site.

Quebec French videos from Answers.com Videos for learning French with a Quebec accent.

Fun English/French picture dictionary from Enchantedlearning.com

The new French spelling from Orthographe-recommandee

French spell checker from Orthographe.reverso

French spell checker from Francaisfacile.com Also other languages.

French spell checker from Jspell.com Also other languages.

French spell checker from Stars21.com Also other languages.

French spell checker from Bonpatron.com

Mot du Jour from french.about.com

On Line French verb conjugations By Verbix.com

Conjugate French Verbs By Conjugueur-francais.com Incomplete.

Conjugate French Verbs By Verb2verbe.com

Conjugate French Verbs By About.com

Conjugate French Verbs By La-conjugaison.fr

Read books online in French By Project Gutenberg Books by Balzac, Baudelaire, Bonaparte, Decartes and others

On Line French grammar from lePointduFLE.net Click on Grammaire and indicatif

Grammar guide for French. Guide de depannage linguistique By Office quebecois de la langue francaise Contains a lot of useful things, but is hard to use.

On Line French grammar from Tex - University of Texas at Austin Very clear and funny explanations!

French adjectives with different meanings according to their placement before or after the noun. from About.com

ALT key Codes for French From Penn State University How to type French characters in email. Accent, cédille, etc.

ALT key Codes for French From Penn State University How to type French characters in email.

HTML Character Codes for French From Penn State University Same page as previous. Scroll down.

French keyboard: Type accented French letters by Lexilogos Type French letters with their accents. You can copy and paste into a Word document!. Instructions in French.

HTML authoring in French By Jukka "Yucca" Korpela HTML character codes for French

HTML character Codes for French From About.com

SMS, Texting abbreviations in French From Transparent.com

French word-a-day By Kristin Espinasse Interesting insights into French life.


French Websites, Portals and Interesting Links

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The French Constitution of 1958 in English from Assemblee-nationale

The French Constitution of 1958 in French from Assemblee-nationale

French Constitutions Les Constitutions de la France depuis 1789

Declaration of the Rights of Man Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme

French government By About-france.com Excellent, short description of how the French government works

French National Anthem La Marseillaise. Paroles et musique. Words and music

French National Anthem. Listen online. La Marseillaise. Paroles et musique. Words and music

Words of French National Anthem lyricsondemand.com Paroles de l'hyme national

French Senate Le Sénat

French Legislature L'Assemblée Nationale Française

The Prime Minister of France, François Fillon from Premier-Ministre.gouv.fr

Quai d'Orsay Ministère d'affaires étrangeres

Ministère de l'Intérieur Ministère de l'Intérieur Brice Hortefeux is minister of the interior.

Hôtel de Beauvau Ministère de l'Intérieur home of the minister of the interior.

French Mail Service La Poste - French Postal Service. Mailing

French Mail Service La Poste - French Postal Service. Philately

Monnaie de Paris The French Mint - creator and seller of coins

French Telephone Service From Francetelecom

Making a Telephone call in French From Bonjourdefrance With MP3 audio and quiz.

Les anciennes provinces de France (The former French provinces) Liste des anciennes provinces françaises

The former French provinces Another list

The former French provinces By Jacques Leclerc, Universite Laval

Les regions francaises d'aujourd'hui (Today's French Regions) By Jacques Leclerc, Universite Laval

Les departements francais metropolitains (Today's French Departments) By Jacques Leclerc, Universite Laval

French Départements Names and numbers.

Official site of the Mayor of Paris, and French Portal La Mairie de Paris Bertrand Delanoe

Paris traffic in real time Sytadin

Quelle heure est-il à Paris? What time is it in Paris? from HORLOGE PARLANTE

French News At Yahoo

French Portal A very interesting portal to theater, music, books, cinema. Start here, try the links on the bar at top, then go to the home page

Paris Guide Bonjour Paris

Paris Guide The Paris Pages (tm)

This is a very interesting way to discover and explore France! You may want to spend hours at this site France-Pittoresque.com

French Links By Oberoi

Eiffel Tower, official site Tour-eiffel.fr

Paris Science Center Cité des Sciences

French Weather Meteo France

Weather in Paris From Fr.weather.com

French Weather Terms. here

Official site of Paris Airports Aéroports de Paris

Paris subways and transport RATP

Using the Paris Metro From bootsnall.com in English.

Using the Paris Metro From Discoverfrance.net in English.

Paris Bus System RATP - Autobus

French train system SNCF

French Portal Les Délices du Net - bilingual site full of the richness of Paris plus a wealth of links for francophiles!

An American in Paris Practical information for Americans in Paris

Guide to the Louvre Le Louvre

French Cheeses from Cheese.com

Ordering coffee in a French restaurant at Francetravelplanner.com

French Bises from Provence-hideaway.com Kissing on the cheek when greeting friends, in France. Compulsory reading before going to France.

How many bises? By Combiendebises.free.fr Combien de bises, par départment.

Understanding French Culture, Part 1 Understandfrance.org

Understanding French Culture, Part 2 Understandfrance.org

Americans in France Americansinfrance.net Practical information in English on living in France.

French "how to" Commentcamarche.net Comment ça marche ? Answers to practical questions.

French practical videos Pratiks.com Des vidéos pour tout faire.

French government services Service-public.fr Démarches de l'état. French taxes, vehicle registration, citizenship, licenses, marriage, citizenship, etc.

French Phrases and Culture French.lovetoknow.com French expressions and culture capsules

Paris: Good photos for Visitors.

Pictures of Paris from Notre Dame Notre Dame de Paris

Pictures of Paris By Offrench.net

Paris Webcams From ABC Paris Live.com

Books about Paris.

French Yellow Pages - Les Pages Jaunes Pagesjaunes.fr.

French (Canada) Yellow Pages - Les Pages Jaunes Pagesjaunes.ca.

Photos of the Caves at Lascaux La Grotte de Lascaux.

Site honoring General Charles de Gaulle Charles-de-gaulle.org

Interesting site on France from University of Hong Kong French culture, proverbes, gestures, etiquette.

Interesting site on living in France from Lost-in-france.com Finance, banking

Banking in France from Lesclesdelabanque.com All about banking in France. Index.

Banking in France from Lesclesdelabanque.com Encaisser un chèque. Cashing or depositing a check in France.

Paris Neighborhoods from Parislogue.com

Paris Neighborhoods from Parisnet.com

Paris arrondissements from Paris-walking-tours.com

Paris metro from Aparisguide.com

Speech of the French President Sarkozy at the United States Congress November 7, 2007 from New York Sun Transcript in English

Speech of the French President Sarkozy at the United States Congress November 7, 2007 from French Embassy Transcript in French

Speech of the French President Sarkozy at the United States Congress November 7, 2007 from YouTube Video in English

Speech of the French President Sarkozy at the United States Congress November 7, 2007 from YouTube Video in French, part 1

Speech of the French President Sarkozy at the United States Congress November 7, 2007 from YouTube Video in French, part 2

Speech of the French President Sarkozy at the United States Congress November 7, 2007 from YouTube Video in French, part 3

Speech of the French President Sarkozy at the United States Congress November 7, 2007 from YouTube Video in French, part 4

Speech of the French President Sarkozy at the United States Congress November 7, 2007 from YouTube Video in French, part 5

Telephone:
Calling USA to France: If the number is given as +33 (0)1 45 48 53 xx, you would dial 011 33 1 45 48 53 xx
Calling France to France: If the number is given as +33 (0)1 45 48 53 xx, you would dial 01 45 48 53 xx
Calling USA to Italy: If the number is given as +39 081 87 82 0xx, you would dial 011 39 081 87 82 0xx
Calling Italy to Italy: If the number is given as +39 081 87 82 0xx, you would dial 081 87 82 0xx
Calling USA from Europe: 00 1 (area code) phone-number
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