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.