Useful online resources for French learners
Friday, 11th December 2009
There many resources for learning French available online, including lessons, dictionaries, grammar guides, exercises, games, newspapers, radio, and audio books. Most are free, and they can be used instead of formal classes, or to complement them.
The BBC website has some excellent free resources for students of French, including:
-a range of courses for every level
-a dictionary
-a French proficiency test which helps you find your level
-games
-phrases
-a guide which explains how to get French radio and TV on the BBC, online and via cable and satellite
-a gadget that helps you find French courses in your area
-weather forcasts in French.
Radio Lingua provides online French lessons for beginners and intermediate learners in the form of free podcasts ranging in length from 2-3 minutes to 20 minutes. They also have lessons for children learning French at school.
The French Tutorial is a good site for beginners with a introduction to French pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar, and numerous audio files which you can use online, or download to your computer. Most of it is free, but a donation is required for the deluxe version.
Realfrench.net offers beginner, intermediate and advanced French grammar and vocabulary games, exercises and reference. It’s free and is designed for pupils studying French at UK primary and secondary schools.
There are many online French dictionaries, many of which are searchable via Lexilogos. Other online French dictionaries include Reverso, which has general and specialised French dictionaries; The Visual Dictionary, which is in English, French and Spanish; atilf, which contains IT and technology-related French; and for those studying French literature and older forms of French, The ARTFL Project provides a way to search French dictionaries from the 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries online.
French Linguistics features French-English dictionaries, notes on French grammar, a French language forum and a translation service.
A good way to tune your ears to the sounds of French, and to acquire vocabulary and grammar in context is to listen to radio stations in French. This is also a way to learn about France and other French-speaking countries. There are plenty of online French language stations to choose from, including Radio France, rfi (Radio France Internationale) and France Info.
Another good way to practise and improve your French is to read online newspapers and magazines such as Le Monde, Le Figaro and Le Nouvel Observateur.
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