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Internet Resources for French:

About.com Website for French Language Learning - French language helps with vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation.

Adopt an Escargot.com - Students can read stories in French and contribute their own stories, pictures, etc. to be added to the website.

BBC Online's Language - Programs for Absolute Beginners, Beginners, Intermediate, and Business French.

Bonjour Français - This website requires a membership for some activities, but there are several activities to work on that are free. Some of these are: Alphabet, Les couleurs, La femme à la moustache, L'heure, La robe, Sujets, Temps, La famille.

Bon Patron - A very basic tool for checking spelling and grammar in student essays. Students can either type directly into the on-screen text box or import (copy & paste) their work. This online tool has its limitations, but it is useful and there is no other free program similar to this.

Digital Dialects - Language Learning Games

E.L. Easton Languages Online - This site contains several links to the following areas: Test Your French, Quizzes & Tests, and Why Study French?

French Grammar Central - Wide variety of grammar selections.

French Language Course - Included are the following: Lesson 1 - Pronunciation Guidelines, Lesson 2 - Articles and Genders, Lesson 3 - Pronouns and Verbs, Lesson 4 - Adjectives and Plurals, Lesson 5 - Sentences Structure [including exercises] Lesson 6 - The Family, Lesson 7 - Where do you come from? Lesson 8 - Comparing, Lesson 9 - Time, Additional Vocabulary, French Expressions and Idioms.

French Lessons.org - Pronunciation, Conjugations, Tenses, Reflexive Verbs, Participles, Pronouns, Relative Pronouns, Noun Gender, Agreement, Adjectives, Verbs, Objects, Adverbs, Comparisons, Negations, and Exercises.

www.busuu.com interesting. One has to register (free) to enter, but it has a variety of activities organized into a course with goals. The student decides how many hours per week he/she wants to spend on the class. It’s available for Spanish, German, Italian and Spanish as well.

LangMedia: French - Videos and Information on: Basic Communications, Culture and Social Life, Necessities, Shopping and Services, and Transportation.

Language Guide.org French - This site has a Pictorial Vocabulary Guide, Grammar, and Readings.

Motifs 4th Edition Companion Site - Has Cultural Activities and Tutorial Quizzes.

Motifs 5th Edition Companion Website - Download in-text audio clips, tutorial quizzes, and web activities that accompany your text. Other items are premium resources that must be purchased.

News in France - TF1 (French Television Channel News) You can watch the news on video and read articles in French.

Polar FLE - apprendre le français avec l' inspecteur Roger Duflair - Learn French by solving detective stories with Inspecteur Roger Duflair. (Listening, reading, grammar) Good for French II students.

University of Texas (Tex's French Grammar Site) - These items are included at the site: 1. Nouns, 2.Determiners, 3. Adverbs, 4. Adjectives, 5. Verbs, 6. Negation, 7. Prepositions, 8. Pronouns, 9. Conjunctions, 10. Tense/Aspect/Mood/Voice 11. Interrogative Constructions, 12. Appendix: Verb Practice, and 13. Appendix: Grammar Exercises

Voila's 5th Edition Online Practice Page - This site goes with your textbook. There are different activities for each chapter and a final exam.

Voila.heinle.com - This site goes with your French textbook. It has Cultural Expansion Activities, Self-Correcting Quizzes, and Interactive Vocabulary.   Note from Micheline: this one is the same as the previous lin.

eLanguage School.net TM - Learn the Basics, Grammar, Words and Phrases, and Practice and Exercises.

Living Language - Helpful for knowing expressions, greetings, approaching someone for help, question words, changing money, and time.

Quia!  Activities - Games to help learn vocabulary and phrases.

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Audio Cassette Programs:

  • Collage (2nd ed) (intermediate level)
  • French in Action (beginning & intermediate levels)
  • Getting by in French (beginning level)
  • Sybervision French 1,2,3 (beginning & intermediat levels)

(Numerous other programs and music cassettes available)

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Audio CDs:

  • Bravo (for lab manual and textbook activities)
  • French Café (Goes with the Motifs text, Music CD)
  • Motifs (for lab manual and textbook activities)

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Software on CD-ROMS:

  • Easy Language Conversation (all levels)
  • Entre Amis (all levels)
  • Essential French (beginning level)
  • French Your Way (beginning and intermediate levels)
  • Rosetta Stone (beginning level)
  • Speak French (beginning level)
  • Talk Now! French (beginning level)
  • Triple Play Plus (all levels)
  • Voilá (beginning and intermediate levels)
  • Webster’s New World French tutor (intermediate level)
  • World Talk French (beginning level and intermediate levels)

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Video & DVDs:

  • Challenges of French Pronunciation
  • French in Action (beginning & intermediate levels)
  • Motifs DVD
  • Pas de problème (beginning & intermediate levels)

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