French Resources Online

French Resources Online
Video lessons in French:
http://laits.utexas.edu/tex
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages Check out Ma France 24 video-series to learn French!
http://langmedia.fivecolleges.edu
Teacher favorites:
http://www.merlot.org
http://cortland.edu/flteach
http://www.clta.net/lessons/index.html
http://langlink.net/langlink
http://French.typeit.org (students can just click on accents for written assignments)
http://nflrc.msu.edu
15 National Foreign Language Resource Centers (materials> French)
http://clta.net/lessons Lesson Plans with web resources prepared by Calif. Teachers
http://thepaperboy.com any French newspaper
http://weather.com/french
http://virtourist.com online tours of cities around the world
http://TV5.org French TV guides, programs, materials
http://www.lesclesjunior.com French online newspaper for kids/ easier level than nat’l newspaper
http://xe.com currency exchange rate up to the minute!
http://www.uni.edu/becker/french31.html SUPERSITE for French
http://leconjugueur.com conjugates any verb
http://lepointdufle.net French TA 2007 loves this site!!!
1) Civilisation Française more video on culture topics
http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/civ/Index.html
This website has activities that cover a wide variety of topics in French civilization. It also
provides audio, video interviews with native speakers, exercises, dialogues and many external
links as well as a wonderful presentation of culture through photographs.
2) Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links
SUPERSITE STATUS!
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html
examples of some good sites found here:
http://www.columbia.edu/~ab410/drills.html
*French Listening and Speaking Central: http://www.utm.edu/staff/globeg/oral.shtml
The site just contains links to other sites that are organized by subject. This is very helpful for
research. Some subjects include French literature, art, music, film, history, education and
everyday life.
3) Le Plaisir d'Apprendre
http://www.leplaisirdapprendre.com/index.asp
This is a great site for practicing the language with songs (it provides vocabulary lists and lyrics),
French TV (TV5), literature, and videos. It provides all the information one might need to make
an exciting French lesson.
4) Voyage Virtuel
http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/civ/Voyage/voyage.htm
This website offers an introductory tour of French cities and regions. Students can click on the
map to see pictures and short descriptions of region's most famous features: monuments, folklore,
food and wine.
5) Realfrench.net
http://www.realfrench.net/
*listening
Grammar and vocabulary exercises, virtual visits, external links and message boards are
available. Listening games and listening practice with new vocabulary can also be used.
6) Accord: Exercices autocorrectifs
http://www.didieraccord.com/
This site contains self-correcting exercises in French on a variety of topics in grammar,
vocabulary and culture. There are two levels: Niveau 1 titles are Arrivée, Dans la Ville,
Rencontres and Voyages ; Niveau 2 titles include l'Entourage, le Bien-Être, La Communication
and la Société.
7) Lexiquefle
http://lexiquefle.free.fr/
This includes basic vocabulary and practice exercises on numbers, the family, parts of the body
and other topics for beginning learners of French. Interactive activities can be downloaded for
educational use. This site is very easy to use.
8) Olyfran.com
http://olyfran.com/olyfran/
This is a very sophisticated site, from a design standpoint, where users can test their knowledge in
French and about the Francophone world. This site may appeal to young users with its modern
use of graphics, photography and sound. It is a little complicated to learn to use the site at first,
but it’s very interesting and fun. It also has about 5 different levels of French.
9) Le Conjugueur
http://www.leconjugueur.com/
This is a French online verb conjugator with grammatical explanations and a unique feature for
practicing numbers - type in a number and the software will provide it in written form.
10) La Guinguette
http://www.laguinguette.com/
*listening
This is an online magazine in French with news articles in RealAudio. Transcriptions and sound
files are combined for effective listening comprehension activities. Note: this resource requires
subscription at a small fee.
11) Connectigramme
http://www.erin.utoronto.ca/~hgezundh/grammaire/index.htm
In this site the grammar explanations are arranged in tables, with external links relating to the
topics. In the words of the author:"Ce site se veut une porte ouverte vers des tableaux de révision
des règles du français et vers des ressources en ligne."
12) Le Petit Nicolas:Les personnages
http://www.goscinny.net/prog/fr_lpn.htm
This is the official site of Rene Goscinny, author of Le Petit Nicolas and Asterix. Click on "Les
personnages" and find illustrations of all the characters with accompanying text.
13) Test de Français langue étrangère et seconde
http://www.campus-electronique.tm.fr/TestFle/
A forty-five minute French proficiency test with listening and reading activities. Corrections and
feedback are available.
14) Wordreference.com
http://www.wordreference.com/fr/index.htm
This is a great dictionary that is very useful in finding out the correct usage of a word. As
a student of French and a French tutor, I use it very often and recommend it to many
other students.
15) http://www.fromage.com Learn about French cheeses?
16) Learn French through songs All sites have the songs and lyrics!
http://www.espacefrancophone.org/audiovisuel/fiche.htm
http://www.hku.hk/french/dcmScreen/lang2048/lang2048_index.htm
http://webs.racocatala.cat/llengua/fr/chanson.htm
Addition by Eglantine, a TA from France
French pedagogical websites:
17) www.polarfle.com (learn French grammar, conjugation, vocabulary,
comprehension… by solving a crime investigation – different levels possible)
18) http://perso.micro-video.fr/ecriture/default2.htm (different ways to play with words
in French)
19) French newspapers: Le Monde Diplomatique: www.monde-diplomatique.fr
Literature and Art : http://www.chez.com/feeclochette (contes français en ligne)
20) Miscellaneous : www.unpeudamour.com (site humoristique – générateur de
poèmes, d’accrostiches…)
21) French Radio and Media :
RFI: www.rfi.fr
22) Actualité pédagogique :
www.cafepedagogique.net
23) Phonetics:
http://phonetique.free.fr
24) Current events: Les clés de l’actualité junior : http://www.lesclesjunior.com
www.lesclesjunior.com (French online newspaper for kids, easier level of language than
regular national newspapers)
additional FRENCH WEBSITES
French Search Engines:
Altavista http://fr.altavista.com/
Debriefing IXQuick http://debriefing.ixquick.com/fra/
France Pratique http://www.pratique.fr/ (geared towards law, economics,
education and health)
Francite’ http://fracite.com/
MSN France http://search.msn.fr
Swiss Search Engine http://search.ch/
Tiscali Recherche http://nomande.tiscali.fr/
Voila` http://www.voila.fr/
Yahoo ! France http://fr.yahoo.com/
More complete listing at
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/DIS/OHSICS/forlang/french/07 searc.htm
Official French Websites:
L’Assemble’e Nationale http://www.assemblee-nat.fr//
Le Se’nat http://www.senat.fr/
Ministe`re des affaires e’trange`res http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/
Ministe`ere de la culture http://www.culture.fr/
Minste`ere de l’e’ducation http://www.edutel.fr/index.php
Premier Ministre http://www.premier-minstre.gouv.fr/
Secre’tariat d’Etat au tourisme http://www.tourisme.gouv.fr/fr/home.jsp
More complete listing at http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/fr.html
http://chapitre.com (a used book site)
http://www.wfi.fr/volterre (a directory of sites
http://hapax.be.sbc.edu/
Websites on Francophone Countries:
Africa Online http://www.africaonline.com/site/
Antilles/Caraibe http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/depts/langlit/french/antilles.html
Belgium http://www.belgium.be/
Guadeloupe http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/ile.en.ile/guadeloupe/
Haiti http://www.monaco.mc/monaco/fr/
Organisation internationale de la francophonie http://www.frncophonie.org/
Quebec http://www.gouv.qc.ca/
More complete listing at
http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/DIS/OHSICS/forlang/french/30 franc.htm
French TA Sebastien would like to add these http://www...
Search engines: Google.fr
Lycos.fr
Miscellaneous: Allocine.fr;
Rtl.fr
Educational and Pedagogical Websites:
American Association of Teachers of French (AATF)
http://www.frenchteachers.org/
Association canadienne d’éducation de langue française
http://www.acelf.ca/
Bonjour de France
http://www.bonjourdefrance.com/
Centre national de documentation dédagogique
http://www.cndp.fr/
Centre national d’enseignement à distance
http://www.cned.fr/
Education Québec
http://www.meq.gouv.qc.ca/
FranceWorld
http://www.franceworld.com/fw3/index.php3?Lang=fr
French skills test for most levels
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ik2rmyr/english/choixa.htm
French TV5
http://www.tv5.org/
La maison des universités
http://www.cpu.fr/
Middle school french resources
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/departments/isa/staff/abita/academic_websites/french.htm
Ministère de l’éducation
http://www.education.gouv.fr/
Office national d’information sur les enseignements et les professions
http://www.onisep.fr/
Quia French knowledge games
http://www.quia.com/dir/french/
La reference professionelle
http://www.fle.fr/
University of Texas French Video Lessons
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fr/
Volterre-Fr
http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/
Yamada Language Lab
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/french.html
French Newspapers and Magazines :
La Dépêche du Midi
http://www.ladepeche.com/
France-amerique
http://www.france-amerique.com/
Libération
http://www.liberation.fr/
Matinternet
http://www.matin.qc.ca/index2.shtml
Le Monde
http://www.lemonde.fr/
Le Parisien http://www.parismatch.com/
More Complete Listing at :
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/topics/magazines.html
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/tobics/newspapers.html
French Radio and Media:
Canal+
http://www.canalplus.fr/
Chansons Francophone
http://www.paroles.net/
Direct French Radio
http://www.comfm.com/live/radio/?c=fr
France 2
http://www.france2.fr/
France Radio
http://www.radiofrance.fr/
French TV5
http://www.tv5.org/
RTL
http://www.rtl.fr/
TF1
http://www.tf1.fr
Various French Radio Stations
http://www.vtuner.com/vtunerweb/static/staticFranceoverall1.html
More complete listing at http://globegate.utm.edu/french/topics/tv.and.radio.html
French Language and Culture:
Alliances Françaises
http://www.afusa.org/
Bibliothèque nationale de France
http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Civilisation française
http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/civ/
The French Connection
http://www.anu.edu/au/french/
Le Ministère de la culture et de la communication
http://www.culture.fr/
Le quartier français
http://www.urich.edu/~jpaulsen/gvfrench.html
Literature and Art :
http://www.archivox.com/
Archivox
Center des monuments nationaux
http://www.monum.fr/
Clicnet
http://clicnet.swarthmore.edu/
Le Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr/
Poésie française
http://poesie.webnet.fr/
La poésie romantique française
http://www.poetes.com/romantisme/
More Complete Listing at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/dixneuf/ressources.htm#litterature
References :
Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française
http://zeus.inalf.fr/academie9.htm
French-English-French Dictionary
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html
Maps of the Francophone world
http://www.utm.edu/~globeg/cartes.shtml
Le grand dictionnaire terminologique
http://www.granddictionnaire.com/btml/fra/r_motclef/index1024_1.asp
Old French Dictionaries
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/ARTFL/projects/dicos/
Quid
http://www.quid.fr/
Trésor de la langue française
http://zeus.inalf.fr/tlf.htm
Miscellaneous Favorites :
AFP
http://www.afp.com/francais/home/
Annuaire Enseignement Supérieur et Recherche
http://www.urec.cnrs.fr/annuaire/
BBCi Languages
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/index.shtml
Le Cinéma français
http://ctrain.online.fr/
Dave’s French Links
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/
Dromadaire
http://www.dromadaire.com/fr/
French Pronunciations
http://www.utm.edu/~globeg/oral.shtml
Histoire de France
http://www.alyon.org/generale/histoire/france/
Links to Business French
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/f451.html
Les Nations Unies
http://portal.unesco.org/fr/
U.S. French Embassy
http://www.info-france-usa.org/