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French Radio and TV (on this page)
French Newspapers and Magazines (on this page)
French Websites, Portals and Interesting Links (on this page)
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French Postcards (on this page)
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Face-to-face French lessons in the Manchester Connecticut area (USA)
This page was last updated September 02 2010.

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French Books

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One Reader's Favorite Books for Learning French

[Pimsleur french]
Pimsleur Language Program: Beginner French

By Pimsleur

Eight 30-minute lessons on cassette. This is a very good way to get started at low cost. This is a short course. If you like the Pimsleur method, you can go on to French I Comprehensive.
Inspect/orderPimsleur Language Program: Beginner French from Amazon.com

[Pimsleur french]
French I: Pimsleur Comprehensive

By Pimsleur

Audio CD's. Published in 2002. Highly rated by customers. This is the full length course.
A great way to start. Listen and repeat. You will soon know several dialogs by heart, with good pronunciation.
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[Pimsleur french]
French II: Pimsleur Comprehensive, Third edition.

By Pimsleur

Audio CD (Amazon also has casettes). Builds on the previous one. Published in 2003. Revised to use the Euro. This is the full length course.
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[Pimsleur french]
French III, Comprehensive

By Pimsleur

Published 2004. Audio CD. This is the full length course.
Inspect/orderFrench III, Comprehensive from Amazon.com

[France Pimsleur]
French Plus: Learn to Speak and Understand French with Pimsleur Language Programs [AUDIOBOOK] (Audio CD)

By Pimsleur

10 lessons in French that take you beyond Comprehensive III. Real-life situations and complex conversations with expanded vocabulary.
Inspect/order French Plus from Amazon.com

[SmartFrench Audio CDs Intermediate/Advanced french]
SmartFrench Audio CDs Intermediate/Advanced

By Christian Aubert

Published 2004. Audio CD's that will help you understand French as it is really spoken today. Excellent for developing your listening comprehension.
Inspect/orderSmartFrench Audio CDs Intermediate/Advanced from Amazon.com

[Easy French Reader w/CD language]
Easy French Reader with CD: A Three-Part Text for Beginning Students

By R. de Roussy de Sales

Easy texts for beginners to intermediate. Texts get progressively more difficult. You can listen to the CD's to get the pronunciation, and to practice your listening comprehension.
Read the texts out loud, then listen to the CD's to check your pronunciation.
Very reasonable price.
Inspect/order Easy French Reader w/CD-ROM from Amazon.com

[Pimsleur french]
French: Pimsleur Basic Audio Cassette

By Pimsleur

4 audio cassettes. This is the best, most inexpensive way to see how the Pimsleur method works. The "Comprehensive" courses use the same method as this.
Inspect/orderFrench: Pimsleur Basic Audio Cassette from Amazon.com

[Pimsleur french]
Pardon My French: Unleash Your Inner Gaul

By Charles Timoney

A fun way to learn how the French think and speak. Cartoons and French expressions that you won't find anywhere else.
Inspect/orderPardon My French: Unleash Your Inner Gaul from Amazon.com

[learning french]
French Without the Fuss

By Living Language

A new approach to learning French. It's all in one easy book (with an audio CD affixed to the inside back jacket) that presents the language as it's really spoken. Cartoons, very engaging page layouts, fun dialogues, maps, great cultural information and even a good dose of slang all make this new program delightfully different.
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[Translator French book]
Harper Collins Beginner's French Dictionary

By Harper Collins

Not just for beginners, as the title indicates. It is excellent because it shows you clearly the different meanings for the same word. For example, it describes clearly the different meanings of English "make out". It is not complete, so you won't find words like "rain check" or "mocking bird". It is out of print, but going for ridiculously low prices used and new at Amazon.com!
The book is probably intended for teenagers: it does have the French for "zit".
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[French for Dummies]
French for Dummies

By Dodi-Katrin Schmidt

Does not insult your intelligence. Gives you a firm base in French. Customer reviews are not good.
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[French the Fast and Fun Way]
Learn French the Fast and Fun Way

By Elisabeth Bourquin Leete

Your web editor uses this book to teach French Beginner's Class. This is the book and cassette edition, which is recommended.
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[Mastering French Vocabulary]
Mastering French Vocabulary, a Thematic Approach

By Reinhild Herrmann

This book teaches you new French words in the most sensible way possible: organized by subject! So you learn about tellers and deposit slips at the same time, unlike most other books which teach you things in the stupidest way - by alphabetical order!
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[Champs Elysees Audio CD Magazine]
Champs Elysees - Audio-CD Magazine

By Champs-Elysees

Every month you'll receive an audio CD in French containing news, interviews, music, and features on topics ranging from politics and current affairs to sports, travel, film, culture in French spoken by native speakers. It comes with a glossary explaining all but the simplest words and expressions so you can know what you are hearing and learn the language.
You can choose the edition with the supplement, or without supplements. We suggest the edition without the supplements, currently priced at $175.00 with free shipping.
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[French Picture Dictionary]
The Oxford Picture Dictionary English/French: English French Edition

By Jayme Adelson-Goldstein, Norma Shapiro

Excellent picture book with French and English words. This book is meant for French-speaking people learning English. It does not show French genders and because of that, is much less useful than it could have been.
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[101 French Idioms]
101 French Idioms with MP3 Disk: Enrich your French conversation with colorful everyday sayings

By Jean-Marie Cassagne

This book arranges common, everyday French idioms into nine light-hearted sections, including speaking about the body, our animal friends, return to nature, eating in style, and daily life. The idioms are illustrated with cartoons that provide a key to understanding the literal meanings.
2009 edition.
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[French the Easy Way]
French the Easy Way

By Christopher Kendris

Fourth edition. For beginning French. Easy to use and full of rich, interesting and humorous dialogues.
Has some annoying mistakes in French punctuation and spelling. The teacher of French can correct the mistakes, and will find the book very useful for teaching French.
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[French Idioms]
2001 French and English Idioms

By David Sices Ph.D. and Francois Denoeu

French and English everyday expressions. This bilingual dictionary is especially useful in translation and composition, and is also designed to be used by students whose first language is French, and who want to write and speak correct but informal English. 2007 edition.
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[French Proverbs]
101 French Proverbs

By Jean-Marie Cassagne

101 French Proverbs is a delightful introduction to the colorful and insightful proverbs that French speakers use every day. The 101 proverbs are grouped according to useful themes such as animals, occupations, dining, daily life, people, and others. Learn French proverbs, maxims, axioms, sayings.
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[Pitfalls in French]
1001 Pitfalls in French

By Annie Heminway

Focus is on words easily confused and misunderstood in French.
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[Street French]
Street French I: The Best of French Slang

By David Burke

Street French I guides the reader through the colorful and popular world of French slang and colloquialisms by using dialogues, vocabulary lessons, word games, drills, crossword puzzles, and special inside tips for sounding like a native.
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[colloquial French]
Harrap's French in the Real World

By Tim Green

For someone who knows some French, this book eases your way into REAL French, as it is spoken. French slang and popular ways of speaking.
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[Street French]
Street French 2: The Best of French Idioms

By David Burke

How do the French really speak?
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[Street French]
Street French 3: The Best of Naughty French

By David Burke

The kind of French you won't use if you want to remain polite!
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[French Slang]
Street French Slang Dictionary & Thesaurus

By David Burke

This book offers English equivalents and usage tips for over one thousand French terms, including slang words, idioms, proverbs, colloquialisms, and vulgarities. It also offers an extensive thesaurus featuring over one thousand French slang synonyms for common English words and phrases.
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[french language First Thousand Words]
First Thousand Words in French

By Heather Amery

Illustrated picture dictionary. Excellent way to learn 1000 useful French words. For children and adults.
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[learning french]
Insiders' French: Beyond the Dictionary

By Eleanor Levieux

Good explanations of the real French that people speak.
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[language French in Action]
French in Action: Audio CD Program: The Capretz Method Part 1

By Pierre J. Capretz

The series that was a hit on PBS. You follow French people in their everyday life. You hear French spoken in real-life situations. You learn. You imitate. Not for the very beginner, however. Great for listening comprehension of French.
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[language Capretz French in Action]
French in Action: Audio Cd Program: The Capretz Method Part 2

By Pierre J. Capretz

The second part of this interesting series for learning French.
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[Cool French]
Way-Cool French Phrase Book: The French That Kids Really Speak

By Jane Wightwick

How to be très cool with the 8 - 14 French-speaking crowd. Sound hip while you provide amusement for French adolescents.
Inspect/orderWay-Cool French Phrase Book from Amazon.com

[France magazine]
France magazine

France Magazine is for those who would rather be in France instead of wherever else they are just now.
Subscribe to France magazine from Amazon.com



[french language canadian quebec]
French Fun: The Real Spoken Language of Québec

By Steve Timmins

They do speak French in Quebec! It doesn't sound quite like the French spoken in Paris, but it is French! Communicate more effectively with your Québécois friends and colleagues. Learn the most common and colourful idioms heard in Québec today.
Inspect/order French Fun: The Real Spoken Language of Québec from Amazon.com

[French English Bilingual Visual Dictionary]
French English Bilingual Visual Dictionary

By DK Publishing

Picture dictionary organized by subject matter. Very handy and useful for teaching and learning French.
Inspect/order French English Bilingual Visual Dictionary from Amazon.com

[French/English Visual Dictionary pictures french]
The Firefly French/English Visual Dictionary

By Jean-Claude Corbeil

A well-illustrated picture dictionary that shows you what things are actually named in English and French. Perfect for teaching and learning French.
Inspect/order The Firefly French/English Visual Dictionary from Amazon.com

[Les Bons Mots]
Les Bons Mots: How to Amaze Tout Le Monde With Everyday French

By Eugene Ehrlich

Fun book for those who love French. How to Amaze Tout le Monde with Everday French. French words and expressions used in English.
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[Je Ne Sais What]
Je Ne Sais What? A Guide to De Rigueur Frenglish for Readers, Writers, and Speakers

By Jon Winokur

Wonderful French words used in English. C'est magnifique! Learn the language of amour, fashion, food and diplomacy in this delightful guide to the French terms that we all use but may not understand. This reference explores the French expressions, maxims, and literary allusions that grace English.
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On-Line French Dictionaries

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French dictionary From WordReference.com. Quite good. Knows that an English word has several meanings! Also gives expressions containing the word. Gives meanings for English classifiers such as "ear" (of corn) and "cake" (of soap)

English-French-English Online Dictionary From lookwayup.com

French / English dictionary and translator From LingvoSoft

French-English Dictionary From Babylon.com

French Computer dictionary / Dictionnaire français de l'informatique Gives meanings in French for many English words.

Really good French/English Dictionary From Office québecois de la langue française

French synonymns, French/English translation, English synonyms From l'Institut des Sciences Cognitives

Dictionnaire des synonymes From Synonymes.com French synonyms and antonyms. Simple and easy to use.

French synonymns, French/English translation, English synonyms From Mediadico.com Strange design.

French-English, French-English Dictionary From l'Institut des Sciences Cognitives

French synonymns. In French From Laboratoire CRISCO

Online French Dictionary From Thefreedictionary.com

French dictionary From LanguageAutomation.com

Dictionary. Type in an English word, it gives meaning, synonyms in English, plus French and several other languages. From Answers.com

French translators' (Dictionary Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish) From WinDi Multilingual Dictionaries Requires login. Translates words, not phrases. Can be useful, but it can't find many common words.

Online French-English Dictionary From Allwords.com Definitions in several languages. Related idioms.

Online English-French Dictionary From freedict.com

Online French Dictionary From Ultralingua.net Also other languages. Well designed, but not complete.

Interesting French dictionary From Patrimoine-de-france.org

French dictionaries Online From TV5. French-English-French, synonyms.

French dictionaries, French + other languages By Lexilogos

French Dictionary, Verb Conjugator By Logos.it Definitions, translations, antonyms, words in context. A lot of interesting things on the site. Stay around and browse.

French verb conjugator By Leconjugueur French verb conjugator. Also lets you type accented French letters, which you can copy and paste into an email or a Word document.

The most common French irregular verbs, and their conjugation By Orbilat

Translation dictionary, French + other languages By Woxikon

Translation dictionary, French + other languages By Bab.la Can look up English expressions, like chicken out

English-French Dictionary From Sensagent.com To and from many other languages, translation dictionary.

Online French Dictionary From France3.fr Ridiculous, intrusive pop-up. There is no way to stop it. This is unusable! C'est vraiment bête ! Still useless Dec 09.























French Translating

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French / Russian translator A Translator from Russia. Translate.ru. Quite good.

French / English translator From FreeTranslation.com

French / English translator From Langenberg translation. Also other languages

English/French translator Babelfish.yahoo.com

French-English translator and text to speech From SitePal cool site that translates to French and reads the text for you



French Radio and TV

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Internet broadcasts change their addresses frequently. These were accurate as of December 2009.

French Videos From ina.fr Similar to YouTube, but in French. Many historical videos, old TV newscasts, presidential speeches.

French Radio From VOA

French Radio From BBC

News stories you can read and listen to in French. From BBC

French Radio From France Info live

French TV From France TV 3

French TV From France TV 3 Another link for TV on France 3.

French TV From France TV 2

French Videos Swiss TV in French

Watch French TV online From Jerusalem

French Videos Euro News in French

French Videos From TF1

French TV Demain TV La television de la vie economique et sociale

French TV TV5Monde Videos

French TV Bfmtv Live TV and videos

French Radio From Radio Canada

French Radio From Radio France Internationale Listen online

French Radio From RTL. Listen online

French Radio From Europe 1. Listen online

French Radio from Radio Taiwan. Listen online

French Radio from Radio Japan. Listen online Scroll for different languages online.

News Videos in French By zoomin.tv Right click on the image, then select Speed, then Slow. It actually slows down the speech and makes it easier to understand.

French Radio, list of stations from ituner.com. Listen online

French TV From Comfm list of stations. List of stations.

French Radio From Comfm list of stations. List of stations.

French Radio From Web-Radio 2000 List of stations.

French TV From Broadband-television.com Audio is available

French Radio From Paris Radio List of stations.























French Newspapers and Magazines

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Sciences et Avenir magazine subscription From Amazon.com

Pour la Science magazine Website

Pour La Science magazine subscription From Amazon.com

Science et Vie magazine Website You can not read the magazine on this site.

Best of France From Amazon.com The magazine is no longer available, but the search brings up several interesting French products.

La Belle France From Amazon.com The magazine is no longer available, but the search brings up several interesting French products.

Selections Du Readers Digest subscription From Amazon.com

Elle - French Ed subscription From Amazon.com

Marie Claire - French Ed subscription From Amazon.com

Le Monde Website

Le Monde subscription From Amazon.com

Subscription to Le Monde on Kindle at Amazon.com

Paris Match Website

Paris Match magazine subscription From Amazon.com

Lire Website

Lire subscription From Amazon.com

Magazine Littéraire Website

Magazine Littéraire subscription From Amazon.com

Le Figaro Website

Le Figaro subscription From Amazon.com

Le Point Website

Le Point subscription From Amazon.com

L'Express French newsmagazine Website

L'Express magazine subscription From Amazon.com

France-Amérique Newspaper - French Website

France-Amérique Newspaper subscription - French From Amazon.com

Le Journal du Dimanche Newspaper - French Website

Le Journal du Dimanche subscription - French From Amazon.com

Le Nouvel Observateur magazine - French Website

Photo magazine - French Website

Ça m'intéresse. Interesting French magazine. Science, Health, Interviews, News Website

Ça m'intéresse magazine subscription From Amazon.com

Jeunes - 2nd Level French for children subscription From Amazon.com

Charlie Hebdo Website Satirical magazine

Charlie Hebdo subscription From Amazon.com Satirical French magazine

Les Cles De L'Actualite magazine Website

Les Cles De L'Actualite subscription - French From Amazon.com

Bien Dire magazine for learning French. Subscription From Amazon.com 6 issues in one year. Excellent for improving your French.

French Newspapers and Magazines From AllYouCanRead.com

French Newspapers and Magazines From OnLineNewspapers.com

French Newspapers From MIT libraries























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 La Marseillaise. Paroles et musique. Words and music

French National Anthem La Marseillaise. Paroles et musique. Words and music To hear it sung, click on Musique

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

Home of the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy L'Elysée - Le Président de la République

Matignon, home of the French Prime Minister Le Gouvernement.fr L'hôtel Matignon - résidence officielle du Premier ministre de France

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

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

Paris portal, news From City of Paris, la Mairie

Eiffel Tower, official site Tour-eiffel.fr

Paris Science Center Cité des Sciences

French Weather Meteo France

Satellite Photo of France From Meteo123.com

French Weather Terms. from Yoursecondlanguage.com

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.

Paris Good photos.

Paris Good photos of Europe for Visitors.

Pictures of Paris from Notre Dame Notre Dame de Paris

Pictures of Paris By Offrench.net

Paris Webcams from TF1

Paris Webcams From ABC Paris Live.com

Books about Paris.

Minitel Minitel.fr. The French forerunner of the internet. Invented in the early 1980's!

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.

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























Search Engines in French

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French Search Engine Google.fr

French Search Engine Yahoo

French Search Engine Kartoo

French Search Engine Cocorico

French Search Engine France Pratique

French Search Engine voilà



French Postcards

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French Postcards From le temps passé


French Postcards From L'internaute



Websites for Learning French

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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

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.

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 at Howtopronouncefrench.com Good site about French pronunciation

French sounds: Best article that we have found on French liasons. In French. at monsu.desiderio.free.fr

French sounds: French audio dictionary. Hear the most common words in French at French.About.com

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

Sounds of the French Alphabet at Alphabetpage.com Click to hear its name and sound in French.

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

French sounds at languageguide.org Choose a topic. Place mouse cursor over a word or picture.

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

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

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

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

French Gestures From About.com

Learn French 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

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.

Learn French online BBC

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 By Jean-François Billaud in French

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

Basic rules of French punctuation By REJ-poesie.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 University of Sunderland

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

Cat names in French Most popular names given to French cats! From cats-central.com Mistigri, minou, ...

Pet names in French Most popular names given to French pets! Loulou, Medor, ...

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

Sounds made by animals, in French (cris d'animaux) From lonympics Sounds of Bee Bird Cat Chicken Chicks Cow Crow Dog Donkey Duck Elephant Goat Goose Horse Monkey Owl Pig Rooster Sheep Domesticated turkey in French

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

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 Petit escargot 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 here

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.

Fun English/French picture dictionary from Enchantedlearning.com

The new French spelling from Orthographe-recommandee

Mot du Jour from french.about.com

Life in France from France-bienvenue.fr Much good information about French life, language, customs.

Franc Parler from Francparler.com Much good information about French

On Line French verb conjugations By Verbix.com

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!

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

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

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

Type accented French letters by Tomasz P. Szynalski Type French letters with their accents without a French keyboard. You can copy and paste into a Word document!.

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

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