Language Tools
Novice Level
French survival kit / Memorized phrases
Isolated words (articles (explanation and exercises); adjectifs; démonstratifs ; autres catégories ; quelques verbes ; genre des noms ; pronominaux)
Intermediate Level
Conveying personalized information
Asking simple questions
Dealing with familiar topics
Creating sentences by combining elements
Advanced Level
Major Time Frames / présent, passé-composé, plus-que-parfait
Narration
Description
Dealing with a complicated situation
Creating Paragraphs
Superior Level
Accuracy
Support Opinions
Hypothesize
Extended discourse / French Syntax
Handling abstract topics
General Resources
Dictionaries (bilingual)
Novice Level
French survival kit / Memorized phrases
http://french.about.com/library/begin/bl_basic.htm
http://www.french-at-a-touch.com/Words-Phrases/basic_phrases_links.htm
http://www.languagehelpers.com/words/french/basics.html
http://www.learn-french-language-software.com/phrases/FSFrench.htm (with sounds)
http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/french/Lexique//habitat/hab_mainpage.html
habitat et cadre de vie
Isolated words
articles (explanation and exercises)
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/jhreid/grammar/articles.htm
adjectifs
http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/French/Grammar/French-Adjective.html
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/gmoskos1/interexercice/adjectifsexercice.htm
http://french.chass.utoronto.ca/fre180/ExoGram.html
démonstratifs
http://www.fsj.ualberta.ca/griff98/5-7-5b.htm (exercises)
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/gmoskos1/interexercice/prepositionshp.htm
http://www86.homepage.villanova.edu/seth.whidden/etats.html (with names of U.S. States)
pronoms personnels
http://www.latl.unige.ch/safran/data/gramm/refer/3_const/2_pro/index.htm
pronoms personnels
quelques verbes
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/jhreid/grammar/cause.htm faire causatif, rendre
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/gmoskos1/interexercice/pouvoir.htm
pouvoir, devoir, vouloir (self-correcting exercises)
genre des noms
http://www.fourmilab.ch/francais/glue.html
essential vocabulary and noun gender
http://french.chass.utoronto.ca/fre180/Genre.html (gender)
pronominaux
http://french.about.com/od/grammar/a/pronominalverbs.htm
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/jhreid/verbes_pronominaux_objet_direct.htm
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/jhreid/verbes_pronominaux_objet_indirect.htm
http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~creitan/qchap4b.htm (exercices)
http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~creitan/qchap4c.htm (exercices)
Intermediate Level
Conveying personalized information
http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/french/Lexique//ecole/ecole_mainpage.html
école et études
http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/french/Lexique//travail/trav_mainpage.html
travail et argent
Asking simple questions
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/jhreid/grammar/interrogative.htm
interrogative pronouns
Dealing with familiar topics
http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/french/Lexique//medias/media_mainp.html
media, informations, culture
http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/french/Lexique//vacances/vac_mainpage.html
vacances et voyages
http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/french/Lexique//politique/pol_mainpage.html
politique et société
http://www.teleshopping.fr/ shopping
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/sport.html
sports et loisirs
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/emploi.html
travail
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/gastron.html
cuisine
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/famille.html
famille
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html#virtual
Francophone tourism
Creating sentences by combining elements
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/gmoskos1/interexercice/negprep.htm
les négations
http://fzpc.club.fr/Go/Synth_Gram_Phrase/Comparaison.htm (comparaison)
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/comp.html (comparaison, exercises)
Advanced Level
Major Time Frames
présent, passé-composé, plus-que-parfait
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~gezundha/b10/passe/pcimparf.html
passé composé/imparfait
http://french.chass.utoronto.ca/fre180/Pcompose.html
passé composé (explication)
http://french.chass.utoronto.ca/fre180/Imparfait.html
http://www.latl.unige.ch/safran/data/gramm/refer/3_const/5_vbes/4_part/2_passe/index.htm (participe passé)
imparfait (explication)
http://www.richmond.edu/~jpaulsen/leverbe/leverbe.html
formes des temps des verbes
Narration
http://facweb.furman.edu/~pecoy/f22/depuis.htm
depuis, pendant, il y a
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html#history
French and Francophone History
Description
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/jhreid/grammar/pcimp.htm
tenses of the past
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/jhreid/grammar/activpas.htm
la voix passive
Dealing with a complicated situation
http://www.polarfle.com/exercice/avpartpres.htm
http://french.chass.utoronto.ca/fre180/TOP30.html (grammatical difficulties : list)
Creating Paragraphs
http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/French/Grammar/French-Conjunctions.html
http://grammaire.reverso.net/3_1_constructions_syntaxiques_particulieres.shtml syntaxe
http://bcs.fltr.ucl.ac.be/GRAMM/09.princip.html (modes et temps)
Superior Level
http://perso.club-internet.fr/fzpc/Go/Synth_Gram_Texte/Concord_tps.htm
concordance des temps
Accuracy
Support Opinions
http://web.bham.ac.uk/johnstf/sub2.htm
conjunctions requiring the subjunctive
Hypothesize
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/jhreid/grammar/si.htm
si/if clauses
Extended discourse / French Syntax
http://french.about.com/od/linguisticssyntax/French_Syntax_Syntaxe_franaise_French_Linguistics.htm
http://www.transparent.com/games/unscramble/french/French_unscramble.htm
Handling abstract topics
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html#art
French and Francophone art
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html#books
French and Francophone literature
General Resources
http://www.june29.com//IDP/IDPupdate.html
Internet Dictionary Project
Grammar (General)
http://www.fsj.ualberta.ca/griff98/
Grammaire du français intermédiaire
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/gramm.html
Cours et exercices de grammaire
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/inflect.query.html
Conjuguer les verbes en français
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/analyze.query.html
ARTFL Project: Morphological Analysis Using the INFL Analyzer
http://www.frenchrevision.co.uk/index.htm
Grammar Review (Mr. Dyer, UK)
News
http://www.liberation.fr Libération.
Ce site offre un accès au journal quotidien mais aussi à
des forums et des databases.
http://www.lemonde.fr Le Monde.
Ce site offre un accès au journal quotidien mais aussi à
des forums et des databases.
http://www.france2.fr France
2 (Télévision publique française #2).
http://www.france5.fr/ (France 5)
http://www.tf1.fr/ (TF1)
http://www.france3.fr France
3 (Télévision publique française #3).
http://www.adetocqueville.com (The Tocqueville Connection. The insider’s Web source for French news and analyses; in English)
http://www.rfi.fr RFI (Radio France International).
http://www.arte-tv.com/hebdo/SEMAINE/real_f.html
la semaine sur ARTE en Real-Video
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/oral.html
Tennessee Bob on listening and speaking
http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php
http://francaisenligne.free.fr/ecouter/phonetique.php
http://129.194.19.89:8001/dicovox/
http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/fr.htm
French tongue twisters
http://www.dramaction.qc.ca/virelangues/
exercices de diction (phrases)
http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk/ipa/
International Phonetic Alphabet
http://www.unil.ch/Jahia/site/ling/cache/offonce/pid/30184;jsessionid=954E90F7EB3CC599C47387FA9D215298.jvm1
introduction to phonetics
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/reading.html
Tennessee Bob on reading
http://litgloss.buffalo.edu/litgloss/list-of-texts.shtml (***great short texts with vocabulary and translation)
http://www.pbaudry.com/ **download a book in French with its English translation (free, open source). Topic: Intercultural perspectives on Americans and French
http://www.lire-francais.com/w_semain.htm, http://www.msdsteuben.k12.in.us/dblaz/miscellaneous/sites_to_practice_reading_french.htm,
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/ (for vocabulary review, along with grammar and notes)
http://cr.middlebury.edu/public/french/Lexique//,
http://anne_fox.homestead.com/Bestlinks.html,
http://www.laguinguette.com/ (a good, progressive approach),
http://www.frenchpodclass.com/ (for your ipod),
http://www.zut.org.uk/index.html,
http://www.parlo.com/index.asp?nav=en,
http://french.about.com/library/reading/bl-readingindex.htm, (good reading exercises)
http://www.verb2verbe.com/ (to conjugate verbs),
http://www.lepointdufle.net/french-learning-material.htm (excellent, comprehensive site)
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/writing.html
Tennessee Bob on writing
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/vocab.html
Tennessee Bob’s links on vocabulary
Culture
See my selection of cultural links. Visit these two exciting sites as a
preview:
http://www.arte-tv.com/home/home.jsp?lang=fr
http://www.cplus.fr/ canal plus
Comprehensive Sites
href=”http://french.chass.utoronto.ca/fre180/#DIC”>http://french.chass.utoronto.ca/fre180/#DIC
(Pascal Michelucci)
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/reading.html (Tennessee Bob)
http://archives.fffod.org/resgen_e.htm
http://www.liensutiles.org/languefranc.htm
The classification by level is inspired by the pioneering work of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages [http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1], and my work as an certfied ACTFL tester from 2002 to 2005.