Group items tagged

This French website created for native French speakers is full of dictées - dictations. This site is divided into grade levels based on the French school system. (For a brief run-down of the grade levels in France visit the blog from Transparent Language entitled À l'École!: French and American Grade Levels Compared at http://blogs.transparent.com/french/a-lecole/) Since the ladictee.fr website is targeted toward elementary aged children, the language level works well for beginner and intermediate French L2 learners. Even though a dictée isn't what people would call a "communicative" activity, it does serve the purpose of helping students make connections between spoken language and written language, especially since French spelling is not phonemic. The site includes various dictées for each level, along with a PDF of the written text so student's can check their work. Doing dictées can help students improve their spelling, recognize spelling patterns, and learn to listen for cues in spoken speech that indicate whether the person is speaking in the plural or singular (often tricky in the French language). Note: When doing a dictée, students are focused on writing down what is said word for word, and NOT on comprehension. It would NOT be effective to give a student a dictée and then immediately ask them specific comprehension questions about what they just heard.

Enhancing French skills is a website for intermediate learners of French. It includes authentic language videos from French websites, as well as interviews of French speakers on cultural topics. Videos and activities are organized into five broad themes and tagged by communicative language function with links into Tex's French Grammar for specific grammar explanations and interactive exercises. Each theme includes a pdf of suggested classroom activities and homework.

This website has activities for French learners at the beginning (FREN 110 and FREN 120) and intermediate (FREN 230) levels that are intended to be used in conjunction with any curriculum. The interactive nature of many of the activities also make the site suitable for independent study or practice. We hope you enjoy reviewing and learning French à la mode through the use of these up-to-date cultural materials.

Bonjour de France is an « educational website » containing free exercises tests and games to learn French. Teaching aides and materials are also available for those teaching French as a Foreign Language (FLE). Through its various pages, this website serves as a tool for promoting the Francophonie. New interactive sections will appear regularly to ensure this site becomes a place full of resources and a place to share.

List of Public Domain French Readers. Available for learners in the beginner, intermediate, or advanced.

Quick article on longterm memorization techniques for learning French.. applicable for other languages!

Originally created for the students of NYU's Department of French, Papiers-Mâchés may interest any user eager to develop his or her written skills in French. The tutorial is free of charge and open to anyone but restricted to non-commercial uses. 

Learn French onomatopoeia; complete with pronunciation guide and audio examples

A pedagogical reference grammar that combines explanations with surreal dialogues and cartoon images. Originally built for students at the University of Texas at Austin as a user-friendly guide to French grammar, this web site may be profitably used by any learner of French, provided he or she possess a sense of humor.

Les Conversations Mises à Jour is a collection of authentic conversations in French that targets mostly intermediate and advanced learners of French. Each conversation highlights the shared experience of two native or near-native French speakers and provides both an oral history of that experience and a trove of cultural references.

Accessibility extension for Google Chrome that enable text-to-speech and a picture dictionary in Google Docs. The voices available are for English, French, and Spanish.

Online Spelling and Grammar Checker for French as a Second Language

Tools for learners, teachers, and researchers. Learners can take tests, use concordance tools for reading, writing, and grammar. Researchers and teachers can determine the number of words at different frequency bands, etc. Limitations: English and French only

Course management system available in English, French, Italian, Romanian, Turkish, and Arabic.

Free online courses from Carnegie Mellon University, including courses on Arabic language & culture, French, and ESL.

Practice your French understanding by reading online!

Corpora in Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish, and Swedish. Limitations: Must be in academia to access.

Italian - English - French dictionary.

Dictionary that offers definitions, synonyms, antonyms, example sentences, pronunciations, and translations between English and several languages (German, Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish). Many other options.

Watch French TV online.