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Phonetics course for French

A library of how-to videos in French. Much of user interface is in English.

News videos in French, freely available.

Pomme is a French grammar interactive database. It comprises approximately 400 rules available in various ways. Includes presentation of grammar and interactive exercises

Duolingo is a free service that helps you learn languages with your friends while simultaneously contributing to translate real-world content from the Web.

The channel "Canal plus" allows you to watch their news program live online. The counter lets you know when the next one is playing.

This FREE program lets you create word lists and search natural language text files for words, phrases, and patterns. SCP is a concordance and word listing program that is able to read texts written in many languages.There are built-in alphabets for English, French, German, Polish, Greek, Russian, etc. SCP contains an alphabet editor which you can use to create alphabets for any other language.

rikaichan is a popup Japanese-English/German/French/Russian dictionary extension for Firefox. Features: * Simple to use, just hover the mouse on top of a Japanese word. * Automatically de-inflects verbs and adjectives. * Has an optional toolbar that allows you to manually type the word to lookup. * Detailed kanji view shows meaning/keyword in English, on/kun readings, and other information. * Hiragana, katakana and half-width katakana are treated the same making it possible to lookup stylized/emphasized words.

The Standards-based Measurement of Proficiency (STAMP), a criterion-referenced, Web-based assessment tool, measures students' language proficiency at levels ranging from Novice-low to Intermediate-mid. STAMP currently measures reading, writing, and speaking proficiencies in Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. CASLS strives to continually improve STAMP's test design while adding new languages and new levels. STAMP is available through CASLS' partner company, Avant Assessment.

"The Sketch Engine (SkE, also known as Word Sketch Engine) is a Corpus Query System incorporating word sketches, grammatical relations, and a distributional thesaurus. A word sketch is a one-page, automatic, corpus-derived summary of a word's grammatical and collocational behaviour. A Sketch Engine account gives you * Pre-loaded corpora (60M-2B words) for o Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Slovene o Other languages to follow * WebBootCaT o Build your own instant corpus o Extract keywords o Specialist terminology, any language * CorpusBuilder o Upload and install your own corpora Web service using standard browsers. No software installation required. "

Welcome to Tonguetide, the language-learning social network. Like Facebook and Twitter, Tonguetide is a place to connect with people, except that here you'll be meeting people who want to learn languages too. Chat: You can practise your language skills with real native speakers by messenger (like Facebook Chat), video chat (like Skype), or our internal mailing system (email). Use our Match feature to find a native speaker fluent in the language you want to improve (ideally one who wants to learn your mother tongue), read their information to find someone you fancy talking to and invite them to chat by adding them as a friend, sending them a private message, commenting on their profile or "sticking your tongue out" (like "poking" on Facebook). Match: Our system will automatically alert you of new users who fit the profile you specified when signing up and will tell you the Match percentage. Our Members Map even allows you to pinpoint users' locations on a Google Map - so you could meet them face-to-face to chat the old fashioned way! Tonguetide classes: Take classes with one of our language teachers trained in the Tonguetide method. Our online classes offer speaking practise in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German combined with our self-study courses - perfect for those with a busy schedule. All you need is an internet connection, a microphone and a set of speakers or headphones. Take a Tonguetide self-study course: Our self-study language courses are packed with fun exercises, videos of native speakers and audio tracks for listening practice. An annual subscription for any of our courses is just 14,95€, or 500 Tonguetide points. Teach online: Tonguetide is packed with useful resources for teachers. Our Virtual Classroom feature is an online teaching tool which makes the classroom whiteboard a thing of the past, allowing you to teach as if you were in the same room!"

The International Corpus of Learner English (Version 2) is a corpus of writing by higher intermediate to advanced learners of English. It contains 3.7 million words of EFL writing from learners representing 16 different mother tongue backgrounds (Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Tswana). It differs from the first version published in 2002 not only by its increased size and range of learner populations, but also by its interface, which contains two new functionalities: built-in concordancer allowing users to search for word forms, lemmas and/or part-of-speech tags and breakdown of the query results according to the learner profile information.

Bilingual dictionary for Spanish with English, French, German, Catalan, Italian, Gallego, Euskera, and Portuguese. Allows search by beginning or end of word.

Includes bilingual and monolingual dictionaries, forums for language questions, and links for plug-ins and iPhone apps.

The Online Language Environments (OLE) Board is a web based threaded discussion instructional tool that utilizes voice, video and text to replicate the functions of a language lab. OLE is used for, but not restricted to, oral practice, listening comprehension, speaking practice and reading and writing practice. The OLE Board can be used to supplement instruction in face-to-face classes as homework assignments, and can be used in entirely distance classes. CERCLL support provides assistance to improve the technological capabilities and establish the pedagogical strategies of the OLE Board, which has been successfully piloted in French, Arabic, various Indigenous languages and ESL. Specific deliverables for the OLE Board project include templates and pedagogical strategies with examples for Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Japanese, Chinese and Portuguese; online and print user and instructor documentation; lesson plans and use case scenarios; usability studies for further desired improvement; piloting of multi-institutional usage. We also provide for the protocols necessary to integrate the OLE Board for use with course management systems. The OLE Board is being developed as an open-source product that will be available to the wider language instruction community.

Learn the Hebrew keyboard! Then, use our built-in text editor to type your own mixed-language text and publish to PDF. With this free service, you can create a PDF document with English and Hebrew text, including Hebrew vowels (nikud), and save the PDF document on your own computer. And with built-in virtual keyboards for Russian, Greek, French, Spanish, Yiddish, and more, you don't need to install any fonts or software to use our multilingual editor.

Cet espace vise à offrir une perspective comparée sur les ppolitiques de lutte contre les descriminations mises en place en France et aux États-Unis. Includes interviews, documentaries and publications.

Set of grammar/vocab practice activities developed by a teacher for her students.

A tous ceux et celles qui aiment lire, la Bibliothèque Orange propose une sélection diversifiée de nouveautés publiées en France. Il s'agit aussi bien d'auteurs français que d'écrivains étrangers traduits en langue française. Les abonnés à la B.O. sont réunis en groupes de lecteurs, animés par des responsables qui reçoivent en début d'année les ouvrages sélectionnés par le comité de lecture. Les livres sont ensuite mis en circulation à l'intérieur du groupe d'abonnés, qui se les transmettent les uns aux autres tout au long de l'année.