French

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French is a Romance language with around 220 million speakers worldwide and was one of the original languages available to learn on Duolingo.

Keyboard layouts and input methods

Main article: Guide to keyboard layouts and input methods

• [States-International layout]
• [Kingdom Extended layout]
• [OS X default layout]
• AZERTY

Grammar tips

See French/Grammar tips.

Supplemental learning resources

General/multiple resources

• Écoute - A French reference in German.
• French by French - French learning site.
• The French Experiment - French lessons, children's books, home study tool reviews, dictionary.
• Super French Websites - Tons and tons of French links.

Dictionaries

• Dictionnaire des synonymes - A French synonym dictionary.
• Grand dictionnaire - A French - English dictionary for domain specific terms (accountability, geology, medical, etc.). Maintained by L'Office Québécois de la langue française.
• Reverso French-English/English-French Dictionary which offers Conjugation, Context (Examples of use in many sentences), Translation, Grammar, Spell-Check and also offers French to and from Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish with instructions (top right corner) in French, English, Spanish, German, Italian or Portuguese.
• Larousse Authoritative French Dictionary for French of France with synonyms, conjugations and expressions, includes bilingual dictionaries, encyclopedia, forum, recipes...
• Verbs online - Verbs listing

Courses

• Didier Connexions - French Course.
• Didier Latitudes - French course.
• Phonétique - A free course on French pronunciation. Click the flags on the second bar to change the language of the web site.

Grammar references

• IELanguages.com - Comprehensive grammar tutorials.
• Laits.utexas.edu - French grammar

Pronunciation

• Bonjourdefrance - Checks your pronunciation. Supports Chrome Speak.

Conversation practice

• Carlandren - Chat online in French for free

Tools

• Abyssum - Test to see how many words you have in your vocabulary in French.
• Audio French - French audio
• Azurlingua - Free French tests online.
• Conjugation Practice - Conjugations
• Centre collégial de développement de matériel didactique (CCDMD) of collège de Maisonneuve
• Le Figaro - A page to get the conjugations of every French verbs.
• Le point du FLE - A source of French material and exercices for French as a second language students.
• French FM - Learn French gender ending patterns and exceptions. Has a useful cheat sheet of gender endings.
• Practice French Verbs - A website to practice French conjugation
• schoLINGUA - Conjugation trainer - Practice over 12,000 French verbs
• QCFrench.com - Free worksheets and vocabulary lists, plus audio.
• Quebec French - A list of differences between French spoken in Quebec and the spoken in France.

Content in French

• 20 Minutes News - news
• 985fm-On Line Radio 98.5 fm
• AFP - News – French Edition
• AudioCite - Free audio books in French.
• BFM TV - French TV
• Cap-eveil - French Children Stories
• Canalacademie - This language learning website features streaming news, historical facts and more to help you broaden your vocabulary.
• Courrier International - Courrier International
• Chez Lorry - children stories
• Ebooks gratuits - A website for e-books of the public domain in French, free to download in many electronic formats (including PDF to use on a regular PC or device that doesn't supportother e-book formats).
• Extra - A teleseries available on YouTube made for English speakers studying French.
• Francais Authentique - Free French podcasts
• France 4 - France 4 – TV
• France TV Pluzz - On demand French streaming videos.
• Francetvinfo - French news
• Franceculture - Radio
• Franceinter - (Direct to the player)
• French in Action- produced by Yale University, these video lessons use the storyline of an American student and a young French woman’s adventures in Paris to teach the language. Link only works in US and Canada. Lower quality Youtube playlistavailable for those in other countries.
• French-word-a-day - French word-day
• Frenchqq - French Dialogues
• FSI - FSI Language Courses
• Guy de Maupassant - Free audio books from Guy de Maupassant, a renown classical French writer.
• Historiettes - French Children Stories
• Imagiers.net Source MP3s - Virtual library
• Mondedespetits French children's story
• Ivoox - Journel en francais podcast page
• Le Parisien - Newspaper
• Lightandmatter - Free French Textbooks
• Littérature audio - Free French audio books.
• Monotimes - Directory of French News Sites
• Native French Speech - A freemium site offering podcasts and transcripts in French for free, plus other services when you pay.
• Newsinslowfrench - News, up-to-the-minute site. Membership fee, but there is a huge resource of learning material for a very reasonable price.
• Nostalgie - Radio
• OffQc- A blog about learning French in Quebec, Canada and its particularities.Radio-Canada (Canada's public TV and radio network)
• Radio-Canada - Audio and video streaming.
• Radio France - Live French streaming radio.
• ReadMetro – Paris Newspaper
• Recherche - Magazine – Science
• RFI - Radio France - Radio
• Stephyprod - Stephyprod (Stephy Productions French Children’s Stories)
• Tv5monde - TV

Other

• French Music Blog - A blog about French music.
• Nakedtranslations - Native French speaker Celine is a professional freelance translator from English into French. Read her blog to gain insight into the nature of her work and to improve your own understanding of the language.

References

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