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Top Ten Reasons to
Learn French
This
resource includes factual information and statistics on the many
advantages Students of French can expect to gain from their studies. It is
an excellent site for anyone interested in exploring the impact that
knowing French could have on their future. It is published by
the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.
Read
French newspapers
France has several national newspapers like "Le
Monde", "Le
Figaro" and "Libération".
But many French people like to read their local paper. Magazines are very
popular, and the French read more magazines than anybody else in the
world!
Listen
to French Radio
You can listen to Radio France Internationale (RFI) on the Internet by
clicking on the green link above or on the red "rfi" below.
Visit their site (www.rfi.fr)
for the Radio France Internationale HomePage..
Altogether, nearly 30 million people all over the world tune in to RFI.
Try
these Great Sites for Practice
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Bonjour
de France |
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Great website for review or help on
assignments; Topics are categorized by grammar topics and thematic
units |
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Conjuguemos--verb
practice! |
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Practice your verbs for 20 minutes to get
a 3 point homework grade!! Don't forget to click on Record/Submit
before logging out. |
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Paris
Daily Photo |
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Awesome blog featuring a new photo of
Paris every day |
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Resources
for French |
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Phenomenal website made by BBC. Includes
review games, explanations by topic and audio and video clips. |
Speak French in
55 countries! 
Research the 55 countries on the five continents that share one common
language. You can select the countries by clicking on the country you are interested in. Once there you will find the country's flag, Form of
government, the date of their national holiday, capital, money, per capita
income, population and other official languages.
Click on the logo
below:
Map from "L'Agence de la Francophonie
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originally from http://www.encyclopedies.hachette-multimedia.fr/
Explore
other countries and find information about them in French
French
Folksongs
Enjoy browsing through traditionnal songs.
Verb
activities for French
Test your knowledge of verbs with matching, flashcards and many other
fun activities.
Links are Fun and Help you Learn
About French in the Real
World.
Need a word in French for
your
letter?
Click here:
http://www.latl.unige.ch/
Use
a dictionnary: Find the word Dictionnaires in the left hand column
menu to access an online dictionnary published by
Le LATL (Laboratoire d'Analyse et de Technologie du Langage) du département
de linguistique ( Faculté
des Lettres ) de l'Université de Genève
qui est un laboratoire de recherche.
Just select the language combination you want:
select anglais/français
Type in the English word if you want its French meaning
or
français/anglais
if you have a French word and want the English.
Forget how to conjugate a
verb?
Get help from ARTFL Project Verb Conjugation:
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/inflect.query.html
Want
to have a perfect French accent?
Click on the links and check out the
vocabulary. Then click on the sound icon to hear the pronunciation.
Practice until you can pronounce the vocabulary.
Explore
Great French Cultural Resources
Explore the Alps, great French innovations,
the French revolution, sports and more.
Webquest
Check out this webquest and create a café
with a cool French theme and cultural showcases.
Evaluate
sites!
Want to try many different dictionaries
and e-mail me an evaluation? Visit Clicnet dictionnaries and you will get
extra credit.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/clicnet/dictionnaires.html
Learn cool new
Vocabulary!
Explore the Beginning French program at Middlebury College
and learn some cool vocabulary with great pictures! http://cweb.middlebury.edu/cr/lexique/
Interested in French fashion, makeup,
and
teenage social
issues?
 
Try Elle
magazine at
http://www.elle.fr/
Read kid's stories, learn
songs!
Then on to http://www.momes.net/index.html
An
amusing French site for kids called my first steps on the internet
and strangely enough great for beginning language students with lyrics to
songs, children's stories that students will enjoy and understand, French
fables, pirate and monster stories, book reviews, a dictionary, games,
toys, etc..:
Don't
miss Histoires or Stories!!!
If you like to listen to music and want
to share opinions in French click on Musique.
We know you will visit Paris one day! Plan your
trip
today.
Les Pages de Paris is all you need.
  
http://www.paris.org/parisF.html Has great links to
restaurants,
museums, the metro, bus schedules, and monuments.
Check
out Père Lachaise Cemetery where you can visit the graves of Chopin, Jim
Morrison, Descartes, Molière and many others.
Time travel by checking
out historical maps of Paris and time
line of events that
happened this month in history.
This is a very nice link to use as
authentic sources to study dates, directions, means of transportation,
monuments of
Paris and how to reach them, cafés, shopping, hotels,
restaurants, museums including hours and prices etc*.
Want to search information about any country
in the
world?
International
directory of search engines.
http://www.searchenginecolossus.com/
You can find
search engines in any country in the world. The French list of search
engines is incredible. The sites are all in French so they could be a
challenge for those who don't know the language but a real rich search
media for French teachers and students. The lists in countries all over
the world are a treat and well worth exploring. The business and academic
links are also excellent.
Need to update professional vocabulary for a
job
interview?
Visit
FRANCOPHONE CAREER LINK @
GLOBE-GATE,
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/globeg.shtml
The
links "are intended to serve students as an ever-current orientation in
the vocabulary, the practices, the structures and cultures of workplaces
and specific professional disciplines in the Francophone world. They are
also here to be a point of
contact for professionals who are already in
the workplace."
For example check out the computer terms at http://www.culture.fr/culture/dglf/ressources/lexiques/abc.htm#h
How about converting the weather from our degrees Farenheit to the
degrees Celsius the French use? Use this conversion tool at:
http://www.marsradio.org/ctof.htm
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see More Links on next page
click here
For comments or
questions please click here Barbara
Gill
or write to bgill@sbschools.net
This page was last updated on 04/29/08
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Top 10 Reasons to Learn French