Links for Students

I have compiled the collections of links below for students across all of my courses. They are grouped to provide quick access to important online references and resources for learning French. 

Grammar Sites

• Tex's French Grammar: Asite with grammar explanations and self-correcting exercises, pdf downloads, and iTunes podcasts.
  
• Verb Conjugator: Provides all verb tenses so students can check their conjugations.
• French Language Guide: Sound integrated grammar guide = mouse over words or phrases to hear them pronounced.
• YouTube French Language Channel: Videos explaining French grammar from beginning to advanced.
• Imagiers: An open Facebook group of learners exploring the French language together.
  
  

Comprehensive Sites

• The BBC's French Language Site: A site with French lessons, slang, listening comprehension links, and even a test to check your French level.
• Le Point de FLE: A repository of French exercises and resources available online.
• Français interactif: An open-source French program from the University of Texas, with videos, workbooks, grammar explanations, and an online textbook.
  
  

News Sources: Audiovisual

• France Info: Live, streaming radio station for French news (podcasts also available)
  
• France Culture: Live, streaming radio station for French cultural programs  (podcasts also available)
• TF1 - Le journal de 20h: See France's most watched nightly national news
• France 2 - Le journal de 20h: Watch the nightly national news from France's number one public television station

Online Dictionaries

• WordReference: An excellent online French-English/English-French dictionary (based on Oxford-Hachette) with forums for asking about specific lexical difficulties.
• Larousse (Bilingual): A French-English/English-French dictionary 
• Larousse (Monolingual): French-French dictionary that also provides synonyms, homonyms, antonyms, useful phrases, verb conjugations, and "thorny problems" for words. 
• Trésor de la langue française: Online monolingual French dictionary with meanings and etymologies; called "the most important dictionary of the French language".
  
  

Vocabulary Resources

• Le Français cool: Guide to French slang from the BBC
  
• Le Mot du Jour: French word of the day plus access to previous words of the day
• Word Dynamo: French vocabulary games from Dictionary.com
• Quizlet: Allows you to make your own online flashcards to study vocabulary
• Vocabulary Links: A list of 100 French vocabulary sites put together by the University of Tennessee-Martin
  
  

News Sources: Print

• Le Monde: France's newspaper of record
• Libération: Traditionally, a left-wing French daily newspaper
• Le Figaro: Traditionally, a right-wing French daily newspaper
• Paris-Match: Weekly French magazine with national and international news as well as celebrity lifestyle features
• Le Nouvel Observateur: Weekly French news magazine
• L'Express: Weekly French news magazine, modeled after the U.S. magazine TIME 
• Charlie Hebdo: Weekly French satirical newspaper
  
• PressDisplay: Access to French-language newspapers from several Francophone countries (must log in using PSU id)