Additional Languages Useful Links
USEFUL WEBSITES FOR LEARNING FRENCH – for all learners, but especially for beginners
Révision du DELF (New)
- Le site de révision DALF, DELF de Français Plus : http://lewebpedagogique.com/delf-dalf/ (Recommandé)
Sites publics de vidéos d'apprentissage
- Modules pédagogiques sur le site de la BBC : http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/index.shtml#hptab (Recommandé)
Débutants : French steps
Faux débutants : Ma France
Intermédiaire : Reportages - Cours de français interactif de l’université du Texas: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/ (Recommandé)
- Dynamots : http://claweb.cla.unipd.it/home/smazurelle/dynamots/index.htm
- Françaventure : http://ares.cnice.mec.es/frances/animaciones/index.html
- The Massachussets Institute of Technology offers a completely free French course online. Go to their MITOPENCOURSEWARE website at: ocw.mit.edu and look for French courses under Humanities, Arts and Social Science. Direct link for French courses.
Facebook Pages (New)
- Français pour les profs de français langue étrangère: Resources for French teachers, but for learners too with lots of useful links : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fran%C3%A7ais-pour-les-profs-de-fran%C3%A7ais-langue-%C3%A9trang%C3%A8re/123361307760714 (Recommandé)
- Lepetitjournal.com Hong Kong : News in French about things happening in Hong Kong: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lepetitjournalcom-Hong-Kong/209988912393608
- Alliance Française de Hong Kong: https://www.facebook.com/alliancefrancaisehk
- Espace Campusfrance HK : CampusFrance is a French Government Agency in charge of promoting French Higher Education Abroad. Hong Kong Office is located at the Consulate General of France: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000976206758
Vidéos de partage (videos uploaded by learners):
- http://www.apprendrefacile.com/
- http://www.netprof.fr/
- http://smart.fm (a website created mainly for Japanese learners, but with a short and growing French section)
- If you would like to meet some French speaking people and make friends, try this website: http://french.meetup.com/835/
Activités interactives en français:
- Internef : http://internef.mmlc.northwestern.edu/intermain.html
(To access the site, just fill in your details. When it is done, access is immediately possible) - Recto Verso (FLE activities)
A site full of exercises for students (check out the students’ corner)
http://www.rectoverso.org/# (Recommandé) - Klavardage : Exercises and resources for learnign French : http://www.klavardage.com/
Vocabulaire :
- Vokabel (Exercices Vocabulaires) : http://www.vokabel.com/french.html
Phonétique :
- To listen and practice the alphabet and French vowels/consonants, this site is great:
http://phonetique.free.fr/indexvir.htm (Recommandé) - To listen to a text you have chosen (with script)
http://demo.acapela-group.com
Online dictionaries:
- http://www.wordreference.com/
- http://french.about.com/library/pronunciation/bl-audiodico.htm
- French-English Dictionary : http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/dictionary/
Grammaire :
- Grammaire interactive (Softissimo) : http://grammaire.reverso.net/
- Grammar: learn to conjugate verbs: http://www.leconjugueur.com
- French grammar explained at Austin University, Texas http://www.laits.utexas.edu/tex/gr/v1.html
- Any questions, try About.com: http://french.about.com/library/writing/bl-capitalization.htm
- Very precise questions, try WordReference.com:
http://www.wordreference.com/fren/voulu
Chansons françaises:
- Chanson du mois (Song of the month with script):http://atelier.de.francais.over-blog.com/article-4201345.html
- La chanson francophone pour le FLE : http://platea.pntic.mec.es/~cvera/hotpot/chansons/index.htm
Karaoké en français:
Liens utiles pour le Karaoké ou la chanson française:
http://platea.pntic.mec.es/~cvera/ressources/recurfr40.htm
http://insuf-fle.hautetfort.com/archive/2011/06/12/je-veux-un-clip-une-chanson-qui-plaisent.html
http://insuf-fle.hautetfort.com/niveau-a1/
Écoute : La littérature française
- Guy de Maupassant en audio : http://www.guydemaupassant.fr/maupassant.htm
- Gustave Flaubert : http://bovary.univ-rouen.fr/
Les médias français ou francophones pour les étudiants du français :
- TV5 Monde: www.tv5.org
A very interesting and rich site which proposes all kinds of activities including: radio and TV online; songs; interactive dictations; online dictionaries, press articles, quizzes, etc.
In particular :
- The programme called 7-jours sur la planète : http://www.tv5.org/TV5Site/7-jours/index.php?id_dossier=131 gives a summary of news each week and proposes various exercises linked to each item of news to students. It is an excellent way for you to practice your listening skills. (Recommandé)
- RFI (Radio France International)
Exercises on radio news + listening with script (on the main page, select “Langue Francaise”; you are then given several items of news at various levels (e.g. “Francais facile” to read and listen to with exercises; key words used in the news appear in a loop at the top of the screen; if you select one of them, an explanation of the meaning of the word will appear)
http://www.rfi.fr/lffr/statiques/accueil_apprendre.asp (Recommandé)
(look out for the games)
Journaux et magazines:
- Le Monde (one of the most reliable sources of information in France): http://www.lemonde.fr/
Le Monde diplomatique which is an English weekly version of Le Monde is also available at Lingnan library.
- Journal français édité aux U.S.A.: http://www.france-amerique.com/
- Le magazine hebdomadaire Télérama (includes not only the TV weekly programme, but many very interesting cultural features): http://www.telerama.fr/techno/madame-bovary-sur-le-net,41942.php
- Very useful and interesting French magazines available at Lingnan library
- Francophonies du sud
- Le Nouvel observateur
- Okapi
- Paroles (in Chinese and French)
- Le Français dans le Monde
Des sites de référence:.
- L’AFLE (Association Français Langue Étrangère): (The Association of Teachers of French in Hong Kong and Macau). Its mission is to help, coordinate and promote the teaching and learning of French in Hong Kong and Macau. Check out all the activities on offer as well as the reasons why you should learn French at:
http://www.aflehk.org/ (New)
- L’Académie Française: to learn about the institution which protects the purity of “la langue française” and for information about the history of French: http://www.academie-francaise.fr/langue/index.html
- Aspects of the French language: to know more about the rules of “féminisation de la langue française” (new spelling/ new conventions): http://atilf.atilf.fr/gsouvay/scripts/feminin.exe
- Learning French in France: http://www.fle.fr/
(General information about French studies)
- Vupar : La France vue par les Américains, les Anglais, les Italiens…
(French people seen by other nations):
http://vupar.wordpress.com/