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Resources for Learning French

Suggested by Mireille Richardson
Head Teacher at La Ferme

One of the best ways to learn French or improve your French is to come and take a French course with us at La Ferme. You can find out all about those courses by clicking on the buttons on the right. As much as we'd like to have you with us, however, we realize that you can't spend all your time here, and that you need some other learning resources.

Learn French on the Internet

Here are some sites that look useful to us. Some of them are entirely free, and all of them offer at least some free examples.

http://www.parlo.com/
http://www.frenchclasses.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/french/
http://www.lamc.utexas.edu/fr/
http://www.frenchlesson.org/
http://french.about.com/

Champs Elysées
A monthly French audio magazine for the intermediate to advanced speaker designed to take their speaking and listening comprehension to the next level. Every issue takes the form of an hour long radio broadcast featuring interviews with French celebrities as well as up to date news from the worlds of art, business, literature, politics etc. Previous guests on the programmes include Brigitte Bardot, Francois Mitterand, Juliette Binoche and Jacques Chirac. Each magazine comes with a complete transcript and a comprehensive French-English glossary together with optional linguistic exercises. Available on both CD and cassette from the Champs-Elysées website.

Try Louisiana !
France is not the only place you can practice your French. Last year we spent a delightful week in the Cajun country of Louisiana, and we were able to communicate in French with a many of the people we met. The center of all the fun is St. Matinville, home of the Evangeline Tree and the Museum which tells the whole sad story of "Le Grand Dérangement " from Acadie. Stay at Bienvenue House, an antebellum mansion on the National Register of Historic Places. It's now a bed and breakfast inn, restored with impeccable taste by Leslie Leonpacher, bilingual hostess and a great cook. Ask her to set you up for a boat tour of the bayou. Find out more at
http://www.bienvenuehouse.com/

For Serious Students
Are you having problems writing French because you can't find the accented characters on your computer keyboard? There are many ways to overcome this difficulty, most of them covered in the following links :

For Macintosh users
For Windows users
Sending special characters by Email

The external sites shown on this page will open in a second window, so that you can come back here just by closing that second window.

Listening Practice
Listen to French on the Radio via the Internet and improve your understanding of spoken French.
The Radio France site offers up to seven channels of good quality live audio and vast archives of recent news and other programs, plus an on-line store where you can buy audio cassettes.
The RTL radio site is also interesting for learners because it shows written summaries of its news clips.

Reading Practice
Improve your French vocabulary while you're keeping up to date on French news. Here are two excellent newspapers which let you download current and archived articles free of charge.
Le Parisien is good for intermediate learners because it is full of short articles written in clear and relatively simple French.
Libération is a bit more difficult because they have a trendy image to maintain, and have to use the language that goes with that image.

Internet Book Stores for French Books
Reliable sites for French books, CD's, and films.

France - USA -Contacts
FUSAC, the free want-ad magazine, has long been indispensable for any Anglophone who plans to stay more than a day or two in Paris, and now they have a web site. The on line version is just starting to take off, and we believe it will soon became a resource for learners as well as ordinary visitors. They already have a brief guide to French colloquial expressions in their "Speak Easy" page. Try it.

	LearnFrench.Net Resources for Learning French Suggested by Mireille Richardson Head Teacher at La Ferme One of the best ways to learn French or improve your French is to come and take a French course with us at La Ferme. You can find out all about those courses by clicking on the buttons on the right. As much as we'd like to have you with us, however, we realize that you can't spend all your time here, and that you need some other learning resources. Learn French on the Internet Here are some sites that look useful to us. Some of them are entirely free, and all of them offer at least some free examples. http://www.parlo.com/ http://www.frenchclasses.com/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/french/ http://www.lamc.utexas.edu/fr/ http://www.frenchlesson.org/ http://french.about.com/ Champs Elysées A monthly French audio magazine for the intermediate to advanced speaker designed to take their speaking and listening comprehension to the next level. Every issue takes the form of an hour long radio broadcast featuring interviews with French celebrities as well as up to date news from the worlds of art, business, literature, politics etc. Previous guests on the programmes include Brigitte Bardot, Francois Mitterand, Juliette Binoche and Jacques Chirac. Each magazine comes with a complete transcript and a comprehensive French-English glossary together with optional linguistic exercises. Available on both CD and cassette from the Champs-Elysées website. Try Louisiana ! France is not the only place you can practice your French. Last year we spent a delightful week in the Cajun country of Louisiana, and we were able to communicate in French with a many of the people we met. The center of all the fun is St. Matinville, home of the Evangeline Tree and the Museum which tells the whole sad story of "Le Grand Dérangement " from Acadie. Stay at Bienvenue House, an antebellum mansion on the National Register of Historic Places. It's now a bed and breakfast inn, restored with impeccable taste by Leslie Leonpacher, bilingual hostess and a great cook. Ask her to set you up for a boat tour of the bayou. Find out more at http://www.bienvenuehouse.com/ For Serious Students Are you having problems writing French because you can't find the accented characters on your computer keyboard? There are many ways to overcome this difficulty, most of them covered in the following links : For Macintosh users For Windows users Sending special characters by Email The external sites shown on this page will open in a second window, so that you can come back here just by closing that second window. Listening Practice Listen to French on the Radio via the Internet and improve your understanding of spoken French. The Radio France site offers up to seven channels of good quality live audio and vast archives of recent news and other programs, plus an on-line store where you can buy audio cassettes. The RTL radio site is also interesting for learners because it shows written summaries of its news clips. Reading Practice Improve your French vocabulary while you're keeping up to date on French news. Here are two excellent newspapers which let you download current and archived articles free of charge. Le Parisien is good for intermediate learners because it is full of short articles written in clear and relatively simple French. Libération is a bit more difficult because they have a trendy image to maintain, and have to use the language that goes with that image. Internet Book Stores for French Books Reliable sites for French books, CD's, and films. France - USA -Contacts FUSAC, the free want-ad magazine, has long been indispensable for any Anglophone who plans to stay more than a day or two in Paris, and now they have a web site. The on line version is just starting to take off, and we believe it will soon became a resource for learners as well as ordinary visitors. They already have a brief guide to French colloquial expressions in their "Speak Easy" page. Try it. Welcome \| French Courses \| Prices \| The Region \| Transportation \| Any Questions? \| LearnFrench.Net
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