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French
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French Grammar Review
http://qsilver.queensu.ca/french/
Grammar review for those in intermediate French courses.
French for Beginners/Travelers
http://www.travlang.com/languages/
Learn basic words, numbers, phrases for directions, times & dates, shopping/dining and places.
Lexique: Phrases for Students of Intermediate French
http://cweb.middlebury.edu/cr/lexique/
From Middlebury College, this site helps you practice vocabulary dealing with school and education, cooking, vacation and travel, media and information, work and money, politics and society.
French Verb Conjugator
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/inflect.query.html
Conjugate a verb by selecting the tense and entering the infinitive form of the verb in the box provided.
Learn French With Radio France International
http://town.hall.org/travel/france/rfi.html
Learn French in your spare time with the popular program from Radio France International, PARLER AU QUOTIDIEN. Each lesson is typically between 2 and 2.5 megabytes. Radio France International also brings you daily news transcripts in French.
Language Programs | Literature | Culture | Radio | Newspapers and Magazines | Dictionaries | Software | Travel & Geography | Television | General Links
19th Century French Literature
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/19.html
Links to 19th century texts, sites about French movements, civilization and more. Text links include works by Baudelaire, Constant, Balzac, Corbiere, Hugo etc.
Association des Bibliophiles Universels
http://cedric.cnam.fr/ABU/
A catalogue containing 262 electronic texts by 82 authors.
French Proverbs
http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/proverbs.html
French proverbs and explanations (one page is in French). Links to Japanese and English proverbs too.
Athena 1,600 multilingual electronic texts
http://un2sg1.unige.ch/www/athena/html/authors.html
THE INTERNET LIBRARY Thousands of electronic texts, sorted by author's name!
Language Programs | Literature | Culture | Radio | Newspapers and Magazines | Dictionaries | Software | Travel & Geography | Television | General Links
Culture Francophonie
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/int/int3a.htm
The ministry of culture and communication provides information on virtual expositions, internet culture, regions in France, and more...
Index of French Administration
http://www.adminet.COM/world/fr/
Government, Political organisations, Cities & Towns, Premier ministre, Finance Health, Foreign Affairs, Industry, French Companies, Intérieur, Aménagement du Territoire, Justice, Défense, Education, Jeunesse, Sports, Industrie, Postes et Télécommunications et Commerce Extérieur Telecom, Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Civil Engineering, Housing, Transport and Tourism, PME, Commerce et Artisanat, Travail, Emploi et Formation Professionnelle, Art, Culture, Agriculture, Enseignement Supérieur et Recherche, Environment, Anciens Combattants, Universities, Press, French Companies, Normalisation, Statistics, WWW resources about France.
History - Crusades
http://philae.sas.upenn.edu/French/french.html
From the University of Pennsylvania Virtual Language Laboratory, learn about the crusades in French.
Labyrinth Library
http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu
Stories from French history, descriptions of historical periods. Medieval life, Life of Charlemagne, Paris in the Time of Philip Augustus ... are examples of some links.
The Green Thumb
http://greenquest.com/mainvert
Learn about the French garden.
Language Programs | Literature | Culture | Radio | Newspapers and Magazines | Dictionaries | Software | Travel & Geography | Television | General Links
Radio Info and Links
Learn French with Radio France International
http://town.hall.org/travel/france/rfi.html
Learn French in your spare time with the popular program from Radio France International, PARLER AU QUOTIDIEN. Each lesson is typically between 2 and 2.5 megabytes. Radio France International also brings you daily news transcripts in French.
Links to French Radio & TV
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/topics/tv.and.radio.html
David Gatwood's collection of radio and Tv links in France.
Radio Guide France
http://www.bric-a-brac.org/radio/
French radio listings by city, radio news in France and abroad, from satelite to turnpike, viewer stats...
Live Radio Lists
http://www.chez.com/came/RADIO.htm
More French radio stations.
Live Radio
Frequence Banane (La Radio Suisse)
http://fbwww.epfl.ch/
French pop music, university radio station from Lausanne, Switzerland.
From Techno to Reggae, + news in French, check out the archives and listen to what's being played on a cool Swiss radio station.
Language Programs | Literature | Culture | Radio | Newspapers and Magazines | Dictionaries | Software | Travel & Geography | Television | General Links
Le Figaro
http://www.lefigaro.fr/
Editorials, opinions, links to Figaro Etudiant...
Le Temps
http://www.letemps.ch
Excellent newspaper from Geneva.
The Tocqueville Connection
http://www.AdeTocqueville.com
"The insider's Web source for French news and anlyses," in English.
Alternative Libertaire
http://users.skynet.be/AL/
Un journal belgo-français de débats et de critique sociale radicale au carrefour de l'anarchisme, de l'écologie sociale, du féminisme, du socialisme anti-autoritaire et du nouveau mouvement des "collectifs".
Le Monde
http://www.lemonde.fr/
La Presse canadienne
http://www.XE.COM/canpress/frhlines.htm
Agence France Presse
http://www.afp.com
Summaries in English, French, Spanish, German and Portuguese
ELLE
http://www.elle.fr/
Language Programs | Literature | Culture | Radio | Newspapers and Magazines | Dictionaries | Software | Travel & Geography | Television | General Links
French-English Dictionary (ARTFL)
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html
Look up words in a simple French English Dictionary containing about 75,000 terms.
French "slang" dictionary
http://www.lexscripta.com/desktop/dictionaries/slang.html
Links to dictionaries of slang and other sources for French phrases.
French Dictionaries
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/dico.html
French & languages other than English, French Business, Economics and Finance Dictionaries, French Computers & Information Technology Dictionaries, French Legal, Social & Political Dictionaries, French Sports, Hobbies and Leisure Dictionaries Dictionaries, French Wordlists and Forums for Vocabulary,Historic Dictionaries and Historical French,Medical, Technical, Scientific, Transportation Dictionaries, Sigles, Acronymes, Abréviations, etc.
Language Programs | Literature | Culture | Radio | Newspapers and Magazines | Dictionaries | Software | Travel & Geography | Television | General Links
INRIA
http://www-rodin.inria.fr/
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE: Centres de documentation - Publications : rapports de recherche et d'activité - Multimedia - Centre virtuel de démonstrations - Logiciels - Serveurs en informatique et mathématiques - Travailler à l'INRIA - Faire un stage à l'INRIA
Business Software Alliance France
http://www.bsa.org/france
Organisation internationale d'editeurs de logiciels dont la mission est de promouvoir un commerce mondial libre et ouvert de logiciels legaux, par la protection de la propriete intellectuelle.
Saint-Leger Software
http://www.saint-leger-software.fr/
Editeur de logiciel de gestion pour les collectivites locales et les etablissements publics. Solutions pour Windows et Mac OS en monoposte ou client/serveur, formation et maintenance.
Language Programs | Literature | Culture | Radio | Newspapers and Magazines | Dictionaries | Software | Travel & Geography | Television | General Links
French-speaking Countries
Quebec Tourism
http://www.bonjourquebec.com
"La region de Quebec: Une histoire d'amour!"
Geneva and Western Switzerland
http://www.geneva-tourism.ch/
Discover Geneva, the sites, shopping, hotels, restaurants and more...
France
French Tourism by City
Links to tourist buros in France from the French Yahoo server.
Index of French Administration
http://www.adminet.COM/world/fr/
Learn virtually everything you need to know about France before going...
Frantic Fred's Travel Tips: France
http://www.rru.com/~meo/Places/fr/">Frantic Fred's Travel Tips: France
"There are a number of issues the first-time traveler to France should be aware of. These are the things which stand out to me. .."
Tourist Bureau Paris
http://www.parisinfo.com
"Le Paris de l'an 2000" provides info on restaurants, hotels, monuments, museums, etc.
PARIS Interactive
http://www.paris.org/parisF.html
Learn about the metro, museums, shops, monuments and more.
The Louvre
http://sunsite.unc.edu/louvre/
The ever-expanding WebMuseum network is now welcoming 200,000 visitors every week, delivering over 10 million documents! (PS: remember to click on the inlined thumbnail images to enlarge them...)
Virtual Francophone Tourist Links
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/vftourist/vftourist.france.html
Hot links created by David A. Gatwood from a list by Bob Peckham (TennesseeBob)
Africa
L'Afrique Francophone Virtuelle
http://globegate.utm.edu/french/vftourist/vftourist.africa.html
Francophone links specifically for Africa.
Language Programs | Literature | Culture | Radio | Newspapers and Magazines | Dictionaries | Software | Travel & Geography | Television | General Links
Television
RTBF
http://www.rtbf.be/
Radio and Televison for the French-speaking Belgian Community.
TV 5
http://www.tv5.ca/
Access news from France, Canada, Asia and more using the TV5 magazine online (plus programming).
France Television
http://www.francetv.fr/
From France 2, France 3, gain access to the following categories: sports, jeux, emissions, regions, infos, etc.
French TV Listings
List of Francophone TV
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/groups/accueil/hom.fr
Links to TV5, La Citoyenne, RTBF, ARTV, TF1, France Television, France 2, Arte, La Cinquieme en ligne, etc.
Language Programs | Literature | Culture | Radio | Newspapers and Magazines | Dictionaries | Software | Travel & Geography | Television | General Links
General Links
Collection of French Links by Bob Peckham
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html
Categories include: Francophones sites; books and literature; art, music and film; history; francophone tourism; press, radio, telephone and TV; education, etc.
French Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.fr/
Yahoo server focusing on France and other French-speaking countries.
ClicNet
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/clicnet/
Guide to French resources on the Internet at Swarthmore College. Access sites for dictionaries, radio, press, television, language program, arts and pleasure, daily life, internet, and more. In French.
Culture Francophonie
http://www.culture.fr/
The Ministry of Culture and Communication provides the official links to culture and language in France.
Resources for French Language and Literature
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/central/french.html
Academic sites, journal selections, French professional organizations, electronic reference databases...
ARTFL
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/ARTFL/ARTFL.html
Includes databases on French Women Writers, Provencal Poetry, Roget's Thesaurus, Dictionaries, Bibles, French Servers, Illuminated Manuscripts, French Revolutionary Pamphlets.