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Here are some of the most relevant links to courses, dictionaries, grammar, interesting links, information and history of the country, maps about different areas, music, all news and magazines on the Web, general learning resources, passages in French, travelling tips and basic travelling language.

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  • Courses
  • French language distance learning
    http://www.etc.bc.ca/french/accueil.html

    French lessons
    http://teleglobe.ca/~leo/french.html

    Learn French
    http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/clicnet/fle.html

    Learn French with Victor
    http://www.travlang.com/languages/

    Learn French
    http://www.icp.grenet.fr/

    BUREAU des programmes de langue fran¨aise en collaboration avec le Bureau de la technologie et de l'Education a distance, Ministere de l'Education, Colombie-Britannique, Canada
    http://www.etc.bc.ca/french/accueil.html


  • Dictionaries
  • ARTFL French dictionary
    http://mlab-power3.uiah.fi/EnglishFrench/avenues.html

    http://tuna.uchicago.edu/ARTFL.html French dictionary
    http://mlab-power3.uiah.fi/EnglishFrench/FE.html

    Dictionary of the French Academy
    http://www.imaginet.fr/momes/Dico.html

    French and other European languages dictionaries
    http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/~felix/eurodicautom.html

    French/German. Encyclopaedias and dictionaries and important information on the Web.
    http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/RELATED.html#Dictionaries

    Dictionaries in French, German.
    http://http://mlab-power3.uiah.fi

    Dictionaries
    http://tuna.uchicago.edu/ARTFL.htm
    http://hypercube.cc.utu.fi/EnglishFrench/FE.html


  • Grammar
  • Verb conjugation
    http://tuna.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/inflect.query.html

    Verb conjugation of Imperfect, Future, and Present only
    http://galois.univ-orleans.fr/langue/conjuguer.html

    The gender of nouns a page turner
    http://www.fourmilab.ch/francais/gender.doc

    Vocabulary exercises
    http://mlab-power3.uiah.fi/EnglishFrench/meanings.html

    Grammar
    http://www.resus.univ-mrs.fr/Us/France/grammaire.html

    Overview of french morphology and phonology with a sample of spoken French
     http://www.teleport.com/~napoleon/french/index.html


  • Practical information
  • How to look for a phone number in France
    http://www.epita.fr:5000/11/

    A WWW server in French
    http://taliesin.emi.u-bordeaux.fr/

    Art and museums of France
    http://www.acs.appstate.edu/~griffinw/website/french_art.html

    Tourist information
    http://www.acs.appstate.edu/~griffinw/website/travel.html

    Money information
    http://www.acs.appstate.edu/~griffinw/website/money.html

    Canadian resources in French
    http://www.acs.appstate.edu/~griffinw/website/canada.html

    Lets' catch the Madrid Metro in French
    http://metro.jussieu.fr:10001/bin/select/english/spain/madrid

    Computer courseware in French
    http://web.cnam.fr/fr/frsofts.html

    EKOCAMP INTERNATIONAL for young people interested in travelling to Canada to learn French
    http://agoralang.com/ekocamp/ekofrench.html


  • LINKS
  • Links to francophones sites
    http://www.acs.appstate.edu/~griffinw/website/francophone.html France in America links: Cajuns and Acadians
    http://www.acs.appstate.edu/~griffinw/website/acadian_cajun.html Famous French Links!
    http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html French centre on the Web
    http://web.cnam.fr/fr/

  • Maps
  • Interactive map of places in Paris
    http://www.paris.org/Maps/MM/ Paris metro pic in French
    http://www.acs.appstate.edu/~griffinw/gifs/paris_metro.gif


  • Music
  • French music
    http://www.acs.appstate.edu/~griffinw/website/frenchmusic.html

  • Newspapers, magazines, and radios.
  • French papers with a description
    http://www.mediainfo.com/e-papers.france.html Radio france international: Parler au quotidien
    gopher://iep.univ-lyon2.fr/11/amb-wash.fr/francais/actu/radio Charlie Hebdo
    http://diwww.epfl.ch/~pcondeva/Charlie Le monde
    http://www.lemonde.fr Le monde diplomatique, in French and English
    http://www.ina.fr/CP/MondeDiplo/mondediplo.fr.html Regards
    http://www.regards.fr/ Newspapers services on the net with a brief description
    http://www.mediainfo.com/e-papers.europe.html Newspapers and magazines in lots of languages
    http://web.mit.edu/21.french/www/news.html

  • General resources
  • Search for cultures of the world
    http://www.yahoo.com Cultures search
    http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Cultures/ Foreign Language Books
    http://www.wor.com/btv.html French culture
    http://www.paris.org/ French lang and culture, papers, mags,radio, tv,gral info, universities, passages in French.
    http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/OU_Language/lang-french.html Crosswords in all languagesFrench, German, and Italian.
    ftp://ftp.dartmouth.edu/pub/LLTI-IALL/365german-news/tw/index.htm Games.Scrabbleur in French
    http://www.odyssee.net/~jps/home/scrabble.html Interactive humour in French
    http://www.cybermax.fr/Chab/Humour/index.html Resources for French, German.
    http://ophale.icp.grenet.fr/esca/welcome.html http://www1.uniovi.es/musica/index.html Resources in national languages
    http://ike.engr.washington.edu/DB2.html IBM scripts in all languages.
    http://www.ibm.com/Scripts/Global/nph-cc?cc=br French software
    http://www.wor.com/french/frnchcat.html Collections of various languages resources on the Web
    http://www.cortland.edu/www_root/flteach/flteach.html#collections

    Texts in French

    Un glossaire de Paris.
    http://www.acs.appstate.edu/~griffinw/website/glos_de_paris.html La poesie francaise
    http://www.webnet.fr/poesie/ Internet for children in French
    http://www.imaginet.fr/momes/Sommaire.txt.html French cartoons and films for children plus games, travels etc.
    http://www.imaginet.fr/momes/Sommaire.txt.html#bd Literature. Sondage sur Le jeu de l'amour et du hasaard de Marivaux, advanced
    gopher://gopher.litteratures.UMontreal.CA:7070/00/cafe/marivaux Literature
    http://galois.univ-orleans.fr/eao/eao.html

    The military French resource center
    http://jltc.army.mil/french.html


    Travelling

    Champs Elysees virtuelles in French
    http://www.iway.fr/champs-elysees/ Guide to French cities by index, plus info on culture, educ, media sports, travel, etc, in English
    http://www.city.net/countries/france/ A tour of Provence in English
    http://www.connaisseurs.com/ French travel gallery in English
    http://www.bonjour.com/wta/welcome.html French for travellers
    http://www.travlang.com/languages/


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    University of Essex
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