CCSF Language Center
French Links
Click here for the Spring 2012 CCSF Learning Center (R207) French tutoring schedule.
Click here to access Le Cercle Français de CCSF blog.
Click here to go to French links selected by CCSF French professor Françoise Navarro.
Click here to watch a popular French soap opera described in the The New York Times.
Click here to go to French 1A links!
Writing
and Reference Tools
Language-Learning Links
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Click here to check out Professor Renée Morel’s daily informative and entertaining bite-size posts on Franco culture on her FrancoFun page (in French) on Facebook. (For intermediate- to advanced-level students.)
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Study French online through
City College of San Francisco.
Textbook Sites
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Check
out the Allons-y website from Heinle Cengage
Learning. Try the Autocorrigés.
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French
On-line Grammar
Quiz to accompany Allons-y. Created by CCSF French
instructor Carol Reitan.
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Web Exercises to accompany Allons-y created by CCSF French instructor Carol Reitan.
- Horizons, 5th Edition, iLrn™, a premium publisher’s site that includes an e-book and other resources.
- Free Horizons, 5th Edition, Study Tools
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Check out the online
study aids especially designed to complement Séquences: Intermediate French Through Film, 1st Edition, and 2nd Edition. Be sure to select your edition of Séquences (1st or 2nd). Then, select the desired chapter from the drop-down menu in the upper lefthand corner of the screeen. Then, click the activity you would like to try out from the list on the left. You will find many activities to enhance your French studies!
Supplementary
exercises to accompany The French Experience. Here you’ll find links to video, audio, interactive exercises,
and more.
Other
Language-Learning Sites
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Phonetique helps students of any level of French learn independently or with
a teacher in the classroom; for example, work on the difference
between “ou” and “u,” or try some fun tongue
twisters! This site is recommended by CCSF French instructor Isabelle
Motamedi.
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Forvo offers pronunciation help in all languages.
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Basic Pronunciation contains links to pages where you can hear the
alphabet, the days of the week, months of the year, etc.
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Français
Interactif from the University of Texas, Austin. A first-year
course with lots of video material featuring U of T-Austin students studying
abroad in Lyon.
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French
Grammar Central is the most complete list of French grammar
sites on the web.
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Tapis
Volant is appropriate for beginners (French 1A or 1B) and continues for
students as they advance. It consists of a cartoon story with audio
(transcript is available for those who want it) and activities that
go along with material presented in the cartoon story.
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BBC presents a series for beyond beginners level, French 1B or 10B.
Ma France presents 24 interactive video units from various areas
of France, interviewing native speakers in a variety of professions.
Transcripts and translations, as well as activities, supplement each
video.
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Languageguide.org. See the picture, read the text, hear the pronunciation. Alphabet,
numbers, many categories of vocabulary. A wonderful resource. Click
here for the companion French
grammar guide.
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Lexique - FLE offers thematic lessons
with sound and exercises. Great!
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Real French from Manchester Metropolitan
University in England. Check the message boards for students of
French; France Virtuelle (view relevant links and answer questions
about the Metro, movies, music and shopping); vocabulary games;
includes an abundance of useful grammar exercises.
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Tex's
French Grammar from the University of Texas, Austin. This site
has it all! Grammar explanations, exercises, sound files, and humor.
Check it out.
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Le
VTI-Bruges visite Paris may benefit French 2+ students most,
but others in French 1 and 10 will like the Paris “tour.”
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Weboscope offers a collection of resources from Belgium for learning French.
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French
Search Engines/Moteurs de recherche
Le
Français à San Francisco
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L’Alliance
Française. Check the events section for films and for Rendez-Vous
Littéraires, some featuring CCSF student (and AF prof) David
Rafoni.
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Bay Area Francophile
List. Subscribe to this list to receive a list of all the Bay
Area events for francophiles. Very complete. Edited by CSU Sonoma
professor Suzanne C. Toczyski.
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Le
Café Musée. Le Café Musée meets regularly on
Saturdays throughout the academic year. Enjoy coffee and other treats
as you engage in lively discussions about art and history and meet
other CCSF students of French with various levels of fluency. Check
here for upcoming events.
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Consulat Général de France
de San Francisco
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Pen Pals/Correspondents/Conversation
Media
Print
resources
Radio,
TV, Video
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France24 has 24-hour news reports from business, politics, and culture, with
video clips; also in English and in Arabic.
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Beelinetv offers selected broadcasts from various French-language television programs
from France to Guyana and Martinique!
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LangMedia
- French in France offers videos of native speakers organized by the following
categories: basic communications; culture and social life; necessities;
shopping and services; and transportation.
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LangMedia
- French Combined Index offers video clips of native French speakers
in Canada, Martinique, Morocco, Senegal, and Luxembourg organized
into the same above categories. A wonderful resource!
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Commeaucinema.com - Toute l'actualité cinéma sur internet. Find out what films
are currently playing in France. Choose “Bandes-Annonces” to see
a list of movie trailers en français!
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Choose
a French TV channel: France2, France3, France4, or France5.
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French radio, television, music, podcasts and more
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Radio Canada
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Points de départ
Some
of the best organized and most complete French resources:
Voyages/Explorations
France
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Château de Versailles is the
official site of the Château de Versailles!
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Les Pages de Paris
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Les Photos de Villes (Les Pages jaunes) Enter an address, then see a photo of the place!
Really neat. See photos of Paris, Lyon, Nantes, Lille, Nice, Marseille,
or Toulouse. Une ville, une adresse, une photo, et un plan!
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Paris is the official site of the Ville
de Paris.
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PariServe offers all Paris on the web.
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La Tour Eiffel is the official site
of the Eiffel Tower.
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D’autres
pays francophones
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Afrique
francophone is an excellent collection of links to sites in and
about Francophone Africa from Lehman College. You’ll find print,
sound, and video resources, general and organized by country.
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Agence de la Francophonie is the official organization of the 49 francophone countries.
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Art and Life in Africa
Online is a project of the University of Iowa with information
about many countries in Africa where French is spoken.
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L'écriture
au Vietnam is a virtual exposition from the French Ministry of Culture offering a history of writing in Vietnam.
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French Guiana has resources
from LANIC.
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MontréalCAM offers many
views of Montréal.
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Venez
Voir Le Sénégal is an exploration of the Francophone
world developed by Colby professors and technologists. This website
centers around six short video clips shot in and around Dakar, narrated
in French with links to French transcriptions. You will need the
free Quicktime Player installed on your machine to view the clips.
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Vietnam offers photos of the country.
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Vieux Montréal
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Virtual
Francophone Tourism
Musées
Musique
Shopping
Sports
Littérature
Games
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Polar-FLE Apprendre le français avec l'inspecteur Roger Duflair. Learn French while you play an exciting mystery game from
the Presses Universitaires de Grenoble.
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Jeu de l'Oie Apprendre le français en s'amusant. Learn French while you play fun games including among other topics art, grammar, phonetics and a mystery.
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