Gathered here are some WWW resources that I have discovered that I feel would be of interest to students and teachers of French as a second language. If you know of other ones you think should be added, and I am certain there are lots more out there, or if you wish to make suggestions for improving this page, please send me mail.

Make sure you visit the home page of my new textbook À Bon Port. This text for learning French as a second Language can best be described by these key-words: communication, Canadian, authentic, learner-centered. It was written by a team of professors at the Second Language Institute of the University of Ottawa and was published by Prentice Hall in 1997.

Alysse Weinberg
Official Languages and Bilingualim Institute
University of Ottawa

Last updated January 31, 2011
Visits since June 9, 1996:

Visites depuis le 9 juin 1996.

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Exercises and Resources for Students

• TennesseeBob's Famous French Links!
  A Must! You have to visit him.
• Le point du FLE
  A port whose objective is to facilitate access to the best IT and web-based activities in French as a Foreign Language (FFL). There are sites for interactive grammar, auto-corrected exercises, simulations, etc. which all can be used for work in the classroom or for self-studies.
• Ressources Internet et dictionnaires
  Services offerts par l'Université de Sherbrooke.

• ARTFL Project: French-English Dictionary Form
  Look up words in a simple French English Dictionary containing about 75,000 terms. This dictionary will translate an English phrase like will love into aimera, aimerai etc.

• Supralingua
  Language Resources on Language

• French dictionary
  This dictionary contains a number of specialist terms, modern terms connected with techonology, as well as slang words not easily found in many dictionaries

• Verb Conjugation

Conjugate a verb by selecting the tense and entering the infinitive form of the verb in the box.
 
• Les liens utiles
  An impressive List of sites to learn French. To discover!

• Linguascope: Language Resources Directory
  Coming from England lists of French sites.

• Le français grâce à la BBC
  Coming from the BBC. Listening, reading, grammar, vocabulary and interactive. It is great.

• ZUT
  Coming from England, a set of interactive activities for French teachers and learners, featuring more than 400 exercises organised for each year of study and includes reading, writing and listening exercises.

• TFSL Activities with M. Renaud
  French activities and resources for young learners and teachers including tips for parents, links, online activities, printouts, games and songs.
• Adopter un escargot.

" The Adopt an Escargot Website is for French students and their teachers. When the students are registered in La Société des Escargots they may send their stories (en français), comments (en français), pictures with captions (en français), etc.(en français) to be included on the website (at the discretion of Le Grand Escargot, bien sûr.) Members may also "Parlez au Grand Escargot," that is, e-mail Le Grand Escargot and carry on a "discussion" en français!"
• Inspecteur Roger Duflair
  Learn French with "Inspecteur Duflair".
• Bonjour de France
  Learn French with Azurlingua. Directly from Nice in France.
• Educaserve
  Teaching method to learn French. An impressive number of lessons.
• Language Learning
  Learn English, French, German, Italian, Spanish...

• Cours d'introduction à la phonétique de l'Université de Lausanne

Languages and French for travellers
A great site for travellers! Everything you always wanted to know about languages and travelling.

• Resources for Learning French

"This is a summary of resources I've found useful in learning French in order to survive in Neuchâtel." Discussion of books and video courses in english.
• Eloquence - French Lessons on the Web

"The French Connection is a comprehensive online French course aimed at all levels, from beginners to advanced. The course is divided into a number of lessons and is supplemented by a dictionary of over 4,000 words and phrases. Over 6,000 expressions have been recorded by native speakers, and 500 colour photographs and illustrations add an extra dimension.Try their demo. "
• Rendez-vous! The Language Exchange!

"Rendez-vous! is a free penfriend and penpal service offered by Eloquence."
• Dictionnaire de l'argot

French slang.
• "LA page d'humour en français du Web!"
Plus de 3,8 Moctets (bytes) de blagues (jokes) en français...
• Les bonnes blagues de Carambar

"Devinette Carambar: Pourquoi est-il conseillé de ranger le journal au réfrigerateur ? Réponse : pour que les nouvelles restent fraîches"
• Bienvenue sur Les Simpsons en terre Québecoise

Un site de haute qualité graphique et sonore mais cette qualité fait qu'il est un peu lourd à visionner... chaque page du site vaut la peine d'être vu que ce soit pour les images, les gifs animés  les sons ou tous les gadgets que vous y retrouverez. 
• Astérix

Et voici le site officiel!
 
• The French Directory - the complete guide to learning French in France

"Has a directory of approx. 200 language courses + exam information + regional introductions. On the main home page links to other sites provided, plus list of language events taking place around the world.
 
• Language Learning
  Online directory of language schools, listing more than 6000 institutions teaching more than 70 languages.

• Le Monde diplomatique

Les archives publiques de cette prestigieuse publication.

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Resources for Teachers

• ARTFL Project Home Page

Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language A very interesting and important resource.
• Thot
  Information on Multimedia. Excellent!

• Hot Potatoes. Half-baked software
  The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web.

• ALLE- Alberta Language Learning Environment
  From the University of Calgary and my colleage Brian Gill. Links for French, other languages and professional developments.

• Collection de sites français
  Site proposed by the Canadian Parents for French.

• Ficelle Multimedia Authoring Software

Download an evaluation copy of the Ficelle multimedia language lesson authoring software.  By only using a text editor, create language lessons with fill-in-the-blank questions, multiple choice questions, pictures, sound files, videos.  Ficelle may be configured to test your students, score their responses, and output both printed and item-level file statistics.  From the same person that brings you this French language resources page.
 
•  Étienne French Educational Music.

"Étienne is Steven Langlois B.A. (French) B.Ed., a French teacher with the Perth County Board of Education. Check out the songs that allow students to grasp and never forget important structures such as Être, Avoir, Aller, -ER and -IR verbs, adjectives, question words, rooms of the house.... music that has students rockin' and hip hoppin' in French classrooms across Canada!"
• INFOPUQ.

INFOPUQ, le service télématique de réseau de l'université de Québec.
 
• Vif@x francophone
  De Bordeaux, le centre régional interuniversitaire pour la formation en langues.

• The Resources in Language Testing Page

"The Resources in Language Testing Page purpose is to act as a reference guide to language testing related resources on the Internet. On this page you will find all the links which have been collected to date, and each one is reviewed in the Language Tester's Guide to Cyberspace. Instead of randomly visiting sites, you can select those which are most likely to provide the information you are looking for. Underneath the links, there is the Language Testing Database button, which leads to a searchable index of articles published in the journal Language Testing.
• TennesseeBob's Famous French Links!

5000 Links. A very impressive list of sites about all aspects of French language and culture.
• Jim Becker's page from the University of Northern Iowa.

A page dedicated to many foreign languages.
• Le cartable connecté

Lots and lots of information. A must.
• Bienvenue dans notre banque de graticiels pédagogiques.

"Nous avons, comme beaucoup d'autres, le projet de rassembler et de mettre à la disposition des enseignants un maximum de ressources pédagogiques. "
 
• Web page of the French Embassy in Ottawa.

A very interesting page with much of general interest to students and teachers of French.
 
• American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) WWW Site

"The AATF furnishes information about the culture and language of the French-speaking world for French teachers, students, and other francophiles.
 
• The human languages page.

The Human-Languages Page is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The over 1600 links in the HLP database have been hand-reviewed to bring you the best language links the Web has to offer. Whether you're looking for online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, or just a little information on a language you've heard about, the HLP probably has something to suit your needs.
 
• Site pour enfants
  Franco pour mômes (Sites W3 éducatifs (for children 5 to 15)
   
• Canada's Schoolnet - Rescol Canadien

"Le Rescol est un projet éducatif supporté par une variété d'organisations à travers le Canada, autant des organismes gouvernementaux au niveau provincial, fédéral et territorial, que des partenaires secteur privé ainsi que des intervenants du milieu de l'éducation. A l'aide de cette étroite collaboration entre tous les secteurs de la société, et guidé par la Canadian Education Network Coalition ainsi que son propre Conseil consultatif, Rescol se veut une plate-forme électronique pour l'excellence dans l'enseignement."
 

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French in Canada outside Quebec

• Musée acadien de l'Université de Moncton.

"Ce site a pour but de vous faire faire une visite guidée du Musée, à l'aide d'images et de textes, tout en vous donnant un aperçu de l'histoire des Acadiens."
 
• La Société des Acadiens et Acadiennes du Nouveau-Brunswick

"Vous y obtiendrez de l'information sur l'Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick tout en vous tenant à jour sur l'évolution du peuple acadien."
 
• La page des ressources canadiennes

"Vous y obtiendrez de l'information sur de nombreux aspects de la vie au Canada."

Quebec Links

• L' actualité sur internet

Les dernières nouveautés au Québec.
 
• La toile du Québec

D'autres renseignement sur le Québec.
 
• Histoire du Québec

Liste importante de pages sur l'histoire du Québec. À vous de choisir!
 
• La toile du Québec

"Plus de 400 sites québécois. Le meilleur répertoire de ce côté-ci de l'Atlantique."
 
• Musée virtuel de la Nouvelle-France

"Ce musée a comme objectif de faire revivre l'histoire de cette colonie française d'Amérique. On y trouve des expositions et activités pour divers publics: jeunes écoliers, adultes, touristes, etc. Revu et augmenté régulièrement. Comme le tout est bilingue, quel site merveilleux pour vérifier sa compréhension des deux langues officielles tout en s'intéressant à l'histoire."
 
• La Page de Généalogie du Québec

"Cette page est le point d'entrée pour les informations spécifiques au Québec en matière de généalogie. Résumé de la géographie du Québec, Résumé de l'histoire du Québec, Quelques sources sur l'immigration ancienne, Quelques sources sur la période 1608-1765"
• Le tourisme au Québec
• Information touristique sur le Québec
• La ville de Québec

"Sites d'informations de la région de Québec . Web Québec Le Magazine Électronique de la Vieille Capitale ! . Serveur WWW du Gouvernement du Quebec . Le Québec dans le monde. Réseau Internet Quebec Inc."

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Sites about France