French Links
Library shelfmark: FR
Library Guide MP3
LASR Courses in French
OPAL Courses in French
Oxford University French Society Le Cercle Français which is also on Facebook
The library's Delicious page offers you also a section of multimedia language links and the Netvibes page offers you the latest news from France or from the Francophonie. There are also extended e-resources available at Oxford.
External links
Below are the links to the external websites. Language Centre takes no responsibility for the content of these websites.
Useful Links / Language Resources / Blogs / Media / Culture / Science / Government / Business and Economics / Sport / Miscellany
Useful Links
- Oxford - Some useful links
- Internet for Modern Languages - a tutorial
- Alliance Française de Londres with the digital plateform Culturethèque which offers free e-books, audio, videos for all UK resident
- Français langue étrangère includes an annotated selection of websites and information on courses
- OXAM Digital copies of most of the official examination papers (including the Honours School Examination for Modern Languages) presented by the University of Oxford since 1999-2000. Please note: access is limited to those in the Oxford domain. The listening comprehension and discourse topics examinations are in the library with audio materials available for the listening comprehension examination
- France diplomatie links page of French sites on a variety of topic
- Open University French links
- Phil Bradley's list of French search engines
Language Resources
- General
- Apprendre le Français avec TV5 Monde
- BBC French
- French e-course from the University of Texas at Austin
- Hospitality abroad learning French contains many links to various websites, includes grammar, pronunciation, free lessons online
- Introduction to French Studies Online course material from the University of Toronto. Includes an outline of French history, extracts from French literature, and work tasks (essays, etc)
- Institut de France
- Office québécois de la langue française
- Le point du FLE a very rich site with lots of exercises
- Start Local a selection of sites to learn French from beginner's level
- Test de Français langue étrangère et seconde
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Local languages in France and dialects of French
- Bourguignon-morvandiau: dictionary
- Breton: dictionary Skol Ober (online lessons)
- Le Jèrriais
- Le picard Le patois du Nord-Pas de Calais
- Le patois de Paris
- Le dictionnaire provençal and information on the provençal language
- Québécois from Lexilogos, links to many useful sites including radio canada, wikipedia Quebec French phonology
- Dictionaries
- Dictionnaire de l'Académie française
- Dictionnaire de français Littré
- Dictionnaire Le Robert
- Larousse médical
- Online dictionaries for all languages
- Orthonet online spelling aid
- Synonymes Dictionary
- Trésor de la langue française
- Vélo-dictionnaire dictionary of cycling terms, French/English, English/French.
- Grammar
- Accord Auto-corrective exercises for Accord textbook with CD. The book and CD are in the Library's collection
- Ortholud (for beginners)
- "Work on your French grammar - no matter what your level - with these hand-picked grammar lessons and resources." Also includes URLs to listening, writing, speaking, vocabulary and spelling resources.
- Verb conjugation Program which conjugates French verbs for you
- Listening
- Literature of French expression read aloud or sung from the University of Tennessee at Martin
- Pronunciation
- Alphabet phonétique phonetic alphabet for the sounds of French
- Learn French online good for beginners of French, with a good selection of videos
- French flashcards
- Dictée donnée avec les signes de l'api: l'heure de la violette literary extracts given in phonetic alphabet: your task is to retranscribe them in French
- Writing
- Ecriture a large set of writing information and activities from Premiers pas sur Internet, ou l'Internet pour enfants
- Franceworld find a pen-pal
- Listen and write
- Orthogram.com orthographe et grammaire
- Vocabulary
- Délégation générale à la langue française
- Jeux de mots word games
- LanguageGuide.org French vocabulary
- Goethe-Tests
Blogs
- La plume francophone
- Le blog de Pierre Assouline la république des livres (advanced level)
- Le blog des correcteurs du Monde Langue sauce piquante (very advanced level)
- Ortholud apprendre le Français en s'amusant (beginner's level) accompanying blog to Ortholud website
Media
Latest news will be on the Library Netvibes page
- CSA Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel
- INA Institut national de l'audiovisuel
- Print
- Le Canard Enchainé the title page is available
- Courrier International Summaries of international news stories, links to the original source newspaper and other related sites covering the topic in question
- France-Amerique
- Le Parisien
- Le Monde
- Les Echos Daily economic information
- Libération
- Ouest-France
- Le Soleil de Québec
- Sympatico Info Express
- Le Devoir Montreal's daily newspaper
- Radio
- TV
Culture
- General
- Académie française
- Commission Canadienne de Tourisme
- La FNAC cultural shop
- L'Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
- La Marseillaise, the French National anthem information, lyrics, tune
- Literature of French expression read aloud or sung from the University of Tennessee at Martin
- Ministry of Culture
- Several musical and literary links on the library's Delicious page
- Les Bandes Dessinées (Links to Francophone cartoons/comics)
- BD oubliées
- Dargaud édition
- Drozophile édition
- Futuropolis édition
- Les Humanoïdes Associés édition
- Parlez-nous de vos bd préférés discussion of French cartoons
- Les 400 coups édition
- Festival d'Angoulême
- Moving images
- Cannes
- Centre national de la cinématographie
- Cinématheque française online French cinema museum.
- Ecran noir Online magazine for cinema.
- Gaumont Archives of the French film company, including a history of the Cannes Film Festival
- Gobelins the moving image school, worth checking their youtube channel
- INA Institut national de l'audiovisuel
- Lumière Cinema
- Unifrance For the promotion of French cinema
- Food and Drink
- La Francophonie
- Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
- L'Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie
- Documentation Française dossier Francophonie excellent site with serious documentation
- Francophonie menu
- Littérature francophone wikipedia which can be acadienne, africaine, algérienne, belge, guadeloupéenne, haïtienne, indienne, marocaine, martiniquaise, mauricienne, polynésienne, québéquoise, réunionnaise, suisse ou tunisienne
- Galleries, Museums and Libraries
- Literature
- Fabula
- Littérature francophone entry from wikipedia which can be acadienne, africaine, algérienne, belge, guadeloupéenne, haïtienne, indienne, marocaine, martiniquaise, mauricienne, polynésienne, québéquoise, réunionnaise, suisse ou tunisienne.
- Poésie française selection of over 1500 French poems, searchable by author, title and century. Some poems can also be listened to via Real Audio.
- Le printemps des poètes
- Salon du Livre le rendez-vous littéraire de l'année.
- LITAF : littérature africaine francophone bibliographical database of literature of French speaking Sub-Saharan Africa containing more than 6,500 references to fiction of all genres, poems, drama, essays, biography and autobiography, myths and legends children’s literature and BD.
- Littérature orale et écrite des îles
- Theatre
- La Comédie-Française
- L'Odéon Includes 8,500 item library, archives specialising in the history of theatre.
- Théâtre de la Colline
- Théâtre de la Criée (Théâtre national de Marseille)
- Le Théâtre national de Strasbourg
Science and Technology
- Musée des sciences et de la technologie du Canada
- D&NT Legal issues surrounding new technology
- Unité Réseaux du CNRS
Government
- Assemblée nationale
- Education department official homepage
- French senate official homepage
- Terminologie de la politique moderne - A local resource available to computers in the Oxford domain only. By Michael Abecassis & Laure Ayosso, Language Centre Tutors.
Business and Economics
- Les Echos Daily economic information
- Monetos multilingual research and information portal, offering independent instruction and advice on Europe's social and private financial sectors
Sport
- Le sport sans limites French sports link
- Le Web du Tour de France
Miscellany
- Commission Nationale de l'informatique et des libertés
- Europa A directory of 200 French language schools throughout France. Includes regional details and details of language exams
- Jeu de l'oie game
- Language travel a directory of French language schools
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