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Ressources gratuits pour apprendre le français
Voici quelques liens à des ressources en ligne pour vous aider avec votre apprentissage de français. La plupart sont utiles pour tous les niveaux, mais il y a quelques sites qui sont tous en français, sans avoir une explication en anglais.
Here are links to some online resources to help you with your French learning. Most of them are useful for all levels, but some of the sites are entirely in French, without any explanations in English.
Keyboards
This isn't really a link... but you may have found that when changing your keyboard (on Windows at least) to French, you find that the letters are all in the wrong place. Instead of a QWERTY keyboard, you get an AZERTY. At least, this is true if you choose France French. I'm pretty sure that even the Swiss French keyboard has a different letter layout also. For us Brits, Americans, English Canadians, etc, or basically everyone with a PC from an Anglophone country, most of us will have trouble with this unless we stick some stickers on the keys to tell us where to type. Luckily, there is a fix!
Just add the Canadian French (the Canadian Multilingual Standard type) keyboard! It's QWERTY, and the accents are accessed by using some of the keys on the side. Here is an image so you can tell where they are. Strangely enough, my laptop (which is Canadian), has French on the keyboard but not all the accents are shown, so even I need to look at a diagram sometimes. There is probably a way that you can use a QWERTY keyboard with other types of French, I am not sure how. This seems to be the easiest method. I believe that Canadian keyboards are mostly all QWERTY, so typing in the French language uses this method so that they can probably sell the same computers and accessories to everyone.
Grammar
Tex's French Grammar - An incredibly useful, entertaining, and well designed place for learning grammar.
Bon Patron - Everyone's good friend, a site that'll highlight your grammar and spelling mistakes, even telling you how to fix them.
Français Facile - There are free user created grammar lessons and exercises here! They have other languages too!
L'OBS - This place has useful lessons, videos and quizzes on conjugation. I find it quite useful, even if it is more designed for native speakers.
Lingolia Français - More excellent grammar lessons, you can have it explained to you in multiple languages and then do exercises afterwards. It's excellent if you need to study for a test.
Reading
Bibebook - If you are familar with Project Gutenberg, this site is similar to that. They have hundreds of free public domain eBooks in French, perfect for reading practice. If you have a Kindle, I would recommend installing a French dictionary so that you can easily look up words whilst you read.
Videos/TV
Extra - It's a 90s sitcom made for French learners. The language is super easy, I could understand it back when I was a beginner. They also made the same series is other languages with different actors.
France 24 en direct - A 24 live stream of the news channel France 24. They cover a variety of stories from all around the world, instead of just localised news. I would probably recommend being at least B1 before you start watching the news, it can be quite difficult to understand at first.
TV5Monde - TV5 is a TV channel that broadcasts content from all across the Francophone world. If you can access it on your local TV, I would recommend checking it out. This link takes you to their site that has interesting content and activities specifically designed for learners. I particularly like this channel because it doesn't just focus on France like a lot of content does.
Mauril - I haven't tried this one yet, but it's some software by CBC/Radio Canada that allows you to use their content to learn French or English. It also gives you exercises to practice what you learnt. This may or may not work outside of Canada.
YouTube Channels
French mornings with Elisa
Ma prof de français
French Comprehensible Input
Wandering French
The perfect French with Dylane
Dictionaries
Word Reference - This online dictionary isn't limited to just French, however I find it the best online source for looking up words.
Terminum Plus - It's the Government of Canada's linguistic database. If you're looking for a specific term in French (or even English and Spanish) that isn't in your typical dictionary, this site is super useful! Be careful though, the terms here may be only used in Canadian French, and not anywhere else in the world.
Misc
L'alliance française - These are places all over the world set up by (presumably) the French government to teach and promote the French language. I think you can also do DELF tests there. This is the link to the Canadian Alliance française, but chances are, they probably have one in your country too.
L'académie française - These are the people in Paris who try to make the rules for the French language. On their site there's a dictionary, as well as some details on grammar and usage of French.
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