French Resources

The ARTFL Project

Dictionaries and Thesauri

  • French Dictionaries
  • Download or purchase Computer Dictionaries
  • English Dictionaries and Thesauri

Film and Videos and CDs

Culture and Literature

Bibliography and Citation Help

Faculty Resources

  • Foreign Language Software
  • Foreign Language Learning Modules
  • Grammar Drills
  • Placement Tests

Search Engines and Chat Rooms

News

 

Dictionaries and Thesauri

French Dictionaries

Download or purchase Computer Dictionaries
  • Foreign Language Dictionaries
    http://www.exceller.com/forlan.html
    Download FL dictionaries (Mac/IBM) for German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish (approx. $20-30) and use them while working in other applications
  • Ultra Lingua Dictionary
    http://www.ultralingua.com/
    Fl Dictionaries available through this site for approx. $30.00. French available (German Spanish and Italian available soon) with over 250000 words signaling slang and vulgar expressions.
  • TUCOWS
    http://www.twocows.com/
    Download FL dictionaries from your nearest source (Mac/IBM)

English Dictionaries and Thesauri

  • A Web of On-line Dictionaries
    http://www.yourdictionary.com/
    Biggest set of dictionaries on the web (more than 1500 dictionaries representing 230 languages); site also offers linguistic "Fun & Games" (From 'Historical Linguistic Games ' to 'On-line Vocabulary Quizzes')
  • Lexical FreeNet
    http://www.lexfn.com/
    Connected Thesaurus. Easy to use database that allows you to search for relationships between words, concepts and people. Very powerful with features lacking in other thesauri.
  • Links and Resources for Writers JBWB
    http://www.jacquibwb.ndirect.co.uk/writers/links.html
    Jacqui Bennett's Writers Bureau: Constantly updated and reviewed very useful reference links: from the Encyclopedia Britannica, Rhyhming dictionaries, On-line English Grammar to searchable quotation collections.
  • Merriam Webster OnLine
    http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
    The reference classic - fast reliable site
  • Onelook Dictionaries
    http://www.onelook.com/
    Multi-database word and terminology search-queries. Type in your word and look it up in multiple dictionaries and thesauri. The only thing like it out there - a must have! Dictionary word count = 2561928 words in 647 dictionaries now indexed

 

Film and Videos and CDs

Film and Video

CDs

 

Culture and Literature

 

Culture

  • http://www.quid.fr/
    Un site EXTRAORDINAIRE avec toutes les informations possibles et imaginables sur la France (et le reste du monde) revu et corrigé     constamment.
  • http://www.louvre.fr/
    Il est bien beau, le site du plus grand musée du monde ! Et pas seulement à cause du sourire de la Joconde…
  • http://www.culture.gouv.fr/documentation/joconde/pres.htm
    Site formidable qui donne accès à toutes les œuvres d'art dans les collections publiques françaises qui sont dans le domaine public (artiste mort depuis 70 ans). 135 000 œuvres, 150 000 artistes !. Recherche thématique possible (j'ai trouvé 414 références à Satyres !!!).
  • Le site 3w.culture.fr en lui-même est très intéressant.
  • http://www.cvm.qc.ca/encephi/cadres.htm
    Un site québécois très sympathique sur la philosophie, avec définitions, biographies, textes philosophiques français et en français.
  • http://www.mcinema.com/
    Une base de données en français sur des tonnes de films, d'acteurs… avec des photos

Literature

 

Bibliography and Citation Help

General Research and Documentation
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/

MLA Bibliography
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/education/hcc/library/mla.html

MLA Citation Examples
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/education/hcc/library/mlahcc.html

MLA Style Electronic Formats
http://www.westwords.com/guffey/mla.html

 

 

Faculty Resources

Foreign Language Software

  • Pics Tips and Treats
    http://www.uiowa.edu/~pics/tips.html
    Guidelines to work with video in language teaching
  • Software for Learning
    http://www.cict.co.uk/software/teaching.htm
    Downloadable programs for use in the classroom or at home . Interesting: Markin a program which replaces the traditional teacher's red pen with a complete on-screen marking environment, is the latest in marking and annotation software for on-line and electronic teaching environments.

Foreign Language Learning Modules

  • http://www.tzm.uni-giessen.de/eu-info/cadubalm/modules/
    Register for free, fill out a profile and have access to a multitude of interactive Spanish, English (ESL), German, French and (less extensive Italian and Finnish) vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, comprehension, culture and reading exercises tailored in accordance with your profile. Spanish, German and English sites allow you to test your proficiency level and offer exercises according to you personal level and subject interest. Add your favorite exercises to this website.
  • Create exercises, quizzes tests
    http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html
    Find many links to a great variety of online exercises and quiz-makers, FL self-test sites and more.
  • Make your own on-line tests for teaching
    http://12teach.com/
    Amazing site to create one's own on-line tests for free! Make online tests with multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank questions. Tests are scored on the fly and the results are saved for only you to access. You get all the statistics you want! Make several tests over the term and track individual students with detailed statistics
  • Multi,Dicto, Gloss Makers
    http://lang.swarthmore.edu/makers/index.htm
    These pages are intended for use by educational institutions to use as a model. Teachers are encouraged to try out cloze, match and gloss makers, and then save copies locally. The multimaker , for example, allows you to enter as many multiple choice questions in an exercise as you like. Include your own title, instructions and individualized feedback for each answer.
  • Multiple choice tests on line
    http://www.interactivetest.com/
    Create your own multiple choice test and use it on your web page. It is really easy: just type your questions and answers, and then add a link to your test at our test engine. Forget about CGI and Javascript - use our easy web-interface. You can even add pictures to your tests! And it is free!
  • QuizMaker 2.0 - Online Quiz
    http://www.mrtc.org/~twright/quizzes/quizcenter/quizmaker.html
    Creating interactive quizzes on the Internet made easy. No knowledge of     Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is necessary. Features include: Online and mail-in quiz correction methods , Support for multiple choice, short answer, true-false, and/or essay questions , Randomization of multiple choice quizzes Handling of short answer questions with several possible answers: a free service for teachers involved in distance education and Internet instruction.
  • Transparencies that can be used in classes. Great for tutors. Examples would be classrooms, telling times, family, stores etc.
    http://college.hmco.com/languages/french/resources/trans.htm
  • Test your skills with self-tests drawn from award-winning language-learning software
    http://www.transparent.com/tlquiz/index.htm

Grammar Drills

A site to work on your grammar (many self-correcting exercises): http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/gramm.html

 

Placement Tests

This placement test can direct you to the class in which the instruction will be most appropriate to your present knowledge of French.
http://tuweb.ucis.dal.ca/~projects/frenchtest/

 

French Search Engines and Chat Rooms

French Search Engines

 

Chat Rooms

 

News

Francophone Newspapers