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Sites of General Interest (also visit links on the French literature page)
Paris Guide -- Paris Travel Guide, with many useful tips to fully enjoy your trip- French Culture Now -- the most important daily French news from
over 100 newspapers, newswires, magazines, blogs, and websites
- The Paris Gazette -- information website dedicated to the French-speaking community living teaching (if not studying) in the U.S.
- French food and easy French recipes -- French recipes that are quickly and easily prepared
- A French Touch -- French food, cuisine and French recipes
- Études littéraires -- an exhaustive site on French literary studies
- A history of French feminism
- The importance of French in the world (site of L'Ordre des Palmes Académiques)
- Superlinks to French websites, provided by Jim Becker
- A pdf document explaining how to configure Windows for French accents
- Prof. Michel Hallot's PowerPoint step by step presentation on configuring Windows (2000 and XP) for foreign accents
- A page to help you type French accents with ease
- France Synergies at the University of Wisconsin Madison -- with multiple links to resources
- Skynet -- a site that posts interesting articles on all French and Francophone topics
- Book price comparison site -- search for the best prices on French books at online booksellers
- Phonétique -- hear the pronunciation of French words
- Peinture FLE -- improve your French through a discussion of paintings
- Le
Net des études françaises -- with an online dictionary of electronic terms
- Entretiens/Entreliens -- a page with links to the most useful online resources for French Studies
- First and foremost, why study French? Well, it's simply the most practical foreign language
- A list of resources in Romance Languages and Literatures at Notre Dame's library (compiled by L. Fuderer)
- Many useful links on ND's Romance Languages and Literatures site (French studies abroad, bilingual dictionaries...)
- French-at-a-touch.com -- for everything French in the U.S. and abroad
- Francopholistes -- a guide to the internet in France
- France-Link -- gateway to media in France (radio, tv, newspapers, magazines, etc.) [NB: separate page]
- Encyclopédie de l'Agora -- an encyclopedia in Québec, with numerous links
- Guide to France -- travel and cultural information
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French Dictionaries, Grammars, and Encyclopedias
- Atlas sémantique -- French dictionary, English dictionary, dictionary of synonyms, translation...
- Dictionnaire des synonymes -- some 300,000 synonyms et 50,000 antonyms
- Dictionnaire des synonymes (approximately 49,000 entries and 396,000 relations)
- Lexilogos, an online reference tool, with many great links
- Le Patron -- a very useful grammar and vocabulary checker!
- A complete list of dictionaries available online
- TV5 multifunction dictionary (French-French, French-English, English-French, synonyms, and verb conjugations!)
- Dictionnaire international des termes littéraires -- an extraordinarily useful resource
- Look no further: Service des Bibliothèques at the University of Sherbrooke ists all dictionaries available
- What's that word? Try WordReference.com, a multilingual dictionary (also provides a downloadable toolbar)
- Trésor
de la langue française -- FREE consultation of over
100,000 words with etymologies and literary examples
- click here to go directly to the word search engine [NB: page designed for modem connections; click here for high speed connections ]
- Dictionnaire des synonymes by the Laboratoire CRISCO
- Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française (2 volumes online)
- Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française at the University of Chicago's ARTFL project
- Le Dicomoche -- a fun and instructive site with unusual definitions (for advanced speakers of French only!)
- About: French -- a site offering very useful information: vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, cultural facts, and more!
- Logos -- a rich and complex multilingual reference site
- A list of aids for French grammar, spelling, verb conjugations, etc., many of them free
- Le Devoir conjugal -- 7,913 French verbs with their conjugations
- Grammaire de l'absurde -- a fun and useful French grammar, with exercises
- Merriam-Webster's "word of the day" online (tip: subscribe to receive this daily word by email)
- Oxford Language Tools and Resources (life and culture, writing and word games, learning and teaching...)
- Wikipedia in French--the open-source reference tool when searching for obscure and not-so-obscure authors and facts
- WordNet -- an English dictionary with exhaustive synonyms and nuances (at Notre Dame Women's College of Kyoto)
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Search engines for French literary sites
- Finding information on the internet -- a tutorial from the University of California, Berkeley
- Evaluating Web Sites -- criteria and tools to help appraise web-based information (Cornell University)
- Astrolabe, répertoire des sites littéraires -- useful evaluations of literary sites
- Auteurs.net -- also provides evaluations of literary sites
- Biographies.net -- thousands of literary biographies (some more complete than others)
- Want to locate a quotation? Try All the Web
- You will find almost any author at La République des Lettres
- Yahoo in France's site on French literature, with multiple links
- Chronologie de l'édition française -- history of French publishing houses in the 20th century
- Francofil -- resources on French literature and culture
- KartOO -- a different search engine, colorful and fun as well as efficient
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Pedagogy
- Learn French - Learn French guide, all about how to learn French and how to speak French
- Web resource center for teachers and students of French
- MERLOT -- Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
- Le Patron -- a grammar and vocabulary checker!
- France Synergies at the University of Wisconsin Madison -- a site with multiple links to resources
- Le Point du FLE -- a site on resources for teaching French
- Centre International d'Études Pédagogiques, offering a standardized French test