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Language Links - French

Search Engines in French

Altavista

Euroseek - French version of the European search engine.

Excite

Francité

Lycos

Nomade

Toile du Québec

Voila

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Literature, Arts and Humanities

ARTFL French Language Treasury: language and literature resource list. - Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, University of Chicago. In English.

L'Association des Bibliophiles Universels. - French works (novels, plays, etc.) for reading. In French.

Baudelaire: «Invitation au voyage» and other poems

French cinema - centre national de la cinematographie.

Le Louvre.

Le Ministère de la culture. - Web page for the Ministry of Culture in France. In French.

Resmo où culture devient synonyme de plaisir. Very good, with many links.

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Learning and Education

ARTFL Project - French-English Dictionary Form.

Babylon; your personal translator - Can be used as an online translator, or downloaded to your PC for use in conjunction with other programs, suchas Word.

BBC French Resources

Dictionaries

Encyclopedias

Franc parler

France Synergies

French Courses on the Web

French Language and Culture. - A sub-page of the Ohio CALL lab page. In French.

French Resources. - Services culturels de l'Ambassade de France.

French Teaching Resources

French Tutorial

The Human Languages Page. - Online language lessons, translating dictionaries, programs to aid you in learning a language, and more.

Leximagne - l'Empereur des pages dico. - A link page of french dictionaries compiled by Globe-Gate.

Northern Iowa French Links

Orthonet Online Style Manual - Advanced help with spelling and grammar

Tennessee Bob's Famous French Links. - A listing of Web sites of interest to French students.

L'Université Laval - General French-language resource.

A Virtual Visit to Paris. - A great place to practice your French.

Vocabulaire illustré. - French and English online vocabulary exercises.

Volterre. - General French-language resource.

University of Wisconsin French Links

Word2Word. - French Lesson Links

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Geography and Travel

Amity Institute. - A nonprofit, nongovernmental, international exchange organization.

Apartment rental service in Paris.

Atlas

Africa

Belgium

Belgian Culture

Belgian Government

Canada

Canadian Arctic

French Guiana

Louisiana

Madagascar

Martinique

Morocco

Senegal

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News and Weather

Club-Internet, your first stop for News and Weather with links to many web-publications.

Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace

France 2 - News Broadcast on TV RealPlayer.

Francophone Business News, an exhaustive list of links.

Francophone Magazines, an exhaustive list of links.

Francophone Newspapers, an exhaustive list of links.

Fréquence Banane: La première radio universitaire de Suisse. In French and Swiss-German (Scwiitzerdütsch).

Learning from Francophone TV & Radio @ Globe-Gate - another collection from TBob - only this time it's audio and video resources. Lots of news, but music and other topics as well.

Maison des Médias - A list of various French media.

Météo-France en temps réel. - Take a look at the weather in France. In French.

Le Monde - An excellent website.

Le Monde Diplomatique: access to articles, search by month or key words. In French.

Pariscope - Cultural Information for Paris and all of France.

Parismatch - A magazine online (similar to People magazine).

Planète Québec, magazine of Quebec.

Le Progrès de Lyon

La Provence, magazine of Southern France.

Radio France - A French radio station.

Radio France Internationale

Radio-Canada, Canadian radio and TV.

Le Républicain Lorrain

Le Soir - A newspaper out of Brussels, Belgium.

Télévision Francaise

La Tribune Desfossés

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Francophone Linguistics

Les Accents des Français: sound files of regional accents of France

L'Aménagement linguistique dans le monde: site by Jacques Leclerc of Laval University

Base de données lexicographiques panfrancophones: Regionalisms of Acadia, Algeria, Belgium, Burundi, Central Africa, Congo, Louisiana, Morocco, Quebec, Reunion and Switzerland.

Canadian Concordance

Creole Institute: situated improbably in Indiana

Cyber-gazette wallonne

Dictionnaire wallon

La Grammaire cadienne: i.e. "Kreyol Lwiziyen"

Mais oui, la Louisiane! Creole and the web

Sommaire Résonances Juin 2003: speech of young people

Le Trésor de la Langue Française Informatisé: the sine qua non of French word-study

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Miscellaneous

Christmas Carols

Junior High French Students Personal Web Pages. Fun!!!

Useful (?) French Phrases

French: The Most Practical Language - An excellent outline of the best reasons why to study French produced by Richard Shryock, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

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