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french language resources masterlist

Last updated: 02/11/2023

Websites

RFI Savoirs has lots of listening and reading activities (from A1 to B2)

Apprendre le français TV 5 Monde has listening activities from A1 to B2

Tester son niveau - this is a free placement test (just listening)

CNTRL Dictionnaire is a dictionary

France Université Numérique - free MOOCS (massive open online course) with different levels: Level A1 - Level A2 - Level B1

Kwiziq (a website that you can test your level and study grammar)

Music

French songs you should listen to

french aesthetic songs (youtube)

Crème French playlist (youtube)

Books/Reading

GEO Magazine is a online magazine with articles about nature and history

Library Genesis has many books in french and other languages too

TV/Movie

TV 5 Monde has series and movies from France and other countries (for free), available for desktop and mobile (ios and android)

TV 5 UNIS has series and movies in French (mostly from Quebec). Some of the shows are not available outside Canada (but you can use it with a vpn)

Podcasts

Artips podcast (art, music, science)

France culture podcasts (various subjects)

Apps

WLINGUA app (both IOS and Android) teaches grammar

Other

French grammar pdf exercises - if you search the topic you're learning (example: le passé composé) + pdf, you're going to find many pdf activities from University of Quebec. Like this one: Passé Composé UQuebec

Artips is a newsletter about art, music, science and ecology that you receive in your email. You can chose the topics you wanna subscribe (example: I subscribed for art and music newsletters).

Bon courage !

[foundusernot]

For my own reference.

[theinternetarchive]

I just want to let you guys know Cornell's entire library is open access (no permissions required) and there are (shocker) many books...

[kosmogrl]

[localpubliclibrary]

Man no one even remembers laptop in bed. It was laptop in bed for years. Now it's just phone in bed. Maybe tablet. But usually phone. So much has changed

[geschichtenerd]

this blog is slowly becoming just a “what i eat in a day” blog lmao. It’s the winter break so I’m barely studying right now. I made hotpot and watched Department Q today. Hotpot was delicious. my limited mandarin came in handy today at the chinese grocery store. all the pre packaged hotpot broths were entirely in chinese 😅 I had to try and find one that was vegan. i’m pretty sure it is. but now i’ve got hotpot for dayyyyssss.

also everyone should watch department q. Akram my love. can’t wait till season 2.

[geschichtenerd]

I’m on break right now but I thought it would be nice to update you all. I’m progressing in my french, slowly but surly. And I made vegan fish and chips for dinner tonight! I hope you all have a wonderful holiday whichever it be that you celebrate.

[geschichtenerd]

I have decided that I want to start studying French. I have studied it in the past before but I wasn't that consistent with it. I've studied German before as well as I took Chinese classes, but my mom is learning French and I want to study and speak it with her. If anyone could recommend some good resources for vocabulary and grammar I would love to have them!

Merci!

[geschichtenerd]

I’m about to take my last final of undergrad. This journey has taken me almost 8 years and I am extremely proud that I made it to this point. My graduation is on saturday and I am beyond excited.

I’ve still got to finish up my applications for graduate school but for now I want to relish in this moment.

[geschichtenerd]

ITS DONE!!

FINISHED MY THESIS

the first draft at least. gonna work on some other papers now and then go back over it. I probably have some citation stuff I need to fix and random grammar things. but i’m so proud that it’s done finally.

[geschichtenerd]

this is just a little thing but I want to tell it to someone, so i’m gonna send it out to the void that is tumblr.

I feel so smart because my thesis is in multiple languages. I’m writing about the chinese rites controversy of the late 17th century and I can easily read and type out words in chinese. same with latin. I’ve included a few latin quotes in there too. idk it’s just kinda cool and it’s starting to hit me that this is a cool skill that I’ve got.

[geschichtenerd]

~12/6~

Working on my thesis today. Extremely busy and I’ve got so many tabs open lol 😅

Today’s goal is to write 5 pages. I’ve done like 1 and a half so far so I really need to lock in and work on it. That’s all I’m going to be doing for the rest of the weekend. Almost done!

Last night I submitted my first graduate school application. William and Mary’s due date is so soon. I didn’t even have a good writing sample to choose from so I scrambled and added a few pages to my last paper I wrote. Fingers crossed it’s good enough! The next rounds of grad applications I’ll finish up in the next few weeks. But for now. Thesis. that’s all I should focus on. I can’t wait until I can just turn my brain off and just watch tv and not thinking about papers lol. Soon!

[academic-vampire]

𝔴𝔢 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔫𝔢𝔢𝔡 𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔱, 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢𝔱𝔦𝔪𝔢𝔰. 𝔶𝔢𝔰, 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔫 𝔶𝔬𝔲.

[geschichtenerd]

~12/04~

I just took my Chinese final exam!! The test was entirely in Chinese, including instructions. I got an 80! Im honestly really proud of myself. Chinese is a really hard language so I think I did really really good considering.

I'm not done yet... I still have my thesis to work on and 2 papers. Also... applications for graduate school... Today I'm celebrating with my traditional post exam nap, then I'll go get lunch and head to the library for a few hours tonight probably around 3 or 4 pm.

ugh...I can't wait to be done. The finish line is in sight!

[geschichtenerd]

~12/2~

Kind of a lazy day today tbh. I had to go dog sit at my sister's apartment early this morning and I didn't get as much work done as I wanted. I was also exhausted from barely sleeping the night before and Im still recovering from my work week. I didn't have class today which was nice.

The goal by the end of the day is to finish all of these dumb documentary essays. I'm so tired of these things, it feels like its just busy work and they are exhausting and boring. I have 3 left Im going to finish tonight.

Tomorrow is going to be another library marathon. I've got a Chinese test on Thursday and I'm going to spend all day studying Chinese. I might break it up and work on some papers I have but its going to be mostly Chinese. The plan is to leave the library not able to even think in English lol.

Until then its documentary essays, but first, dinner. We are making burrito bowls for dinner tonight. Cheap. Easy. and pretty delicious. Its chilly outside, so we are going to cozy up on the couch and marathon watch all these documentaries tonight.

For those that are curious, I'll link the documentaries that we have to watch and you can watch along with me. I think they would be interesting if I wasnt so stressed about everything else I have to do on top of them. Link 1, link 2. The other one got taken down for copyright violations but my professor posted a copy online for us.

Almost there! The finish line is in sight!

[geschichtenerd]

~12/01~

10 hour marathon in the library today

Made a TON of progress on my thesis. And I also finished 3 of those documentary essays I've been trying to finish for weeks now. They are all due at the end of the semester and naturally I waited till the last minute.

This week is going to be a busy one! I've got a Chinese exam on Thursday morning. A research paper due this week, my thesis is due next week but Ive got to get some serious work done on it this week. Plus all my little random assignments that my teachers have assigned.

I'm also working on 2 articles to be published in a historical journal and I need to finish those up.

Then I'm going to really buckle down and work on my graduate school applications.

Tomorrow I'm going to go to my sister's apartment and sit with her dog for a little bit while she's out. Hopefully I'll manage to get some more studying done then.

Such an overwhelming week. I wish all of you that are also suffering through finals week the best of luck. Sending good vibes to you all!

[geschichtenerd]

I’ve been a bit radio silent for a little bit. My cat, whom I love dearly, spilled coffee on my laptop charger while it was plugged in and it destroyed my laptop. I’ve been dealing with having to replace it and recover all my things for the past week. Thank God for black friday tbh 😅 Anyways. I’ll be much more productive and active this week. My thesis is due in a week and a half so I’ll be locked in the library for the next week and a half lol.

A picture of said cat for the algorithm

[laurenillustrated]

American Girls! ★

I drew 10 of the original historical American Girls in my style! This was a fun little fan art series in between my other illustrations 🤭

In order: Felicity and Josefina, Kirsten and Kaya, Molly and Kit, Addy and Samantha, Julie and Rebecca.