#french resources

[stepstofluency]

MY FAV FRENCH RESOURCES 🇫🇷💌

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[rigelmejo]

Free Language Media Resources

I found some places where you can find content in the language you're learning. Most of these places have multiple languages, I'll note if some are better for certain ones.

Youtube: obviously. Look up "comprehensible input" plus the language you're learning, or "podcast" or "learner podcast" plus the language you're learning, or look up shows like "Chinese Drama" or simply the name of the show in the language such as if you want to watch cdrama Ultimate Note type in "终极笔记" or if you want to watch Goodbye My Princess then search by the Chinese title which is "Dong Gong" (and yes you can search by pinyin sometimes with English Keyboard, if you don't have a Chinese Keyboard and can't type hanzi). You can find Japanese let's plays by simply searching the title of the game in Japanese plus "実況" or "実況プレイ" or in all kana "じっきょうプレイ," so for example for a Kingdom Hearts Japanese Lets Play you'd type or paste into Youtube's search bar "キングダムハーツ実況." You can find target-language/language-you-know translations with audio in 100-1000-5000 sentence clusters, you just look up language plus "1000 common words in sentences" (type in the language you want the translations so type that in Spanish if you want Spanish translations) along with the language you're learning in the language you just type'd translation (so type "Korean" if you searched in English words, type "coreano" if you searched in Spanish words). Those videos are basically free Glossika equivalents. You can find so much on Youtube, you could probably learn a language just from Youtube stuff if you had to. I recommend the app NewPipe as it's easy to install on your phone, has no ads, and you can turn off Youtube's new AI dub feature. Or use Youtube ReVanced app, where ads are also blocked, and you can turn off the AI dub feature if you follow a fix-ai-dub tutorial like I did. Or on Regular Youtube app, you should be able to click Settings on a video you're watching, then click 'audio track' and change to 'original audio' to get the AI dub turned off. But I'll be honest I haven't used regular Youtube app in years.

Tubi: FREE app, website, on TVs and phones and game consoles so you can watch on your TV if you want. Has ads, but I find their timing and duration less annoying than actual cable now or regular youtube ads. Has some foreign language stuff! I found cdramas like Oh My General, Story of Yanxi Palace, My Heroic Husband, Under The Skin, Three Body, some jdrama BLs like Candy Color Paradox, Mr Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss, My Personal Weatherman, and some kdramas I know I loved like The Guest, Psychopath Diary, The Crowned Clown. There's also some Spanish, French, German, and Russian shows and movies I found. As I live in the US, a LOT of Spanish stuff is on there (and is true for Netflix as well - Spanish dubs of English language shows are probably the easiest to find on streaming platforms in the US). Tubi in particular had a sizeable amount of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese shows, along with very large amounts of Spanish shows/movies, and at least some stuff in other languages. I have been using Tubi for it's live TV feature, where it has several Spanish language channels so I can just turn on Spanish TV channels without having to think about what to watch.

Pluto: another FREE app, website, on TVs and phones and game consoles so you can watch on anything you want! Has ads, but I find their timing and duration less annoying than actual cable now or regular youtube ads. Less international offerings than Tubi, but it has some. As I'm in the US, same sizeable amount of Spanish content, especially TV channels on it's live TV feature (they have Comedy Central Espanol so all those shows in Spanish, Naruto and The Walking Dead en Espanol, UK MISFITS EN ESPANOL which I just found today I LOVE that show, and several reality/documentary TV channels which I find are good practice as usually what's being talked about also has visuals directly related - like the survive in Alaska shows, the romance shows, the true crime shows). I think Pluto has Slightly Better Spanish live TV channel variety. As for other language stuff though... if you search in Pluto, search by language like "espanol" "francais" "zhongwen" and "spanish" "french" "mandarin" "cantonese" to find shows/movies. The search seems to show varying results depending on which term you use, but I am finding some media for all of those languages... and also English content involving those countries. So searching is a challenge at times.

AntennaPod: an app on Androids (I am not sure if it's on ios) for saving Podcasts in one place (if you don't have Spotify or Apple Podcast, and I don't have those). Benefits - it's free, you can stream or download episodes, you can search online for ALL the podcasts you listen to on various platforms and save them all in THIS app. I think you can fast forward past ads too, but I haven't tried. The app doesn't inherently seem to have ads, just plays whatever ads the podcast had put in themselves. I did have my English, Spanish, French, and Mandarin podcasts all open in a ton of tabs on my phone web browser and bookmarked in youtube. Now I have them ALL saved in AntennaPod in one place, and can close some tabs! I still save stuff in youtube though, when I want the podcast videos to help visually understand stuff (like for some Spanish and Mandarin podcasts). I think AntennaPod is free open source software. It's been great since I found it.

Hoopla: if you belong to a library, check if your library has Hoopla app membership included. Mine does. Hoopla has SO MANY books, audiobooks, shows, movies, music, in tons of languages. A LOT of the first Mandarin audiobooks I listened to, I found in Hoopla and just checked out for free. Also good for COMICS, in any language, and I read a lot of English comics and English translated manga in Hoopla. All free to check out, as it's an extension of your library membership basically.

Libby: same deal as Hoopla above - some libraries have a membership, you can check out free stuff in multiple languages if your particular library paid for access to that media in Libby. All free.

Bilibili.com: you should be able to search the site on a computer with Chinese Keyboard (type hanzi) logged out, and watch or listen to things. If you can figure it out, you can make an app account on your cell phone, I figured it out years ago but don't know how to log back in so I've been coasting on 'permanently logged in' for a while so I can bookmark stuff and so Bilibili app saves where I'm at in a given video so I can continue where I left off. But if you can't get the app to work, searching in Chinese ON your computer logged out WILL get you access to all the same videos I can access. A TON of free audiobooks, audio dramas, Mandarin dubbed cartoons and anime, Mandarin dubbed shows from all over the world, you search for it and you'll probably find it. Also lets plays, reaction channels, vloggers, fanvideos and fanedits of books and shows, you can find japanese shows IN japanese and Indian shows in their original language, you can find English and Korean shows in their original language free, you can find English audiobooks free. You basically just NEED to know how to search in Mandarin. If you can search using Mandarin search terms (here's my post on Basic Chinese Search Terms), you can find almost anything on Bilibili. Lately I've been enjoying the Mandarin dub old niche anime on there, and some japanese musicals. If you do make an account, Bilibili is great at recommending stuff like you've been watching, so my account is nearly ALL BL jdramas and cdramas, danmei audio dramas based on novels by authors I have been listening to, Mandarin dubbed anime, danmei audiobooks, and Mandarin dubbed jdramas and English mystery/crime solving/supernatural shows. It used to be all Disney cartoons and movies Mandarin dubbed a few hundred hours ago, when I was mostly relying on cartoons to learn more basic words.

Search in Mandarin (if you know it): Oh also? If you have never searched Google, Microsoft Edge, DuckDuckGo etc. in Mandarin, try if you know the words in Mandarin. So many FREE books, audiobooks, audio dramas, shows, movies, not just in Mandarin but in many languages, if you search with Mandarin search terms! 免费 mianfei is the word for "free" so you can search in all Mandarin translation "Skins BBC episode 1 English online free" and you'll find it! That's how I found the show to stream online free recently. Or search "daomubiji nanpaisanshu xiaoshuo zaixian mianfei" (in English it is: The Lost Tomb/DMBJ NPSS novel online free) and you'll FIND the novels for DMBJ. You want fanfiction instead? Search for that! The Mandarin internet still has a ton of free stuff that is now quite hard to find if you search in English. For finding any language content, if you know Mandarin try searching using Mandarin words. If you can search using Mandarin search terms (here's my post on Basic Chinese Search Terms), you can find nearly anything online free.

Khan Academy: free lessons in multiple languages, if you want to learn something while listening to your target language. I recommend searching in a search site like Google.com "khan academy espanol" or whatever language you're learning, in the word for the language that language uses, so you can find THAT language's version of the Khan Academy site.

Project Gutenberg: has a lot of free books online. I have not found much use for this site except finding old English books, but I know it has books in other languages.

Archive.org: the GOLDEN TIER of finding OLD language learning textbooks online free, just by searching "learn" or "grammar" or "nature method" or "Textbook" along with the language you're learning, and narrowing search terms. I found all of the old Nature Method textbooks I've used on Archive.org, and a lot of other cool stuff. Sometimes you have to only search the language like "spanish" or if trying to find say old Spanish history books, or French fiction books, you'll need to either know the title or leave that blank and use 'filter by' language and pick the language's books you're looking for. Also great for finding old media, I've found older anime I'd been meaning to find both IN only Japanese, and in English sub or dub.

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[aliceslanguagediaries]

❁ My favourite French podcasts for intermediate and advanced learners (B1-C1) ❁

(I really love using podcasts for language immersion and I owe a huge amount of my french progress to these, so I hope they’re helpful to someone else too!)

1.

Episodes – innerFrench

This one is hugely popular, and for a good reason! I would credit this podcast (and the free transcriptions) with about half of my progress from intermediate to advanced. A really great feature is translations/explanations for difficult words in the transcription.

2.

I love the topics in this one, it’s very unique and thought-provoking (and often philosophical) while also not being too difficult. (I believe that all of the interview episodes come with transcripts also)

3.

Transcripts also available for free! I like the conversational style and there’s a huge range of important topics relating to french culture, social issues, travel etc.

4.

I feel like everyone knows this one? But I love it, it’s really fun

5.

Maybe a little easier than the others mentioned as she speaks quite slowly, but again a huge range of topics and clear explanations of grammar and vocabulary!

6.

Very interesting topics, especially the history episodes

7.

I think everyone knows her YouTube channel, but her podcast is really great too!

8.

Probably the easiest one on the list!

9.

This is actually aimed at natives so I put it last, but it’s perfect for anyone with an advanced level who is interested in language learning :)

[fluencylevelfrench]

French songs in Heated Rivalry :

C'est toi - Satine (Français)

Lumière - Alfa Rococo (Canadiens, Québécois)

Prendre soin du beau - Jessica Charlie (Canadien, Edmonton)

de la tête aux pieds - Richy Jay, Sentom, Jerry Mr. Jay (Haïtien-Canadien, Swiss-Norvégien, Haïtien-Canadien)

Chelsea mon amour- Phillippe B (Canadien, Québécois)

En dedans - Richy Jay, Ekay Sounds

L'anarchie des jours heureux - La Bronze (Maroco-Canadienne)

Aaliyah - Malko (Canadien)

Grenn pwonmennen - The Bongo Hop, Kephny Eliacin (Français, ?)

Une journée parfaite - Dumas (Québécois, Canada)

Tu t'en souviens - Lou Phelps (Haïtien-Canadien)

[Let me know if there's a song missing, if there are any mistakes concerning the countries- I got the information from the official playlist and just finding information online ]

[phenixphonetique]

French resources seperated by level

Collection of resources catering to CEFR levels:

Lawless French - lessons, reading, writing, etc.

TV 5 Monde's Apprendre Francais - videos and comprehension activities for every level

Le Point du FLE.net - exercises in everything

LanguageGuide.org - visual vocabulary, grammar, and readings

Lingolia - grammar and vocabulary explanations, and listening/reading comprehension starting at A2. Freemium with a certain number of free exercises for each topic, and the rest behind a paywall.

Sommaire - free online clickable grammar textbook with pronunciation and general grammar exercises

Phonetique - phonetic alphabet with exercises and games

[moonmestelle]

I know it's probably a lost cause but back then around 2020 there was a folder with different files to learn the basic quickly (Icelandic, Dutch, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish, Finnish, Russian, Italian and Swedish).

I found the folder but sadly it's now empty.

I would like to get them to do them as a challenge, so please if you have any of those files please dm me, or just reblog this post i'll be forever grateful.

Thank you ❤

[readingloveswounds]

French (teaching) resources

Hi everyone! I've taught beginning and intermediate french at the college level for the past two years and have accumulated a lot of PDFs that may be helpful + made some reading/listening activities that I wanted to share.

if you self-study, this may be helpful as well, especially when it comes to grammar practice.

Here is the link to the google drive folder

I am happy to answer questions as I am able.

Some notes:

grammar:

largely from: Grammaire progressive du français, (niveau avancé) | Contrastes : Grammaire du Français Courant | some (rather old) McGraw Hill French 2 and 3 texts | and various places online

SOME of these have answers. some do not. unfortunately, I don't have access to Contrastes right now to scan the answers. When I do, I'll try to upload them.

Sorted generally by what they are (adv/adj, articles, pronouns etc) however, the file names are NOT the clearest. i'll try to go through and fix those when I have time.

You'll notice that the two named texts are advanced grammar books - I adapted these when I used them in class if I needed to, or just used some of the activities on the page.

I also highly suggest UT Austin's resources here

activities:

WARNING: I created these myself so there may be the occasional error or weird phrasing in questions etc. Phrasing may also be strange due to the level it was created for.

The formatting may be a bit funky because I copied from word so my full name wouldn't be on them.

song activities are fill in the blank or comprehension question exercises. they have the lyrics and some vocabulary translations with them.

song activities - I often showed the music video but you could just play the music if that works better for you

song activities - these are typically excerpts and not the whole song. most do not have the time stamps, but the lyrics should help you figure that out.

video or reading activities are typically comprehension questions. some have my instructions for using them in class, others are just the text/video and questions.

Some of these are harder than others (songs go faster/grammar involved is more difficult) so check before you use.