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An entertainment phenomenon is taking France by storm. Bref. is a hilarious and racy TV series, each episode of which lasts about 1.5 to 2 minutes (as the name implies). The format is a high-speed montage of experiences in the life of the endearingly pathetic protagonist played by Kyan Khojandi.
Bref. depicts the modern daily [...]
We could wander these virtual stacks for days! So far, the Bibliothèque nationale de France has digitized more than one million works, including books, maps, manuscripts, images, periodicals, scores and sound recordings, and made them available for free to the public at the Gallica digital library. This is France’s answer to Google [...]
…once upon a time, the ability to speak French properly was considered an absolute essential. In 26 chapters, each focusing on a different colourful Francophile, Fumaroli makes his way across 18th-century Europe. The book is a gallery of Russians, Prussians, Swedes, Poles, Italians and Englishmen; politicians, soldiers, kings and collectors, who all aspired [...]
With Mots Interdits, a language-learning game you can print out, you have your students try to get others to guess the word in bold without using any of the words below it. Be sure to check out the other teaching tools this teacher has created and uploaded to this site (look to the [...]
Do you still have trouble understanding native French speakers?
Many French learners have a rude awakening when they visit or move to France. It’s not enough to know grammar and vocabulary. You must develop an ear for the idioms and nuances of the language.
Yabla French helps you do exactly that. Authentic videos [...]
Wattanasoft, a leading provider of iOS language-learning apps, today is pleased to announce Immersive French for the iPad and iPhone. Immersive French provides the user with a full multimedia learning experience by associating pictures with spoken words and sentences.
Details at prMac.com.
For more than 10 years, French for the Future has been organizing forums for high school students in numerous cities across Canada. Students from different schools get together to participate in workshops to learn about the benefits of bilingualism in Canada.
Check out this great nonprofit organization working to keep French alive [...]
On the language site of the Académie française, FranceTerme, you can find some nice PDFs that contain the latest terms the Académie has come up with in their never-ending battle against les anglicismes. In Les maux de l’Internet, they suggest message incendiaire (a noun) for “flame” (a verb). Boy is that punchy. And [...]
Singer Rihanna is annoyed that people are saying there’s a grammatical error in her French tattoo. What do you say?
via The Sun
The Larousse online French-to-English dictionary is great. For that matter, so is the Larousse Cuisine site. Recipes are in French, but there’s a built in converter for measurements and temperatures!
Sign our “Petition for the USA to become a member state of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.” There’s a francophile treat waiting for you after you sign!
FSI language courses now in the public domain and available online for free.
